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If you have been paying attention, you know from our spy shots of the 2010 Cadillac SRX earlier this week that the production crossover is not dramatically different from the Cadillac Provoq hydrogen fuell cell concept the automaker first displayed at the 2008 Detroit auto show. Sure, the 2010 SRX sports a different wheel design, real door handles, and restyled side mirrors and rear fascia, but otherwise the details are fairly close.Like the 2010 CTS Sport Wagon, the SRX will be shown at Pebble Beach this weekend. The SRX does not have the slick chrome bars on its roof like the CTS Sport Wagon, but we are guessing the chrome bars on the SRX are easier to use. Like the concept, the SRX has side vents above which a character line sweeps through the front and rear doors.As we have said before, the latest SRX will probably not have a V-8 option thanks to the switch to a transverse layout. Powertrain options will likely stick to the 3.6L V-6 making around 263 hp as a base engine with a direct-injection 3.6L V-6 putting out at least 300 hp as the upgrade, with both mated to a six-speed automatic.Cadillac's crossover -- set to debut worldwide mid-2009 -- competes in an increasingly crowded price range for SUVs and crossovers. Does the 2010 SRX's styling set it off to a good start? Stay tuned for more on the Caddy sport wagon and SRX direct from Pebble Beach after its official unveiling.http://wot.motortrend.com/6285381/auto-news/2010-cadillac-srx-crossover-official-photos-released/index.html
Looks great!! Way better than the X3, RX, ML, MDX, and FX35.
Looks pretty good in my opinion. I'm starting to like that already-famous Caddy look.Ferrar1.
That looks great! Buutt, I like the old SRX better.
N4S:That looks great! Buutt, I like the old SRX better.It is more dramatic than the last one to say the least, but it looks fantastic.
I like it much more than the current SRX, but I have to ask, why do automakers insist on putting tiny windows on the hatch? The rear visibility has to be horrible.
It's much better than these. vs
I like the low, wide look of this...
the design was nicely executed..i don't find it offensive, i find it "grand". NICE MOVE, GM! of the competitors with photos, i kinda warmed-up with the buttoned-down look of the MB. as for the others, well, if they could only fit in my trash bin. the 3.6 direct injected engine with the 6-speed will definitely be class-leading in mpg, unless Acura has plans of dropping their bigger diesels from overseas to its hood. aaaargh! decisions, decisions....should i buy the bluetec MB or wait for the figures and price of the caddy? i am kinda afraid that the competition will improve way fast by mid-2009
I like it, it's nice looking. But I actually wish the Cadillac grill was even bigger. Fill up that space up front, make it brash and unforgiving. Stretch it headlight to headlight and down another inch or two. I think it'd have some real snarl to it then.I noticed leftlanenews thinks it'll "likely have standard rear wheel drive". Odd, since this has a transverse engine. Oops?RWD.. really?
___________________________Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you.
Hmmm, when did the Theta platform become RWD?
My only concern with this SRX is that it will be just another Theta, whereas the original was an award winner.
As much as I like Caddy's design direction, I think I'm going to have to see this one in person first. Something about the front view just looks a little off. Could just be the camera angle though.
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N4S:My only concern with this SRX is that it will be just another Theta, whereas the original was an award winner.Speaking of that, what's the wheelbase expected to be? Long theta or short theta? It looks short theta like the Vue.
___________________________Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you.
It isn't a groundbreaking design; very much expected, but I love it. This is one car I wouldn't mind dethroning the RX350 as "luxury crossover king", but as some else said, it better not be just a re-badged Equinox with a caddy interior. When the SRX drops, it will be facing stiff competition and the new RX will be out at the same time( or who knows when, since Lexus is good at vaporware ).


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The Hogwarts Gatehouse is located in a short distance from the Boathouse. During the Battle of Hogwarts, the gatehouse was guarded by a giant, one of the Death Eater allies. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger passed through the gatehouse on their way to find and kill Nagini, which at the time was with Lord Voldemort and Severus Snape in the Shrieking Shack.
