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MH17: Bodies of victims removed from crash site
Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and then loaded them onto refrigerated trains bound for a rebel-held city, officials and monitors said on Sunday.
There were also reports on Sunday that the aircraft's black boxes were in rebel hands.
"Jet parts resembling the black boxes were discovered at the crash site," said Alexander Borodai, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, adding that they would be handed over to "international experts if they arrive".
At the crash site on Sunday morning, Associated Press journalists saw no bodies and no armed rebels. Emergency workers were searching the sprawling fields only for body parts.
Nataliya Khuruzhaya, a duty officer at the train station in Torez, 15 kilometres from the crash site, said she saw emergency workers loading bodies into five sealed, refrigerated train cars.
She said the train was scheduled to head to the town of Ilovaysk, 35 kilometres further east towards the Russian border, but no instructions had been given about when it would leave or any possible destinations beyond Ilovaysk.
Russian news agencies said the bodies were heading to the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. Ukrainian officials say they expect to have the bodies eventually delivered to government-held city of Kharkiv, but it's unclear if the rebels will agree to do so.
Alexander Pilyushny, an emergency worker combing the site for body parts, said it took the rebels several hours to take away the bodies. He said he and others had no choice but to give the bodies to the rebels because ''they are armed, and we are not''.
''The rebels came, put the bodies onto the trucks and took them away somewhere,'' Mr Pilyushny said.
Earlier reports had described a farce, the site run by a man who dubbed himself ''Commander Grumpy'' and acted out by amateurs under a veil of secrecy, confusion and denial, while international observers looked helplessly on.
Masked gunmen controlling the site told a Buzzfeed journalist they were under the command of the Donetsk People's Republic general prosecutor Ramil Halikiv.
The rebel commander who said he was in charge of guarding the site identified himself as Commander Grumpy – ''because I get grumpy when I spend too much time away from destroying Ukrainian BMPs [armoured fighting vehicles] and tanks. You don't want to see me grumpy''. He said he did not know where the bodies would be taken. ''Maybe they will go here, maybe there,'' he said.
Relatives of the dead are expected to start arriving in Ukraine over the next few days, but it seems they may find only delay and frustration. The bodies, some whole, some not, some burned, some apparently looted for their belongings, had spent more than two days in the humid warmth of the region.
On Friday night, Ukraine claimed, the separatists moved in to do what they had prevented others from doing: recovering bodies.
The Ukraine government said 38 of the bodies had been picked up and taken to a morgue in Donetsk city, where Russian experts would perform autopsies.
Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council, accused the rebels of trying to hide evidence inside the remains that could incriminate them in the attack.
On Saturday, journalists tried to establish what was going on at the Donetsk morgue. Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri saw a refrigerated truck driven by a rebel waiting to drive out to collect more bodies. The DPR's self-proclaimed health minister first confirmed to her that the previous night's collection had been moved to the morgue, but then denied it.
Guards at the morgue told Moshiri they would not move the bodies, and they were waiting for international experts to arrive.
At the crash site, hundreds of separatists wielding heavy weapons eventually let through a convoy from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, a body set up by international governments to act as observers in conflict zones.
The group's spokesman, Michael Bociurkiw, said the militants in control of the site had granted his team more access than on Friday, when they first arrived and were only permitted 75 minutes before being told to leave. Mr Bociurkiw's 24-strong team witnessed unidentified emergency personnel moving the bodies. ''There are 'experts' here who brought body bags with them. They are moving the bodies to the side of the road,'' he said.
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|Induction Class of 2013
The first UMass Boston tennis team to ever win a Little East Conference championship, all of the members of the historic squad were named to the UMass Boston Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2013.
Under the guidance of head coach Michael Bradley, the Beacons stood as the only team with a conference championship up until 2006. In their championship year, UMass Boston finished with an overall record of 11-1, with the only loss coming at the hands of Division II Stonehill College.
In the championship match, the Beacons were absolutely dominant winning at No. two, three, five, and six singles and as well as sweeping all three doubles matches. During the 1990 campaign, the Beacons won 10 matches by scores of 7-2 or better, including six 9-0 victories.
The top six singles players finished the championship year with a combined record of 74-13 respectively, while the top three doubles teams posted a final mark of 65-7. Among the many highlights from that season, was Oscar Jara's perfect 12-0 record at No. 1 doubles. Tom Savoie ended the year with a 16-0 record at No. 2 singles and was 13-1 in doubles play.
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|2012-06-16, 22:04
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Every way I can think of for Zessica to come out of this alive involves a complete asspull (such as what you mentioned about her quickly getting over Amata - like flipping a light switch - in two episodes or less!).
Zessica's at a point now where she actually needs crappy writing in order to stay alive.
|2012-06-16, 22:20
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The part that's going to require some kind of asspulls is her getting a truly happy end as she is pretty much guaranteed to have a bittersweet end right now.
|2012-06-16, 23:40
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Or Mykage really.
|2012-06-17, 00:51
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Zessica might or might not be able to do it, but the fact remains that Mykage is in her body. If she's able to turn the tables on him, she's got great access to him. It's all up to her (and the writers!) whether she's able to. Of course it would have been better for her to resist when Mykage was taking her over, but this isn't what all possessed characters tend to do in fiction. Nope, they need to gather their resolve and fight them off. She may be able to take the opportunity to show Mykage what he's lacking.
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(1.) Rebuild Atlandia
(2.) Revive his dead people
(3.) Fix his anger at being lied to about Pollon.
And if it did, that'd just be hilariously bad writing and genuine character assassination. He can sympathize with Zessica but that doesn't mean that she somehow holds the magic key to fixing him. That's not in the cards and the only person who can do that is the person who started it all, Apollonius.
Not to mention that this is all extremely hypocritical of Pollon and Celianne who caused this mess. Pollon not being able to let go is what ruined Touma's atonement and brought about Mykage in EVOL, and Celianne's been riding the train for 24,000 years and never letting go either. Wouldn't it be much better to have them fix Mykage? Why do they get ignored in this and get free passes?
What's the aesop? If you're the main characters, clinging to love for 24,000 years is A-OK! But if you're the villain and/or someone unrelated to reincarnations, its not? What sort of story is that?
Wasted potential is every character in this show. But no one's been assassinated, closest is Mikono with how just osculates back and forth between two completely different roles.
|2012-06-17, 02:50
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Apollonius needs to apologize, that's true. However the main offender was Pollon who really needs to apologize and make amends. Had Apollo actually been Apollonius than Touma would have happily just faded away, with Apollonius and Celiane being happy, and never returned. It was finding out the truth about Apollo and Apollonius not being around that made him snap again.
