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Ah, the banner—that nifty picture strip that runs along the top of so many sites and blogs with a dash of personalized flair. Maybe you've been wondering where I got mine. If you guessed that it's from Lloyd Branson's painting Gathering of the Overmountain Men at Sycamore Shoals, 1780, now in the fabulous Tennessee State Museum, then give yourself a pat on the back.
Branson was born in East Tennessee in 1854, studied at the National Academy of Design, and travelled in Europe before returning home to become one of his state's most accomplished artists of the late 1800's and early 1900's. Like many of his contemporaries, Branson mostly did portraits, but occasionally he produced landscapes and historic scenes like this one.
Here's the best digital version of the painting that I could locate, from the website of another fine (but much more recent) Tennessee artist, Bill Puryear:
Sycamore Shoals, now a state park, is a shallow stretch of the Watauga River in present-day Elizabethton and the site of several significant events in early Tennessee history. Probably the most famous of these events is the one depicted here, the muster of the militia from present-day Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia on September 25-26, 1780 that marked the beginning of the King's Mountain expedition. Pick up any book that deals with King's Mountain or with the first Tennessee settlements, and you're likely to find an evocative description of the muster—the overmountain men wearing their hunting shirts and leaning on their rifles, the women gathered to see them off, and Rev. Samuel Doak delivering his famous "Sword of the Lord and Gideon" sermon before the march. (The other notable Sycamore Shoals moments were the formation of Tennessee's first proto-government, the treaty conference at which the Cherokees sold much of present-day Kentucky and the lands on which the East Tennessee settlements stood, and an Indian attack on nearby Ft. Watauga.) When I was shopping around for an image to embellish the top of the blog, this seemed like an abvious choice. You've got your American Revolution, and you've got your East Tennessee setting.
Lately I considered finding a new picture to spruce things up a little, but I finally decided not to, partly because this painting touches on a few of my main interests. Furthermore, I think you can read into it some valuable lessons about the practice of history in general.
For example, this is a military scene, but it's situated far from the actual battlefield. The fighting men are surrounded by their wives, children, and neighbors. It's a reminder that wars happen within the framework of the societies that wage them, and you've got to understand that context to understand the war.
At the same time, however, the painting undeniably and unapologetically focuses on a military turning point. This isn't an everyday scene from life on the Tennessee frontier, it's an occasion in which armed men intervened decisively in a particular historical episode. Battles are important because they decide great issues.
Here's another observation. Important figures are visible in the painting; Isaac Shelby, an architect of the King's Mountain expedition, is in the foreground. At the same time, though, most of the people in the picture are anonymous. Their faces are barely visible; we can see that they're present, but so much about them is unknown. They held no high rank in the battle, and they filled no major office after the war, unlike Shelby and fellow King's Mountain officer John Sevier, both of whom went on to become governors. History is made by the actions of a few great men as well as the aggregate actions of many anonymous ones.
In a lot of ways, it's a very traditional image, depicting as it does an event that's glorified in so many heroic nineteenth-century narratives. But it's also realisitc, not nearly as idealized and stylized as some of the very earliest depictions of Revolutionary War scenes.
Of course, I don't know exactly what meanings Branson wanted to convey when he painted the muster at Sycamore Shoals. But I like the fact that his painting includes so much of what makes up the sum total of history—war and peace, leaders and followers, the traditions that have become familiar and the surprisingly complex realities underneath.


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NASD Charges Waddell & Reed with Suitability Violations Relating to Thousands of Variable Annuity Exchanges and Seeks Customer Compensation; Two Senior Execs Also Charged
Washington, DC — NASD today filed a complaint charging Waddell & Reed, Inc. of Overland Park, Kansas, for recommending 6,700 variable annuity exchanges to its customers without determining the suitability of the transactions. These exchanges, known as "switching," generated $37 million in commissions and cost Waddell's customers nearly $10 million in surrender fees. NASD also alleged that according to its quantitative analysis, at least 1,400 of the firm's customers were likely to lose money by making these switches. Charges were also brought against the firm's former President, Robert Hechler, and its National Sales Manager, Robert Williams. In addition to other sanctions, NASD is seeking an order requiring the firm to disgorge commissions and compensate customers.
"Today's action should make crystal clear that brokers may not recommend that clients replace their variable annuity contracts when the broker has no reasonable basis for believing the replacement is in the client's, not the broker's, best interest," said Mary L. Schapiro, NASD Vice Chairman and President of Regulatory Policy and Oversight. "Engaging in a campaign to make such recommendations without an assessment of the suitability of the exchange, simply because it will advance the firm's own commercial interests, is completely unacceptable."
According to the complaint, between January 2001 and August 2002, Waddell engaged in an aggressive campaign to switch the variable annuity contracts of its customers from those issued by one insurance company, United Investors Life Insurance Co. (UILIC), to very similar annuities provided by another insurance company, Nationwide Insurance Co. In doing so, Waddell & Reed failed to take adequate steps to determine whether there were reasonable grounds for the customers to enter into these exchanges, such as determining whether the customers were likely to benefit or lose money from the exchanges, and failed to establish sufficient guidance for the sales force to use in determining the suitability of the exchanges. In fact, many customers were likely to lose money through these switches, which typically would raise concerns about the suitability of these transactions.
In addition, over 700 customers were switched into one Nationwide annuity, rather than another Nationwide annuity that was less expensive and offered far more benefits and greater flexibility to the clients, but provided a lower payout to Waddell's sales force. One of the firm's advisors, in comparing the payouts, noted, "I have no problem selling an annuity that may cost .45 (basis points) more on M&E charges because I have to support my family and pay my assistant and other business overhead."
The misconduct began after Waddell failed to obtain an agreement to receive a share of certain fees collected by UILIC, the original issuer of annuities sold by Waddell. Waddell found another issuer, Nationwide, which agreed to share with Waddell, some of the fees it collected from Waddell's customers. From the customer's perspective, the underlying investment options available in Nationwide's annuities were otherwise virtually identical to the UILIC contracts.
Beginning in late January 2001, following the agreement with Nationwide, Hechler and others engaged in an aggressive campaign to encourage Waddell's sales force to replace UILIC annuities previously sold with those offered by Nationwide. Among other things, Hechler issued a series of memoranda to the sales force repeatedly encouraging them to replace existing UILIC variable annuities with Nationwide variable annuities by questioning UILIC's intentions to provide service to Waddell's clients, and compensation to the sales force, along with questioning UILIC's financial strength.
In response to the pressure from senior management, some Waddell regional vice presidents took steps to encourage exchanges. One vice president sent an e-mail to his division managers on March 6, 2001, encouraging a "campaign of every advisor contacting every UILIC client" to explain what was happening with the UILIC relationship, and later set up a "Call-a-Thon" for advisors in his region to call all of their customers with UILIC variable annuities. During this campaign some Waddell advisors expressed concern that these switches were not in the best interests of their clients. One advisor even noted that management's comments were intended to "prod and scare" advisors into making switches.
Although the president of UILIC assured Hechler on March 14, 2001, that UILIC would continue to provide compensation to Waddell's advisors and provide service to both policyholders and advisors, Hechler did not relay this information to Waddell's sales force for almost two months, during which the switching campaign continued unabated. During that time, Hechler's actions led to a dramatic increase in the number of switches from UILIC to Nationwide variable annuities.
