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Deloitte says new US tax compliance a challenge for financial institutions in the Middle East, no regional government close to an agreement with the US treasury…
BY THE end of 2013, the United States' Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) will require all foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to enter into disclosure compliance agreements with the US Treasury.
According to Deloitte, significant effort is required to meet this challenge in the Middle East while assessing and navigating the impact of FATCA requires a flexible approach grounded in solid expertise. Deloitte designed a series of workshops to help businesses in the Middle East address the developments of FATCA and prepare for them.
"FATCA is one of the most important and challenging projects for global financial institutions this year. Every CEO and Board of Directors needs to understand the legalities behind it and know where they stand. Ultimately, that is where the responsibility rests," said Joseph el Fadl, partner in-charge of Global Financial Services Industry for Deloitte in the Middle East.
Disclose account holders
FATCA requires not only all foreign (non-US) banks but also other foreign financial institutions (mutual and hedge funds, insurance companies, trusts and Islamic finance structures) to disclose all US account holders to the US Internal Revenue Services (tax authority).
The operative mechanism is that if any affected entity wants to do business with or invest in the United States, it has no choice but to comply with FATCA, irrespective of whether it has a US branch, office, or other presence. Otherwise, its US portfolio is subject to 30 per cent tax on income as well as capital proceeds.
"We are working closely with our clients across the region to ensure full compliance with FATCA, as this is one of the most critical commercial issues currently faced by banks and financial institutions around the world. A series of deadlines have been set by the US Treasury by which various procedures need to be in place, and covers areas such as due diligence, monitoring, reporting, and withholding, Financial institutions need to put in place an effective plan to ensure that these requirements will be met," said Humphry Hatton, Chief Executive, Deloitte Corporate Finance Limited.
Provide protective buffer
In 2012 the US Treasury unveiled two models for intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) under FATCA. Recently further clarification has been provided around these two types of IGA and this has been shared by Deloitte in its series of workshops in the Middle East.
"IGA is the least worst option. It affords many benefits over the IRS direct route including the removal of the withholding requirement and it also provides a protective buffer to the domestic banking industry. Negotiating an IGA is a complex and protracted process. You need to know what to ask for, we are in discussions with banking associations and governments" said Ali Kazimi, Managing Director and Deloitte Middle East FATCA Leader.
Deloitte FATCA experts explained that Model I would require the local government to take a much wider role in FATCA enforcement. In this case FATCA regulations will not explicitly apply to financial institutions (FIs), instead the local regulations will supersede.
Local legislation would therefore need to be introduced, and approved by the government. In this case FFIs will not be required to enter into agreements, and only registration will be required with the US Treasury. All FFIs within a given participating jurisdiction will be considered as being participants and all reporting will be to the local authority, who will then report information to US authorities. Such an IGA will not cover the branches and subsidiaries of the entity which are based outside of that IGA jurisdiction.
Bilateral tax treaties
Model II IGA, which Deloitte FATCA experts clarified was introduced as an alternative for jurisdictions where Model I would not work. It would see a reduced role of the local government as each financial institution would have to enter into an agreement directly with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In this case non-confirming/recalcitrant accounts or accounts who have not agreed to a banking secrecy waiver would need to be reported to the local authorities, who would then share this information with the US.
Countries with information exchange/bilateral tax treaties with the US have been negotiating IGAs, pointed out Deloitte FATCA experts. However, the US government is considering allowing countries who do not have such treaties in place to still be able to have an IGA set-up.
In recent months the total number of countries currently in discussions with the US on IGA increased from 50 to 60. According to the US Treasury there is still time for countries that have not already initiated discussions with the US Treasury on IGAs, to do so. It should be noted though, that despite discussions, it is believed that there is at present no government in the MENA region close to entering into an agreement with the IRS, therefore local banks and financial institutions need to be preparing to be subject to the full FATCA requirements.
Complex provisions
Kazimi added that chief compliance officers, tax reporting heads, and other key players within financial institutions will need to evaluate the potential impact of these regulations and develop a plan for managing and remediating any potential risk associated with FATCA non-compliance.
In some instances, in the view of Deloitte FATCA experts, there is a lack of awareness about the extent of Responsible Officer (RO) requirements, where a senior member of the FFI will certify to the IRS on behalf of the board of directors, that the FFI is compliant with the FATCA regulations to the best of their knowledge. It is possible that US tax authorities may criminally prosecute a false document case under various laws which may apply – this is clearly an area for concern and further discussions and clarifications are to be expected.
The provisions of FATCA are complex and will operate so as to make it difficult for any financial institution to operate unless it complies with the FATCA regime by registering with the IRS.
Such institutions will need to do this as other US and FATCA compliant institutions may consider not to pursue further and discontinue banking operations with a non FATCA registered institution.
Operationally this will mean that all financial institutions will need to enhance their customer due diligence procedures in order to capture additional data required for FATCA compliance and also modify systems to cope with the FATCA compliance requirements.


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Pronunciation: in-sen-tiv • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Anything that encourages or motivates a particular kind of behavior, a positive inducement; the carrot, in other words, rather than the stick.
Notes: Incentivize is a new verb created from today's word that first appeared in the late 1960s. Here it seems to be a euphemism for "paying more money to", a connotation that seems to have stuck with this word.
In Play: While it may seem dubious that creativity can be bought, the fact of the matter is, incentives may take forms other than money: "Daisy offered her children dinner at McDonald's as an incentive to help her clean up the house." Incentives must be a positive inducement; however, positivity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder: "The school's offer to allow the weaker chemistry students to use the lab on weekends proved to be less an incentive for improvement than was expected."
Word History: Incentive comes from Late Latin incentivus "that strikes up a tune, that incites", from incinere "to make a sound, strike up". This verb is made up of in-, an intensifier prefix + canere "to sing". The Latin stem can- also underlies the noun, carmen "song, poem" which, after French worked its magic on it, emerged as charme, a word we borrowed less the silent [e]. In the Germanic languages the same root came up as Hahn, still the German word for that fowl singer, the rooster. The feminine of this word, Henne, shares the same ancestor as English hen. The metaphor that gave rise to the sense of "incentive" comes from the sense of setting music in motion, starting it up. Some etymologists think that the meaning may have been influenced by the verb incendere "to set afire". (We hope that our writeup of today's Good Word will incentivize Mary Sanchez to send us more in future.)
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When trying to upgrade to the latest LastPass update from the LastPass web site, I ran into an error claiming "Extensions, apps, and user scripts cannot be installed from this web site." If you ever run into a similar error, here's how to work around it.
First, check if the extension is available for download from the Chrome Web Store. If it is, just install it from there. If not, here's what to do:
Instead of opening the extension you'd like to install directly, right-click the download link and select Save Link As to download the extension to your desktop.
Open Chrome's extensions page in your browser by pasting
into your address bar and pressing Enter.Drag and drop the extension you just downloaded into the Chrome extensions page.
You should be error free, and the extension should install as expected.
Chances are most of you haven't experienced this error yet—it's a security measure that Google added to Chrome's dev and Canary channels (version 21 and above) to increase security for extensions that aren't in the web store (requiring a second level of know-how to complete the installation). If you haven't, chances are you may when the update pushes down to the beta and stable channels.
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Chapter XXXVI.
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
179. The glory of fortitude, therefore, does not rest only on the strength of one's body or of one's arms, but rather on the courage of the mind.268268 Cic. de Off. I. 23. Nor is the law of courage exercised in causing, but in driving away all harm. He who does not keep harm off a friend, if he can, is as much in fault as he who causes it. Wherefore holy Moses gave this as a first proof of his fortitude in war. For when he saw an Hebrew receiving hard treatment at the hands of an Egyptian, he defended him, and laid low the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.269269 Ex. ii. 11. Solomon also says: "Deliver him that is led to death."270270 Prov. xxiv. 11.
