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That's a long time, but the result looks great. She looks really cute and I like the skull in her hair c:

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GL Noble Denton, the global independent technical advisor to the oil and gas industry, will poll hundreds of industry professionals on issues affecting the Americas market during the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) April 30 through May 3, 2012. The company will be conducting three Industry Snapshot Polls during the conference, one for each full day of the event. Conference attendees are invited to GL Noble Denton's stand (2241-K) to take part in the poll, which will ask them to vote on three key issues:
Participants will be invited to vote 'yes' or 'no' to these questions each day, using their business cards as ballot slips. The results of each day's question will be announced the following morning, before voting on a new issue begins. The poll will also completed online by senior professionals from across the industry. Pekka Paasivaara, member of the GL Executive Board, said: "After a period of volatility, this year's Offshore Technology Conference will demonstrate how quickly the American oil and gas industry is returning to growth and stability. But there are still a number of issues that are being debated by professionals across the industry that are key to the future success of the sector; particularly when it comes to innovation, risk and the growth of the unconventional gas market. "In conducting these polls, GL Noble Denton is able to capture our clients' expectations for the future progress of the sector. We're looking forward to welcoming conference attendees to our stand to have their say." To participate in the poll, visit GL Noble Denton at stand number 2241-K. Participants will be entered into a prize draw to win a new iPad after the show. The results of the polls will be available after the conference at: www.gl-nobledenton.com. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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Twin Windmill Baby Quilts
Here are the twin Windmill Baby Quilts I just finished. This color combination is a bit different from what I am usually happy to do and I feel a little ackward: are they 'over-coordinated'? Most prints came from the US and include some lovely and high quality Amy Butler designs.
Winter has been mild here in Porto so far but nevertheless taking decent pictures is becoming more difficult because of the fading light. I usually use the corner of our kitchen with the best northern light but I fear it will not work for a lot longer...
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Microsoft to boost its CRM release cycle
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Microsoft has promised to dramatically change the way that it releases CRM products, moving from "the traditional 3 years between major releases" for Microsoft Dynamics CRM to a "semi-annual release cycle (spring and fall)."
Also in the works is an "automatic update" to Microsoft Dynamics CRM in the final quarter of 2011, and a "scheduled update" to Dynamics CRM in the middle of 2012. The scheduled update will provide a year's flexibility for customers to implement it.
"We're hunting for awesome startups"
Run an early-stage company? We're inviting 250 to exhibit at TNW Conference and pitch on stage!
The scheduled update will be both "larger in scope and complexity" than the automatic update.
Microsoft goes on to say that: "On-premise upgrades may incorporate significant Microsoft platform innovations (e.g. the next releases of Windows Server and desktop, .NET Framework, SQL Server, Office), while updates offer smaller scale new capabilities."
The implied question is whether this means that Microsoft will drop new editions of any number of a variety of products by the second quarter of 2012, but according to the smart money, that is not likely:
I am not reading this [announcement] as Microsoft will be delivering a new version of Windows, Windows Server, .Net, SQL Server and Office by the second calendar quarter of 2012. I'm asking Microsoft just to make sure, but am not sure if the company will comment. Stay tuned
We agree. Microsoft's updated statement of direction for Dynamics CRM can be found here.
In the statement of direction, Microsoft makes noise about social CRM, which implicates social media. In the enthusiastic blog post published by the Dynamics CRM team, this was a point heavily underlined:
SOCIAL CRM! Yes of course social will be part of the future CRM roadmap. Some of the social and collaboration subpoints called out in the SoD include: micro-blogging, business activity feeds, and social intelligence.
We have discussed social media in Office recently, so it is not overly surprising that we are seeing it crop up in other fiefs of the Microsoft kingdom. That it is coming to CRM products is especially mundane.
Still, this is big news for Dynamics CRM customers, who are perhaps going to have to rethink their future roadmap with the product as it is now set to be reborn twice yearly.
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Late run helps Garden Grove top Bolsa Grande
GARDEN GROVE — There were a lot of scenarios in play for the Bolsa Grande and Garden Grove boys basketball teams as they faced off on the final night of Garden Grove League play.
Bolsa Grande had a chance at the league's final guaranteed playoff spot if it could win and La Quinta were to lose to Los Amigos.
If Garden Grove pulled out the win, it had an outside chance at a share of the league title if Santiago stumbled against Rancho Alamitos.
Garden Grove (15-9, 7-3) walked off the Bolsa Grande court with a title chance as it defeated the Matadors, 65-59, Wednesday night at Bolsa Grande (8-16, 4-6).
Mitchell Hesla paved the way for the Argonauts as he scored 12 points and pulled down 14 rebounds, while Chris Martinez finished with a game-high 19 points.
Garden Grove coach Ken Frank said he wanted to work inside out with the 6-foot-2 Hesla as the catalyst, but he said his team's shot selection was suspect at times.
"We were too undisciplined in our shot selection," he said. "We really wanted to go inside out, and I think we did a nice job of that in the last four minutes."
The last four minutes is when momentum turned in the direction of the Argonauts.
After trailing by as many as eight points in the third quarter, Garden Grove found its way back and tied the game at 57 with 5:42 left on a 3-pointer from Martinez.
Hesla scored the next basket with 4:40 to play, giving the Argonauts a 59-57 lead.
Garden Grove closed the game on an 8-2 run and received a timely blocked shot from Hesla, deterring any chance for a Bolsa comeback.
The pace of the game was frenetic throughout, something Garden Grove likes to do, but Frank said the tempo was better-suited to Bolsa.
"This game is always a war," he said. "I think (the pace) is more conducive to them, but once we went inside out, we were fine."
Antonia Estrada scored a team-high 14 points off the bench for Bolsa, and Anthony Ho added 13.


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Six Months in 1945
"Superbly evocative and readable...filled with telling details." San Francisco Chronicle.
"Superb...Dobbs tells the story with the precision of a fine historian and the verve of a first-rate journalist." Dallas News. "A gifted storyteller and thorough researcher with an eye for detail...tension and suspense aplenty." Washington Times "Elegantly written...Dobbs delivers engaging portraits of the national leaders...A confident and rewarding survey of a hinge point in 20th century history." Kirkus Reviews. "Michael Dobbs tells this story with panache, lucidity, and exceptional scholarship."--Rick Atkinson, Amazon.com "Dobbs brings these 'six months in 1945' to life better than anyone before him. In brisk, engrossing chapters, he weaves between the Big Three decision-makers...and sketches their stratagems, illusions, strengths and weaknesses."--Military Book Club. "Dobbs delivers a propulsive read, replete with the sort of telling details that bring his subjects into high resolution. There are stretches of Six Months in 1945 that read like a taut World War II thriller."--Barnes and Noble essay. "Dobbs lends the subject an immediacy that will engage history readers."--Booklist "An astute narrative of the six months that changed the world" -- Publisher's Weekly "Lots of in-house enthusiasm" Library Journal MAPS AND PHOTOS
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my dad, who usually could give a crap about autographs and such, sees that the legendary Clint Howard is supposed to be at a convention I am attending.
He asks me - for the first and only time - to get him an autograph.
The above was Mr. Howard's table. I never saw him at the show.
As far as I know, he actually didn't show up.
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Ek Rishta Sajhedari Ka 25th August 2016 Written Episode
Kusum asks Viren when will he fix Sakshi's engagement. Aunt comes and says Diwakar did not even call once after coming from Jaipur. Viren says Diwakar is khandani and will not back, he wil go to his office and fix engagement. Rishi Patni comes with his parents. Viren greets them in. Patni asks Sachi's hand for Rishi. Viren says Sachi's alliance is already fixed with Aryan Sethia and engagement is on the way. Once they leave, aunt asks why did he reject their proposal, Diwakar did not even confirm about engagement. Viren says Diwakar is from big familly and will not back off from his promise, he will go and fix engagement today.