During March 2001, the number of switches from UILIC contracts to Nationwide contracts jumped 540 percent over the previous month, and the number jumped another 490 percent in April 2001. By August 2002, Waddell had replaced 6,772 UILIC variable annuities, moving approximately $617 million in assets away from UILIC, costing customers more than $9.8 million in surrender charges, and generating approximately $37 million in commissions to Waddell. Additionally, Waddell earned approximately $700,000 from fee-sharing arrangements with Nationwide in 2001, and Waddell will continue to accrue such fees annually.
These exchanges of variable annuities were costly to customers in a number of ways. Many customers had to pay surrender charges to switch out of their old policies, and all customers who switched incurred a new surrender charge period that limited their ability to surrender their new annuity contracts. In addition, customers who switched into the Nationwide variable annuities paid higher ongoing expense fees than they had been charged under the old policies. Waddell, on the other hand, made money through the commissions charged on each exchange and through the portion of the annual fees paid by customers that Nationwide shared with Waddell.
Despite repeated requests from its the sales force and their supervisors, Waddell failed to provide adequate guidance, analytical tools or criteria for making the critical suitability analysis required under NASD rules for recommending exchanges. As a result, many variable annuity exchanges were recommended by the sales force without having reasonable grounds for believing that the recommendations were suitable for the customers based on their security holdings and their financial situations and needs. In addition, based on NASD's quantitative analysis, in over 1,400 instances, at the recommendation of Waddell, customers entered into exchanges that were likely to result in customers losing money.
Williams, Waddell's National Sales Manager, who actively participated in the switching campaign and had supervisory authority over the sales force and its management, had responsibility for ensuring that transactions are appropriately reviewed for suitability. He was aware, through communication with the sales force, that there were serious shortcomings with Waddell's process for reviewing the suitability of switches from UILIC to Nationwide variable annuities, and that members of the sales force felt pressure to make switches from the firm and Hechler.
NASD has charged the firm with suitability and supervisory violations, Hechler with causing the firm's suitability violations by encouraging the sales force to switch customers and Williams with supervisory failures in connection with the variable annuity exchanges.
Under NASD rules, the individuals and the firms named in the complaint can file a response and request a hearing before an NASD disciplinary panel. Possible sanctions include a fine, suspension, bar, or expulsion from the NASD.
Information regarding variable annuities can be found in the following NASD Investor Alerts:
- Variable Annuities: Beyond the Hard Sell.
- Should You Exchange Your Life Insurance Policy?
- Should You Exchange Your Variable Annuity?
Investors can obtain more information and the disciplinary record of any NASD-registered broker or brokerage firm by calling NASD's BrokerCheck. NASD makes available BrokerCheck at no charge to the public. In 2003, members of the public used this service to conduct more than 2.9 million searches for existing brokers or firms and requested almost 180,000 reports in cases where disclosable information existed on a broker or firm. Investors can link directly to the program by going online to www.nasdbrokercheck.com. Investors can also continue to access this service by calling 1-800-289-9999.
NASD is the leading private-sector provider of financial regulatory services, dedicated to investor protection and market integrity through effective and efficient regulation and complementary compliance and technology-based services. NASD touches virtually every aspect of the securities business - from registering and educating all industry participants, to examining securities firms, enforcing both NASD rules and the federal securities laws, and administering the largest dispute resolution forum for investors and member firms. For more information, please visit our Web Site at www.nasd.com.

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by JANET GILMORE
My driver's license expired last week on my birthday, and I had to have a new picture taken. At a certain age, birthdays are traumatic enough without having your picture taken. But off I went on what turned out to be another adventure in "maturing."
When I got to the Ogontz Avenue PennDot Photo Center, I was the only customer there. Nevertheless, I had to check in at the desk, get a ticket (number 60) and sit down to wait.
I looked around — there were no other people in the entire big room. Not a one.
"Number 51," called out one of the clerks.
I looked around for the nine people allegedly ahead of me, but they simply weren't there. There were two clerks; did I really have to wait for nine invisible people to be photographed? It was only 3:30 p.m.; the office didn't close until 4:15, at least in theory.
The other clerk looked at me, looked at all the empty chairs and made a small "come here" gesture with his chin.
"Me?" I mouthed.
He nodded, and I approached his desk.
He scanned my old license into a machine.
"Please verify the right answers on the screen."
"Your name? Address? Date of birth?"
"Today," I replied.
He looked at my old license, looked at me and said, "Sign the screen."
I signed.
"Sit down," he said, indicating the chair in front of the camera.
"Make a happy face," he said, pointing to a sticker of a smiley face stuck to the camera.
Click! Neither of us liked the picture.
"I'll take another one. Another happy face."
"Two happy faces in one day? That's a lot," I said.
"Please verify the information on the screen again before I print," he said.
"Do I have to remind you that today is my birthday?" I ventured. I looked him right in the eye, without a happy face.
"Happy birthday," he said without smiling.
I understood, or thought I did.
How could a man enjoy his job of asking imaginary drivers to make happy faces? What kind of job satisfaction was there in that?
I left with my new license. The first clerk was calling for Phantom number 54.
Now Ogontz Avenue was part of my old stomping grounds when I was growing up on East Tulpehocken Street. In a sentimental mood, I drove down my old block on my way home. Things had expired there, too.
The neighbors in the brand new 1947 post-war row houses on Tulpehocken Street had collected money to buy and plant trees in front of the houses. Those trees were part of the throbbing life of the block. As goals to tag at the end of races, as bases for baseball or pimple ball, as places to tie annoying siblings. We had sat under those trees for hours, having important childhood conversations.
The trees must have eventually grown big enough that the roots pulled up the sidewalks, and most of the block is bare now. The only big tree left is in front of 1626, the home of my best childhood friend, Ellie, who died several years ago from cancer.
I stopped my car for a moment in front of that lone tree, my eyes filling with hot, stinging tears of self-pity because my childhood is over, and this is my first birthday as an orphan. I thought about all the birthday parties we had on that block and how much fun they were. I thought about my little sister's doll birthday cake on her fifth birthday in 1950 and how envious I was of my sister. One more reason to tie her to a tree.
When I was a kid, I couldn't stand to wait a whole year until my next birthday. It seemed then that a year took forever to pass. Now years zip by like shooting stars.
My mother once told me that after a while birthdays don't seem so important. I thought she was crazy. "How can your birthday not be important?" I asked. "That can't be true! No cake? No presents? Come on, mom."
"You'll see," said mom.
As usual, she was right. Over the years, I learned that if you're nice to me all year long, I don't need a present, and if you're not, then a present won't help. The soul of the occasion is family and friends singing "Happy Birthday." Plus adding to my cassette so I have something tangible to hold on to when things and people expire or are cut down.
This year's was a low-key birthday without my mom.
We went to Maria's Ristorante in Roxborough for a birthday dinner of spaghetti and meatballs. Maria's stuck three candles in a slice of ricotta cheesecake. My husband, my son and the waitress sang "Happy Birthday" to me. I blew out the candles with a healthy expiration.
Later that night, I looked at my new driver's license photo and ate an extra chocolate pudding snack as my own personal celebration of myself.


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I had my Nook January kit in my hands early early this month. I think even before Christmas? But with moving and all that comes with it (why is it that the scrap supplies are the last to get unpacked?) I hadn't had much time to delve into it.
Now the January kit is sold out, so all new subscriptions will start with February...which features October Afternoon Sasparilla:
You can snag yours HERE!!!!
I still want to share some of my January projects though, plus I had a challenge go up today for the New Year Crop, and I would love to see you participate in for a chance at winning the December kit.