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|2012-06-17, 06:56
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Apollo though was really misguided. He really thought that the love he had with Celiane was legendary and that the entire universe was jealous of their love. In the end, due to the Pollon reveal, he was never a part of that Legendary love and was just a part of the Universe that was jealous and envied the love between Apollonius and Celiane. No one cares for Pollon and even when he fooled everyone in Genesis he was ignored in favor of the legendary love of Apollonius and Celiane. Than the reveal in EVOL where everyone was like "Oh? He's a dog? O....kay?". Even with that reveal Pollon is still treated like a nobody. No one even cares enough to hate him for tricking Celiane or tricking Touma which lead to all the BS in Evol.
|2012-06-17, 07:01
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I don't think that Pollon has anything to apologise for, as it wasn't wrong of him to wish to meet Celiane again. Even if he was wrong (which I say he isn't), Apollo certainly isn't to blame, since he barely remembered anything of his past life anyway. Fudo did make a point of saying that people should not be living their lives thinking of themselves just as reincarnations. He was definitely going for a living the life you have now thing.
Toma/Mykage is responsible for his own problems and choices. It's natural that he would be upset over Apollonius leaving him, but after a point the blame which could be given to Apollonius for that dries up and it's all on Toma. The responsibility for turning into Mykage lies on him. (It's analogous to real life exes who go around saying things like "I'll kill myself and other people if you don't come back to me and love me!", because especially after a certain point of bitterness and batshit, you can't be blamed for what they do.)
That said. Apollonius is a powerful person, and if - if - he is still around, he may well know what's going on and be able to intervene in some way. If all of him is stuck in Aquarion, maybe there's nothing he can do. If he's also Fudo and Crea, that means he's still directly involved in the conflict, and it does make me wonder why he hasn't done more. A lot of other characters have been jerked around by Toma. Are cryptic comments really all that he's able to manage? Even though Toma is responsible for his own actions, he's really on another level from all of the characters except perhaps any remaining pieces of Apollonius, and Fudo too, if Fudo isn't Apollonius. Maybe Crea as well. I would argue that Apollonius and/or Fudo has a responsibility to do his best to help the others out as much as he's able to. It would help if he would talk plainly to others more often.
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|2012-06-17, 07:10
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Whether he intentionally planned to trick Celiane and Touma doesn't change that he did just that as a consequence over his jealous desire to have Celiane for himself. Than thinking that the memories and love that Celiane and Apollonius had for each other were his own when he was just a bystander in all that. The least Pollon can do is say "Look, I've always loved Celiane even thugh she loved Apollonius but I never intended to hurt anyone with my wish to maybe fall in love with her in another life. I want you to know that I'm really sorry for deceiving you 12,000 years go, it wasn't my intent since at that time I really thought I was Apollonius.". It would at least be something, after all Touma believes that Apollo intentionally tricked him. So of course he's pissed.
And what good has Fudo been again? For all his talks nothing ever seems to go the way for the heroes or for him. Maybe he should stop worrying about ignoring the past and actually try and mend fences so this stuff doesn't happen again in the future. Just a thought, since he apparently knew who Apollo was the entire time and still kept everyone in the dark.
Touma gave up his hatred at the end of Genesis, his hatred only returned and festered for 12,000 years because he found out that he was tricked by a dog, a nobody that impersonated his beloved Apollonius whether it was intentional or not he doesn't know. All he knows is that he was tricked and had hid heart broken once again.
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|2012-06-18, 00:16
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I do really have wished to give this episode a flawless score, because it delivered with everything in drama, recollection, angst, revelations, the truth, and tragedy.
I mean an hour ago I watched the twenty-third episode to Fate Zero and left me almost at the brink of tears to the loss endured, and now with this episode of Aquarion EVOL dealing two tragic losses made me to sob for real.
I never hated Izumo at all and have considered him one of the strongest antagonists/supporting characters; his piloting skills to move the Ignis and summoning the Altair cannon, that actually was able to cancel the Legendary Aquarion's union as a last act against Mikage, proved that he was a serious powerhouse of a pilot.
Now for me Mikage has hit a full bottom love, and it doesn't matter that all for what he did was due to heartbreak borned from deceit.
I feel angry, but at the same time craving intensely to see what happens in the next episode.
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OK, I promise I'm going to get out BUT you have opened the door even wider. Show me where in your Nasa quote it says anything about holding the earth in place?
...here's a video describing the views of plasma physicists that electromagnetic energy is a more powerful force than gravity in 'space', another misnomer....
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I came away, not with an enthusiastic embrace of these new ideas (like yourself), but helpless in the face of my inability to to do anything more than read what they say and nod like a donkey. Not having studied physics, astronomy, cosmology etc I find it impossible to even think about these subjects in any sensible or coherent manner. I assume you have carried out such study.
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I am kind of disappointed.
After John pointed out that it may be science crossing over to
"Mythology, Ritualisms, Traditions and Folklore"
instead of everything going in my suggested opposite direction,
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OK, so here we go! On or about July 25th, I called Sprint to complete a simple ESN swap. And for those who might not be of the gifted mind to understand what that is, it's simply a Phone Swap…going from one phone to the other. Now keep in mind that I already own both phones.
A Motorola Razr-2 and a SANYO 8400.
That means that I previously purchased them, and have decided to swap between one and the other.
Now I am already expired as of May 1st, 2008.
So after deciding that the RAZR-2 was utter garbage that I could not stomach any longer, I called Sprint's NO Customer Service, and informed that rep that I'd like to perform an ESN swap. Now keep in mind that this unintelligent rep never asked if it was a new or already owned phone. Just said ok….and proceeded to ask for the information.
So…needless to say… I went from the Motorola RAZR-2 TO the Sanyo 8400, which Sprint no longer sells, so it's not a NEW phone!
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I don't need a dick in my anus to know I absolutely don't want a dick in my anus.
Hitler was a bad person. But he died. So I like it.
How do German kids tie their shoes?In little knot-zis.
Quote from: MacGuffinHow do German kids tie their shoes?In little knot-zis.hehehe. the hitler thing on the banner is hysterical, btw. i laughed.
okay. fine. refresh. ya happy? there's your freakin' witless, flat, uncontreversial banner.
but it is rather an unsensitive approach to a not so far away part of history.
I wonder if we would have still disliked Hitler had he directed Magnolia. Or were he a goldfish.


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Roy Geoghegan was born July 1916 in Jefferson County. He served as a motorcycle patrolman in the 30's and 40's first riding an Indian Motorcycle and later riding a Harley. He said he liked the Indian motorcycle much better.
He served in the U.S. Army during WWII in Germany. After his honorable discharged he married and started a family. He had three children. He built a home on Belknap Beach in Oldham County doing much of the construction himself.