Aryan calls Saachi and insists to meet. She agrees and asks where to meet. He says Hawa mahal. Prabhath's wife
tells daadi that Prabhath is acting weird, he insists children that he will take them for shopping and they can buy as many clothes they like. Daadi says when gets cunning, she has problem and when he is leniant, even now she is having problem. Aryan comes and informs that he is going out to meet her friend. Daadi asks his alliance is fixed with Saachi, then whom he is meeting now. Priyanka says Saaachi itself. Aryan nods yes. Priyanka asks Daadi if she meet dada before marriage. Daadi says once when she was drying her hair onterrace, daada waved hands from his terrace. They all laugh.
Saachi informs her family that she is going to meet Aryan. Aunty says no. Mom and dad say she should. Aunt says before marriage she should be careful, what if marriage does not happen. Viren says she should listen to her heart.
Mansoor brings gathe ka pulao for his lunch and silently opens box. Diwakar smells pulao and snatches box. They both fight for box when Viren enters and says he came to fix Saachi and Aryan's engagement, but situation is different here, says he saw Mansoor wih Sethia family before, who is he. Mansoor says he is Diwakar's driver. Diwakar says driver by profession but is family member and is childhood friend. Viren says then he is even his friend and shakes hand. He also smells gahte ka pulao and snatches box. All 3 enjoy together.
Saachi tells Tanu she cannot meet Aryan without elder's permission. Tanu makes sari rope and says she should escape via this. Aryan calls and Saachi says she cannot meet him before marriage. Tanu takes phone and says didi wants to meet, but with parent's permission. He says even he is eager to meet her. Tanu says she will do something and plan to meet at exhibition.
Precap: Saachi and Aryan meet at exhibition. Aryan asks with whom she wanted to elope. She says she did not find anyone yet. He asks what about now. She shies.


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Widespread destruction from Japan earthquake and tsunami.
A first-hand look at the initial effects of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami from CNN. Article found here. -
Powerful quake, tsunami kills hundreds in Japan.
Associated Press's reaction to the tsunami and description of the international aid being sent. Article found here. -
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NOAA: Honshu, Japan tsunami propagation
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Interviews with survivors of the tsunami from the seaside town of Nakaminato. Read it here. -
Japan Pushes to Rescue Survivors as Quake Toll Rises
Japanese news media estimates the death toll from the natural disasters at around 1,300 to 1,700, mostly from drowning. Read it here. -
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The moment the tsunami hit Japan
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113th CONGRESS
1st Session
May 20, 2013
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To improve the consideration by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the costs and benefits of its regulations and orders.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
SEC Regulatory Accountability
Consideration by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the costs and benefits of its regulations and certain other agency actions
Section 23 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78w) is amended by adding at the end the following:
Consideration of costs and benefits
In general
Before issuing a regulation under the securities laws, as defined in section 3(a), the Commission shall—
clearly identify the nature and source of the problem that the proposed regulation is designed to address, as well as assess the significance of that problem, to enable assessment of whether any new regulation is warranted;
utilize the Chief Economist to assess the costs and benefits, both qualitative and quantitative, of the intended regulation and propose or adopt a regulation only on a reasoned determination that the benefits of the intended regulation justify the costs of the regulation;
identify and assess available alternatives to the regulation that were considered, including modification of an existing regulation, together with an explanation of why the regulation meets the regulatory objectives more effectively than the alternatives; and
ensure that any regulation is accessible, consistent, written in plain language, and easy to understand and shall measure, and seek to improve, the actual results of regulatory requirements.
Considerations and actions
Required actions
In deciding whether and how to regulate, the Commission shall assess the costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives, including the alternative of not regulating, and choose the approach that maximizes net benefits. Specifically, the Commission shall—
consistent with the requirements of section 3(f) (15 U.S.C. 78c(f)), section 2(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77b(b)), section 202(c) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80b–2(c)), and section 2(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–2(c)), consider whether the rulemaking will promote efficiency, competition, and capital formation;
evaluate whether, consistent with obtaining regulatory objectives, the regulation is tailored to impose the least burden on society, including market participants, individuals, businesses of differing sizes, and other entities (including State and local governmental entities), taking into account, to the extent practicable, the cumulative costs of regulations; and
evaluate whether the regulation is inconsistent, incompatible, or duplicative of other Federal regulations.
Additional considerations
In addition, in making a reasoned determination of the costs and benefits of a potential regulation, the Commission shall, to the extent that each is relevant to the particular proposed regulation, take into consideration the impact of the regulation on—
investor choice;
market liquidity in the securities markets; and
small businesses.
Explanation and comments
The Commission shall explain in its final rule the nature of comments that it received, including those from the industry or consumer groups concerning the potential costs or benefits of the proposed rule or proposed rule change, and shall provide a response to those comments in its final rule, including an explanation of any changes that were made in response to those comments and the reasons that the Commission did not incorporate those industry group concerns related to the potential costs or benefits in the final rule.
Review of Existing Regulations
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, and every 5 years thereafter, the Commission shall review its regulations to determine whether any such regulations are outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome, and shall modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in accordance with such review. In reviewing any regulation (including, notwithstanding paragraph (6), a regulation issued in accordance with formal rulemaking provisions) that subjects issuers with a public float of $250,000,000 or less to the attestation and reporting requirements of section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)), the Commission shall specifically take into account the large burden of such regulation when compared to the benefit of such regulation.
Post-adoption impact assessment
In general
Whenever the Commission adopts or amends a regulation
designated as a major rule
within the meaning of
804(2) of title 5, United States Code, it shall state, in its
adopting release, the following:
The purposes and intended consequences of the regulation.
Appropriate post-implementation quantitative and qualitative metrics to measure the economic impact of the regulation and to measure the extent to which the regulation has accomplished the stated purposes.
The assessment plan that will be used, consistent with the requirements of subparagraph (B) and under the supervision of the Chief Economist of the Commission, to assess whether the regulation has achieved the stated purposes.
Any unintended or negative consequences that the Commission foresees may result from the regulation.
Requirements of assessment plan and report
Requirements of plan
The assessment plan required under this paragraph shall consider the costs, benefits, and intended and unintended consequences of the regulation. The plan shall specify the data to be collected, the methods for collection and analysis of the data and a date for completion of the assessment. The assessment plan shall include an analysis of any jobs added or lost as a result of the regulation, differentiating between public and private sector jobs.
Submission and publication of report
The Chief Economist shall submit the completed assessment report to the Commission no later than 2 years after the publication of the adopting release, unless the Commission, at the request of the Chief Economist, has published at least 90 days before such date a notice in the Federal Register extending the date and providing specific reasons why an extension is necessary. Within 7 days after submission to the Commission of the final assessment report, it shall be published in the Federal Register for notice and comment. Any material modification of the plan, as necessary to assess unforeseen aspects or consequences of the regulation, shall be promptly published in the Federal Register for notice and comment.
Data collection not subject to notice and comment requirements
If the Commission has published its assessment plan for notice and comment, specifying the data to be collected and method of collection, at least 30 days prior to adoption of a final regulation or amendment, such collection of data shall not be subject to the notice and comment requirements in section 3506(c) of title 44, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Paperwork Reduction Act). Any material modifications of the plan that require collection of data not previously published for notice and comment shall also be exempt from such requirements if the Commission has published notice for comment in the Federal Register of the additional data to be collected, at least 30 days prior to initiation of data collection.
Final action
Not later than 180 days after publication of the assessment report in the Federal Register, the Commission shall issue for notice and comment a proposal to amend or rescind the regulation, or publish a notice that the Commission has determined that no action will be taken on the regulation. Such a notice will be deemed a final agency action.
Covered regulations and other agency actions
Solely as used in this subsection, the term regulation—
means an agency statement of general applicability and future effect that is designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy or to describe the procedure or practice requirements of an agency, including rules, orders of general applicability, interpretive releases, and other statements of general applicability that the agency intends to have the force and effect of law; and
does not include—
a regulation issued in accordance with the formal rulemaking provisions of section 556 or 557 of title 5, United States Code;
a regulation that is limited to agency organization, management, or personnel matters;
a regulation promulgated pursuant to statutory authority that expressly prohibits compliance with this provision; and
a regulation that is certified by the agency to be an emergency action, if such certification is published in the Federal Register.