Here is one of the layouts I made with the kit (the other one needs to get photographed!):
Love these pictures of little A...these were when she was 3!!
some detail shots:
I am obsessed with this chevron paper. The kit came with 2 sheets, but I need about 4;)
The next 3 cards, I made as examples for my challenge:
I still have a layout to share and I might make some more cards up with this kit....for some reason I am finding Lily Bee easier to make up cards? I adore the colors in this line for love-y, valentine cards;)
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Girl power comes to Leeds International Festival when fashion blogger Susie Bubble joins a panel inspiring more women to become tech creators.
Empowering Women with Tech, a one-day conference, features female industry leaders as diverse as host broadcaster Lauren Laverne and Emmy Lovell, vice president of digital for Warner Music Group.
For full details and tickets for the event - Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 9m to 6pm - see leedsinternationalfestival.com
SKYPE VIDEO: Watch Graham Walker's Skype video preview chat with Susie Bubble on our embedded video player at the top of the page.
The conference will consider misconceptions about women in technology and show the wealth of opportunities a career in digital presents with the aim of encouraging more women into tech industries.
Statistics show only 17 per cent of the digital workforce are females, with less than 10 per cent in leadership roles.
In an exclusive Skype video chat - watch it in full here on our web site - Susie, who has round 700,000 followers on social networks, praised organisers for hosting it in Leeds.
Susie, aged 33, real name Susanna Lau, whose blog Style Bubble has become one of the most successful and widely recognised blogs of its type since it started in 2006, will be discussing the journey of how Style Bubble was created.
She believes social media can give more of a voice to Leeds and the North generally but equally hopes her visit will also encourage men to talk and blog more about fashion.
She said: "I'm really excited to be part of a festival that I don't think has really been done in the UK before. That element of a tech conference with a cultural umbrella of music and tech. It sounds like a South by Soutwest inspired festival. It's also exciting to see it not being in London.
"I think it's so important, especially now post Brexit, that creativity and ideas are not just restricted to capitals or the privileged few, living in big cities. It's very expensive to live in London. I think it's really important that people across the country can gain access, whether its fashion, music or art, so those ideas foster all over the country and it encourages people from everywhere to partake.
"Obviously social media, the internet, is a great way for building your own voice and platform.
She modestly declines from calling herself a pioneer but said: "I see myself as an early adopter, within the fashion blogging community.
"I wouldn't say I'm a hardcore tech person. I'm somebody who works in digital media. I feel like there are way more inspiring people, who are like hardcore coders, getting to that CEO level and new start ups in Silicon Valley. The success stories are out there. But it's still a numbers game where men still heavily outweigh women in the tech field. I don;t see any reason why that should be the case. In my experience a female developer versus male developer, they are just as good as one another. Woen bring just as many good ideas to the table, especially in this industry that is new. It's about innovation and finding new ways of doing things.
"The conference is about empowering women but actually fashion blogging, we are more female than male focussed, so it would be good to get some menswear voices or men just talking about fashion."
Tech strand curator Natasha Sayce-Zelem, one of the UK's top 100 women working in technology, is excited to be directing the strand alongside her role as head of technology for Digital Trading at Sky.
She said: "Leeds is just such a vibrant place to work in technology. It has everything going for it – businesses to work for, educational establishments developing the next generation and a meet-up community underpinning technology in the city too, giving people an environment to collaborate and innovate outside of their day jobs. I'm so excited to bring such amazing speakers cementing Leeds' place as an international hub and that we're leading the field in actively promoting diversity in tech"
* Empowering Women with Tech, sponsored by Sky and supported by Fruition IT. is at Leeds Dock, The Boulevard, from 9am to 6pm. For more information visit www.leedsinternationalfestival.com


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Blue by Mark Neil
Album Description
1 Shakey 3
2 Piano Dub
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6 Talk Me Down
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10 The Cold From Within
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"What I, the creator, can only describe as a soundtrack to a film never made, Blue was the result of three years solitude and boredom – and it shows.
Created primarily from samples (from a wide range of sources), supplemented with real instrumentation and with other artists vocals shoehorned over the top.
Definitely a release of two halves: 1-7 and 8-12.
'Shakey 3' is an experiment using ethnic samples with classical orchestration, whereas 'Piano Dub' combines old school dub techniques with a piano, and 'Horses' features the poem Every Twelve Years, Give Or Take This Moment by Dionisio Martínez.
'Lone' is one of the strongest tracks on the album (as far as I, Mark Neil, am concerned) and deals with happiness in solitude, 'The Last Dodo, The Happy Android', merges a distorted soundscape with a blessed out robot, before returning with 'Talk Me Down' – a sister track to track 4 – 'Lone'.
'Anyata' takes the ethnic collaboration theme a little further by featuring vocals in a language I cannot even identify, let alone understand.
Track 8, 'Threshold' marks the tuning point into something darker, with the genre shifting 'Right Strafes Derision', the scarce soundscape of 'The Cold From Within' and the panicked 'Strange Ls', before lightening up on whoever has persevered thus far through the album."
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I think it looks awkward and potentially illegible if you try and cram it all into a flag.
Looks great.
...and the website and when it's on Eastern and Central and the new XM schedule too!
I just want to know how henning did it. I need details.
Flags seem to best when they're simple-especially if it's going to be on a flag.I did a simple mockup of what might be good to have for a flag distilling whats already going on in the website logo.Just my 2 cents.


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Peti Szabo
Peti Szabo began wrestling at the age of eight and soon became a World Champion in the sport. He won the silver medal at the Junior European Championship and his biggest accomplishment was becoming an Olympic squad member.
He won the Silver medal at the World Championship and became a multiple-time National champion. He first found Forever Living Products in 2005 and in 2015 began his business again, becoming Manager with the F.I.T. program. Since January, he has helped almost 500 people complete the C9 program successfully.
What is your proudest moment of your athletic career?
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Great Papelbon News...YES!!
This from today's Globe, and then a comment from me. I always have to get a word in, eventually....
"Having thrown 20 pitches, mainly fastballs, off a mound Tuesday ("nice and fluid, with some movement," Francona said), Jonathan Papelbon threw off flat ground yesterday and should throw to hitters today.
"Strong as can be," Papelbon said. I can go into the offseason having a clear conscience, knowing I can push myself."
Peter here. And WE can go into the early stages of fall knowing that Jonathon is OK, ready to go, and able to return to the rotation healthy and ready to thwart opposing batters as if they held toothpicks instead of bats. But his exact role with the club, starter or reliever, is a "still to be determined" issue. As it should be right now. There is no other closer. Not one who can dominate with a one run lead. NOT YET. And until the club does something about that, and right now Foulkie has a long way to go to step into those shoes, Paps is our closer for next year. Stay tuned. Right here. ALL WINTER LONG. Oh, and by the way, I am predicted 3 major Nor'easters, with snow in excess of 15 inches and winds and tides a factor at the shoreline, for this winter of '06-'07. And that forecast is for New England, southern and central New England, mainly Connecticut, Mass. and Rhode island. Keep it here. Every day. I need ya!


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These nails start out perfectly arranged, the hardware store equivalent of a perfect crystalline structure. But as their bed begins to vibrate and they start moving around, they become increasingly disordered, actually imitating all the stages of a melting crystal.
Basically, this is a great representation of the thermodynamic processes that a crystal experiences as temperatures increase and it begins to melt. Created by University of Toronto physicists Stephen Morris and T. Lynn MacDonald, the states that the shaking nails form are a very close match to the different patterns created by a melting crystal.