Above left, co-author of Clayton's River Adventure, Frank J. Feger, joined fellow author Linda M. Penn at Karen's Book Barn for the signing of their book last Saturday. Feger signed books for fans (from left to right) Ellie Diamond, Carol Hillebrandt, Clara Williams, Sharon Prince and Lucy Diamond. Above right, William Chapman, author of The Wake of the Pina Colada, speaks to Josie Wiseman and her dog, Truffle, about Chapman's book.
Taylor E. Gelnett, a 2012 graduate of Oldham County High School, recently completed Marine recruit training at Parris Island, S.C. He will next attend Marine combat training at Camp Geiger in North Carolina. Proud parents are Larry Joe and Carla Ann Gelnett, of La Grange.
Michael James Hooks, 14, of Crestwood Kentucky, has earned the highest advancement award Boy Scouts of America offers to Scouts, the Eagle Scout Award.
A member of Lincoln Heritage Council, Troop 170, Hooks is one of approximately four percent of all boys who attain the Eagle rank. Each candidate must earn 21 merit badges and successfully complete a community, church, or synagogue related service project to earn his Eagle.
David Bowling, CEO of Citizens Union Bank, Shelbyville, is pleased to announce that Grant Simpson has joined the bank as a First Vice President/ Commercial Lender.
He stated, "Grant will bring extensive banking knowledge to the Bank and we are very happy to have him as a part of our lending team."
Grant's office is located at the bank's La Grange office at 2100 S. Hwy 53 in La Grange.
Marielle Hug, 16, of La Grange, was selected by the American Choral Director's Association (ACDA) to participate in their National Honor Choir in Salt Lake City, to be held in February 2015.
This is Marielle's third time to be selected to participate with the ACDA honor choir.
Marielle is a junior at OCHS, a voice student of Garrett and Elizabeth Sorenson of louisvillevoicelessons.com, and the daughter of Mary and Tom Hug.
Max Rogers of La Grange received his Eagle Scout award on Dec. 6. Max is the Senior Patrol Leader with Troop 200, chartered by the La Grange Presbyterian Church. Max is a junior at Oldham County High School.
His parents are Sanna and Jay Rogers.
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Why Philips' EcoDesign play is paying off in more than one way
Why Philips' EcoDesign play is paying off in more than one way
One decade ago, Royal Philips embraced a development philosophy called EcoDesign with the broad aim of minimizing the impact of its products on the environment. The strategy isn't unique: its fiercest rivals ranging from General Electric, Matsushita, Sony, Siemens and Pansonic all boast mature eco-strategies. Still, Philips' focus is paying off demonstrably not just in sales, but in brand perception.
Last year, for example, Philips consumer electronics, lighting and healthcare technologies created under that green products umbrella accounted for 51 percent of its approximately $16 billion in revenue — beating its internal goal by more than two years. During the previous year, the company invested close to $700 million in "green innovation" to keep up that momentum over time although that number pales in comparison with the $4.2 billion that GE has invested in its "healthmagination" research and development over the past several years.
To be fair, Philips has been focused on greening its product portfolio for quite some time. LIke some of its biggest competitors, it started methodically driving out toxic chemicals and minimizing the environmental impact of its operations way back in the 1970s; it adopted its first formal EcoVision program and corporate goals back in 1998.
Now, the company is shooting for its green products to account for 55 percent of revenue by 2015, according to a senior sustainability executive. "It is challenging, I can tell you, especially as the overall market pushes and stretches the bounds of what is possible," said Thomas Marinelli, senior director of Environment Health and Safety, with the Philips sustainability group.
Six pillars of green innovation
The focal areas within the EcoDesign creation process include energy efficiency, packaging, substances, weight, recycling and disposal, and lifetime reliability: Philips worked out the methodology in collaboration with the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. "We want our products to be significantly better compared to the predecessor lines," Marinelli said, also pointing to technology from the company's closest competitors.
The improvements catalyzed by EcoDesign differ depending on the area you're talking about. For the highly specialized healthcare portfolio, which includes medical equipment and where it competes fiercely with GE, Philips introduced 12 new products during 2013 with a big focus on energy efficiency. An example is the latest EPIQ ultrasound imaging system, which reduces both energy consumption and product weight by 30 percent compared with the previous generation. Its new X-ray systems and patient monitors offer similar improvements. GE has been pushing similar improvements of between 20 percent and 25 percent for its own medical systems.
In its consumer lifestyle line-up, Philips is prioritizing avoidance of substances of concern, along with the use of recycled materials and reducing power consumption. Consider the new 24-inch and 27-inch PowerSensor Displays introduced late last month, which use sensors to detect when someone is nearby to automatically reduce screen brightness if someone gets up and walks away from the screen. This helps cut energy usage for the LCD, EPEAT Gold-certified monitors by up to 80 percent compared with alternatives, according to the company. The technology is also TCO Edge certified, which means that it also uses a minimum of 65 percent post-consumer plastics, and comes in 100 percent recyclable packaging.
This sort of innovation, of course, is now table stakes for technologes such as displays but over the years, Philips has managed a number of firsts in this area. Although it's not in the television market any longer, it was one of the first companies to release a TV free of polyvinyl chloride plastic and brominated flame retardants. Historically, Greenpeace has gotten on Philips' case for being slower than other manufacturers to develop a robust global recycling and product takeback program. But it actually was early to the game: its first producer collection programs emerged in the 1990s, and in 2013, it collected an estimated 31,000 tonnes. (That compares with 22,500 in 2010.)
Most readers are familiar with Philips' extensive business in LED lighting platforms, where it is one of the market leaders along with the likes of GE, Toshiba, Cree, Osram and Lighting Science Group.
One relatively recent addition to its lineup is the Pacific LED Green Parking system, which includes integrated luminaires, wireless controls and presence detection applications. The company pitches the platform as both a safety play and a cost-effective replacement for traditional fluorescent lamps that can pay for itself in less than three years. To that end, Philips introduced a financing model that encourages garages and businesses to invest in ongoing improvements to its technology.
"We're selling access instead of ownership," Marinelli said.
This mantra is actually part of Philips' advocacy of a "circular economy" that stresses "maintenance, reuse, remanufacture and recycling" of products rather than the ideas of "take, make and dispose" as the world heads toward a population of 9 billion people in 2050. Marinelli noted: "We're aiming to decouple economic growth from the use of natural resources."
Research from McKinsey estimates that $1 trillion worth of value can be recovered by reusing resources that otherwise would be wasted.
Across its product groups, Marinelli said Philips' teams are encouraged to ask: "Can I upgrade a product? Can I remanufacture it or give it a facelift? Can I take it apart and harvest pieces?"
Aside from positively affecting sales, the Philips EcoDesign philosophy is helping the company's public image. It was a U.S. Environment Protection Agency's Energy Star Partner of the Year for 2014; Panasonic Eco Solutions and LG Electronics, were among the companies named for Sustained Excellence. What's more, among all the high-tech players featured on Interbrand's 2014 Global Green Brands ranking, Philips moved up the most on the ranking, jumping nine spots to No. 14. (Among its competitive set, Panasonic and Sony scored higher; GE was No. 23.) Over the past two years, Philips moved up 17 spots.