Sense of Congress relating to other regulatory entities
It is the sense of the Congress that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board should also follow the requirements of section 23(e) of such Act, as added by this title.
Accountability provision relating to other regulatory entities
A rule adopted by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board or any national securities association registered under section 15A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78o–3) shall not take effect unless the Securities and Exchange Commission determines that, in adopting such rule, the Board or association has complied with the requirements of section 23(e) of such Act, as added by section 2, in the same manner as is required by the Commission under such section 23(e).
Passed the House of Representatives May 17, 2013.
Karen L. Haas,


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Our company deals with general trading ranging from beans & pulses, Frozen marine products, steel, pharmaceutical products and other value added products, exporting to and importing from other countries.
Asia Winner Industrial Ltd.
Asia Winner Industrial Ltd. (AWI) was founded in 1995 and is a conglomerate of international and local companies including; May Yu Trading Co. Ltd, Agritrade International Ltd , May Yu Marine Products Co. Ltd and Indo Suez Trading Pte Ltd. AWI is a leading trading in Myanmar; importing and distributing products throughout Myanmar and exporting products globally. AWI specialist export products include: Beans & Pulses, Spices, Rice, Powder, Marine Products, Meats Products, Frozen Vegetables and other value–added products such as Balachong. Key import goods include: pharmaceutical products, construction materials (under Steel Mart & May Yu) and consumer products. AWI has over 500 employees based across Myanmar; we are a proactive, energetic hardworking team and have developed a strong company culture. If you enjoy a challenge and creating your own opportunity we would love to hear from you.
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I have found a nice implementation of the Sudoku solver here:
I understand most of the code since its quite self - explanatory but i dont get how this implementation manages the backtracking. Can someone point me to the write lines of code and explain.
I do get that in the solve() method, the author tries to find the right number for the current cell - it loops from 1 to 10. If it does find it it calls next() which provides next cell. Thats ok. But in my view, doing this way would keep going and going until stuck, but this somehow manages to go back and review the choices it made.
If someone can explain it would be awesome. THanks.
Sudoku solver - backtracking
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Re: Sudoku solver - backtracking
Posted 20 June 2011 - 04:07 AM
Since there are specific options for each cell, you can recurse until you are wrong. However, since you are in a loop in the recursion, you can change the current number and try again. If that fail, you change the number and try again. You will eventually hit a solution where it no longer needs to go back. When this happens, you have found a solution.
Re: Sudoku solver - backtracking
Posted 20 June 2011 - 06:52 AM
Since recursion is stack based, backtacking literally means going back to the previous recursive call. As Dogstopper explained, the current call, when it is found that it is pointless to continue, will be popped from the call stack, and you will return to the previous recursive call on the stack.
Re: Sudoku solver - backtracking
Posted 20 June 2011 - 11:18 AM
Ok. That does actually make sense. Thanks a lot. Appraciate it.
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Just preaching for my parish
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Amy Tan
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Born | February 19, 1952 Oakland, California, USA |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Genres | Novel |
Notable work(s) | The Joy Luck Club |
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Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952[1]) is an American writer. Her works deal with mother-daughter relationships. Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club. It has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, a movie by the same name was made based on the book.
Tan has written several other novels. These include The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter and Saving Fish from Drowning. She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. Her most recent novel Saving Fish from Drowning explores the problems dealt with by a group of people who disappear while on an art expedition in the jungles of Burma. Tan has also written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994). Sagwa was turned into an animated series which aired on PBS. She also appeared on PBS in a short spot encouraging children to write.
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If you listen to Mel Kiper Jr., who knows a thing or two about the NFL draft, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers might have had the league's best rookie class.
In this Insider post, Kiper lists his All-Rookie team and the Bucs have three representatives. That shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Safety Mark Barron, running back Doug Martin and linebacker Lavonte David all were starters from the beginning of the season.
Martin got better as the season went on and showed he's an all-purpose back. David started a little faster than Martin, but also improved. Kiper compares David to Derrick Brooks and he's not the first person to say that. David's off to a great start, but he isn't Brooks just yet.
Barron was Tampa Bay's top draft pick. He didn't have as many splash plays as Martin and David, but that probably is due to the nature of his position and the fact the Tampa Bay secondary struggled so much. But you can see that Barron has all sorts of potential and he could make a larger impact once the Bucs get their cornerback situation resolved.
Carolina middle linebacker Luke Kuechly was the only other NFC South rookie to make Kiper's team. You know how I feel about Kuechly. I think he was the best defensive rookie in the NFC South and maybe in the NFL.


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"You know, the benefit of this, Peter, is just as in China, if we do wake up to this, we will create a number of very big growth industries in this country; huge growth industries." Stephen Leeb
Welcome to a Big Picture Channel podcast on TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Stephen Leeb's provocative and insightful new book, Red Alert: How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life is a frightening look at the growing political, economic, and social power of China and the threat that nation poses to the Western world. It lays out how the Chinese are strategizing to overtake the United States as the world's premier economic power-and details how our failure to respond quickly will result in a permanently lower standard of living for Americans.
Stephen's previous interviews on TotalPicture Radio are some of the most popular podcasts we've produced -- garnering thousands of downloads. I am pleased to have him back.
In Red Alert, Leeb argues that while U.S. officials and politicians engage in short-term myopic planning, endless legal maneuvering, scandals, and wartime investing that are crippling American economic viability, China's government is run by visionary scholars with backgrounds in such fields as chemistry and engineering who are carefully analyzing the long-term, big picture.
China is gaining ground as a superpower and attaining competitive advantage over other countries, especially the United States, by using its profits to invest in and control mineral commodities such as coal, oil, zinc, silver, and gold. These resources are becoming scarce, and the author argues that access to them will determine the standard of living for future generations. According to Leeb, the Chinese government recognizes the importance of these resources to key industries such as renewable energy and electronics and views the ability to accumulate them as proof of the country's strength.
The American Dream is close to being replaced by a living nightmare:
- Key commodities that are essential to our daily lives and that are widely believed to be abundant are running critically short. Even worse, the Chinese are doing what they can to monopolize the world's dwindling resources.
- The U.S. is now largely dependent on our greatest economic rival for rare earth elements as well as a host of other minerals-all of which are absolutely essential to the development of alternative energies and are critically important for our defense industry, computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices.
- While America has been fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, China has focused its substantial muscle on securing vital commodities from these and other lands to upgrade its infrastructure and industrial strength to meet the resource challenge head-on.
- China has wrapped itself in the green flag of combating climate change while systematically discouraging other nations from adopting similar policies in a bid to gain time to achieve its plans.
Dr. Stephen Leeb Biography
Dr. Stephen Leeb is a recognized authority on the stock market, macroeconomic trends and commodities, especially oil and precious metals. As Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Leeb Capital Management, Dr. Leeb combines his knowledge of macro-economic trends and current market conditions with detailed information about specific companies he follows in order to guide the Committee's investment decisions. These decisions are then implemented within the portfolios under the Firm's management.
Dr. Leeb is also Founder and Research Chairman of the Leeb Group, which publishes an extensive line of financial newsletters and e-letters reaching more than 200,000 readers. The publications, which have received multiple awards for editorial excellence, include The Complete Investor, Leeb's Income Performance Letter, Leeb's Cash Cow, Leeb's Real World Investing, Leeb's Aggressive Trader, and Leeb's Million Dollar Portfolio.
Dr. Leeb sits on various boards sharing his strategic perspectives on financial markets and natural resources. Since 2008, Dr. Leeb has been a Director of Plain Sight Systems, a technology holding company centered at Yale University. Plain Sight owns a world-class patent portfolio in areas such as information organization/search, computational analytics, electro-optics, and spectroscopy. These technologies are critical in translating massive amounts of data into information and have applications across a multitude of major industries ranging from health care to cyber security to defense to financial analysis.