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- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (and also in the EA and LEGO video games), a little house is seen near the Entrance Gates. This can be representing the gatehouse.
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"The notion of a collective death or rapture can be very attractive to those who live a very solitary life. The protagonist of my film lives by herself, she has alienated her family, and she keeps her neighbors out by triple bolting her door. She is able to find solace through her church where her Pastor preaches that those who love God will be raptured collectively. The predicted day is December 12th, 2012 at noon (220.127.116.11). The protagonist has a dream the day of the expected apocalypse and is certain the Pastor's prediction is correct. However, when she calls the Pastor in preparation to come to the church, he unexpectedly insists on the solitude of the rapture for unexplained reasons. This film shows the behavior of the protagonist in her inner fight between certainty and doubt."
The above quotation is by student Colby Minifie, introducing her creative film project, "A Solitary Apocalypse," for the cross-campus seminar Apocalypse: Before and After, taught by Professor Lee Quinby with me as the instructional technology fellow. The course follows a similar format to other courses that Dr. Quinby has taught, relying heavily on weekly blog posts by students to reflect the readings that address Apocalyptic narratives from a critical and creative standpoint. The sophistication of students' written analyses and the level of their discussions in class rivals any graduate course. Although I'm not normally inclined to highlight one particular student's project, I was astounded by the work that she did on this film. Although it was shot on a high-quality camera, the movie itself was edited in iMovie. I believe this is one of the best examples of what students are able to accomplish when given support by the university in the form of instructional technologists (whose job it is to conceive of projects that support faculty learning goals and help students as they execute them) and the equipment (video cameras, computers to accomplish these projects). Macaulay's unique approach to instructional tech increases the digital literacies of its students at the same time excellent professors increase traditional literacies of reading and writing.
I do urge you to take a look at Colby's film, as well as peruse the other projects and blog posts that were created by this exceptional group of students.
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Anyone catch the Heat v. Lakers game yesterday?
Hard to believe that Kobe and the Lakers aren't winning more with Antwan Jamison.
Anyone catch the Heat v. Lakers game yesterday?
Hard to believe that Kobe and the Lakers aren't winning more with Antwan Jamison.
Yes it's Antawn's fault that late in his career as a bench player the lakers aren't winning.
I can't wait until Lebron goes back to Cle after next year
You better hope he stops having Career best number while playing with Wade and Bosh to make him go back to cleveland lol
I am not anti Lebron so him playign great doesn't bother me at all, I have an appreciation for great players in all sports even if I don't root for them. My problem w/ lebron was always about taking the easy way out to a championship but that is in the best, I am enjoying watching an all time great play in his prime.
I just dont get how putting yourself in the best position for success is a bad quality. By this logic, Lebron shouldnt work for better shots either. He should settle for difficult ones to prove how great he is.
You just don't get it.
If you're stuck in a lousy work environment you're just supposed to suck it up and stick with it. Even if you're offered a job with a better boss, nicer location, and more competent coworkers you've got to turn it down because in life what truly matters is loyalty to the first guy you were forced to work for because he lucked out and picked the right bouncing ball. Gotta love the logic of fans.
Lebron took the easy, cowardly, non-competitive way out. Still an all time great but a disappointment from a fan of the games perspective. I hate seeing truly great players take the easy way out. The greats shouldn't follow others, others should follow them.


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He was in my bar last week!!! Well actually some random black guy had two college girls convinced he was Eddie Lacy. In their defense he was black, did have dreads, he was wearing a Packers shirt, the bar is located close to St Norbert's College where the players reside during camp, and I'm sure they had a few drinks in them. You'd think they would have figured out that he wouldn't be in the bar at 2am drinking and smoking all night!!
We have had our share of Packers second stringers in the bar though. Kuhn used to come in all the time, before he was Kuuuuuuhhhhhnnnnnnnn! Sitton, Barnett, Brohm, Kampinos, Sherrod ALL the time before his injury.