"We believe that adopting a circular economy approach to our business models, materials reuse and design will further give us a competitive advantage, while making the world more sustainable," said Henk de Bruin, head of Group Sustainability at Philips, in a statement.
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About Us
Bryce Marine History
Established in 1979 originally at 1619 Manitou Road by founder and President Craig Bryce. To start a marine business amidst recesssion, double digit inflation, 20% interest rates on boat loans, 16% home mortgages, gas rationing and record unemployment was unthinkable. None the less, Craig Bryce, after serving the marine industry for 20 years working for others, opened his own store at 1682 Manitou Rd.
Working together with his brother , Brian Bryce, also a 10 year marine business veteran, the business began. An 800 square foot barn and a 30 boat fenced in compound became Bryce Marine. The original building was a barn that could house one boat at a time in the service shop, one boat in the showroom, a small parts desk, a small accessories area and a small office. On occasion two more boats would be hoisted up to the above hay loft for display purposes.
Six years of hard work and excellent sales and service paid off.
In 1985 Craig designed and built a new facility, dedicated to all aspects of the marine business. The new facility encompasses 11 acres of property and includes a 9,000 square foot showroom, 7,000 square foot service department, a complete parts department, 1,500 square foot accessory showroom and wood, metal and fiberglass shops for repairing boats.
A storage barn was built to house the large inventory of new boats that Bryce keeps on hand.(At many times there are over 150 to choose from). In addition, a manmade test pond specifically designed for servicing boats was built (also makes a great hockey rink in the winter!).
A 20 foot overhead tram lift is used for loading and unloading boats up to 26 feet, a marine travel lift has been added to handle 26 foot and larger boats and an outboard test tank has been added into the service shop.
Bryce now has 12 employees including 4 full time certified mechanics, 2 full time salesmen, 4 man mechanic/rigging crew, 2 office people, all with 368 years of combined marine business experience.


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As health costs in Massachusetts continued to mount in the wake of the state's massive 2006 health care overhaul, hospital leaders at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center decided last year to revamp a large benefits program: their own.
The Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospital organized its two most popular health plans into multilevel pricing tiers for doctors and hospitals, with employee costs linked to the tier selected for a particular health service. Employees frequently had been choosing high-cost hospitals for routine procedures, which could have been capably treated at other affordable, quality facilities, says Lisa Zankman, senior vice president of human resources at Beth Israel, which covers nearly 12,000 employees and their family members.
"We decided that we needed to steer people in order to save us some costs," Zankman says. By restructuring its plan design, Beth Israel employees were told, the hospital could limit their average 2012 premium increase to 5.7 percent rather than nearly 12 percent otherwise.
As employers prepare for national health care reform, which is slated to debut in 2014—with one eye on this year's upcoming Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the law—the Massachusetts experience provides perhaps the best window into how federal reform might influence the cost and design of health benefits. Since its 2006 reform law, the Bay State has expanded coverage to 98 percent of its residents, using a model that in many ways mirrors the federal approach with mandated coverage for all but the smallest businesses and a required minimum benefits package, among other similarities.
Yet, the impressive coverage figure comes at a cost. Many doctors are no longer accepting new patients, and organizations such as Beth Israel have determined that health care reform did little to ease employers' expenses and they are on their own to seek alternatives.
Massachusetts has embarked on "reform 2.0," says Ashish Kaura, a Chicago-based principal at the global consulting firm Booz & Co., which conducted surveys and focus groups with Massachusetts employers in late 2010 and early 2011. "Over time, as health costs have not come down, I think what providers and insurers have realized is that you cannot keep adding more to a broken chassis and hope it still works," he says. "Now it's time for the system to start placing some big bets."
Despite a substantial overlap in approach, there are some key differences between Massachusetts reform and the national health care reform law that's projected to expand coverage to 34 million people by 2021. In Massachusetts, employers with 11 or more full-time employees must offer health insurance or risk a penalty of $295 per employee. Under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the penalty is $2,000. But it only applies to employers with 50 or more full-time employees.
By all accounts, Massachusetts reform has achieved its goal of reducing the rate of uninsured residents. In 2010, 1.9 percent of residents still lacked coverage compared with 7.4 percent six years earlier, according to a 2011 report by the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance & Policy. Massachusetts employers also are more likely to provide coverage than those in other states, with 77 percent providing benefits in 2010 compared with 69 percent nationally, according to an employer survey released in July 2011 by state officials.
Rising costs, though, weren't tackled at the same time, says Sharon Long, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute, who authored a Massachusetts reform analysis published early this year in the policy journal Health Affairs. "So costs there are continuing to rise much as they are in the rest of the country," she says. The state's average family monthly premium has increased by 33 percent to $1,262 in 2010 from $950 in 2005, according to the most recent data from the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance & Policy.
To help curb costs, Massachusetts employers and insurance providers have been talking more pointedly with employees about price differences between providers, a discussion that has been helped by the state's extensive release of related data. And they've been testing new plan designs, such as the tiered approach that Beth Israel uses.
Under tiered plans, employee payments vary not only for prescription drug "tiers," such as generic vs. brand name, but also the cost tier of the doctor or hospital they select. Another benefits trend is the resurrection of limited network plans, with a tight lid on the number of providers, much like the HMO plans of early managed care. The Group Insurance Commission, which insures 78,000 Massachusetts state employees, recently highlighted that alternative by instituting a mandatory re-enrollment to encourage employees to give the limited plans a second look.
But expanded access also has strained the system. Nearly six years after reform, the state's primary-care doctors are overwhelmed. Just 47 percent of family-practice doctors reported accepting new patients in 2011 compared with 70 percent in 2007, according to the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Meanwhile, the state's health costs, at $9,278 per capita in 2009, lead all 50 states, according to the latest data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The cost headaches aren't a surprise, says Rick Lord, CEO of Associated Industries of Massachusetts, a not-for-profit organization representing employers. "The cost increases aren't due to the reform—they are due to health care inflation in general."
Still, businesses—particularly smaller companies—have been crying uncle. Double-digit premium increases have forced many to a self-insured model, even among those who wouldn't have considered it previously, says Jon Hurst, president of the 3,400-member Retailers Association of Massachusetts. "You don't find very many fully insured operations in Massachusetts over 50 people anymore," he says. From 2006 to 2010, the number of self-insured plans increased from 45 percent to 53 percent, according to state data.
Another common gripe is the package of mandated benefits, which is called "minimum creditable coverage" in Massachusetts. The coverage requirements are "well-intended," says Mark Gaunya, president of the Massachusetts Association of Health Underwriters.