Since 2006, Dr. Leeb has been head of the advisory board of Leor Exploration & Production LLC, a Houston-based oil and gas exploration company whose Texas operations were sold in November 2007 to Encana for $2.55 billion. Since 2007, he has been a member of the advisory board of Electrum USA Ltd., one of the world's largest privately held gold exploration companies. He is also on the advisory board of Sunshine Silver Mine Corp., a privately held silver exploration company.
Dr. Leeb also sits on the board of Water Intelligence plc, a publicly traded London-based company that has developed cutting-edge technology for managing water supplies. He also is on the board of Deep Markets Corporation, a division of Plain Sight Systems that is developing next-generation risk management applications.
Dr. Leeb is a prolific author of books that present his macro-perspectives on global economic trends along with advice to investors. His books have been notable for predicting the secular bull market that began in the 1980s (Getting in on the Ground Floor, Putnam, 1986); the crash in tech stocks and the rise of real assets including oil and gold (Defying the Market: Profiting in the Turbulent Post-Technology Market Boom, McGraw-Hill, 1999); and the surge in oil prices (The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself and Profit from the Coming Energy Crisis, Warner Books, 2004). Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy (Business Plus, 2009) predicted a permanent peak in global commodity production. Dr. Leeb's eighth and latest book, Red Alert (Hachette) was recently published.
Dr. Leeb is a frequent guest on national television and radio financial shows, including those broadcast on CNN, Bloomberg, Fox News, and NPR, and has spoken at numerous investment conferences. In 2010 he gave the keynote address at an energy conference sponsored by J.P. Morgan. As an expert on energy, materials, and their interrelationships, Dr. Leeb consulted for the Congressional Research Service in Spring 2011.
Dr. Leeb earned his Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. In the following three years he obtained both a Master's degree in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois.
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Urinary Disorders |
Dropped Kidney04/24/2008 |
I have a dropped left kidney that hurts most of the time, from just under the ribcage straight through to the high, lower back. I can rub hard and deep starting low and pushing upward several times and it will take care of it for awhile but does not take long for it to hurt again. Any solutions to fix this.
I do not know what a dropped kidney is as this is not a standard term used by urologists. I wonder if you have a ptotic kidney? Ptotic kidneys move or drop a long way into the lower flank or pelvis from their usual anatomic position beneath the ribs when a slender person stands up from a lying down position. In my mind Ptotic kidneys usually do not cause pain.
It is not clear to me that your pain is coming from the kidney but that is harder to be certain about than you may think. Usually, rubbing the flank does not make kidney pain better. I think you should be evaluated by a urologist.
R Bruce Bracken, MD Professor of Surgery College of Medicine University of Cincinnati |


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Mirai Nikki
In the years I have watched anime and read manga and otherwise comported myself as though I was born of Japanese lineage, I have rarely found the gem such that I found in the show Mirai Nikki, or Future Diary if you're watching the dub like a schmuck. But, one sentence into the review and I'm already ahead of myself with interjecting opinions. Back on course.
The story:
The plot of Mirai Nikki is fairly easy to understand if you've ever watched an old movie by the title of Battle Royale, or the American bastardized version The Hunger Games. A small group of people are plucked from their everyday lives and then thrust by a clandestine observer to take part in an all-out killing fest, winner take all. In this battle, the prize of which being the literal thrown of the universe, each of the participants are given the ability to predict and change the future. This power is relayed to them in the form of entries to a "diary;" these diaries being the shows namesake. Not a concept that is outstanding on the surface, but once you delve in it makes for complex fights. You see, each diary is different, ranging from the ability to foresee random events pertaining to those around you, to being able to see where ever one of your henchmen are at all times. And as the old saying goes, "Variety is the spice of life." Or, in this case, death.
The characters:
By far the characters are what make the show. Namely the relationship between two key characters, but we'll get to that later on. At the same time, it worked against the show at times. Certain characters at times felt forced and nonorganic. Decisions were made without reason or explanation, and some events had a very, "Because the writers said so," mindset about them. A few key events, which are meant to portray the entire basis and reason for a character's actions, are told once and then never revisited. This didn't happen much and when it did it wasn't too severe, but it bares mention, because it turned me off to the show on occasion.
The animation:
This is, at its core, a horror anime. Yes, it has sprinkles of romance and action, but when a (SPOILER) four year old child is getting a knife through the chest, it's pretty dang horror centered. (END SPOILER) And the second staple of the horror genre, second to plot and what's happening, is what it looks like. Think about; how terrifying would Saw or The Purge be if they were told through the drawings of children? Not at all. That having been said, the animation team that worked on Mirai Nikki did a fantastic job. Whether it was because of the realistic blood or the some of the faces the characters made, I felt like I needed to have my light on during many episodes. Character design, however, felt lacking during some points. While those integral to the plot moving along are given a lot of concern, non-relevant characters exist in that stand still frozen in time stance, even though one of the main protagonist is very clearly moving. This annoyed my perfectionist side, but it was easy to ignore if you pay attention to something else.
The sound:
Oh, my God, the sound. Where to even begin. I am not a musical person, but the opening theme to Mirai Nikki is such an amazing song that I can ignore the fact that I can't understand a bloody word being said. A mix of a cathedral choir and a hard rock band, it is unique to say the least. And the sounds and music for the episode itself fit in flawless according to my eardrum. Both the tempo and the beat fit perfectly to what was happening; whether it is a heart pounding battle between two combatants, or a heartwarming scene of dialogue between two newlyweds. One thing I can complain about: I watched this show in the subbed format, because I watched before the Funimation release of the dub. And if I have to listen to the main heroine, Yuno, say Yuki's name in that ungodly high pitched voice, I am going to murder something small and adorable, because it is unbearable after a while.
Now that we have all the bases of the show covered and with all threatening of innocent small lives out of the way, on to what made the show great. Be warned the following two sections are heavily weighted with my own bias, because it is my opinion.
What makes it:
As mentioned before, what really makes this show is the characters, and more importantly the relationship between the main protagonist, Yukiteru, and his psychotic stalker, Yuno. The show spends its entire run, starting at the ten minute mark of the first episode, and ending just moments before the conclusion of the final episode, building these two up and then crashing them down. Rinse and repeat this cycle, ten or so times, and they have a love fit for a play by Shakespeare; a tragedy to be sure, because, again as mentioned before, this is a death match is last-man-standing. Why does this make it a tragedy: well, if you aren't so gifted in the whole connecting dots arena, that means that at the end of the day, either one of the two lovebirds is going to have to fall to one of the other contestants or one or the other will have to take their fellows life. This is a stated fact throughout the series and it creates tension, because of how our gangly and pacifist main character Yukiteru doesn't stand a ghost of a chance before Yuno, who is, at best, an insane sociopath who would kill for the fun of killing. Yes, if you haven't seen the meme of her, Yuno possess a rather interesting split personality; flipping between a cute and innocent girl who wouldn't hurt a fly, to a talented and collective murderer who can hold her own before both superior numbers and situations. This leaves Yukiteru helpless before the road block to becoming the God of Spacetime that Yuno presents; his only saving grace being that Yuno is completely, and at times creepily, head-over-heels in love with him. She kills for him; many of those killings being those who are not a part of the Game. It is this that brings about most of the stories suspense and the ultimate climax. I guess you could say that she would even kill herself for him. *Cough cough it's a trap*
Another good thing about the show I wanted to briefly give mention to was the variety of it. I went in expecting that all the diaries would do the exact same thing: predict the future. Most were phones, but that's a small quam. Not only did the diaries come in different formats, they do dramatically different things. One allows the user to predict how to escape from virtually any situation and another allows the user to create Diary holding henchmen. This was just something that I liked because of the freshness and how I wasn't expecting it. Plots twists that I did not see coming (which is rare) was another good thing about the show, but doesn't deserve extreme mention.