180. From whence, then, Cicero and Panætius, or even Aristotle, got these ideas is perfectly clear. For though living before these two, Job had said: "I delivered the poor out of the hand of the strong, and I aided the fatherless for whom there was no helper. Let the blessing of him that was ready to perish come upon me."271271 Job xxix. 12, 13. Was not he most brave in that he bore so nobly the attacks of the devil, and overcame him with the powers of his mind?272272 Cf. Job i. 12, w. i. 22, and Job ii. 6, w. ii. 10. Nor have we cause to doubt the fortitude of him to whom the Lord said: "Gird up thy loins like a man. Put on loftiness and power. Humble every one that doeth wrong."273273 Job xl. 2, 5, 6 [LXX.]. The Apostle 31also says: "Ye have a strong consolation."274274 Heb. vi. 18. He, then, is brave who finds consolation in any grief.
181. And in very truth, rightly is that called fortitude, when a man conquers himself, restrains his anger, yields and gives way to no allurements, is not put out by misfortunes, nor gets elated by good success, and does not get carried away by every varying change as by some chance wind.275275 Cic. de Off. I. 20, § 68. But what is more noble and splendid than to train the mind, keep down the flesh, and reduce it to subjection, so that it may obey commands, listen to reason, and in undergoing labours readily carry out the intention and wish of the mind?
182. This, then, is the first notion of fortitude. For fortitude of the mind can be regarded in two ways.276276 Cic. de Off. I. 20, § 66. First, as it counts all externals as very unimportant, and looks on them as rather superfluous and to be despised than to be sought after. Secondly, as it strives after those things which are the highest, and all things in which one can see anything moral (or as the Greeks call it, πρέπον,) with all the powers of the mind. For what can be more noble than to train thy mind so as not to place a high value on riches and pleasures and honours, nor to waste all thy care on these? When thy mind is thus disposed, thou must consider how all that is virtuous and seemly must be placed before everything else; and thou must so fix thy mind upon that, that if aught happens which may break thy spirit, whether loss of property, or the reception of fewer honours, or the disparagement of unbelievers, thou mayest not feel it, as though thou wert above such things; nay, so that even dangers which menace thy safety, if undertaken at the call of justice, may not trouble thee.
183. This is the true fortitude which Christ's warrior has, who receives not the crown unless he strives lawfully.277277 2 Tim. ii. 5. Or does that call to fortitude seem to thee but a poor one: "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope"?278278 Rom. v. 3, 4. See how many a contest there is, yet but one crown! That call none gives, but he who was strengthened in Christ Jesus, and whose flesh had no rest. Affliction on all sides, fighting without and fears within.279279 2 Cor. vii. 5. And though in dangers, in countless labours, in prisons, in deaths280280 2 Cor. xi. 24 ff.—he was not broken in spirit, but fought so as to become more powerful through his infirmities.
184. Think, then, how he teaches those who enter upon their duties in the Church, that they ought to have contempt for all earthly things: "If, then, ye be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do ye act as though living in the world? Touch not, taste not, handle not, which all are to perish with the using."281281 Col. ii. 20, 21, 22. And further: "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, not those things which are on the earth."282282 Col. iii. 1, 2. And again: "Mortify, therefore, your members which are on the earth."283283 Col. iii. 5. This, indeed, is meant for all the faithful. But thee, especially, my son, he urges to despise riches and to avoid profane and old wives fables—allowing nothing but this: "Exercise thyself unto godliness, for bodily exercise profiteth a little, but godliness is profitable unto all things."284284 1 Tim. iv. 8.
185. Let, then, godliness exercise thee unto justice, continence, gentleness, that thou mayest avoid childish acts, and that rooted and grounded in grace thou mayest fight the good fight of faith.285285 1 Tim. vi. 12. Entangle not thyself in the affairs of this life, for thou art fighting for God.286286 2 Tim. ii. 4. For if he who fights for the emperor is forbidden by human laws to enter upon lawsuits, to do any legal business, or to sell merchandise; how much more ought he who enters upon the warfare of faith to keep from every kind of business, being satisfied with the produce of his own little bit of land, if he has it? If he has not that, let him be content with the pay he will get for his service. Here is a good witness to this fact, who says: "I have been young and now am old, yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread."287287 Ps. xxxvii. [xxxvi.] 25. That is the true rest and temperance of the mind which is not excited by the desire of gain, nor tormented by the fear of want.
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By Matt Smith
(CNN) — A promising way to stop a deadly disease, or an uncomfortable step toward what one leading ethicist called eugenics?
U.S. health officials are weighing whether to approve trials of a pioneering in vitro fertilization technique using DNA from three people in an attempt to prevent illnesses like muscular dystrophy and respiratory problems. The proposed treatment would allow a woman to have a baby without passing on diseases of the mitochondria, the "powerhouses" that drive cells.
The procedure is "not without its risks, but it's treating a disease," medical ethicist Art Caplan told CNN's "New Day" on Wednesday. Preventing a disease that can be passed down for generations would be ethical "as long as it proves to be safe," he said.
"These little embryos, these are people born with a disease, they can't make power. You're giving them a new battery. That's a therapy. I think that's a humane ethical thing to do," said Caplan, the director of medical ethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center.
"Where we get into the sticky part is, what if you get past transplanting batteries and start to say, 'While we're at it, why don't we make you taller, stronger, faster or smarter?' "
But Susan Solomon, the director of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, said there are no changes to existing genes involved.
"There is no genetic engineering. It isn't a slippery slope. It's a way to allow these families to have healthy children," said Solomon, whose organization developed the technique along with Columbia University researchers.
"What we're doing is, without at all changing the DNA of the mother, just allowing it to grow in an environment that isn't sick," she added.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel concluded two days of hearings into the procedure Wednesday. The panel discussed what controls might be used in trials, how a developing embryo might be monitored during those tests and who should oversee the trials, but no decisions were made at the end of the session.
Mitochondrial disorders are inherited from the mother. In the procedure under discussion in Washington, genetic material from the nucleus of a mother's egg or an embryo gets transferred to a donor egg or embryo that's had its nuclear DNA removed.
The new embryo will contain nuclear DNA from the intended father and mother, as well as healthy mitochondrial DNA from the donor embryo — effectively creating a "three-parent" baby.
In June, Britain took a step toward becoming the first country to allow the technique. One in 6,500 babies in the United Kingdom is born with a mitochondrial disorder, which can lead to serious health issues such as heart and liver disease.
Caplan said the same technology could be used to modify an embryo to "making super babies," a practice he said amounted to "eugenics."
"The big issue over the next 5 to 10 years is going to become how far do we go in pursuit of the perfect baby," said Caplan. "Do I think we're going down that road? Yes. Does it creep me out? Yes. Are you going to be able to draw a clear line? I don't think so."
But Solomon said the procedure is closer to an expansion of in vitro fertilization, which has been available for nearly 40 years.
"It's a complicated science, so people need to understand the particulars of the biology and not jump to calling it something it isn't," she said. The last thing she would want, she said, "is for the New York Stem Cell Foundation to be involved in anything like designer babies."
"I have children and grandchildren, and I can't imagine anything worse."
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Microsoft patches Freetard-by-design bug
And nobody notices
Microsoft has cast itself as one of the Good Guys in the battle over intellectual property, unlike those scofflaws over at Google. Which makes one recent Windows bugfix more than a little ironic: it patches a bug that makes Windows 7 the file-sharing gift that never stops giving.
Support advisory number 981,112 confirms that when media files stop being shared, Windows won't go to sleep. Or in the words of the advisory:
This issue occurs because the Windows Media Player network sharing service sets power state flags when media is shared. When you stop sharing media, the power state flags are not reset to allow the computer to enter sleep or hibernation.
So only PCs running Windows 7 that were once sharing media files, but have stopped, are affected. Surely some mistake?