That's a surprising result, considering this shouldn't be even remotely analogous. After all, shaking a bed of nails isn't really anything like heating up a crystal. Morris explains:
"Since the nails lose energy on collisions, we must continuously feed energy in via the shaking. So this is a very non-thermodynamic situation, yet we observe more or less the same phases as in liquid crystals."
Just why the vibrating nails lose order in such essentially thermodynamic patterns is something Morris and MacDonald hope to explore further. Until then, shaking nails never looked so good.
Via New Scientist.


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Taxes and SpendingU.S. History
The so-called Founding Fathers used small-scale tax rebellions to justify their counter-revolution against the spirit of 1776, thus launching the big-tax, big-government Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Money and BanksMoney and Banking
Since real savings enable the production of capital goods, obviously real savings are at the heart of the economic growth that raises people's living standards.
The ticket to the UN's ideal of decent work is not regulation and legislation, but economic liberalization.
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Gazing at the data cannot assist an analyst in establishing causes in the world of economics.
The real impediment to economic growth has been the relentless central bank tampering with financial markets.
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The prices of goods are not set mechanically by some kind of supply-demand curves but by the goal-seeking choices of individuals.
Creating money out of thin air always sets the boom-bust cycle in motion, even when there's an increase in the demand for money.


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Yesterday, we got some more details on the wares that will be available on the Black Market Auction House (BMAH). In particular, it's been mentioned in several blue posts that heroic tier 14-level gear will be listed. For those who aren't familiar with the posts I'm referencing, here are two of the important ones made by Zarhym:
Zarhym: No one should count on this even being close to a viable option for gearing up a character. If you can raise that kind of gold in the game, you're going to have much better success paying your way into raids for gear than hoping the right items appear for you in the black market AH (which doesn't include set pieces), hoping you can afford to outbid everyone else on your realm, and hoping you're the last one to bid before the auction ends.
Sure, it'll have some of the best rewards for sale. But that doesn't mean it'll be remotely reliable for one person to gear up quickly. It's the black market, after all.
Ultimately the system is going to benefit the extremely wealthy and the extremely lucky. But in all likelihood the benefits won't at all be consistent, even for those who can pony up the gold.
Zarhym: For those speculating about the rate of gear gains from the black market auction house, here's how things currently work. Keep in mind it's still beta and this is all subject to change.
The chances that a tier-14 raid or PvP item of any given armor type will be listed each day is roughly 10%. Logistically, this means there will be plenty of days where no new armor is available to anyone. Some days, if the black market vendors are extra fortunate in their scavenging for goods, you might see a piece of gear for each armor type. The items under each armor type include belts, boots and bracers, and there will be a separate vendor offering jewelry.
As you can imagine, there's been a lot of backlash from raiders. Much of it is subjective – namely, criticisms like "non-raiders shouldn't have access to best-in-slot (BiS) raiding gear." I'm not going to address any of those complaints, because frankly they don't interest me. I don't care at all about who has what pretty shiny purples, or whether another player has the same shiny purples that I'm sporting. I'm not trying to be dismissive of those concerns, because to the people that care about those things, they're very real concerns. They just don't happen to matter to me.
However, I do care about the objective, or observable effects of this sort of change. Because despite the information provided, I think there are some subtleties that have been entirely overlooked. In Zarhym's defense, he's just the messenger, so it's not entirely fair to lay the blame at his feet. But his statements definitely indicate an oversight, namely in how the change affects hard-mode raiding guilds. Having BiS raiding gear available on the BMAH will have measurable (and in my opinion, negative) effects on how raiding guilds approach the game. To illustrate that, I want to cover two misconceptions that seem to have crept into Zarhym's post (and again – this may not be his fault, he's just the messenger).
1) Rarity, reliability, and RNG do not make an effect small
The statements about reliability and consistency indicate that the developers feel that as long as a mechanic isn't reliable, it won't have a strong effect. That's only true in aggregate statistics, insofar as everybody won't be buying that gear. But that's not how players see or experience the game. Players see their own small and limited sample of the overall game environment – their personal experiences and the experiences of players and guilds they interact with on one server. And in that small microcosm, the effect can still be huge.
As an analogy, consider the lottery. If you give out a million-dollar prize to a single person out of one billion participants, the aggregate effect is not very large. That's less than a cent per person, after all, and the average person's daily life is pretty much unaffected. But to that one very lucky winner, it's a huge effect – it completely changes their life, and the lives of people around them. A rare or unreliable effect can still have severe ramifications.
In this case, the ramification is twofold. First, the availability of BiS gear through the BMAH gives guilds an incentive to camp the BMAH during the first few weeks of a tier, in order to purchase all of the "extra" loot they can to speed up their own progression. Remember that raiding guilds can easily build up bankrolls in the millions, so dropping 2-3 million per tier isn't unreasonable at all if it gives them a significant advantage. And make no mistake, one piece of gear can be a huge upgrade. The stamina alone can save a player's life, and turn a wipe into a kill. And the combined DPS increase of several of those upgrades can easily be 1-2% of a raid's DPS. Guilds in the world top 100 can and will go to extreme lengths for a 1-2% raid DPS increase, and that has an effect on world-first and server-first races. Do not be at all surprised if hardcore guilds station a player at the AH at all hours of the day just to make sure they can be the first to put in that 1-million-gold bid.
Second, those same guilds are going to be given an incentive to sell more loot and/or farm more gold during the lulls between progression. After progression ends, they'll have a few months to build up another few million gold so that they can camp the AH for the next progression tier. This could have negative effects in various forms, including mandatory farming (thus making resources less available for other players) or more more AH shenanigans (imagine how much of a market you can control if you threw the entire capital of a guild bank at the AH). In other words, it gives guilds an incentive to seriously compromise and control the economy of a server.
And all of this happens because of one or two items becoming available on the BMAH during the first few weeks of raiding. Such a minor change, and yet it has a drastic effect on a guild's day-to-day activities.
2) Availability through another channel is not always a fair comparison
Zarhym pointed out that gearing up through the BMAH will not be efficient, and that it would be much cheaper and faster to gear up by paying a raiding guild to take you through the content and give you gear. There's nothing factually wrong with either of those statements. However, the implication is that as a result, the BMAH isn't going to have a significant effect. And that is factually wrong, because the two channels for obtaining gear aren't at all equivalent.
There's not a serious raiding guild in the world that will sell you loot during the first few weeks of progression. That gear is sacrosanct, in a sense, because it helps speed up progression and get the boss kills sooner. It's not until all of a tier's content is on farm that a guild will consider selling off excess loot, and often not until every raider has the bulk of the items they want. That process usually takes a month or two for top-500 guilds.
But BMAH gear will presumably be available from day one. That makes it an asset to a guild's progression instead of being "leftovers" that would otherwise be sharded. And that's an important difference. BMAH-provided gear has the potential to increase a hard-mode guild's progression rate in ways that "leftover" loot cannot. That alone causes the two channels of gear acquisition to have very different effects. From the point-of-view of a casual raider that's purchasing the gear three months after a tier was released, it's not a big difference. But it's a huge difference for everyone involved when the gear becomes available within that one- to two-month progression window.