What broke it:
This is the most difficult section I can do, because I don't want to spoil anything. But, the section must exist, so I'll do it anyway and try to keep away from any major plot spoilers. However, before we begin, be warned that this section cannot remain absolutely spoiler free, by its simply nature. So, if you don't want minor spoilers, skip to the final say.
Let's starting with the first one that hit me during the show: the characters. Yes, I know that was what made the show good. However, some of the characters worked against the show at times. While none of the actions or choices made was done willy nilly and without motivation, the presentation of those motivations could have been more refined and explained. As I mentioned before, the story does address why characters do what they do, but it is mentioned exactly once and unless it's important for something further down the road, don't expect to hear about it again. Also, the timing of these motivations bothered me, because it forced contradictions to past episodes. A side character will be loyal to Yukiteru and then in the span of one episode, maliciously see to his demise with all the power he's got because his son, never mentioned before in the series, has come down with a sudden and extremely convenient case of incurable disease and the only way to fix it is to kill everybody and become God. These actions contradict this character's previously stated morals that he is based on; in a previous episode going so far as being willing to kill him if it meant others lived. This violent shift in morals and tones of the interactions was so charring that I felt lost as to what was going on at certain points. Another, a trained mercenary and terrorist since childhood, spends an entire episode running around the city with Yukiteru and his pop-out-of-the-woods father for no real stated reason. This is despite the aforementioned terrorist losing a goddamn eye to Yukiteru. And in her big moment of heart change, when she is stalking Yukiteru in effort to kill him, what does she say? "Remember what you did to my eye?" Would have been convenient if she remembered that a couple of episodes ago, when Yukiteru was without his diary, without his girlfriend protector, and tired to the point of collapsing and you with multiple grenades, knives and an overall superior knowledge of the way in which to go about killing a person over the middle school boy opponent you face. You know…because you're a terrorist!
The other major plot twist I won't even touch on. Suffice it to say, based on the 24 episodes I watched, the ending was unsatisfying; so much so it is the one reason out of everything that really hurt this show's final score in my opinion.
Final say:
With all its strengths, Mirai Nikki is one of the strongest and best put together anime I've seen to date; a fantastic deconstruction of the last man standing idea. However, the ending, which is paramount to that idea, was either rushed, not thought out enough, or just plain stupid. I don't know what, but something happened with that. Taking that into account, along with the story, animation and sound, I have meticulously ended my personal score for the fall 2011 anime Mirai Nikki at a 8.9 out of 10, with a strong recommendation to watch it, to about anyone who I could think would ask. Even despite its flaws, I am still pumped for the release of the English dub so that I can re-watch this show and listen to it in my native tongue. With fantastic sounds, realistic animation and a storyline that will keep you both interested and guessing Mirai Nikki is not an anime that you want to miss!
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Posted on 01/13/2013 7:33:08 AM PST by EternalVigilance
Official Washington hailed the deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff as a significant bipartisan accomplishment. However, voters around the country viewed the deal in very partisan terms: Seven out of 10 Democrats approved of it, while seven...of 10 Republicans disapproved.
Just a few days after reaching that agreement, an inside-the-Beltway publication reported another area of bipartisan agreement...while Washington Democrats have always viewed GOP voters as a problem, Washington Republicans "in many a post-election soul-searching session" have come to agree. More precisely, the article said the party's Election 2012 failures have "brought forth one principal conclusion from establishment Republicans: They have a primary problem."
As seen from the halls of power, the problem is that Republican voters think it's OK to replace incumbent senators and congressman who don't represent the views of their constituents. In 2012, for example, Republican voters in Indiana dumped longtime Sen. Richard Lugar in a primary battle.
This infuriated establishment Republicans for two reasons. First, because they liked Lugar and the way he worked. Second, because the replacement candidate was flawed and allowed Democrats to win what should have been a safe Republican seat.
So, according to Politico, the Washington team is gearing up a new effort to protect incumbents and limit the ability of Republican voters to successfully challenge establishment candidates.
That makes sense to those whose sole goal is winning a majority in Congress rather than changing the course of government policy. Seen from the outside, though, it sounds like the professional politicians are saying that the only way to win is to pick more candidates like the insiders. Hearing that message, the reaction of many Republican and conservative voters is, "Why bother?"
That's why more than two-thirds of Republican voters believe GOP officials in Washington have lost touch with the party's base.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
I think more and more that you might be right. The Bush family did damage to the image of the republican party that it might never fully recover from.
Conservatives in New Jersey? Gimme a break.
What silly nonsense.
The GOP establishment is on the verge of being taken over by conservatives and everyone here wants to get mad and leave!
Stupid. Cowardly.
GWB and crew killed off the GOP.
Did you read the article?
Understood, Timber.
Let 'em try.
What they want to do, from my reading of the Politico article, is to throw lots of money behind their best GOP-e champions. Seriously?
If the people are furious enough to "primary out" long-time GOP elites — and we surely are — then they are insane to try and stop it. Money that would be better spent exposing the Social Democrats and their corruption will instead be used to coddle someone that the GOP base despises? This while Tea Party and conservative candidates are rejected and discouraged? Ridiculous.
The Stupid Party indeed. Time for more and bigger changes in the GOP.
The biased MSM has so poisoned the Bush brand that many independents probably wouldn't vote for Jebbie. But just wait another two years and see the NYT, LA times, WaPo, ABCCBSNBCCNN and PMSNBC spout the mantra that Jebbie would be the only Republican who could win—just like they did with McVain and Mitt.
Yeah, I read it the first couple times it was posted too.
I don't think our commenters have read it. LOL!
The reason the establishment is doing this to defend itself is because we're taking over. Yeah: WE'RE WINNING!
Of course, some commenters may not think it's good for conservatives to take over the GOP. They'd rather run away from the fighr.
Declare war on DC, start a new party larger in size than the GOP for real Americans, and recruit candidates who will go to DC not to reform or solve problems but to destroy the federal apparatus.
It's time to start calling out the rabid baby killers, trade unionists, sex perverts, trial lawyers, communists , race baiters, lobbyists , apparatchiks, propagandists in the press, gun grabbers, and imbeciles that pollute DC and the State Capitols and their supporters that live amongst us for what they are, disgusting degenerate evil parasites that must be stopped.
Eliminate tax withholding, no new hiring of federal employees, rotate the Capital amongst the states and if necessary break up the Republic and form new nations on this continent.
We have to work within the system and change it.... Starting with the state committee positions, that is the way to get this done.
If we split, we'll watch the rest of our lives while these cretins lose election after election and blame us for the trouble.
Time to get to work.
Diogenesis you have a point....Rove is past his time, Romney should be our Treasurer and Boehner ain't bound by his principals even a tiny bit.
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by an establishment, and today's eqaivalent (as I see it) is Sarah Palin ... a most-definite target for establishment Republicans.
The GOP is dead. All that we're waiting for is for rigor mortis to kick in. Its death throes began shortly after Boehner's Tea Party Congressional leadership purge last December and it officially died with Weepy's re-election and the grand "fiscal cliff" victory for Obama. This article just confirms everyone's suspicion.
Sorry, but the GOP apologia's a little bit stale these days.
But that is what they want. In most states you cannot vote in the primary unless you are registered R. That is what is bothering them, we are throwing all the good ol boys out in the R primary. The conservative/teaparty are very, very good at local politics we have upset them very much, we need to continue until they are all purged, lets push back not run and hide in another party.
Please think local, your state and your precinct that is how we remake the party and piss off everybody, the D's, the R's, and the press!
We have some awesome candidates after trying this for only 4 years. Lee in Utah, Rubio, Jordan, Cruz, Rand Paul there are many more and perhaps none of them would be in the Senate and congress if it wasn't for conservative's fighting hard, IN THE PRIMARYS, for every one of them.
They are two factions, a collection evil degenerate baby killing communists on one side and elitist blue blood country clubbers crony capitalists on the other, who only have elections to decide who gets to divide up and spend the money extorted from the working man by the IRS.