"But essentially it handcuffs employers in choosing a plan design that's cost-effective for them."
For example, the state sets limits on deductibles, Gaunya says. To meet minimal coverage requirements, an employer can't set a deductible higher than $2,000 for an individual and $4,000 for a family.
In 2010, the state's legislators made some changes to the 2006 reform law, providing some plan design options to address persistent cost concerns. Insurers are now required to offer some type of limited or tiered network option. And the plan's premium must be set at least 12 percent lower than the broader-network version.
For employers, tiered plans offer a way to offset rising health costs, without cutting benefits to the degree that they risk violating the state's minimum coverage requirements, says Larry Croes, vice president of commercial markets for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts. The insurer was one of the state's first to offer a plan that ranked doctors and hospitals, along with prescription drugs, starting in 2007.
Croes stresses that providers are classified into tiers using quality-based indicators along with cost data. For hospitals, the quality data monitored include the rate of hospital-acquired infections and whether heart attack patients are being prescribed beta blockers before they're sent home, among other markers. By the end of 2011, the tiered plans had enrolled more than 200,000 members. "It's the hottest product I've had in a long time," he says.
But that doesn't mean the tiered approach will necessarily work in other regions of the country, where the number of health providers might be limited or more geographically dispersed, Croes says. He describes the Boston area as a best-case scenario, where high-cost hospitals frequently are located just blocks from lower-cost/high-quality alternatives.
A provision in the 2010 law also helped encourage the formation of tiers in Massachusetts, as it barred some contract-negotiating practices, such as making a hospital's inclusion in a particular network dependent upon its being ranked in a preferred tier, says Alwyn Cassil, a spokeswoman for the Center for Studying Health System Change. The nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based research organization released an analysis in October 2011 looking at employer insurance trends in a dozen cities, including Boston.
But, she adds, "Being able to tier their hospitals in a meaningful way has been very difficult for [other metropolitan] markets. Hospitals don't want to be in those costly tiers, and they will do whatever they can to avoid that."
Even so, employers elsewhere in the country, and particularly sizable employers, can exert leverage in other ways, Cassil says. "I think a big piece is: When do employers hit the wall and say, 'Enough is enough? Either I'm not going to have that high-priced hospital in my network, or if I do, it's going to be very expensive to go there.' That sends the provider a message that they're going to lose volume."
Massachusetts' traditionally high health costs have been driven by a number of factors, including a well-paid workforce with generous benefits and world-class hospitals, says Long, who was a professor at the University of Minnesota when she helped author the Health Affairs analysis. Since last year, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been pushing for legislation to change how doctors and hospitals are paid, moving to more of a lump-sum model called "global payments," rather than paying for each medical service provided. But at deadline, any significant legislative progress appeared to be stalled, Long says. "There is consensus in the state on the need to address the rising costs, but less consensus on how to do that."
Meanwhile, there are increasing signs of movement on the private side. Last year Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts introduced another type of plan called Hospital Choice Cost Sharing, in which patients pay an additional surcharge on top of their typical copayment if they opt for one of 15 designated high-cost hospitals for nonemergency care. The services listed include not only hospital admissions, but also outpatient surgery and other related care, such as imaging tests or physical therapy. Thus, getting an MRI at a designated higher-cost hospital, such as Brigham and Women's or Massachusetts General, costs an employee $500 compared with $50 at other hospitals.
Also, employers are becoming more aggressive about showing employees the bottom-line bill when they select so-called "C¬adillac care" as the default, says Sandy Reynolds, executive vice president at the Associated Industries of Massachusetts. She describes how one Massachusetts-based grocery chain met with managers, showing them that an emergency room visit cost $800 to $1,000, roughly four times an urgent-care clinic visit. That steep difference hit the employees' wallets, as they were required to pay 20 percent of the bill. For the grocery chain's employees, the most common emergency room diagnoses are headaches, sore throats, earaches and the common cold.
The managers were asked to pass along the information to front-line employees, Reynolds says. Within the first eight months following the educational sessions, emergency visits declined by 14 percent and urgent-care clinic visits increased by 12 percent when analyzed against a comparative eight-month period. "I think that's amazing," Reynolds says. Without education, she says, "employees do not really know what services cost."
During enrollment sessions at Beth Israel, hospital employees were shown to what degree the prices for seemingly routine procedures could vary at local hospitals. One slide reported that the price tag for a gallbladder surgery could range from $8,000 at a low-cost hospital to $12,700 at a high-end facility. "We found that people walked in very upset, but walked out really understanding, a) why we did it and b) what their choices were," Zankman says.
Under the new plan design, employees who signed up for the lowest-cost plan would be restricted to two tiers of providers for nonemergency care, primarily Beth Israel-affiliated hospitals and physician groups, along with some community hospitals. Nearly 1 in 5 made that choice for 2012.
For the higher-cost tiered plan, employees paid roughly twice the premiums to keep their options open to use a hospital or doctor on all three of the tiers. Employees also paid more for an office visit or procedure if they selected a higher-cost tier. Nearly three-fifths of employees, 58 percent, went that route. An additional 5 percent selected a traditional PPO plan, and 19 percent waived coverage.
Zankman says it's too early to know if those covered by Beth Israel's lowest-cost plan will become frustrated when they hit a medical issue and realize that their provider choices are limited. On the provider side, she's also quick to acknowledge that the state's foray into tiered plans might benefit the hospital's own negotiating leverage. (As one example, Beth Israel is listed as a lower-cost hospital on the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Hospital Choice plan.)
It's also unclear to what degree the Massachusetts experience will be replicated elsewhere if national reform becomes a reality, says Gaunya of the state's health underwriters association. Employers in other states, such as those with a high rate of uninsured residents, may "decide just to pay the penalty and get out of the insurance marketplace," he says.
If nothing else, Massachusetts illustrates just how difficult it is to address the thorny challenges of rising health costs, says the Urban Institute's Long.
"I don't know where the point will be when the [health] costs are high enough that it forces everybody to the table to actually address the issue," she says.
"But I think nationally we've got that same issue," Long says. "It's going to be very hard to address costs. The reality is if you cut costs, then that's somebody's income." wƒm
Charlotte Huff is a freelance writer based in Fort Worth, Texas. To comment, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Templo Swaminarayan, Santo Domingo
Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul, Rajkot, an educational, cultural and socio-spiritual non-profit organization was founded by HDH Shashstriji Maharaj Shree Dharmajivandasji Swami according to the inspiration and message "Pravartaniya Sadvidya, Bhuvi Yatsukrutam Mahat" of Bhagwan Shree Swaminarayan in 1948 A.D with the aim to create a moral, ethical and serene society.