The odd thing is, the patch is now a month old but despite the obvious humour potential, I have yet to see a news report, or even a blog post, about it. Which must mean one of two things: nobody ever installs Hotfixes, or if they do, nobody ever reads what they're for.
I only noticed via Lenovo's ThinkVantage update - working on a follow-up to my Linux shaggy dog stories. My other computer is a Mac, I'll have you know. ®


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-- George Orwell
Collateral Murder
Timeline of events
All times are presented in Zulu time (UTC), which is used by the military and can be seen on the top left corner of the video. Baghdad local time at the time of the incident was UTC+4. Military documents state that events start at 09:50, which is approximately 28 minutes before the video starts.
06:50:00 | 1/8 CAV moves in to assist 2/6 after a report of Small Arms Fire (SAF) in the area. They fail to positively identify (PID) the attacker. |
06:18:40 | Crazyhorse [lead helicopter] notices a group of people on an open plaza. |
06:20:05 | Crazyhorse: "Have five to six individuals with AK47s. Request permission to engage." |
06:21:09 | First shots fired at the group. |
06:21:41 | Helicopters cease fire. |
06:22:02 | Helicopters notice that Saeed is injured and is crawling. |
06:24:54 | Crazyhorse: "Come on, buddy. All you gotta do is pick up a weapon." |
06:25:26 | Helicopters notice a mini-van arriving, attempting to help Saeed. |
06:25:58 | Crazyhorse: "Roger. Break. Uh Crazyhorse One-Eight request permission to uh engage." |
06:26:29 | Bushmaster gives permission to engage. Proceed to open fire on the mini-van. |
06:27:27 | Helicopters cease fire. |
06:31:53 | Bradley armored vehicle arrives on the scene, followed by ground personnel. |
06:33:12 | They discover two wounded children in the van. |
06:35:14 | Ground unit reports: "I've got uh eleven Iraqi KIAs [Killed In Action]. One small child wounded. Over." - "Roger. Ah damn. Oh well." |
06:36:05 | "Well it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle." |
06:36:45 | Humvee drives over Namir's body. |
06:43:06 | Bradley armored vehicle drives over a second body. |
06:49:09 | Video cuts. |
07:20:42 | Helicopter reports that 6 individuals have entered a building. It appears to be either under construction or an abandoned construction site. |
07:21:40 | "This is Bushmaster Six Romeo. Crazyhorse One Eight is going to be engaging north to south with Hellfire missiles over." |
07:23:39 | Hellfire missile is fired. "Target hit." |
07:25:27 | "There it goes! Look at that bitch go!" |
07:26:42 | "Roger, building destroyed. Engaged with three hellfire missiles." |
July 12th, 2007 New York Times reports that two Iraqi journalists were killed in a militia clash with U.S. forces - ''There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force,'' said Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a spokesman for the multinational forces in Baghdad.
July 13th, 2007 Press statement from public affairs office in camp Victory reports on the event. There is no question that Coalition Forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force,
said Lt. Col Scott Bleichwehl, spokesperson and public affairs officer for MND-B.
July 13th, 2007 Reuters blog posts an entry on the killings of Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. Namir was the 109th journalist to be killed in Iraq since the invasion in 2003, and Saeed the 40th member of support staff.
July 16th, 2007 Reuters seeks U.S. probe into the killings of their staff. Our preliminary investigation raises real questions about whether there was fighting at the time the two men were killed,
said David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief of Reuters. Specifically, Reuters wanted an explanation of why the two cameras were confiscated, access to any cameras onboard the Apache helicopters that were involved in the incident, access to any voice communications between the helicopter crews and U.S. ground forces and access to reports from the unit involved in the incident, in particular a log of any weapons taken from the scene.
July 16th, 2007Counterpunch reports that The US military says US and Iraqi forces engaged "a hostile force" and, after coming under fire, called for air support that killed nine insurgents and two civilians. The police and witnesses tell a different story. A preliminary police report from al-Rashad police station said Mr Noor-Eldeen and Mr Chmagh were killed along with nine others by a "random American bombardment." One witness, Karim Shindakh, said: "The aircraft began striking randomly and people were wounded. A Kia [mini-van] arrived to take them away. They hit the Kia and killed ... the two journalists.
March 2008 Reuters opens website Bearing Witness
dedicated to the memory of the Reuters journalists that have been killed in Iraq during the war: Taras Protsyuk (2003); Mazen Dana (2003); Dhia Najim (2003); Waleed Khaled (2005); Saeed Chmagh (2007); Namir Noor-Eldeen (2007); and an anonymous Reuters journalist who was killed in 2007.
July 15th, 2008 Reuters posts memorial article. In it they mention that "Reuters News is seeking video footage from the U.S. military and other materials relating to the killing of Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh. The footage was taken by cameras on board the U.S. helicopters involved in the incident, in which nine other people were killed. The U.S. military said last week it is still processing the request"
April 5th, 2010 WikiLeaks releases video footage from Apache helicopter.


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Few days ago Think Tank Photo released new and re-designed versions of their Speed Convertible bags. Those are hybrid bags that can be worn on the shoulder or as a belt pack. The new Speed Convertible series will be released on June 8th, 2011. You can sign up to this website and Think Tank will notify you once they get them in stock. This is a quick preview of the Speed Demon v2.0 from an early factory sample (click on each image for larger view). Check also the bigger Speed Freak v2.0 and Speed Racer v2.0 versions.
The Speed Demon can easily hold two flashes (Nikon SB-900), a pro body, a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens (reversed hood) and another lens (in this case the Nikkor 24mm f/1.4). The top lid has a small opening for quick and easy access:
In a typical ThinkTank fashion, there is a large external pocket that includes a rain cover and multiple smaller compartments:
The bag strap has a new non-slip design that I have not seen on another Think Tank product:
The waist belt can be completely tucked in the specially designed zippers compartments. There are also two additional side pockets that can easily fit an addition lens or a water/beer bottle.
Think Tank Photo to Release Redesigned Bags in New Speed Convertible Series
Santa Rosa, Calif. – In June, Think Tank Photo will release its redesigned Speed Demon™ V2.0, Speed Freak V2.0™, and Speed Racer™ V2.0 as shoulder bags in its new Speed Convertible Series. Each Speed Convertible bag features a "disappearing" belt that tucks away into the sides of the bag, significantly reducing bulkiness. Within seconds, the shoulder bags seamlessly convert into belt packs once the integrated belts are deployed.
Features include a flip-top lid that folds away from the body for rapid and convenient access to gear. A fully padded shoulder strap with embedded non-slip material is included, which also supports the bag while in belt pack mode. The soft kidney-shaped design contours comfortably around the body. Built-in Modular rails allow attachment of Think Tank's Modular, Skin or Multimedia components.
Not only can photographers choose how to carry their bag, they can also select the right capacity between the three sizes in this series. The smallest, Speed Demon V2.0, can carry a standard size DSLR with a standard zoom lens attached (hood reversed) and a wide angle zoom lens beside. The medium size Speed Freak V2.0 also carries a standard size DSLR with a zoom lens attached and is tall enough to accommodate a 70–200 f2.8 lens in the bag. The Speed Racer V2.0, the most spacious of the series, effortlessly fits in the main compartment a pro size DSLR with a standard zoom lens attached and a 70–200 f2.8.