There will never be any Solutions coming from Washington DC because Washington DC is the Problem.
The only thing that will come from DC is more taxes and less freedom.
The political class doesn't give a rats ass about anything other than staying in power by any means necessary and serving 5 years to get a federal Congressional pension for life.
There is never a recession in DC, they skim off the the money they steal from workers paychecks every week and figure out new and ever more outlandish ways to waste it.
Every day they hire hundreds of new bureaucrats for life terms starting at salaries of $90-135K to sit around and figure out ways to steal more of our cash.
Their propaganda wing in the press reports none of this.
There is no greater threat to the Prosperity, Security and Freedom of the American citizen than the federal apparatus in DC.
The apparatus cannot be reformed, only destroyed.
The Federal capital must be rotated amongst the states, and allowed to convene for no more than 21 days in any given year.
We are slaves to the Washingtonians, it's time to recognize the enemy within and come up with creative ways to defeat them.
The GOP-E reeks of weakness so run away from them!
Thanks for the advice. It's completely opposite to everything I've seen in my life.
(Oh, and an apologia is what those who run away produce.)
Not quite.
Conservatives increased their representation in both the Senate and the House GOP caucusi. That increased our power in the Party (apparently, being a POLITICO fan, you don't know this).
I'm calling everyone who doesn't want to continue increasing it because the weak RINOs will fight back an idiot and a coward .
You got a problem with that?
...and Mitt Romney, John McCain, Bob Dole, GHWB, GRF, RMN, DDE, Thomas Dewey, Alf Landon, Herbert Hoover, WHT, and TR. They were all Progressives.
It is foolish to think that Reagan (or Goldwater, or Coolidge, or Harding) represented the Republican Party. The establishment hated them.
Presidential primaries are everywhere, and there are some good conservative areas in NJ
I said killed off. Those others you listed added to the demise, but W was truly the straw that broke the camels back.
Good debate point, but please, someone, explain why we should run from such a weak opponent.
Out of sympathy?
I agree with you. It disgusts me to think that he is viewed as a Conservative. (Granted, I come from a Libertarian perspective.)
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."
— John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 October 1780), "The Works of John Adams", vol 9, p.511
Think like a Globalist Marxist bent on destroying the foundations of the one country with a history and a people that prevent your schemes. Then it's easy to see where these pieces fit into the puzzle, fit into the long-range plan for the global domination of a Brave New World Order.
Teach your anarchists Cloward and Piven. Infiltrate the media and academia to promote a subversive agenda that undermines the country's conservative heritage. Give the voters two parties to promote the illusion that a conservative can put a conservative into office. Destroy the economy by fiat and legislation and propaganda. Divide and conquer the races and the classes and the generations and the sexes. Institutionalize corruption. Destroy or subvert the checks and balances. Silence and disarm the people.
Understanding this, it is clear the GOP has been co-opted, and plays its role now in this plan. They are not our friends. They do not want what we want. They will join the rest in destroying us if they can.
Because the "opponent" has fully crossed over to the enemy's side, and now we are fighting not only the GOP, but their ally, the DemocRATs. There no longer is such a thing as a two-party system - it is a political illusion. As things stand now, you support either, you support both.
Sorry that's too complicated for you to understand.
I agree completely. The 2014 GOP primaries start... RIGHT NOW!
He had a good point but I don't see a DEM-RINO 'Uniparty' as the answer.
Unlike so many here...
It's not as though those are the only choices.
Do you think Adams was speaking in support of some sort of of "DEM-RINO Uniparty"?
I think everyone is aiming at the wrong targets.
Politics are and have been rife with corruption and abuse of power throughout recorded history. "Power corrupts".
We can argue, complain and scheme to replace a few politicians here and there, but the problem basically boils down to having a representative government.
Conservatives have lost the battle for the culture.
We can argue about the fairness of the battle or debate if the "fat lady" is still making noise, but the political nightmare that exists today is the result of the socialists destruction of the American culture.
The most basic conservative ideals are now "radical right wing" and that claim goes unchallenged time after time.
Nothing is going to change by replacing a few politicians here and there. We need to wage war on the puppet-masters and use their Alinsky tactics against them. Isolate, ridicule and expose.
We were strictly warned, by the way...
"And of fatal tendency...to put, in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; - often a small but artful and enterprising minority...They are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for the themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion...
But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism...Disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an Individual...(who) turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty...The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism..."
— George Washington, Farewell Address
the GOP rulers will most likely next try to "purify" their party by taking control of their own primaries. changing the rules and selecting their candidates in secret to shut out conservatives further. at that point conservatives had better be ready to put forth their own candidates from the outside.
first steps: register independent, other, decline to state, etc. and then concentrate at the local and state level on non-partisan offices (sheriff, etc.) just as if you were already a member of the conservative party.
and don't worry. i'm told by the pundits that the GOP spends their time and money courting "independents" anyway.
Shush...don't you know? You MUST stay on the GOPe plantation, work within to restore it to its former glory and majesty. Why, anything else is just a vote for O/Dems </s>
Unfortunately, a great many, even hear, don't see the writing on the wall. The GOP is dead, run by the same who would vocal platitudes to the Dem, reach across the aisle time and time again with nothing in return and then every 2 years, slap you across the face and stick their hand out for more $$$.
Mistakes were made in both recent cycles, and Akin's decision to remain in the race was one of the most stupid and selfish political acts I've seen in a lifetime.
That said, we had very good conservative Senate candidates who lost in absolutely winnable races in ND, Ohio, Montana, Virginia. The point is: conservatives did not deliver. All of these candidates ran under Romney, he was not a drag on their races.
Bottom line: we are not a center-right country anymore. We are a center-left country, whether we like it or not.
Conservatives need only 15 to 40 (depending on one's preferences) more members in the House to take it over using the GOP caucus.
(Hence this RINO desperation that POLITICO is spinning)
No other option is so appealing.
Third-party conservatives are fine too. If we can't run one, run the other. Heck, in moderate/conservative districts run them against Dems and RINOs both.
Please think local, your state and your precinct that is how we remake the party and piss off everybody, the D's, the R's, and the press!
We have some awesome candidates after trying this for only 4 years. Lee in Utah, Rubio, Jordan, Cruz, Rand Paul there are many more and perhaps none of them would be in the Senate and congress if it wasn't for conservative's fighting hard, IN THE PRIMARYS, for every one of them.
Well said! Take over the party at the local level, then work your way up to the state party. It happened so fast in Georgia three years ago that the GOPe never saw it coming. We outnumber them, but we've got to organize - and be willing to follow through and show up. And then keep showing up!
The GOPe is declaring war on Tea Party conservatives because it fears us, and wants to purge us from the GOP. Let's go after them!
GOP Senate Target Number One: Saxby Chambliss
GOP House Target Number One: Phil Gingrey
Our party supports candidates based solely on principle, not party labels.
Madison predicted the DEM-RINO Party during the Convention:
"An increase in the population will of necessity increase the proportion of those who will labor under all the hardships of life and secretly sigh for a more equitable distribution of its blessings. These may in time outnumber those who are placed above the feelings of indigence. According to the equal laws of suffrage, the power will slide into the hands of the former. No agrarian attempts have yet been made in this country, but symptoms of a levelling spirit, as we have understood have sufficiently appeared, in a certain quarter, to give notice of the future danger."
"Equitable" should be in quotes to best represent his meaning_ ie 'equitable' in the selfish view of the indigent.
Predicting and supporting are two entirely different things.
The political system envisioned and supported by Washington and Adams was not a party system. Not at all.
It was one of individual self-government, REPRESENTATION, and constant regard for principle, the good of the nation as a whole, and the securing of the Blessings to posterity.
All of which we can easily restore if we simply have the understanding and the commitment to do so.
Yeah, I like your comment.
Our opponent is cowering clutching at anything for help and everyone here is saying to run away.
I don't get it.
I am encouraged by this article that we can beat them in the primaries and take over the Party in the House.
It's never too soon to start at it, and at taking over local GOP organizations.