For raiders, it modifies behavior patterns in the ways I described above – BMAH camping, gold hoarding to bankroll early upgrades, and so on. For non-raiders, it has the opposite effect – the guilds camping the BMAH make that gear essentially unavailable to anyone who's not heavily invested in progression. So the average wealthy non-raider who was the target audience for this gear in the first place will have little-to-no chance of actually purchasing it during that first month or two anyway, simply because they're not going to be willing to camp the AH as carefully as a progression raiding guild.
From that non-raider's point of view, the gear may as well not even exist for the first month or two, because they're not going to get their hands on it amidst the BMAH campers from raiding guilds. And once the progression race is over, there will only be a very small window before it becomes much cheaper to simply buy those same items directly from a raiding guild. So it seems that there's very little incentive for a non-raider to bother with BMAH gear at all, since it's rarely going to be simultaneously available and economical.
At which point, we have to ask, "what's the point?" Adding current-tier heroic gear to the BMAH doesn't have a significant effect on non-raiders, but has a significant and negative effect on hard-mode raiding guilds. Nobody seems to benefit from this change. Maybe I'm missing something, but it doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose except to make people angry.
A potential solution
Given all that, you might assume I'm going to propose that they just don't make the gear available at all. In fact, I'm not – there's a much more elegant solution:
Simply don't make current-tier epics available via the BMAH for the first two months of a content patch.
This seems to solve all of the objective problems. Raiders won't feel the need to accumulate huge bankrolls just to be able to jump on epics the during the first few weeks. That eliminates the BMAH camping and wealth-amassing issues for raiders, which is good for everyone (before anyone tries to claim otherwise, I'll remind you that a guild with deep pockets can definitely screw over an entire server's economy for their own gain if they do so carefully and deliberately). It still makes that gear available to non-raiders though, after a reasonable embargo period. Which is good for non-raiders, I guess, if you assume there's nobody for them to buy the gear from (which might be the case on some low-population servers). It doesn't seem to cause undue hardship for anyone involved.
I'm still not sure that the availability has a significantly positive effect on anybody overall, compared to the current model. But at least in this implementation it doesn't massively inconvenience anybody.


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Several years ago my son Rob had suggested that I go to Baja with him. He talked about the beaches, mountains, and waters of the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez. He also talked about the other people that would be there, people of all ages and from all walks of life. I had just finished a long hike along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States that had occupied me the last several years, and I felt ready for something different.
Neither my son nor I are big money spenders, not having much to spend. But we have learned there is fun and adventure in the not so luxurious way of travel. We both value getting more up-close and personal with the flora, fauna, natives, as well as their cooking. I would never have driven to Mexico by myself, but thought going with my son was an opportunity. He had been spending winters there for seven or eight years by then. So I purchased a used minivan that spring, selling a Honda sedan that had been faithful to me since 1991, and began outfitting it for life on the road and at the beach.
I took out the large middle seat and one of the two back seats. I built a bed on a slab of wood in that area, exactly my length, leaving room for storage underneath and in the rear cargo area. These vans are often referred to as grocery getters, but I had a better idea. I then filled a number of plastic tubs with clothes, cooking stuff, dishes, eating utensils, groceries, and other miscellaneous items I thought I would need. For traveling, a large water container is necessary as well as Clorox for washing dishes in Mexico. I had as large a cooler as would fit inside the van. I hung small saddle bags over the seats for records and paper work I would need, hung earrings on the ceiling plus mosquito netting big enough for me to sit under for night reading. I also carried quite a few books. A roof top carrier held sporting equipment.
I planned to drive across country, seeing places I had not previously seen, and as usual, sleeping mostly in State or National Parks or other public lands. Rob and I planned on meeting in Utah where he has worked and has friends. We both had vehicles and I would follow him down the Baja peninsula. His vehicle was a used diesel ambulance.
I had many impressions as Rob and I headed down the Baja peninsula. First of all, Mexico is beautiful. Just as the large mountains of Quebec had impressed me, so was I impressed by the mountains of Mexico. They are much different in appearance but just as imposing. The mountains are high and rocky and interspersed with desert valleys. The roads were narrow with many hairpin curves. There were a lot of trucks on the highways, and their Jake brakes were constantly squealing as if to emphasize the precaution needed to navigate. I quickly learned that "peligroso" means dangerous, as in dangerous curves the next so many kilometers. It took me a while longer to learn that a "tope" was a speed bump and I best slow down.
When it got too dark to see, we pulled off on a secondary road and stayed there for the night. One morning after just waking up, a man came along side herding a few cows. It did not seem unusual to them to meet gringos who had obviously just spent the night. Rob always greeted them with "Buenos Dias," which I did too as soon as I discovered what that meant. I was nervous at first, especially when a truck or carload of guys pulled off close to us. When I expressed this, Rob commented that I had a lot to learn. And I did. It wasn't long before I felt comfortable with the people. The Mexican people were always very polite and I never saw anything remotely threatening (except the driving). I think language would have been a problem if an emergency had developed but even here Rob said someone would figure it out.
Several days later we passed through the town of 'Todos Santos' and were soon at the beach. Rob quickly found a parking spot, pulled in, and was immediately off to look for his friends. I realized I was on my own, and also found a spot a little further down the beach. I really didn't know what to do, so just like my first night out on the Appalachian Trail, I tried to look like I knew what I was doing, and pulled a few things out of the van, like my cooler and a chair. As I looked around I saw the Pacific Ocean very close, a beach maybe fifty feet away, a number of vehicles parked in the area where we had stopped, and other four-wheel drive kinds, parked right next to the water. There were no bathroom facilities here, for that, you took your TP, shovel, and went off to find a private area. Not for everyone, I know.
I was amazed at the life style I discovered there. Most of the seasoned beach dwellers had trucks, of all kinds from conversion vans to bread trucks. Some people lived in small campers. A woman my age was living there that I could visit with during the day while most of the younger people were off surfing. Milly and I often took long walks on the beach, skinny dipped in some private places she knew. Occasionally we went into town and she showed me some of the crafts and beautiful paintings by local artists. At night we all gathered together, often having potluck meals with everyone donating something. There was a lot of story telling. Interesting to me were the stories my son was telling of some of his earlier exploits that I had not heard before.
I hadn't realized what a good cook Rob was. I was embarrassed by my pantry, as I had no idea cooking would be so advanced on the beach. I had canned food, and bare bones pasta. These guys have ovens, spice collections, woks, sushi rice, fresh fruit and vegetables, and always avocadoes and cilantro. One morning, Rob baked cinnamon rolls, which he passed around. Milly had dried beans of all kinds, as well as many different grains she sent away for. Several of the surfers were also fishermen and one night one had a sushi party. Since we had just gone into town, I at least had wine to contribute to that. The least I could do was the dishes in an attempt to make up for my lack of culinary skills. I did a lot of dishes.
These are a few of the recipes I recorded:
Rob's Guacamole Dip
Cut 2 avocadoes in half; remove pit (of course) and scoop from the casing and mash well. Add lime juice; squeeze garlic into it, cut-up one large tomato, and 1/2 onion. Also add cilantro. These ingredients were staples in his pantry.
Rob's Enchiladas
Flour, oil, salt, water. He "eyeballs" it. Yes, he even made the tortilla.
For fillings, he used: diced tomatoes, diced onions, fresh grated cheese, rice, frijoles, Mexican sausage (right after a town stop), guacamole, and greens. The Mexican way is to serve all the fillings separately so people can choose their own combination.
Bud's Salsa (he was one of the fisherman and served this with his fish).