Eventually it widen to Junagadh, Ahmedabad, Surat, Hyderabad, Chharodi, Navsari, Mumbai, Taravada, Bangalore, Narmada and USA. Presently, by the blessings of Param Pujya Jogi Swami, all these institutions are organised by 150 Saints under the guidance of HDH Shri Devkrushnadasji Swami.
The organization takes pride to declare, its extra-ordinary service in producing, more than 49,000 virtue base educated individuals, spread world wide, in indulging itself into Spiritual, Cultural, Social and welfare activities.
Apart from being an ideal educational center, the organization belongs to one of the earnest faiths in Hinduism, the Swaminarayan Sampraday, thereby enlivening rich Vedic values. To promote this ethics & values, Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul publishes many inspiring essays, monthlies, audio-video cassettes & cds, conducts cultural exhibitions, spiritual camps, pilgrimages and celebrations.
Mukundswarupdasji Swami's Phone Number : +1 809-237-5669


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LONG BEACH >> There will be a standing start for Sunday's IndyCar Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
But do not expect it to be anything like the standing starts of Formula One.
"It's more unpredictable," said IndyCar racer and former Formula One racer Justin Wilson. "IndyCar is definitely more unpredictable. Formula One is all computer systems with a little launch control. The computer learns that you need so much power and time and speed. It makes it a lot easier."
Standing starts are rare in IndyCar; they were used at only Toronto and Houston last year. This will be the first standing start at Long Beach since 2008, the last year of CART, and only the second since Formula One raced at Long Beach.
"We pushed hard," Grand Prix CEO Jim Michaelian said of seeking standing starts from IndyCar. "It's tradition. We've done it for years off and on. It brings a new element to the race and we had the capability to do it because we widened Turn 1."
There will be two sets of lights to indicate when it is time to race, one in front of the top qualifiers and one on the pedestrian bridge for those cars in the rear of the 26-car field. They will be hung on Friday.
"These cars aren't designed to do standing starts," Wilson said. "You're trying to get the right RPMs and to get the clutch to slip just right. It is not easy. The different between a great start and stalling is pretty small." Drivers will have a chance to practice their starts in an area by pit road.
"The biggest objective is getting traction," said Ryan Hunter-Reay, who won the 2010 Long Beach race. "It's very easy to spin the tires. It's all in the driver's hands, literally, because you have the clutch paddle system. It's a matter of revs and taking out the clutch."
Drivers slam on the gas and dump the clutch when leaving their pit stalls, which leads to spinning tires, something that is detrimental in a race start.
They will have a chance to practice the starts just off pit road Friday and Saturday. But Wilson said it will be useless at some point.
"You don't learn much because you get too much rubber down," he said. "For us it all happens manually. If you do well, you feel great."
Teaching the kids
Juan Pablo Montoya said that since he has switched from NASCAR to IndyCar he has been able to watch his 9-year-old son, Sebastian, race karts.
"I get nervous in a different way," Montoya said of watching his son race karts. "I get nervous because I want him to perform well."
Montoya said Sebastian qualified second last weekend in a race, got the lead and finished second.
"He got out of the go-kart crying, he threw his gloves off and he was ticked off," his father said. "He looked at me (angrily) and that's what I'm looking for. You cannot be complacent. You have to want it bad enough to make it."


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It is easy to say something is unique and it is quite another to actually explain why. Since its inception two years ago we have always said the SharePoint UI UX Experience class is unique. Here in the course's birthday month, I figured we got some 'splainin' to do! (And kudos to you if Desi Arnaz just rang out in your head*.)
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Nuclear Waste Sits on Ocean Floor
U.S. Has Few Answers on How to Handle Atomic Waste It Dumped in the Sea
More than four decades after the U.S. halted a controversial ocean dumping program, the country is facing a mostly forgotten Cold War legacy in its waters: tens of thousands of steel drums of atomic waste.
From 1946 to 1970, federal records show, 55-gallon drums and other containers of nuclear waste were pitched into the Atlantic and Pacific at dozens of sites off California, Massachusetts and a handful of other states. Much of the trash came from government-related work, ranging from mildly contaminated lab coats to waste...


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Thanks to Rachel for this link to the Guardian for tips for writing by a great range of authors, one I like so far:
"You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine." Margaret Atwood


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text: Khamenei's reportedly fears a coalition of 'purists' will rise up and get rid of him [REUTERS]Hong Kong - The supreme war-or-peace question regarding the Iran psychodrama has got to be: What game is Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei really playing? Sharp wits among the lively Iranian global diaspora maintain that the Supreme Leader is the perfect US/Israel asset - as he incarnates Iran as "the enemy" (although in most cases in a much less strident way than Ahmadinejad). In parallel, the military dictatorship of the mullahtariat in Tehran also needs "the enemy" - as in "the Great Satan" and assorted Zionists - to justify its monopoly of power. Drums of war:The US media and the 'Iranian threat' The ultimate loser, voices of the diaspora sustain, is true Iranian democracy - as in the foundation for the country's ability to resist empire. Especially now, after the immensely dodgy 2009 presidential election and the repression of the Green movement. Even former supporters swear the Islamic Republic is now neither a "republic" - nor "Islamic". For their part, another current of informed Iranian - and Western - critics of empire swear that the belligerent Likud-majority government of Israel is in fact the perfect Iranian asset. After all, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and former Moldova bouncer turned Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's non-stop warmongering tends to rally Iranians of all persuasions - always proudly nationalistic - behind the flag. The absolute majority of Iranians knows and feels they are targeted by a heavily weaponised foreign power - US/Israel. The leadership in Tehran has been wily enough to instrumentalise this foreign threat, and at the same time further smash the Green movement. Your bombs are no good here Parliamentary elections in Iran are only a few days away, on March 3. These are the first elections after the 2009 drama. In The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge (Penguin Books), Hooman Majd makes a very strong case to detail how the election was "stolen". And that's the heart of the matter; millions of Iranians don't believe in their Islamic democracy anymore. Gholam Reza Moghaddam, a cleric, and the head of the Majles (parliament) commission that is conducting an extremely delicate move in the middle of an economic crisis - to end government subsidies on basic food items and energy - recently admitted that the Ahmadinejad government is, by all practical purposes, bribing the population "to encourage them to vote in the Majles elections". Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi - a senior military adviser to Khamenei and, crucially, former chief of the 125,000-strong Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - asked Iranians to "take the elections seriously, and, by voting in maximum numbers, create another epic event". The Supreme Leader himself believes - or hopes - turnout at the "epic event" will be around 60 per cent. "We believe that using nuclear weapons is haram and prohibited, and that it is everybody's duty to make efforts to protect humanity against this great disaster." - Ayatollah Khamenei They may be in for a rude shock. Word in Iran is that the election appeal at universities is close to zero. No wonder, Green movement leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has been under house arrest for a full year. According to Kaleme, a website close to Mousavi and his wife, Dr Zahra Rahnavard, a few days ago they were allowed to speak only briefly, by phone, with their three daughters. So far, Khamenei's attention seems to have been concentrated more on external pressure than the internal dynamic. Once again, last Wednesday, he went public to renew his vow that nuclear weapons are anti-Islamic. His words should - but they won't - be carefully scrutinised in the West: We believe that using nuclear weapons is haram and prohibited, and that it is everybody's duty to make efforts to protect humanity against this great disaster. We believe that besides nuclear weapons, other types of weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons also pose a serious threat to humanity. The Iranian nation, which is itself a victim of chemical weapons, feels more than any other nation the danger that is caused