I don't see where I, or Madison, give you the impression that we support 'levelling' or a Party based on it!
Democracy is a dangerously weak leash on the mob. It's the best flawed man can do sometimes though.
I'm scratching my head as to why, since the article says:
the Washington team is gearing up a new effort to protect incumbents and limit the ability of Republican voters to successfully challenge establishment candidates.
-- James Madison"Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
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Two members of a gang jailed for their roles in stealing £53 million in Britain's biggest cash heist failed in bids to overturn their convictions today.
Judges at the Court of Appeal dismissed applications by Lea Rusha, now 37, and Jetmir Bucpapa, now 28, who were convicted at the Old Bailey in January 2008.
The pair, both jailed for a minimum of 15 years by the trial judge, watched today's proceedings in London via video link from prison.
Their applications for permission to appeal against conviction were rejected by Lord Justice Moses, sitting with two other judges, who said "the offence for which they were convicted was notorious".
When the pair and others were sentenced by Mr Justice Penry-Davey he said they had taken part in "organised banditry" during the early morning raid at the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2006.
They kidnapped depot manager Colin Dixon, his wife Lynn and their young child and used them to gain entry to the building.
On the night of the hold-up, heavily-armed robbers trussed up 14 terrified employees with cable ties and threatened to kill them if they disobeyed orders.
Rusha, a kick boxer and former roofer, of Lambersart Close, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, was given an indeterminate sentence for public protection and told he would serve at least 15 years.
Unemployed Albanian Bucpapa, of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge, was given the same sentence.
After throwing out the conviction challenges, the judges dismissed an appeal against sentence by Rusha.
They allowed a challenge by Bucpapa "in part" by quashing the indeterminate sentence for public protection, replacing it with a determinate sentence of 30 years' imprisonment.
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Mmm, gumballs...
This image was taken with a traditional camera and lens, but could just as easily
been taken with a pinhole camera, in which the lens is replaced with a small hole. Pinhole
cameras have a couple of advantages over lenses - they have infinite depth of field,
and they don't suffer from chromatic aberration, which can be cured in a refractive
system only by using a multiple element lens. Because they don't rely on refraction,
pinhole cameras can be used to form images from X-ray and other high energy sources,
which are normally difficult or impossible to focus.
The biggest problem with pinholes is that they are... pinholes. They let very little
light through to the film or other detector. This problem can be overcome to some degree
by making the hole larger, which unfortunately leads to a decrease in resolution. The
smallest feature which can be resolved by a pinhole is approximately the same size as the
pinhole itself. The larger the hole, the more blurred the image becomes.
Using multiple, small pinholes might seem to offer a way around this problem, but this
gives rise to a confusing montage of overlapping images. Nonetheless, if the pattern of
holes is carefully chosen, it is possible to reconstruct the original image with a
resolution equal to that of a single hole.
This pattern is a Modified Uniformly Redundant Array, or MURA. A MURA pattern can be
used as the aperture of a pinhole camera, and consists of nearly 50% open space. In
the case shown, the MURA is 211 elements on a side, which gives it a light gathering
power ~22,000 times that of a single pinhole. A MURA is constructed on a square lattice
whose side length p is prime; each element of the MURA, A
i,j, where i and j run from 0 to p - 1, is:
There's hope, however...
This decoding pattern is based on the MURA above. Its elements, Gi,j, are
constructed from the MURA's elements Ai,j and are equal to:
It is not clear whether such a camera would exhibit the infinite depth of field
associated with single pinholes. Light reflecting from different points of an object
close to the aperture would enter the mask at different angles, which would seem to
necessitate a more complex decoding procedure. Still, we can speculate that the
resulting pattern would carry enough information to reconstruct the depth information
from the scene. This is an interesting problem which needs further exploration.
This page is based largely on the article New Family of Binary Arrays for
Coded Aperture Imaging by Stephen R. Gottesman and E. E. Fenimore, from
Applied Optics Vol. 28, No. 20, 15 October 1989. An excellent web site
on the topic can be found at
Coded Aperture
Imaging in High-Energy Astronomy, which also has an extensive bibliography.
For those interested in generating their own matrices, the results given by the above
algorithms for a 5 x 5 MURA and its decoding array are:
where Cq = +1 if q is a quadratic residue modulo p, and -1 otherwise. C
q is also known as the Jacobi symbol. If x2 mod p = q mod p, q is said
to be a quadratic residue of p. The resulting array of 1's and 0's can be cyclically
shifted to bring the upper left corner to the center of the array, resulting in the
pattern shown, where white corresponds to 1 and black corresponds to 0.
In any case, if we use this MURA as the aperture of our camera, the original gumball
scene produces an image which most would not consider to be a great improvement over
that produced by a single pinhole. The multiple overlapping images generate what could
graciously be called a huge mess.
Each 0 in the MURA is replaced by a -1 in this pattern, with the exception of the
upper left element, which is always 1. Again, the resulting pattern has been cyclically
shifted to bring the upper left corner into the center, which shows the symmetry of
the array.
If we now perform the correlation of the smeared image above with the decoding pattern,
we can reconstruct the original scene with a resolution equal to the smallest element
of the MURA, with a tremendous gain in light gathering power.
A couple of interesting points remain. First, actually building a pinhole camera using
this technique is not straightforward. Because a tremendous amount of light comes
through the aperture, exposure times become much shorter than with a single pinhole.
The resulting image must then be digitized and fed to a computer for post processing;
alignment of the image becomes a problem. Still, it might be worth making a
transparency of the aperture shown above, and projecting its image through a tube
onto a translucent screen, where it could be photographed directly. The ultimate
camera would let the pattern from the aperture fall onto a CCD, which would digitize
the image directly and pass it along to a microprocessor for the requisite mathematical
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The images presented here were constructed by convolving the original image with matrix representations of the apertures in Mathematica. The original color image was split into red, green and blue channels within Photoshop, and these monochrome images were saved in raw format. After processing, the resulting data files were read back into Photoshop and recombined into a color image. Mathematica performs Fast Fourier Transforms to aid in the convolution and correlation operations, and also has a function which returns the Jacobi symbol.
Building a real coded aperture camera is difficult. We have cheerfully assumed here that the detected scene ends abruptly at precisely the limit of the aperture's field of view. In real life, sources outside the field of view cause partial views of the aperture to fall on the detector or film, which adds noise and spurious images to the reconstructed product. Also, misalignment of the aperture and detector elements will cause further difficulties. Nevertheless, several such cameras have been built and used for X-ray and Gamma-ray observations aboard balloons and satellites.


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Ain't Nothin Changed - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
[Chorus - Krayzie]
Ain't nothin' changed, everyday
Ain't nothin' changed [x3]
It's an everyday thang when you hear the bucks bang
Mo Thugs is all you claim
stay thug up in this game and remain the same
So follow me, now see (now see)
off to the double-glock and hear pistols poppin'
buckin' them bodies with shots, and a come up,
Everybody get up, get down [x4]
Everybody get up and like my f_cked-up gang without the grip
Gotta have another bill, y'all Dog, I need all my change
Soon as creep up, I'm pullin' my people up outta the bullsh_t
That's why we choose this thugsta music
You just move it dont abuse it
Bone so lovely
Gotta get, gotta get, get money (mo' money)
Thuggin' forever we keepin' it real,
I'm ready to show when they let n_ggas roll with Mo Thug hit the sh_t
then we roll with murder we told ya
Rollin', blowin' indo, we go
n_ggas doubted we are trues, yeah
Ready to bust on anything
Shoot 'em up, shoot 'em up
Nobody move, nobody get hurt
Killa, Me killa, killa... (Break it down) [x15]
I'm wonderin really how many more n_ggas
I'll see in a coffin before its my time
I'm the kind right here to take losses, not a dime
Everyday it's the same, and I gotta mine to the grind
My mental be stressed on my pistol my only untensil for cheddar
It's on the level war
Whatever my mind is my church and my kids or my pleasure
Would ya like to come parlay with Lay all through my hood?