1 tomato
1/2 onion
Mild or jalapeno chiles
Lime juice from 1 lime
Bell peppers (optional)
Just mix it up. Bud covered his fish with mayonnaise, sprinkled it with fish spices, and then cooked it.
I have to insert one more recipe. This is the way Clark made his rice dish:
Clark's Rice
Dice carrots, onions, and ginger very fine, slice mushrooms, and press some garlic, add turmeric, cumin, and a little cayenne pepper. Sauté this in olive and sesame oil, then add enough water to cook the veggies. Add peanut butter and coconut milk until the mixture is the desired thickness. Serve over rice. As you can see, Clark has a very complete kitchen. All I had was garlic powder and onion salt.
There were several other beach locations at which we spent time, adding up to two months in all. I had bathed in the ocean and washed my hair a few times in melted water from the cooler but had taken no shower during those two months. I had slept comfortably in the van, enjoyed the new people I had met, learned again how satisfying life can be with a minimum of possessions. I followed Rob back up the peninsula and felt sad when we parted shortly after crossing back into the States. I now felt comfortable with people in a different country, so much so that I repeated this trip with a friend several years later.


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Obituary: Carol Ann Mason
Carol Ann Mason passed away peacefully at her home in South Lake Tahoe, CA on January 8, 2014. She came into this world on January 15, 1942 in Port Angeles, Wash. to Glenn and Elizabeth Mendenhall. She was blessed with two sons, Kevin Mason of South Lake Tahoe, CA and Eric Mason of Gardnerville, NV. She was preceded by her parents and her beloved husband Ron Mason in 1986. She leaves behind her adoring granddaughter, Kayla Ann Mason, of South Lake Tahoe, CA the love of her life. She leaves behind a great-grandson, Gaige and three grandchildren, Brianna, Katie and Kelsey of Gardnerville, NV.
Carol was a certified Nursing Assistant for 31 years. She enjoyed many of her patients through the years. In 1954 she and her mother joined her father, Glenn in Daharan, Saudi Arabia where she went to school in her teen years. She graduated in 1960 from Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver, Wash.
She leaves behind 6 nieces, and 4 nephews and 4 cousins. She leaves behind her stepdaughter Cheri in Florida, her stepson Ron JR in Fallon, NV, and her stepson Randy of Tennessee.
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The purloined gift cards. The fur coats. The bicycling tours of the city with staffers. And, of course, the famous shoe incident.
Former mayor Sheila Dixon's tenure in City Hall is ripe with material for comedians. On Thursday, seven comics and local media personalities will be poking fun of Dixon -- to her face-- at a "Roast and Toast" at the Baltimore Comedy Factory.
Why would Dixon, who resigned in 2010 as part of a plea deal to settle criminal charges, agree to a such a thing? Is this the opening salvo in the 2016 mayoral campaign?
"This has nothing to do with politics," Dixon said in an interview. "I'm doing this roast to support one of the nonprofits I was working with when I was doing my community service hours. Young people are very important to me."
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Dixon said agreed to the event after some initial hesitation.
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Deputy had stopped to help motorist
A Milwaukee County sheriff's deputy used their taser to subdue a man they had stopped to help.
Just after 4 a.m., the deputy saw a disabled vehicle pulled off I-43 North, just north of Capitol Dr.
When the deputy walked up to help, a sheriff's department spokesperson said the 22-year-old man in the car attacked, starting a fight in the middle of the road.
The deputy called for backup, and used their taser to subdue the man.
When medics took the man to Froedtert hospital as a precaution, deputies say the man gave doctors a false name. After deputies learned the man's real name, they also learned he had warrants for his arrest. A sheriff's spokesperson had not yet seen what the charge was, or what name is.
Both the suspect and the arresting deputy are OK. The suspect is now in sheriff's custody.


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Coincidentally, so am I! It seems as if only yesterday Bioware was pandering to fans, promising Varric DLC, Flemeth DLC, Leliana DLC, and Morrigan DLC. Well, as of this week, EA's RPG sweatshop has stated that they're completely done with Dragon Age II -- no DLC, support, or expansions. I know people who bought DAII because of the promises of Varric DLC, so no doubt some of you out there are disappointed. Considering it was already outed that the game was rushed, this doesn't bode well for the franchise as a whole, despite the fact that they're seemingly already moving to the next cash cow -- which may or may not be Dragon Age III.
As everyone probably knows, Dragon Age II, while functioning as a servicecable shallow action RPG, had a ton of mechanical and design issues, most notably the constant reusal of assets and dungeons. When Bioware promised new DLC, fans gave a sigh of relief, thinking that maybe future content would solve a few fundamental issues with the game. We ended up getting one lackluster sidestory and a vehicle for the wooden Felicia Day. Has someone made a mod that ports most of Origins into Dragon Age II yet?
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The Gospel and Jeremiah Wright
I recently wrote a comment on another man's blog about the criticism being heaped upon Wright (and consequently, Barack Obama), and pointed out that, while I am disgusted by the media's treatment of Rev. Wright, I do believe there are some upsides to the controversy, namely that it puts a spotlight on the inherent problems of Liberation Theology and its influence in the African-American church. I don't have the time, nor the patience (or really the education) to dive deeply into Liberation Theology, so let me offer a few links for further study:
An article, "What is Liberation Theology?" at GotQuestions.org
An interview with Eric Redmond, an African American Pastor in Maryland, by Albert Mohler
A partial transcript of that interview at Townhall.com entitled, "Is Jeremiah Wright Mainstream?"
Eric Redmond's post, "Jeremiah Wright's BLT" (Black Liberation Theology), on his blog, A Man From Issachar
Suffice to say, the problems of Liberation Theology are vast, and they are a stumbling block to the gospel. As one commenter at Townhall.com wrote:
Liberation theology creates further division.I would agree with this assessment. And since Rev. Wright resurfaced a few days ago and today was blasted by Barack Obama for remarks he made at the National Press Club Monday in Washington, I have been thinking even more about Wright and his theology. As I was considering this, I stumbled across Warren Kelly's post on Wright at his blog View From The Pew. Kelly discusses Wright's answer to a question posed to him by a moderator after his speech at the National Press Club on Monday. The moderator stated, "Jesus said, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the father but through me.'" Then the moderator asked, "Do you believe this? And do you think Islam is a way to salvation?" Wright replied simply, "Jesus also said, 'Other sheep have I who are not of this fold,'" seeming to indicate that indeed Muslims and those of other religions would inherit eternal life apart from a personal relationship with Christ. Sadly, applause followed his comment. Kelly noted,
Liberation theology counters racism with racism.
Liberation theology is man-made and runs perpendicular to the gospel.
Liberation theology is no gospel at all.
Wright had what I call an Osteen moment. He had the chance to share the Gospel in front of millions. Not only that, but he had the chance to calm the fears of evangelical Christians that his church was somehow not really a Christian church. He could have done so much, but he decided not to.He then wisely observed that, "Jeremiah Wright did to Jesus exactly what the news media have been doing to him -- taken [sic] a part of a sermon, quoted it out of context, and made it sound like something that wasn't intended."
Denny Burk, Assistant Professor of New Testament at Criswell College in Dallas, Texas. and blogger extraordinaire picked up on the story as well and explains what Jesus was actually referring to in John chapter 10:
When Jesus says that he has "other sheep who are not of this fold," it's likely that he is referring to Gentiles who would later come to faith in Christ. The sheep that are following Him at that point in the narrative are Jews, but Jesus aims to have followers from among the Gentiles as well. Whoever the "other sheep" are understood to be, they nevertheless have the characteristics of "sheep." They listen to and follow Christ, and they are saved only by Him.Additionally, he points out that, "To say that 'other sheep' refers to unbelievers (or followers of Islam in Reverend Wright's case) simply runs roughshod over the plain meaning of the passage."