by the production and stockpiling of such weapons and is prepared to make use of all its facilities to counter such threats. To see the Supreme Leader's "nuclear" views, US and Israeli warmongers could do worse than to consult his website. Of course, they won't. What's certain is that Khamenei seems to be digging in for the long haul. Retired Major General Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary-general of the Expediency Council, said it in so many words. Western sanctions will go on for at least another five years, and are much tougher than those imposed during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. Rezai also said that, for 16 years, when Rafsanjani and then Khatami served as presidents, Iran tried to reach some sort of deal with the US, but "because the gap [between the two] was too deep, a compromise was not possible ... We allowed them to inspect Natanz, we reduced the number of centrifuges, we suspended the Isfahan [uranium conversion facility], and our president [Khatami] began the 'dialogue among civilisations'. But Bush declared that Iran, Iraq and North Korea constituted the 'axis of evil' and began a confrontation with us." (Here's the original text, in Farsi.) A former spokesman for the Iranian nuclear negotiation team, Ambassador Hossein Mousavian, brought this confrontational mood up to date - to the IAEA team visit to Iran last October, led by Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts - the same Nackaerts who was back in Iran last week. According to Mousavian, "during the visit, Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, offered a blank cheque to the IAEA, granting full transparency, openness to inspections and co-operation with the IAEA. He also informed Nackaerts of Iran's receptiveness to putting the country's nuclear programme under 'full IAEA supervision', including implementing the Additional Protocol for five years, provided that sanctions against Iran were lifted". Washington's reaction was predictable: instead of diplomacy, more belligerence. The next steps are well-known; the Fast-and-Furious plot trying to frame Tehran for the assassination attempt on the Saudi ambassador to the US; the pressure to divert the IAEA's November 2011 report on Iran by adding a spin on a "possible" military angle to the nuclear programme; the oil embargo; the sponsoring of a UN resolution against Iran on terrorism; and the list goes on. A new report by the International Crisis Group (ICG), based in Brussels, virtually endorses Iran's approach as outlined by Mousavian. The result would be the recognition of Iran's right to enrich uranium up to five per cent, and the lifting of existing sanctions - in stages. The report recommends the US and the EU follow Turkey's diplomatic way of dealing with Iran. Instead of sanctions, sabotage and non-stop threats of war, the report stresses that "economic pressure is at best futile, at worse counter-productive", and that Tehran "ought to be presented with a realistic proposal". This is exactly what the BRICS group of emerging powers, plus Turkey, has been advocating all along. Show me the path of the Imam In all matters external and internal, in Iran the buck stops with Khamenei - and not with end-of-mandate Ahmadinejad. If the Supreme Leader seems to have his pulse firmly on the nuclear dossier, home matters are infinitely more complicated. Khamenei may take comfort that, outside the big cities, he remains quite popular - as government loans in rural areas remain generous, at least while the new Western sanctions have yet to bite. But high-ranking clerics in Qom are now openly calling for legal mechanisms to oversee - and criticise - him; his response - hardly a secret in Tehran - was to order all their offices and homes to be bugged. Khamenei has vehemently rejected any sort of oversight by the Council of Experts - the Iranian body that appoints the Supreme Leader, monitors his performance, and can even topple him. According to Seyyed Abbas Nabavi, the head of the Organisation for Islamic Civilisation and Development, Khamenei told the experts: "I do not accept the assembly can say that the Supreme Leader is still qualified, but then question why such and such official was directed in a certain direction, or why I allowed a certain official [to do certain things]." (Here's the original text, in Farsi.) In 2011, I heard from exiled Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf that, "we actually started the Arab Spring, in 2009, with the Green movement in the streets". Following the outbursts of outrage after the election result - when for the first time Iranians openly called for the downfall of the Supreme Leader - revolt steadily marches on, with urban, highly educated professionals deriding Khamenei as stubborn, jealous and vindictive, and holding a monster grudge against those millions who never swallowed his endorsement of Ahmadinejad in 2009 (he always calls them "seditionists"). For instance, even the daughter of a well-known ayatollah has gone public, saying that Khamenei "holds a grudge in his heart" against Rafsanjani and former presidential candidates Mousavi and Karoubi "because of the Imam's [Khomeini's] love and support for them - and also because, in comparison to these three, in particular Hashemi [Rafsanjani] and Mousavi, he is clearly a second-rate individual". Khamenei is now being widely blamed for anything from Iran's falling production capacity to mounting inflation and widespread corruption. And that leads us to another key question: What about the IRGC's support for the Supreme Leader? "The cream of the IRGC is engaged in a sort of economic war against the bazaaris - the traditionally very conservative Persian merchants." The Iranian diaspora largely considers this support to be pure propaganda. Yet the fact is that the IRGC is not only an army, but a monster conglomerate with myriad military-industrial, economic and financial interests. Top managers - and the array of enterprises they control - are bound to the ethos of antagonising the West, the same West from whose sanctions they handsomely profit. So, for them, the status quo is nice and dandy - even with the everyday possibility of a miscalculation, or a false-flag operation, leading to war. At the same time, the IRGC may count on the key strategic/political support of BRICS members - Russia and China - and is certain that the country will be able to dribble the embargo and keep selling oil mostly to Asian clients (currently 62 per cent of exports, and rising). But what's really juicy, in terms of Iran's internal dynamic, is the fact that the cream of the IRGC is engaged in a sort of economic war against the bazaaris - the traditionally very conservative Persian merchants. It's crucial to remember that these bazaaris financed the so-called "Path of the Imam" Islamic Revolution. They were - and remain - radically anti-colonialist (especially as practiced by the Brits and then the US); but this does not mean they are anti-Western (something that most in the West still don't understand). Once again, as top Iranian analysts have been ceaselessly pointing out, one must remember that the Islamic Revolution's original motto was "Neither East nor West"; what mattered was a sort of curiously Buddhist "middle of the road" - exactly that "Path of the Imam" which would guarantee Islamic Iran as a sovereign, non-aligned country. And guess who was part of this original "Path of the Imam" coalition of the willing? Exactly: Khamenei (and Ahmadinejad) foes Mousavi, Khatami, Karoubi and Rafsanjani, not to mention a moderate faction of the IRGC, graphically symbolised by former IRGC commander and former presidential candidate, Mohsen Rezai. So what the "Path of the Imam" coalition is essentially saying is that Khamenei is a traitor of the principles of the revolution; they accuse him of trying to become a sort of Shia Caliph - an absolute ruler. This message is increasingly getting public resonance among millions of Iranians who believe in certainly an "Islamic", but most of all a "true" "Republic". And that leads us to the Supreme Leader's supreme fear, that a coalition of purists - including influential Qom clerics and powerful IRGC commanders or former commanders, with widespread urban support - may eventually rise up, get rid of him, and finally implement their dream of a true Islamic Republic. Only this is certain: The one thing they won't get rid of is Iran's civilian nuclear programme. Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times. His latest book is named Obama Does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). SOURCE: Al Jazeera ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pepe EscobarPepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times. 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After the sinister glories of last week's top pick from Crystal Stilts, this week's fistful of sevens have in common a tendency to pack their three minutes with rather too many ideas. Which is hardly something to complain about, as the old adage about taking away vs. adding more is less true with records than it is with cooking. With a dizzying surfeit of noises from Passion Pit and Empire of the Sun, this week's singles might also be evidence of the coming Spring, were a lot of these records not actually available last summer. Something needs to be done about release dates, then, and everyone apart from School of Seven Bells could do with some sort of red-pen-wielding, aural editor.