Gear Profiles
Speed Demon V2.0: Carries a standard size DSLR with two to three small zoom or prime lenses
- Canon EOS 60D with 17-85 f4-5.6 IS attached (hood reversed) and 70-300 f4-5.6 IS beside
- Nikon D7000 with 35 f1.4 attached and 50 f1.4; 85 f1.4 beside
Speed Freak V2.0: Carries a standard size DSLR with two to three large zoom lenses
- Canon 5D Mk II with 24-70 f2.8 attached (hood reversed) and 70-200 f2.8 IS beside (hood reversed)
- Nikon D700 with 14-24 f2.8 attached and 70-200 f2.8 VR beside (hood reversed)
Speed Racer V2.0: Carries a pro size DSLR with two to three large zoom lenses
- Canon 1D Mk IV with 16-35 f2.8 attached (hood in position) and 50 f1.2; 85 f1.2 beside (hoods reversed)
- Nikon D3 with 24-70 f2.8 attached (hood in position) and 70-200 f2.8 VR beside (hood reversed)
Key Features
- Easily converts from streamlined shoulder bag to functional belt pack
- Integrated waist belt "disappears" by tucking into zippered size pockets
- Modular rails on waist belt for adding Modular Rotation System components to increase gear capacity
- Flip-top lid opens away from the body for rapid access to gear
- Cushioned, non-slip shoulder strap included
- Ergonomic, kidney-shaped design contours around body
- Easily accessible front organizer pocket
- Stretchable mesh side pockets with reinforced bases
- Highest quality YKK RC Fuse zippers
- Seam-sealed rain cover included
Product Specifications
Speed Demon V2.0
- Internal Dimensions: 9.3" W x 6.8" H x 5" D (23.5 x 17.2 x 12.7 cm)
- External Dimensions: 12" W x 8.5" H x 8" D (30.5 x 21.6 x 20.3 cm)
- Weight: 1.6–2.1 lbs (0.7–1.0 kg)
Speed Freak V2.0
- Internal Dimensions: 10.3" W x 8.8" H x 5.5" D (26 x 22.2 x 14 cm)
- External Dimensions: 12.5" W x 10.5" H x 8.5" D (31.8 x 26.7 x 21.6 cm)
- Weight: 1.9–2.5 lbs (0.9–1.1 kg)
Speed Racer V2.0
- Internal Dimensions: 11.8" W x 10" H x 7" D (29.8 x 25.4 x 17.8 cm)
- External Dimensions: 12.5" W x 10.5" H x 10" D (31.8 x 26.7 x 25.4 cm)
- Weight: 2.3–3.1 lbs (1.0–1.4 kg)
Disclosure: Think Tank Photo is an affiliate sponsor of PhotoRumors.com.


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Though NBC kept touting that the revival of Knight Rider was a success, the ratings have told a different story. Just about everyone in the industry was shocked when the network gave the Justin Bruening series an order for the back nine episodes. Now, to little surprise, NBC is pulling the plug.
Knight Rider debuted on September 24th, as a follow-up to the TV movie that aired last February. The new TV show takes place 25 years after the original exploits of Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) and his high-tech, four-wheeled partner KITT (voiced by William Daniels). Mike Traceur (Bruening) is the son of Knight and the driver of the newest KITT (voiced by Val Kilmer). The car was built by Charles Graiman (Bruce Davison), the father of Mike's former girlfriend, Sarah (Deanna Russo). As in the original series, Mike and KITT work together to thwart evil and save the innocent. The rest of the cast includes Paul Campbell, Yancey Arias, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, and Smith Cho.
A few revivals of Rider have been attempted over the years but none have been a success. The newest version is, unfortunately, no exception. The premiere episode debuted to just 7.35 million viewers and a 2.5/7 rating/share in the 18-49 demographic. The audience for Rider's second episode grew to 7.77 million while the demo remained essentially flat at 2.4/7. The following three episodes averaged about 7.2 million but the demo began slowly dropping with each new installment.
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Likely due to the state of the rest of NBC's sagging schedule, the network decided to stick with Rider and gave the series a greenlight for nine more episodes. This would bring the order to a full 22 installments for the season. Soonafter, the ratings took a serious hit in the November sweeps period.
After a week off, Rider's audience sank to just 5.12 million and a terrible 1.6/4 in the demographic. The ratings weren't much better for the rest of the month.
A few days after the first November ratings dip, showrunner Gary Scott Thompson announced that the show was going through a retooling. He told The Hollywood Reporter, "We're moving away from the terrorist-of-the-week formula and closer to the original, making it a show about a man and his car going out and helping more regular people, everymen."
As a part of this effort, three castmembers were let go — Poitier, Arias and Davison. Thompson maintained that this move had nothing to do with their performances. The decision likely had more to do with an effort to cut costs and make the bottom line more attractive to the network.
It seems the network hasn't been sufficiently impressed by what they've seen and execs have cut the episode order back to 17 installments. The cast and crew are currently working on their 17th episode, written and directed by Thompson. They're expected to wrap some time next week.
That episode, now the Rider season finale, is scheduled to air on February 25, 2009. The five remaining scripts will be utilized on the off chance that the series is renewed for a second season. Unless the ratings seriously improve, there's no way that that will happen. Not even Mike and KITT will be able to save the day. Stay tuned!
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- Yahoo. How did they start? Two kids in college telling their readers to go away and check out some other site. Craig's List? He took the Yahoo concept further. His list sent readers away to check out jobs, housing, and other stuff.
And, then, there's the now famous Google. They couldn't find enough ways to send their readers away, so they started selling advertising to companies and people who'd pay to have Google's readers come to them.
It's the new marketing ... Instead of being desperate and saying "look at me look at me" you tell your readers to get lost. Go someplace else.
The evidence is clear. Want some attention? Tell your readers to go away.
- PLAYBOY: With the addition of e-mail, Froogle -- your new shopping site -- and Google news, plus your search engine, will Google become a portal similar to Yahoo, AOL or MSN? Many Internet companies were founded as portals. It was assumed that the more services you provided, the longer people would stay on your website and the more revenue you could generate from advertising and pay services.
PAGE: We built a business on the opposite message. We want you to come to Google and quickly find what you want. Then we're happy to send you to the other sites. In fact, that's the point. The portal strategy tries to own all of the information.


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What's an earthquake?Earthquakes occur because of a sudden release of stored energy. This energy has built up over long periods of time as a result of tectonic forces within the earth. Most earthquakes take place along faults in the upper 25 miles of the earth's surface when one side rapidly moves relative to the other side of the fault. This sudden motion causes shock waves (seismic waves) to radiate from their point of origin called the focus and travel through the earth. It is these seismic waves that can produce ground motion which people call an earthquake. Each year there are thousands of earthquakes that can be felt by people and over one million that are strong enough to be recorded by instruments. Strong seismic waves can cause great local damage and they can travel large distances. But even weaker seismic waves can travel far and can be detected by sensitive scientific instruments called seismographs.What are earthquake (Seismic) Waves?A seismic wave is simply a means of transferring energy from one spot to another within the earth. Although seismologists recognize different types of waves, we are interested in only two types: P (primary) waves, which are similar to sound waves, and S (secondary) waves, which are a kind of shear wave. Within the earth, P waves can travel through solids and liquids, whereas S waves can only travel through solids.The speed of an earthquake wave is not constant but varies with many factors. Speed changes mostly with depth and rock type. P waves travel between 6 and 13 km/sec. S waves are slower and travel between 3.5 and 7.5 km/sec. What's a Seismogram?
Note well: This seismogram is a simulation. The actual records
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here. As P and S waves travel through the earth, they are reflected
by various layers of the earth (such as the core- mantle boundary).
This interaction produces additional seismic waves (phases) which will
be detected by seismographs. Once you successfully complete this tutorial,
you will be given links to some seismology labs, where you can see real
seismograms. How is an Earthquake's Epicenter Located?In order to locate the epicenter of an earthquake you will need to examine its seismograms as recorded by three different seismic stations. On each of these seismograms you will have to measure the S - P time interval (in seconds). (In the figure above, the S - P interval is about 45 seconds. The vertical lines are placed at 2 second intervals.) The S - P time interval will then be used to determine the distance the waves have traveled from the origin to that station. The actual location of the earthquake's epicenter will be on the perimeter of a circle drawn around the recording station. The radius of this circle is the epicentral distance. One S - P measurement will produce one epicentral distance: the direction from which the waves came is unknown. Three stations are needed in order to "triangulate" the location.