So, as I noted to the other blogger in my comments referred to at the start of this post, Jeremiah Wright's pulpit rhetoric doesn't really bother me - it's his misunderstanding of the Gospel and disregard for the fundamentals of the faith that worry me.


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The board, comprised of parents, Young Life alumni and civic leaders, provides a foundation of financial, administrative and moral support for the local Young Life team.
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Q: I have had several jobs as a live-in nanny and housekeeper, and my employers refused my requests to pay me on the books and file payroll taxes. Now I am 63 and my Social Security payments will be next to nothing. Do I have any recourse?
—K.P., Boston
A: You're not alone. Household-employment tax filings for nannies and other domestic workers fell 7.8% in the two years ended in 2010, to 202,000, based on the latest Internal Revenue Service data. People who pay domestic employees more than $1,800 a year are required to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, plus any federal, state and local taxes for programs such as unemployment insurance, but fewer families are doing so. The trend poses risks for domestic workers who lack a safety net, and for their employers, who may face audits and penalties if an employee later files for benefits and reports the income.
Visit a Social Security Administration office to discuss your situation with a staff member, says Kathleen Webb, president of HomeWork Solutions, a Sterling, Va., tax-services firm. The agency can investigate requests to correct earnings records. Also, the Supplemental Security Income Program pays benefits to low-income people age 65 or over. The maximum benefit is $710 a month, although some states pay an additional amount to cover higher costs of living, says Guy Maddalone, chief executive of GTM Payroll Services, a Clifton Park, N.Y., payroll and human-resources company.
To explore your eligibility, call 1-800-772-1213. If you take another domestic-service job, tips on negotiating legal compensation can be found at GTM.com; click on "Resources & Tools" and "Nanny & Household Facts."
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RAMALLAH, West Bank —Investigators from France and Switzerland will conduct parallel probes into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Palestinian officials said Monday. His remains will be exhumed, at a date kept secret, to give each team a chance to draw samples to test for poisoning.
The two teams are acting separately on behalf of Arafat's widow Suha Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, who each had misgivings about the other's investigation.
The push to re-examine Arafat's 2004 death come after a Swiss lab's recent discovery of polonium-210, a deadly radioactive isotope, on clothes said to belong to the Palestinian leader. This fueled new suspicions of poisoning.
The French team is composed of criminal investigators acting at the request of Suha Arafat, while the Palestinian Authority invited the Swiss lab to also come to examine the remains of the longtime leader and determine how he died eight years ago. A spokesman for neither team could be reached immediately for comment.
Arafat's death in a French hospital in November 2004 has remained a mystery for many. While the immediate cause of death was a stroke, the underlying source of an illness he suffered in his final weeks has never been clear, leading to persistent, unproven conspiracy theories that he had cancer, AIDS or was poisoned.
Suha Arafat has long had rocky relations with the Palestinian Authority's president Mahmoud Abbas, and the probes' potential to be politically explosive appears to have fueled more distrust. She had asked the Palestinian Authority to suspend any other probe or ensure that it was coordinated with the French investigation. Some Palestinian officials, for their part, said they were unhappy with the way Suha Arafat had forced a foreign investigation on them.
While their probes are separate, the French and Swiss investigators are set to visit the grave together and will only be allowed one chance to draw samples, said Tawfik Tirawi, head of the Palestinian committee investigating the death.
"The grave will be opened only one time for the two teams to take the samples," he said.
That precaution may be part of an attempt by Palestinian officials to keep the exhumation out of the public eye in hopes of avoiding a spectacle.
A senior Palestinian official said the process of digging out Arafat's remains will be conducted privately. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss plans for the exhumation.
But keeping the event a secret will likely be a challenge. Arafat lies in a giant mausoleum built by the Palestinians outside government headquarters in a central area of Ramallah. The official declined to discuss how the public and media would be kept away.
A date for the exhumation is also being kept under wraps. Tirawi refused to reveal a date, saying only that the teams were working on coordinating their arrival.
Arafat, who was 75, died at a French military hospital on Nov. 11, 2004, two weeks after he was rushed there from his West Bank headquarters with a mysterious illness.
According to French medical records, he had suffered inflammation, jaundice and a blood condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation, or DIC, before the stroke.
The records were inconclusive about what brought about the DIC, which has numerous causes including infections, colitis and liver disease. The uncertainty fanned to speculation about the cause of his death, including the possibility of AIDS or poisoning.
Many in the Arab world believe he was killed by Israel, a charge Israel vociferously denies.
Arafat was the face of the Palestinian struggle for independence for four decades and remains a beloved figure in Palestinian society.
Israel viewed him as an obstacle to peace, holding him responsible for the Palestinian uprising that broke out in 2000 and confining him to his headquarters in Ramallah in his final years.
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Added sugar is making a lot of news lately. Last week, I wrote about the FDA's proposed new Nutrition Facts label that would show how much sugar is added to foods. This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released their new recommendation for an upper limit on how much added sugar we eat. They now say that no more than 5% of total daily calories should come from added sugars – about 100 calories, or 25 grams of sugar – for an adult.
Twenty-five grams of added sugar is not much. Check out the table below to see two ways you'd reach that daily limit – one way is pure sugar, another includes foods with cancer fighting compounds.
|A sugary soda (8-ounces) vs. 4 delicious, healthful foods
25 grams
Added sugar is a concern, especially in sugary beverages, because it contributes to overweight and obesity which is linked to 7 cancers, including colorectal, postmenopausal and endometrial.
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Court roundup
Man sentenced in crash that injured passenger
BALLSTON SPA — A Schuylerville man was sentenced on Thursday to one to three years in state prison for an alcohol-related crash that critically injured a female passenger.
Morgan Petralia, 24, also was ordered to install an ignition interlock device on any car he operates for a period of three years, beginning when he is released from prison, District Attorney James Murphy said.
In March, Petralia pleaded guilty in Saratoga County Court to being intoxicated during the early morning of Nov. 17, when he lost control of his car and it overturned on Route 29.
After the accident, Petralia gave police a breath sample that registered a blood alcohol content of 0.19 percent. He pleaded guilty to vehicular assault, Murphy said.
The victim suffered multiple fractures of her face, neck and spine and has a permanent injury to her left eye, Murphy said.
— Bob Gardinier
Albany man pleads guilty to child pornography
ALBANY — Federal prosecutors said Paul Scrom, 63, of Albany, pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography Thursday.
Scrom faces a 5-to-20-year prison term, a lifetime term of supervised release, a maximum fine of $250,000, and mandatory registration as a sex offender, prosecutors said. Sentencing will be Oct. 14.
Scrom admitted that he distributed images and movies of child porn through a peer-to-peer file sharing program.
On Sept. 12, 2013, investigators searched his home and recovered images and videos depicting the child pornography, prosecutors said.
— Staff report
Bogus money plea offers real prison term
ALBANY — David King, 44, of Albany, pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a forged instrument, a felony, in Albany County Court on Thursday, county prosecutors said.
On April 16, 2013, police detained King, who had $1,000 in counterfeit money that he planned to sell for $300 in legitimate currency, prosecutors said. More counterfeit money was found at his home.