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School Of Seven Bells 'Iamundernodisguise' (Full Time Hobby)
After the glorious 'Half Asleep' wafted onto our collective stereos sounding very much like the second coming of Heaven or Las Vegas-era Cocteaus, this time around the bewitching Brooklynites layer up their very Vega vocals in between washes of woozy static and some deliciously dubby afrobeats before returning you to the one-note Synth of Doom they being 'Iamundernodisguise' with. It's almost impossible to write a review of SOSB that doesn't include the word 'dreamy' but this one really does whisk you away somewhere rather enchanting before plonking you right back into the thudding grey of your in-tray/empty bank balance/piddling relationship dramas three minutes and 46 seconds later. As the toddling irritant from the Disneyland commercials is wont to say, 'It's magical'. Here be a stripped down version of it for Stereogum:
Passion Pit 'Chunk Of Change' EP (Frenchkiss / Columbia)
While Michael Angelakos claims to have put this together as a (boo – how rubbish) belated Valentine for his favourite and best shorty, everyone knows he's actually slipping an Alvin & the Chipmunks revival in through the back door. The thing is, even if he is some sort of evil, chart-catching Randy Newman, and even if it is brimming with the sort of cover-everything-with-aural-hundreds-and-thousands, giddy exuberance that in usual pop circumstances would get your legs smacked, this is undeniably, irresistibly cheery. Packed with ideas and brimming with all the twinkly tricks and fizzes you can think of (toytown percussion, speedy vocals, skippy synths, kiddie songtitles) – this suffers from First Novel syndrome in so far as there's almost too much going on. If Angelakos reins it back just a tiny tiny bit, we'll all be smitten.
Marina And The Diamonds - 'Obsessions/Mowgli's Road' (Neon Gold)
'My first songs were disgusting, I hated them. If they ever came out I would die!' quothed Marina to the NME back in January. Now at the grand old age of 20, we get 'Obsessions', in which so many kooky quirks and Spektorish mannerisms are applied to the performance that it's nigh-on impossible to wade through the treacle to her undeniable way with melody. Having come over all Winner and shouted 'Calm down Marina, it's only a single,' at the stereo, I've come to the conclusion that should anyone else care to use any combination of the phrase 'pass me a cigarette/pills/rope' as if it's the last word in dark, I will THKWEAM. Sorry, but this is really quite irritating.
Empire Of The Sun 'Walking On A Dream' (Virgin)
All over the airwaves like a particularly bad outbreak of Aussie sunburn, Empire of the Sun have taken the rather popular 80s fantasy film artwork schtick and run with it like Athena print wolves, fashioning for themselves an image that is one part Fleetwood Mac, two parts MGMT and three parts David Bowie in Labyrinth. And what do you know, it's a perfectly enjoyable but not-about-to-win-any-prizes-for-originality combination, swimming past your ears with soaring vocals and repetitive electric strums. It's a bit orange squash compared to the full blown majesty of MGMT's not-from-concentrate psychedelics, but all rather pleasant. Buy the 7" and get a Sam La More remix which is smothered in Balearic sunshine and flashes of Jean Michel Jarre wibbliness (and if Jarre doesn't get a revival soon we will eat our keyboard of light), which is sadly not nearly banging enough.
FAKE PROBLEMS 'The Dream Team Rumble In The Jungle' (SideOneDummy)
Do Fake Problems know that they sound exactly like a flannel-shirted Bon Jovi? DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING, etc.
Buraka Som Sistema – 'Sound of Kuduro' ft. MIA, DJ Znobia, Puto Prata & Saborosa
It's slightly unfortunate that Angolans DJ Znobia, Saborosa and Puto Prata haven't had much of a look-in what with MIA doing her petulant thing all over Sound of Kuduro – a vocal which will either drive you halfway to the nearest home for mentals or jerk you to the floor, depending on whether you succumb to its urgent charms. The aural equivalent of a slap in the face, this is an impossible to ignore, angry avalanche of whoop whoop impromptu rave sound effects, call-to-action alarms and streetside drums which is nothing short of magnificent. With remixes from Drop the Lime, DJ Mehdi and DJ LilJohn (no, not that one) which make Sound of Kuduro sound if anything, even more vital, it's also worth popping over to DJ Znobia's Myspace here where he's mixed Buraka with Fiddy and, of all things, Justin Timberlake. Skills!
The Maccabees 'No Kind Words' (Free download at themaccabees.co.uk)
This rather dark excursion about sticks and stones seems to be massively popular with everyone else in the office, but is not my cup of tea. Still, it costs nothing, so it seems churlish not to mention it's jangling, gathering pace or nice way with a lyric, mentioning as it does ears that bend and dear friends one should keep closer than enemies.
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Teen actress Chloe Grace Moretz has blasted "sick" pranksters for spreading false rumors online suggesting she has fallen to her death in Switzerland.
The "Kick-Ass" star, who is shooting a new film on location in Europe, was shocked to receive phone calls from panicked friends and relatives on Sunday after the fake news surfaced on the Internet, so she took to Twitter to make it clear she is alive and well.
In a series of angry posts, she writes, "I don't know who made this up but you're disgusting.I am not dead.I did not die from snowboarding. It isn't even snowing here in Switzerland. I've had my loved ones calling crying to check and see if I'm alive. Don't make this up. It's not real. I am fully alive and here. You're sick."
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