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Chef Furard Tate is the kind of man who never sits still. He flits from the order desk at Inspire BBQ back to the busy kitchen, where young men are seasoning sauce, cooking macaroni and cheese, and finishing off some dry-rubbed ribs smoked on a grill.
"We grill on a real grill," Tate says. "None of this electric stuff."
But as important as the food is, Tate says it's also important that it's made by young hands who must learn a slow, consistent process.
Washington, D.C., has a thriving restaurant market with a plethora of restaurants serving its multicultural residents. But this barbecue eatery offers more than food on its menu.
Inspire BBQ aims to reclaim troubled young people, teach them a trade, and give them a chance at success.
"When an adult realizes that a young person took that process and is actually learning how to make everything, it actually means even more, because it reminds us that: My education started at home," he says.
Tate spent 11 years providing food for charter schools in Washington, but then realized that training young people was important to him — especially in this rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. It was damaged in the chaos that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
"H Street was one of the major streets that were damaged in the riots," Tate says. "The transformation, the pain and the hardship that was in this corridor; I just always believed there was something that I had to do to bring love back to the community."
Daniel Gaskins came to Inspire BBQ through a summer jobs program after dropping out of Saint Paul's College in Virginia, where he finished only one semester.
"I was real lazy," he says. "I did just enough to get by — and then it was just like, I can't always get by."
Gaskins, 22, says Tate's example made him want to achieve more.
"I want to open my own restaurant," he says. "It wasn't what he said. It was the energy that he gave off."
Inspire employee William Weaver is a D.C. native who worked with young people while he was in high school, but ended up incarcerated for 18 months.
"I had a very, very, very bad attitude," Weaver says.
Now he's here, thanks to an employment program called Project Empowerment.
Weaver is also in a training program for first-time businessmen at the nonprofit Opportunities Industrialization Center, which helps the poor and unemployed with job skills.
"I'm going to open my own food truck," Weaver says. "I'm naming it after my brother, who was murdered here in D.C."
Sam Moultrie has only worked here for three months, but Inspire BBQ is helping him get back into cooking. He says he was lucky to get a scholarship that took him from Anacostia High School to the New England Culinary Institute in Vermont.
"I was basically in the street, so if I [hadn't gotten] a scholarship, I probably would be either selling drugs or locked up or dead," he says.
Moultrie worked consistently around town after his scholarship, but wound up in jail for six months.
"After I got out of trouble, I started trying to get back into the cooking field, but it was really hard for me to get back in with the stuff I had on my record," he explains.
He was later offered a job at Inspire BBQ.
"I'm getting used to working with my own people and bettering the community," he says.
Chef Tate says there's a simple reason it's important to him to help empower young people.
"Work is the only way to get out of poverty," he says. "And to be working effectively, you have to be trained."
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In 1956, Nikita Krushchev openly and explicitly criticised the record of Josef Stalin and initiated a thaw in Soviet society. Begziin Yavuuhulan (1929-1982) who, at that time, was beginning his career as a poet and translator, saw the opportunity to wrench Mongolian literature from its almost two decades languishing among the repetitive grimness of paeans to Stalin and Lenin, encomia to noble peasantry and opprobria against capitalism and the non-communist world. His idea was to revive the literary traditions of pre-revolutionary Mongolia - respect for the land, the changing seasons, the celebration of the history and lineage of the Mongolian people, and even (occasionally, clandestinely) an acknowledgement of shamanic and Buddhist spirituality - and to clothe them in the stylistic and thematic language of the modern world. The movement which resulted from his efforts was the "New Tendency" (in Mongolian Shine handlaga) and this can be seen as preparing the ground for much of the poetry which was composed in Mongolia during the latter half of the twentieth century.
Yavuuhulan wrote a great deal, and he gathered around himself students who would become the most influential poets of the 1980s and 1990s. He was also a prolific translator, and is well-known for his work on Sergey Yesenin. Here are some examples of Yavuuhulan's poetry, which illustrate I think what he was trying to do with the tradition, together with an essay written by his student G Mend-Ooyo, one of the subjects of tomorrow's post and the director of the Mongolian Academy of Culture and Poetry in Ulaanbaatar.
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A Homeless Man Who Gave a Stranded Woman His Last $20 Just Bought a House With Donations From His GoFundMe
(PHILADELPHIA) A homeless man who used his last $20 to fill up the gas tank of a stranded motorist in Philadelphia has bought a home with some of the nearly $400,000 raised for him by the woman he saved.
"The feeling is indescribable and (it's) all thanks to the support and generosity that each and every one of you has shown," Johnny Bobbitt Jr. wrote on a GoFundMe page. "I'll continue to thank you every single day for the rest of my life."
Kate McClure, of Florence Township, New Jersey, ran out of gas on an Interstate 95 exit ramp late one night. Bobbitt walked a few blocks to buy her gas.
She didn't have money to repay him at the time, but sought him out days later to give him the money, and visited him a few more times to bring food and water. She and her boyfriend created the online fundraiser page as a thank you and to try to help him get back on his feet. As of Tuesday afternoon the fundraiser has raised more than $397,000.
Bobbitt served in the U.S. Marine Corps and worked as a paramedic in Vance County, North Carolina, before he became homeless.
Details on how he wound up on the streets of Philadelphia have been sparse. Bobbitt has said it was a mix of "bad decisions and bad situations."
In addition to buying his house and eventually his dream truck (a 1999 Ford Ranger), he said he is donating some of his money to a Philadelphia grade school student who is helping another homeless veteran. He hopes his fans continue to pay it forward.
According to the GoFundMe page for that homeless veteran, a student at a Philadelphia Catholic school met the man walking home from school each day. After he learned the man's story, he started the campaign to help him get off the streets and reunite him with his family.
No information was revealed about where Bobbitt's new house is located. Bobbitt said he will have pictures of it in coming days on his newly minted Instagram account.
There are also two trust funds being set up for Bobbitt, including a retirement fund and one to give him an annual salary, according to the GoFundMe page.


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Have We Gone to War Again?
I'd like to know whether the United States is at war with the Islamic State.I'd like to know whether the United States is at war with the Islamic State. I'd like to know why — or why not. I'd like to know whether the goal of U.S. policy is to contain the jihadist militia or destroy it.
President Obama? Members of Congress? Please pay attention. I'm talking to you.
The barbarians who decapitated journalist James Foley — and who commit atrocities on a daily basis — control territory in both Iraq and Syria. I'd like to know why it makes sense to conduct airstrikes against Islamic State fighters on one side of a border that no longer exists but makes no sense to do so on the other side.
The answer may be that the U.S. military lacks intelligence about the enemy's positions and movements — the Islamic State is the enemy, right? — inside Syria. This week, Obama authorized surveillance flights over Syrian territory to gather the needed information. Should we therefore assume that airstrikes there will soon begin?
I'd like to hear an honest discussion by our leaders about what we're signing up for. Obama called the Islamic State a "cancer" and said the fight against it "won't be easy and it won't be quick." To my ears, this suggests that the United States is making a long-term commitment and that time is on our side, not the Islamic State's. I'd like to examine both assumptions.
Public support for extended U.S. military involvement in another Middle East war lies somewhere between negligible and nonexistent. An open-ended commitment would run counter to the thrust of Obama's foreign policy from Day One — and indeed, he has limited the airstrikes and declared that he will "not allow the United States to be dragged back into another ground war in Iraq."
If there are to be no boots on the ground, one wonders what kind of footwear the hundreds of U.S. military advisers newly sent to Iraq are sporting. One also wonders what the plan might be.