Sit back, everything gon' be all good
N_ggas ridin' real, knock on wood, goin' against the grain
It's all the same, It's all the same
Smokin' on a lot more weed than before
no pain, no gain
You straight up hangin', and that's shame
How long we'll reign
Bang, bang, gotta get down for my thang,
ain't nothin' to do to get outta this game (outta this game)
Run, we came with consistency
instantly and guard them greens of the earth
We're resistance, baby
baby, tell me what doyou wanna do?
Tell me, what do you wanna do? You can ride and smoke with me
or I can ride and smoke with you
It's all cool, It's all cool, It's all cool
Act a fool, Act a fool, It's all cool, It's all cool
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you know so, hit it, me stumble (...?...) and even scuffle
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hear my nationwide "f_ck you, f_ck you"
I got people that you trust,
who needs some greens, and really don't love you
Never familiar, send 'em all in the city out to (?)
an everyday thang and I bang your brains, n_gga
Ain't nothin' changed everyday
Ain't nothin' changed [x4]
It's an everyday thang, it's an everyday thang,
it's an everyday thang, thang.
It's an everyday thang, it's an everday thang,
it's an everyday buck, buck, buck, bang.
Calm me down. It ain't gon' change. We won't change
Bone thugs-n-harmony, we keeps it realer
Tell me, can you feel us feel us, feel us?
Tell me can you feel us, feel us, feel us, killas?
Even though we still roll the Clair, playa haters better beware,
'cause we got mines, we got nines, we got sh_t to blow you all the time
Anytime you got yours, you got yours, I got mine, I got mine
F_ck with mine, f_ck with mine.
East 99 is the street, keep it on the low when they creep,
or Bone got heat, Bone got heat,
hurt them who tried to hurt me. B-O-N-E, 'cause I'm rollin with ya,
'cause I'm rollin' with ya, 'cause I'm rollin' with ya.
It's an everyday, it's an everyday,
it's an everyday thang, bang
It's an everyday, it's an everyday,
it's an everyday buck, buck, buck, bang
Ain't nothin' changed everyday
Ain't nothin' changed [x8]


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The statistic gets trotted out at just about every urbanism conference: for the first time in history, the majority of the world's people live in cities. By 2050, 70 percent of the population will live in urban areas. Those numbers have been repeated so often they've become cliché, a lazy way of saying that "cities" are "important."
But those statistics mask a deeper and more complicated reality, which is this: the distinction between urban and rural, between cities and suburbs and countryside, is disappearing as populations boom and traditional societal structures dissolve. The borders between different ways of living are blurring. And that means "urbanization" represents something different from what it has in the past.
A provocative essay published the other day on Future Capetown, written by Beloved Chiweshe, flips the urbanization meme on its head. Chiweshe, the former secretary general of the Zimbabwe National Students Union, talks about what he calls "the ruralization of urban areas." And he specifically points out the hardship that this "ruralization" causes for women.
What Chiweshe is talking about are the conditions encountered by many people who live, not in the orderly cities of the developed world, but in the places where much of that often-cited population boom is taking place – the informal settlements of Africa, Asia, and South America. In Zimbabwe, Chiweshe sees the problems and limitations of rural life migrating to the rapidly spreading urbanized regions where people are moving for economic opportunity.
Those problems, Chiweshe writes, take a disproportionate toll on women. Chief among the burdens that women shoulder on the outskirts of Harare, for instance, are the constant search for clean water, reliable electricity, and fuel:
There are very few things as nauseating as the sight of a group of women in the suburbs of Harare delicately balancing all sorts of containers on their heads in the early hours of the morning in search for water, the leafier suburbs included.
Even more disturbing is when you come across a group of women scavenging for firewood from peri-urban areas and what are supposed to be green space and recreational parks in the suburbs. What is clear is that there is a convergence between urban and rural life. The convergence is not bad, it's normal, what is worrying is that instead of rural life being urbanised the opposite is true.
Traditional gender roles have made the trip from the country to the city as well. Chiweshe writes that women and girls in these "ruralized" urban areas do a disproportionate amount of the work that results from not having access to adequate infrastructure.
And the threat of sexual violence is ever-present as these women move about the streets and alleys of the world's cities. Often, writes Chiweshe, men socialize over beer and football while the women labor:
One of the days I offered a lift to a girl who was in search of water in Budiriro, she told me she could not go home without water no matter what. It was already getting dark. She had just returned from school. She was staying with her step mother who was at home and her dad who she said came back late from the beer hall because he hated it when there was no electricity at home. It got me thinking.
You make the life of a young girl very difficult if you ask her to find water or firewood at all costs. In fact you make girls and women more vulnerable to abuse when you put them in such conditions. What are the expectations of men with regards to the socio-economic challenges that are posed by the ruralisation of urban areas?
The issues raised by Chiweshe are just as relevant in other rapidly urbanizing parts of the world, such as India, where the task of fetching water also routinely exposes girls and women to the threat of sexual violence.
Chiweshe proposes that men take more responsibility for the daily survival tasks that have migrated along with population to the world's booming cities. That's an enormous cultural shift, but he writes that it will be necessary. "I call upon the men out there who still believe the ruralisation of urban areas can be solved by women only to think twice," writes Chiweshe. "No, it requires a collective effort."


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A dispute over sourcing regulations is clouding plans by Sweden's IKEA to open 25 of its trademark blue-and-yellow stores in India as it seeks new markets for its flat-pack furnishings.
IKEA last month asked India for permission to launch retail operations in India, promising to invest US$1.9 billion over the coming years — part of a broader push into emerging markets including China and Russia.
IKEA's request gave a vital boost to the Indian government, which hailed it as a sign that global investor confidence "is still intact" despite a sharply slowing economy, a slew of corruption scandals and suffocating red tape.
However, now New Delhi's insistence that the world's biggest furniture retailer source 30 percent of its supplies from small Indian manufacturers has become a sticking point.
India defines "small business" as any firm whose plant investment does not exceed US$1 million. IKEA says small firms would fast outgrow the cap after they started supplying the Swedish giant and become much bigger players.
"Small industries need to be allowed to grow and develop," IKEA spokeswoman Josefin Thorell said in an e-mail late last week, adding it was important that the definition of small industry provide "flexibility." IKEA says suppliers should continue to qualify as small businesses even after they exceed the investment ceiling. It has also asked that its compliance with the sourcing target be calculated over a 10-year span rather than one year, saying it would be "impossible for the IKEA Group to meet this requirement from day one."
Indian media at the weekend reported government divisions over IKEA's bid for relaxation of the sourcing rules that critics say discourage overseas investment.
The sourcing stipulation is part of efforts by the center-left government to defuse populist opposition to the entry of big foreign retailers in a country where small mom-and-pop stores dominate as well as to boost local industry.
India's Business Standard newspaper said the government body responsible for industrial development had agreed to tweak the rules to suit IKEA.
However, the Times of India said the small business ministry opposed any dilution of the regulations on grounds it would hurt small enterprises.
Given IKEA's high-profile and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement on Friday that he wants to make the country a "more business-friendly place," most analysts believe a compromise will be found.
IKEA, which in 2009 scrapped plans to enter the market due to regulatory concerns, says it has a "long-term vision" for India.
"Keeping in mind IKEA's stature, I'm sure the government will work out something," said Saloni Nangia, president of retail consultancy Technopak.
"Meeting the 30 percent sourcing target will take time — IKEA just wants some latitude," she added.
Privately held IKEA says it is "eager" to open stores in the country of 1.2 billion people, but has set no target date.
It made its investment announcement after India allowed foreign retailers selling one brand to own 100 percent of their Indian businesses, instead of 51 percent, as part of moves to liberalize the sector.
IKEA sees huge potential in India's burgeoning middle class whose "wallet is still thin," but who want "inexpensive but nice home furnishings," IKEA chief executive Mikael Ohlsson said on a scouting mission to India two years ago.


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