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Ryan, I sent you a few PM's
As far as where to buy, my best suggestion is to look at the Fly Shops in Calgary, assuming that you are close to town? I would stay away from the "Sporting goods stores" just because you are more likely to get the best advice from a dedicated fly fishing shop and the best follow up service if ever that is needed. Shop around and listen to their advice as well as their pricing. The other piece of advice i would offer, since you say that you are new to FFishing, is to choose a rod with a softer (AKA slower) rod Vs. a stiffer (AKA faster) rod. This will greatly help in your learning curve since the softer are more forgiving of small mistakes we make when we start casting flies. They are not necessarily less expensive or cheaper rods, just a different in design and construction.
Thanks juro. I had that picture framed here at home.
French Creek we have had a great season here too. It did my GSP a ton of good and is ready for the FD test scince he was 10 months.
PM sent.
Where is the best place to buy Fly rods? I have looked at a few stores a year or 2 back but only came home with some flys got some smoking deals on.
Hi Ryan,
I'm also in Alberta, Calgary to be exact. Had a great upland season with some Brittany's after a great season on the Bow. Now it's flytying time until the next chinook comes in. Send me a PM and we can exchange contact info.
That's a stoic pose.
We hear of the incredible trout fishing from member Frenchcreek who also hails from Alberta. If you get a chance to fish with him he's quite the accomplished angler.
Alberta Newb
Hi everyone,
Ryan from Alberta here. I am new to the Fly-fishing world only having done it 2 or 3 times over the past 2 years. I have caught a 15" Rainbow out of the Castle River on my Fly Rod. It is not a top of the line rod it is a hand me down from a cousin who bought it and never used it.
I am big into Upland and Waterfolw hunting. I hunt over a 1 year old German Shorthaired Pointer and a 6 year old Irish Setter. My true passion lies in hunting but I always got bored in the off season. Fishing for pike is fun but I really wanted somthing more challenging. Fly-Fishing n creeks and rivers for Trout was it.
I am looking at buying a Sage VT2 5wt 9 foot 4 piece with a Lamson Velocity Open Frame Fly Reel
Looking forward to getting back into the stream chasing trout come spring.
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Pingo is now in production
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 29, 2009
The newest supercomputer at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, a Cray XT5 named Pingo , went into production on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Pingo arrived at ARSC last fall. Since then, high performance computing (HPC) specialists at ARSC and a select group of ARSC's HPC users have conducted extensive capability tests, application system testing and benchmarking as part of the complicated installation process required to bring a new supercomputer online.
Pingo provides approximately 31.8 theoretical peak teraflops of computing power and has 3,456 processor cores on 432 nodes. It has 13.5 terabytes of memory and 150 terabytes of shared high-speed storage. ARSC is the sole provider of open research computing capabilities for the Defense Department's High Performance Computing Modernization Program. HPCMP has six DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers throughout the country: two in Mississippi and one each in Maryland, Ohio, Alaska and Hawaii.
Supercomputing resources at ARSC are used by a global community of researchers, within the U.S. Defense Department, the University of Alaska and other locations to advance scientific discovery for national competitiveness, global security and economic success. Projects include study of the world's oceans, which include creating models that predict the force and direction of tsunami waves, the impact of changes to the marine ecosystem on the Alaska fishing industry or the potential for ice-free summers in the Arctic.
Pingo will also allow ARSC to expand studies of atmospheric phenomena to include modeling the influence of weather on volcanic ash transport, which has an immediate impact on aircraft flying northern polar routes and the health and safety of those on the ground. ARSC is also developing tools for Arctic-specific, high-resolution weather forecasting to include smoke dispersion from wild land fires, as well as the impact of wildfires on the global climate.
ARSC has a history of naming supercomputing systems with Arctic themes. A pingo is an earth-covered ice hill formed by the upward expansion of underground ice. Pingos tend to form in permafrost environments and can reach a height of up to 230 feet.
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Body found in ditch near Medical Lake
WEST SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. - A mystery is unfolding in the far west area of Spokane County near Medical Lake.
Sheriff's deputies say on Sunday at 11:44 a.m. a passing driver found a body in a ditch near West Hallett Road and South Stangland.