To say that "rooting out" the cancer that is the Islamic State "won't be quick" implies that considerable time is necessary to accomplish certain tasks. What, exactly, might those tasks be? Is the idea to protect the Kurdish region in the Iraqi northeast, assume the Shiites in the south will defend themselves, degrade the Islamic State to the degree possible with airstrikes alone and wait for the Sunnis in the west to have another "awakening" and turn against this group of jihadists the way they turned against al-Qaeda?
If this is the idea, it seems awfully far-fetched. During the first "awakening," there were tens of thousands of U.S. troops present who could eliminate al-Qaeda leaders and assets identified by Sunni tribal leaders. Now there are just a few hundred U.S. advisers in Iraq, and the Islamic State, by all accounts, is a far more capable and better-equipped military force than al-Qaeda ever was.
As much as we scoff at the notion of the Islamic State as an actual state, the group is managing to hold and administer huge swaths of territory and has found sources of continuing revenue — gray-market oil sales, kidnapping Europeans for ransom, widespread local extortion that the militants probably see as taxation.
Why wouldn't time be on the side of the Islamic State as it digs in? Doesn't the "rooting out" of the group become more difficult if it becomes more rooted day by day?
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said last week that the Islamic State is "beyond anything that we've seen." He called it "as sophisticated and well-funded as any group that we have seen. They're beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. They are tremendously well-funded."
Reality check: Most experts estimate that the group has about 15,000 fighters. This number may grow as recruits come in from abroad and local Sunnis are pressed into service, but this is not an unbeatable military force.
It seems foolish, however, to expect the Islamic State to defeat itself — by being excessively brutal, perhaps, or too greedy for new land. This brings me back to an earlier question: Is the aim of U.S. policy to contain the Islamic State or destroy it?
President Obama should tell the nation, in plain language, what he believes we must do. Congress should debate the issue rather than duck it. After all, no decision by our elected leaders is more fateful: This is war. As far as I can tell.
"We don't have a strategy yet," Obama said Thursday. Which is the one thing we already knew.
Eugene Robinson's e-mail address is eugenerobinson(at)washpost.com.
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The death of an eight-year-old girl who fell from a Burnaby high-rise on Saturday was a "tragic accident," according to Burnaby RCMP.
Mounties say that they continuing to investigate how a young child fell to her death from a Burnaby apartment building in the 3700-block of Bartlett Court on Saturday at 2 p.m.
Investigators have now determined that the girl, whose name is not being released, died of injuries resulting from the fall.
Sgt. Dale Carr confirmed that the child was an eight-year-old girl but noted that authorities are still in the early stages of the investigation.
"The investigators are still working through a number of steps and will not be in a position to make a determination for a few days," Carr said.
"There are a number of people that still need to be spoken with."
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Willis is a nine-block neighborhood in eastern Dukes, Liberty City, bordered by Tudor Street to the north (Meadows Park) and to the east (Francis International Airport); Seymour Avenue to the west (Meadow Hills); and Lynch Street to the south (Beechwood City).
Willis is primarily portrayed as a mixed-use middle-to-upper class area, residential in the west and commercial in the east; in the commercial district, businesses are dwarfed by the Big Willis Mall on the northeastern edge of the neighborhood at Saratoga Avenue and Carrollton Street. Saratoga Avenue serves as it's main street. As in Meadows Hills, the homes in western Willis bears traits of Tudor architecture. One half of Station Square, another shopping establishment, is also situated in Willis, directly north from the neighborhood's nearest station; the other half of the Square is located within Meadow Hills.
Willis boasts nothing particularly useful for players. Aside from the aforementioned train station, Willis only has a car wash (Willis Wash and Lube) located off the southern end of Saratoga Avenue. Willis is also accessible from the Algonquin-Dukes Expressway via Saratoga Avenue. Willis' proximity with Beechwood City also results in the district being part of the Hillside Posse's turf, as members of the gang, as well as their gang cars, may be spotted within the area.
Also there are two vehicles in which you have to do for Stevie's Car Thefts. These are the Dilettante which can be found on Carrollton Street, parked in front of the Canyon Megaplex, and the Freeway can be found parked outside the Willis Wash and Lube on Saratoga Avenue.
Willis is based on the Queens, New York neighborhood of Hollis.
Saratoga Avenue serves as it's primary street. The Liberty City Subway has a station in Station Square, with entrances at the Seymour Avenue-Savannah Avenue intersection (at the Meadow Hills border) and auxiliary entrances along Lynch Street.


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DK Science: Organic Chemistry
The study of all compounds that contain carbon is called organic chemistry. Carbon atoms are unique. They can combine with each other to make molecules that contain hundreds, even thousands, of carbon atoms. There are more CARBON COMPOUNDS than compounds of all the other elements put together. CARBON TECHNOLOGY uses carbon compounds to make many modern materials, from the interiors of aircraft to medicines.
From butterfly wings to the petals of a flower, all living things are made of carbon compounds. All the processes that happen in living things – such as digestion, movement, and growth – are chemical reactions involving carbon compounds. It is the ability of carbon to make so many different compounds that results in the rich diversity of life on Earth.
Many carbon compounds contain the same few elements, but in different quantities and arranged in different ways. The most important elements to join with carbon are hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. Carbon atoms can form chains of just carbon and hydrogen, which are called hydrocarbons. They can also form rings of carbon, called aromatics.
The carbon industry is one of the largest and most important industries because so many products contain organic (carbon) compounds. Carbon technology is vital to the production of medicines, paints, synthetic fabrics, food flavourings, plastics, cosmetics, and glues. The raw materials that are the basis for these products come from coal, crude oil, and natural gas.
Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) is heated to 3,000°C (5,432°F) to create thin filaments of carbon fibre. This material is fireproof and five times lighter than steel, yet twice as strong. Carbon fibre has many uses, such as in lightweight sports equipment, car body panels, construction pipes, and on the wings and nose of space shuttles.


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Friday, January 4, 2013
A Clean Slate - Welcome 2013!
7 comments:
- Susan said...
Hi Allison, I'm so sorry to hear about Gypsy; our beloved cat, Bailey passed away in July--a decision I hated to make, but it was time. So happy you're back blogging and I will definitely look up you site for Essential Oils. I was in Oberlin in November, but with the hurricane and short visit I had with my grandson, I didn't want to bother you, but I promise to get together the next time I'm in the area; I would love to visit your farm. Happy 2013, XOXO
- January 04, 2013
- Unknown said...
Hi Susan! So good to hear from you. I thought about you in the fall when you said you'd be in town, but I was still feeling pretty crummy :/ I am so sorry to hear about your cat - it is never easy. Please do touch base next time you are visiting!
- January 04, 2013
- Tami said...
Yeah, Allison's back!!! I was wondering how you were doing. I LOL with your comment about your nodding husband. (He's a keeper for sure. Mine does the same thing.)
So sorry about to hear about Gypsy. Seems like a lot of us lost our special ones this year. I just feel blessed that I could love and care for them for the short time I have them.
Feel better Sweetie! - January 05, 2013
- Unknown said...
Awe thanks Tami! That made me smile :)
- January 05, 2013
- Camille said...
So glad to see you blogging again, Allison! I'm so sorry to hear about Gypsy. I hope your memories bring you peace. Happy 2013 and a fresh new start! :)
- January 05, 2013
- Bee Girl said...
Yay! Glad to see you in this space again!
So sorry to hear about your beautiful Gypsy and your morning sickness, but very happy to hear about your new business, almost 2 year old and soon-to-be-new little one!
Hope you're enjoying your weekend!
M - January 06, 2013
Glad to see you are back! & feeling better! I am sorry to hear about Gypsy- they are not just horses-or pets-they become family to us!
jen - January 07, 2013


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On marking the imminent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, this from Shiraz Socialist:
Perhaps covering up for child abuse, promoting anti-gay bigotry, spreading AIDS throughout the world, and explaining away his organisation's hatred of 50% of the human race finally wore him out?Okay.