King faces 3½ to 7 years in state prison when sentenced on July 9.
The case against his co-defendant, Levar Vanhoesen, is pending, District Attorney David Soares' office said.
— Staff report
Waterford man takes plea in prostitution case
BALLSTON SPA — A Waterford man who once testified against his own mother pleaded guilty this week to attempting to promote prostitution, Saratoga County prosecutors said.
Kevin Gervasio, 28, advertised a prostitute online and police set up a meeting. Following a verbal agreement for sex with an undercover officer, the alleged prostitute and Gervasio were arrested, prosecutors said. Gervasio was charged with felony promoting prostitution, and the woman was charged with misdemeanor prostitution, the district attorney's office said.
Sentencing will be on July 14.
Gervasio has more than 50 arrests and 17 convictions on his record. In 2010, he testified against his mother after the pair were charged with fleecing seniors in supermarket parking lots. They were arrested after they put liquid under a woman's car in Menands, then told her that Gervasio could fix the car for $1,400. They took the cash but didn't do the work.
Both Gervasio and his mother were convicted of grand larceny.
During the murder trial of Alberto Rivera, convicted in 2007 of gunning down Amanda Burns in 2005, Gervasio testified that Rivera had confessed to him. Rivera was convicted, but that conviction was overturned in 2011 on the grounds that jurors should have been able to consider a manslaughter charge. At the retrial, Gervasio's brother testified against him, saying Gervasio did not hear a confession.
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This is a guest post by Sientina, a Holy Paladin
I've been reading a few (okay, a bit more than a few) paladin threads lately, sifting through the arguments about what to gem and what is the premiere paladin stat. It never fails that in every single thread at least one or more people comment how 'I have X amount of Y and I spam Holy Light for the entire boss fight'. With how healers mana is in the current content, I can understand why they would just spam Holy Light, and if glyphed, AoE five melee around that particular tank. But with the exception of Patchwerk or Instructor Razuvious (on the Understudies if your priests were a bit off their game) I can't think of a single boss fight in the current content that would warrant Holy Light spam.
There's always a defensive reply from the paladins who spam the light when they're confronted.
"My overhealing meters don't count if no one dies!"
No, but unless you're healing a five man, there are others healing with you. Are your raid healers going low on mana? Think about helping them out. Why not spread some Flash of Light throughout the raid? If the tank needs a heal bomb, Divine Favor + Holy Shock + Instant Flash of Light at the cost of two global cooldowns for about the same healing as one Holy Light will work just fine. Perhaps you've been working on the 6 minute Malygos achievement but haven't gotten it yet. If more healers were being mindful of who else is taking damage and taking care of it instead of mindlessly spamming, maybe you could run it with one less healer. Who's pulling the healing weight in your raid?
"If I have the mana to support spamming Holy Light, why shouldn't I?"
If you have the mana, you're overgeared for the content. Plain and simple. If you are overgeared, your overhealing is through the roof and into outer space assuming your tanks are overgeared as well. If you don't need the extra healing, why do it? DPS a little, judge a bit more often. Of course, keep an eye on your tank but watch everything else around you. Get in the mindset of watching what happens to the raid. Warlocks that get high up on threat and need a Hand of Salvation. That mage that tends to pull aggro at the wrong time and needs a BoP. We are currently in Kara-like content, people. This is easy mode. Ulduar will not let you get away with just pressing 2-2-2-2-2,. Getting healer tunnel vision will screw you over later.
Ask yourself this question. Why would Blizzard change the paladin class from spamming Flash of Light to spamming Holy Light?
Back in vanilla wow, Flash of Light was a paladin's bread and butter spell. All one did was hit FoL over and over and over again while refreshing 5 minute blessings. In Burning Crusade, we were gifted with Holy Shock, a very mana inefficient spell with a long cool down, but it was great when everything went to hell. Once Wrath came, we were reworked into a healing machine. Holy Shock got a longer range, critting with it made our Flash of Light instant or our Holy Light faster. On top of that, we got Sacred Shield and while it was active, our Flash of Light gets an extra 50% to crit.
Blizzard made our spells to be synergistic. Use the mechanics to make the best out of the paladin class. Play with your spells. We are still the healers of the main tank more than any other class, but we are not limited to just that. Sure we don't have a chain heal, a wild growth, or a circle of healing, but who cares? With the mana regen changes coming in 3.1, Shamans, Druids and Priests will have to be more mindful of mana. I know I'll be there backing them up.
So please, lay off the canned meat. Its just not healthy for you or for your raid.


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Host nation Germany got their FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup 2010 campaign off to a winning start with a 4-2 victory over Costa Rica who were making their debut appearance in the competition.
Maren Meinert's team, who are expected to pose a formidable challenge at their own event, had the bonus of a goal right at the start of the Group A contest to delight their fans who made up the majority of the sell-out crowd in Bochum and helped create a great atmosphere. Following a 2nd minute free-kick, goalkeeper Priscilla Tapia could only parry the ball and Svenja Huth was on hand to score.
Alexandra Popp made it 2-0 after Kim Kulig set her up and she might have scored again before the interval only to send her header over. In added time at the end of the half Carolina Venegas reduced the arrears for the Central Americans.
The second half began at a slower pace but the Germans were soon back in control with Popp scoring her second goal. Their dominance increased four minutes later as Marina Hegering got in on the goal-scoring act.
Kulig also struck the woodwork as the home team went in search of further goals. But the last word went to Costa Rica who scored from the penalty spot through Katherine Alvarado after Bianca Schmidt was shown a red card for a professional foul. Co-incidentally the Germany-Costa Rica game which launched the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ also ended in a 4-2 triumph for the hosts.
Germany will next face Colombia in Group A on Friday while, in the same Bochum venue, Costa Rica will be looking for their first win as they take on France.


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13 December 2012 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Bio-XCell launches Central Hub
Bio-XCell's team at BioMalaysia 2012 in front of the scale model of the Central Hub
Singapore: Bio-XCell, developer of Malaysia's latest biotechnology park and ecosystem, launched Central Hub, its latest business and technology center, in an effort to support the Bioeconomy Transformation Programme of the country.
Based in Nusajaya, Johor, the Central Hub will serve as the focal point in the Bio-XCell biotechnology park, acting as a catalyst for biotechnology ecosystem in Iskandar, Malaysia. The multi-purpose complex, comprises of a business building, a science building and an auditorium. It provides a collaborative environment that will support the development of a biotech community. Companies can also take advantage of the serviced office suites, high-speed internet connectivity, business center, lounge, conference and meeting rooms, and lab spaces that are available for lease.
The Central Hub features 303,000 square feet of gross floor area with more than 20,000 square feet for science lab spaces as well as retail and F&B outlets designed with elements of a green building such as a glass façade providing natural lighting, good ventilation and water features.
Mr Rizatuddin Ramli, CEO, Bio-XCell, said, "We hope to engage with many of the companies that are looking to explore a location for their operations in Southern Corridor. Bio-XCell's Central Hub is an ideal location for MNCs and upcoming SMEs to foster cooperative relationships within the industry."
Speaking at the soft launch, Mr Rizatuddin said, "Bio-XCell's strategic location is a key benefit. Nusajaya is a fast developing, dynamic city with a well-developed road system. It is within easy reach of Singapore and a few hours by air to the economic powerhouses of China and India, as well as rapidly growing markets such as the Middle East. In addition, the modern and enriching environment will naturally attract the necessary talent pool."