Anyway, the former Hitler Youth member (in fairness, he claims he had no choice) has decided to stand down. Pity his organisation (the Church, not the Hitler Youth) survives.
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
― Denis Diderot
As far as I am concerned, there are two forms of identity politics.
The first is the most widely understood. It pertains to the politics associated with the so-called 'new social movements' that had their roots in 1960s radicalism. The women's movement, anti-racism, LGBT liberation - these are the paradigmatic examples as far as social movement scholarship are concerned. The notion subsequently expanded to include mental health, disabilities, and mobilisations of minority religions, ethnicities and nationalities. To do much violence to their variation and complexity, new social movement identity politics starts from a particular shared attribute (however defined) that has been overlooked, ignored or marginalised by established progressive politics (be they revolutionary or reform-minded), and their movement struggles to win positive political, legal and cultural recognition and change.
The second is less noticed and remarked upon, but is probably all the more ubiquitous for it. This is identity politics on an individuated level. It is bound up with distinction and identifying with a set of politics, people, styles and ideas, and flows from multiple sources. It is the cultural fuel that powers the consumer practices of advanced capitalist societies and finds itself replicated across all fields of social action. And in social formations such as ours; conflicted, anomic and alienating as they are, individuated identity politics can and frequently do assume pathological forms. Football hooliganism and gang culture. Ginger bashing and nerd-baiting. One Direction and Justin Bieber fandom. More generally, individuated identity politics have an affirmative quality. They act as a social-psychological crutch that can justify petty, spiteful, bellicose, moralising behaviour toward groups one doesn't like, and it's something we all do to greater or lesser degrees. In some instances behaviour of this kind can appear in radical garb too. Finally, it is worth emphasising that this behaviour is not about clarifying a difference or trying to convince people who are the target of such behaviour of the errors of their ways.
Which brings us to the Shiraz piece, above. I pick this not because I particularly dislike the blog, but because the post condenses the purest example of a particularly pathological form of atheist/revolutionary identity politics. We're likely to see variations on this theme in the lead up to the Conclave that will elect a new pope.
Now, I don't hold a brief for Benedict XVI. It is undeniable the Catholic Church has done many awful things and assumed theological positions that cause very real harm. But then again, it is simultaneously the largest organisation in the world attacking the zombie economics of neoliberalism; advocating for environmentalism; and promoting social justice. Yes, it's blemished and undermined by contradictory doctrine and complicity in existing frameworks of power, and how can it be otherwise, being as the faith is an expression of ruling interests and a religious articulation of the rising collective potentiality of hundreds of millions?
Catholicism therefore is a complex thing and deserves a nuanced approach. As a socialist I'd quite like to see many more Catholics in the labour movement, as I would Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Atheists, and so on. I assume everyone on the left might like that too. So, writers, bloggers and activists who might be tempted to do OMG PAEDOPHILES!!!! or ZINGZ CONDOMS!!!! baiting over the next few weeks might want to ask *why*. Is it out of a genuine, earnest belief that repeating well-trodden criticisms in the most fractious and insulting ways possible might win believers to our movement? Or is it about "feeling smug, superior, enlightened and oh so clever" (as I once put it)?
If it's the latter, allow me to invoke some identity politics of my own: what kind of left winger are you?


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Architects: PLANT – Atelier Peter Kis
Photographs:Zsolt Batár
Text description provided by the architects. The Great Rock was created during the major reconstruction of the Zoo between 1909 and 1912, based on the specialist instructions of the Zoo Construction Committee in the capital.
The zoological tasks were supervised by the director of the zoo at the time, Dr Adolf Lendl, and the construction technology aspects by Dr KornélNeuschloss. The primary purpose of the artificial rock was to help the Zoo, that already operated on a overly tight area, appear larger and provide greater space. Thus instead of the completely flat area, with the vertical elevation, a divided and at the same time larger surface would be created with the latest and most spectacular animal runs of the time.
The artificial rock as a zoo rehabilitation concept
The prototype for the artificial rocks were presumably the market booths fabricated from log frames, and covered by cliff effect canvas that served as the scenes for animals and showmen. The first occurrence of the concept of animal friendly artificial rocks, constructed from more permanent structures, was during the development of the Zurich Zoo. The idea according to the records could have come from a sculptor by the name of Urs Eggenschwiler. Although the plan was not realised in Zurich, the director of the Hamburg-Stellingen Zoo, Karl Hagenbeck, jumped at it.
The panoramic display later became an example for great zoo constructions of the era, thus the Budapest concept also subsisted on this very same prototype, which in the end surpassed Stellingen. (The Hungarian Committee during its many study tours also visited Stellingen). Today – from the artificial rocks that have survived – the Great Rock of Budapest, with its architectural and sculptural achievement represents an outstanding architectural heritage, with only the Vincennes Zoo of Paris being a match for it in its genre.
The Hungarian Committee carried out a rather thorough preparatory work: several natural scenes were examined for the shaping of the artificial rocks, as well as seeking the opinion of the Magyar KirályiFöldtaniIntézet (Hungarian Royal Institute of Geology). The dolomite peak of the Great Rock in the shape of a limestone range, was in the end constructed based on detailed surveys and photo documentation of the "Egyeskő" peak in Transylvania; itcovered an area of 4,700 m2, with a volume of 38,850 m3 and a height to the peak of 34 m.
The plans were prepared by GyulaVégh, and during the three years of construction, 8,000 m3 of concrete was used by the company of György Pohl. The rock crust itself was made from a 6-12 cm thick Portland cement wire lattice structure by the same extraordinarily skilled rock carving and building architect artisans who created the façade decorations of eclectic Budapest; their work being supervised by geologists and sculptors. (The patterned rock cracks also hide the dilatation gaps of the structure).
A hundred year old dormant dream
The well-grounded question of whether it is an overly big extravagance in the altogether ten hectares area of the Budapest Zoo (one of the smallest amongst the zoos of the European cities) not to use or almost not to use such an area under the rock arose even during the construction of the rock. Adolf Lendl wrote about this in his concept of the zoo:
"The entire large hill will be made of cement concrete and will be empty inside. We will open the wall on one of the sides with a cave like gate entrance enclosing it with a light structure, and in the inside a huge hall, this could even be 30 m long. We will erect a stuffed whale here from the northern seas, perhaps together with the skeleton, and also several specimens of dolphins, as these are not expensive and are very characteristic animals that can rarely be seen".
However, a lack of money and the outbreak of World War I washed away the grand dreams of the Zoological Museum. Although there were a few attempts between the two wars for some sort of functional use of the space (e.g.: skating rink, shooting gallery, riding school), mostly it operated as hay storage and junk room, as well as a practice hall for horse trainers until recent times. Over time, the permeability of the crust to water increased, water found its way in and due to the large fluctuations of temperature in the internal space, condensation was continuous, further damaging the condition of the wire lattice structure. Large pieces split from the crust of the artificial rock, thus to prevent accidents a safety steel mesh was stretched onto the reinforced concrete frame.
The reconstruction works, from the surveying to the structural reconstruction of the rock to the complete renewal of the inner space, were coordinated by the architect studio of Péter Kis. Between 2006 and 2008, both the framework and the external covering of the Great Rock were renewed. However, just as one hundred years ago, it seemed that the full utilisation of the space inside the rock would come to a halt yet again due to financial reasons. Although a 3D cinema did start up in the domed hall in 2009, the great dream of Lendl, today's version of the Zoological Museum seemed to be lost once more due to a lack of funds. Fortunately, and thanks to European Union aid sources and countless innovative ideas, the interactive life museum, the Magical Mountain was finally realised in the Great Rock.
Innovation in the deep
In order for the reconstruction design to commence at all, this huge amorphous structure had to be surveyed, as no exact plans and geodesics were available. It was Dr AndrásTokodyand his team appointed to carry out the survey, who proved to be a direct hit for this task. The versatile surveyors – who had to be IT professionals, industrial alpinists and cave researchers all in one – had to carry out their survey in minus twenty degrees in the belly of the concrete mountain, which turned into an ice-pit in the winter of 1995. Tokody et al developed a three-dimensional computer-processing program, which at the time was considered a novelty. They wrote a separate auxiliary program and built a geographic information system database that assigned to every single beam, the text based data describing their condition and metric parameters.
Remedying the structural problems that had been mapped by the survey was not an easy canter either. From several experts experienced in framework reconstruction, in the end, on the recommendation of the excellent engineers of ÉMI, Dr Béla Kovács and Tibor Andorka, the net-liked cracked external crust was covered by a thin layer of sprayed mortar; the supporting beams were covered with a special plastic-concrete mix, which stopped or even reversed the corrosion processes. As soon as the structural problems of the artificial rock were eliminated, the leaking of the shell improved.
There was only one more (however not any less serious) engineering problem to be faced in order to utilise the internal space. This was the horrific level of fluctuations in temperature. The wire lattice structure had no insulation of any kind, which resulted in the usability of the internal spaces being somewhat seasonal!
The architects in their first architectural concept outlined the creation of a "night garden" inside the rock. This concept in reality – by keeping the existing structural elements – would have meant the construction of a heat insulated glass cube structure, separated from the structural elements of the rock and leaving it untouched. The glass structure itself, in the transparent large space separated in this way would have allowed visitors full view of the wonders of the original framework. Yet, it was undertaking even more: looking at the world outside of the cubes as quasi-furnishable glass cabinets, it formed lit, but for visitors inaccessible exhibition spaces from the areas between the glass and the rock crust.
If realised, visitors would have undoubtedly become confused sooner or later from this poetically transparent space game, not knowing, whether they were the audience, or at times the watched. In such a space, the roles of the "exhibited" and the "recipient" are sometimes interchanged with everything becoming somewhat relative. In the end, it could have not been realised and the reasons for this are rather ordinary: it is impossible to keep this amount of glass surface clean, especially as the majority of the visitors are fascinated little children. The concept had to be rejected.


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NOTE: Monday on NPR's Tell Me More, Michel Martin talks to Marvel editor-in-chief Alex Alonso about the wedding of Northstar and Kyle Jinadu. The audio will be available later today, and we'll add a link when it's up.
As longtime readers of this blog may recall, the GAFFE-B-GONTM Primer is a tool by which you, the uninitiated/uninterested, may quickly become comics- conversant enough to avoid embarrassing yourself among the nerdier sorts in your social circle.
Here, then, is what you need to know about this latest (remarkably successful) bid by a superhero comics publisher to generate headlines in the mainstream media.
You get that we're using the word "need" in that previous sentence very, very loosely, right?
SO! Who's getting married?
Northstar and Kyle Jinadu!
... Um.
Yeah, you've never heard of them.
Wow, you know ... I just really, really haven't.
Understandable. I mean it's not like Wolverine and Captain America are exchanging vows in a private ceremony in their tastefully appointed converted barn in New Hope.
More's the pity. Because that would be a helluva party.
This is Northstar, a perennial C-lister who began his spandexed life in a 1979 issue of Uncanny X-Men as a member of a government-sanctioned team of Canadian superheroes (stay with me here!) tasked with rounding up Wolverine. His fellow super-Canucks, by the way, included his twin sister Aurora, Sasquatch, and Puck, because: Canada. We should count ourselves grateful the team did not also include Molson, Gretzky, Politeness and Good Improv.
Northstar, aka Jean-Paul Beaubier, is a mutant, French-Canadian, ex-professional skier, ex-economics professor who possesses super-speed, is able to fly, and can generate blinding light. Superheroes being superheroes, he's been killed rather a lot, and resurrected, and brainwashed, and turned evil.
Nowadays he's a just a boring ol' X-Man.
Uh-huh. And the other guy?
Kyle Jinadu. He runs Jean-Paul's company, "Team Northstar Extreme Snowsports," where he — hold on, let me get this right — "manage[s] Jean-Paul's brand and coordinate[s] shows, audio-visual and personal relations."
So, not a superhero or mutant or anything?
Not unless "Really Good with VJAMM" is a super-power now. No, he's a civilian. Read: He gets kidnapped.
Wait a minute ... Northstar. I have heard of him. Back in the '90s, though?
Yep. Throughout his run on the book Alpha Flight, writer/artist John Byrne kept throwing in subtle hints about Northstar's sexuality. He wasn't much interested in girls, for example. Also: Kind of bitchy.
(Here's the thing about "subtle hints" in mainstream superhero comics of the late 80s: They were neither.)
Finally, in 1992's Alpha Flight #106, by writer Scott Lobdell, Jean-Paul came out as a gay man, becoming the first comics superhero to do so. Made some waves in the media. A January 24, 1992 New York Times editorial, for example, hailed the development, saying:
Mainstream culture will one day make its peace with gay Americans. When that time comes, Northstar's revelation will be seen for what it is: a welcome indicator of social change.
Northstar came out at the end of an infamously ham-handed storyline in which he found an AIDS-infected baby in an alley and adopted her only to have her pass away a week or so later.
X-Men comics, ladies and gentlemen! Erica Kane would be like, "Well, geez, that seems a bit overwrought, I gotta say."
There was, of course, the predictable frothing nerdstorm of outrage from straight male readers who complained, with straight faces, that sexuality had no place in superhero comics.
Even so! A gay wedding on the cover a superhero book! This is a big deal, right?
It feels odd to say that something so weirdly specific seems inevitable, but it does. Understand that superhero weddings are a beloved genre staple with a long and four-color-storied history. Spider-Man, Superman, Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Girl, The Hulk, The Atom, The Flash, Cyclops and Jean Grey, Wonder Girl, Aquaman, Black Panther and Storm, and many more: Artists love drawing pews thronged with weepy smiling spandex-clad heroes, and writers love spicing up the plighting of super-troths with brawls, death-rays, the Chicken Dance, what have you.
So it makes a kind of linear sense that the first out superhero would be the first one married. The fact that Marvel is pushing it so hard means it can't help but read like the publicity stunt it is, but so what? Writer Marjorie Liu's only been on Astonishing X-Men for 2 issues, but she's displayed a solid grasp on the characters; let's see where this goes.
Right: What comes after a Gay Mutant Wedding?
Your choice of Gay Mutant Chicken or Gay Mutant Beef, I'd imagine.
No, what's next: That's the real question, of course. Superhero comics, like soap operas, are open narratives that deny their characters real endings, let alone happy ones. The life of a hero is only event piled on event, contrivance upon contrivance, reversal piled on death piled on split personality. Contentment, peace, settling down, all the things we associate with the idea of marriage are anathema to superhero storytelling.
So there are really only two ways this can go, I'm afraid:
If Kyle stays on the sidelines as a dutiful, nurturing spouse, he'll be dull. If he keeps getting kidnapped/beaten/threatened, he'll be annoying.
Actually, come to think of it, there is a third way, little used due to its high degree of difficulty: He could get super-powers himself, somehow, and fight alongside his husband.
Or! He could be revealed to be a Skrull!
A ... what now?
Never mind. Long story.
Didn't I hear recently about another gay superhero? Green ... Hornet?
Green Lantern. Not the Ryan Reynolds one; different guy. At this writing, his transformation into a superhero hasn't happened yet. So let's save that discussion for another day.
Okay, one last question: What's your favorite sentence on Northstar's Wikipedia page?
I'm gonna have to go with "At Professor Xavier's request, Northstar then works with the X-Men to save the life of a mutant child who cannot stop exploding."
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