It's a road traveled by few, and gives access to even fewer homes. From the scene of the crime only two houses are visible on the horizon, and one nearby.
That's why deputies say the man's death is suspicious. They are not calling it a homicide investigation, only a death investigation.
The man has not been identified. The medical examiner will release his name and age once an autopsy is completed this week.


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Mom's old-fashioned tuna casserole gets a redo. Make it for dinner tonight!
If you don't have sliced bacon on hand but you do have real bacon bits, you can sauté the onion and thyme in 1 tablespoon olive oil, then just sprinkle the pot pie with about 1/4 cup bacon bits before you add the bread crumbs.
This recipe turns a few pantry items into a delicious, one-dish meal.
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Interview: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong on '¡Uno!,' '¡Dos!' and '¡Tre!'
If there's any overriding theme for ¡Uno! ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! — Green Day's monumental forthcoming trio of albums—that's it: the weird phantom zone between having a grownup's responsibilities and wanting to spend your whole life getting your teenage rocks off. The 36-song set is heavily loaded with some of the most adolescent, loud, fast and obscene pop-punk that Green Day have churned out since their 1994 breakthrough album, Dookie, or even their earlier indie-punk releases, like 39/Smooth and Kerplunk.
But nestled among the tracks are some of Billie Joe Armstrong's most mature songs to date, the reflections of a 40-year-old man who ignited the mid-Nineties pop-punk revolution, forged the sacrificial bridge between punk and the classic rock opera in 2004, penned some definitive anthems of the American Apocalypse, acted in a hit Broadway show and sold millions of records. Now, as then, he continues to record and perform with his two best pals from his teenage years, and remains married to the girl he fell in love with when he was 19.
"I just think, Holy shit, I've been documenting my feelings in songs since I was 16 years old," he says. "And I've gone through 20-something years just documenting how some of those feelings have changed and how you evolve from a kid to an ex-kid, to a man-child, or whatever you want to call it. You realize how juvenile, maybe, some of your feelings still are. And sometimes you see how you evolved as an individual."
But fear not! This is still very much the same guy who named his band's major-label debut album after excrement. And he says Green Day had a blast all the way through the making of ¡Uno! ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!. "It was a good feeling the whole time," Armstrong says. "There was never any feeling of pressure. No bad feelings. There was no struggle to make it."
Armstrong is kicking back in a lounge at a massive rehearsal studio outside L.A. He's dressed in standard-issue street-punk gear: red Converse, black jeans and a T-shirt. His hair is messy, Beatles-esque and, following another one of his weird blond periods, once again jet black. Out in the hallway, bassist Mike Dirnt is trying on a succession of slim-cut, boldly striped trousers for a photo shoot to promote the new discs, pulling the garments from gigantic wardrobe cases that clutter the corridor. He's still in his own blond hair phase. When I commend him and the band on coughing up 36 killer tracks, with nary a stinker or dog in the bunch, he shrugs and says, "Well, it wasn't that hard. We wrote over 80 tunes for this thing!"
¡Uno! ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! were the result of a tremendous burst of creativity on Green Day's part. It was fueled by several things. For one, they made a firm decision to abandon the narrative, rock opera format of their two previous studio releases, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. Armstrong found it liberating not to have to write songs to fit a plot or conceptual brief. "We definitely wanted to get away from that," he says. "Closing the chapter on 21st Century Breakdown and that era gave me the freedom as a songwriter just to start getting into the fun of playing music again and changing things up. If anything, there was a conscious effort to get back to basics and just treat each song individually."
Armstrong also had plenty of time and inspiration to write new songs while he was appearing in the Broadway production of American Idiot in 2010 and 2011. "Being in New York for that long a period of time," he says, "I fell into this routine where I would get up in the morning, have my coffee, go for a walk, come back to my apartment, write a song and then do the show at night. I set up a small studio in my apartment where I could get my ideas down. Then I'd shoot over to the theater and act like a madman onstage. And being around all the actors, surrounded by all that constant creativity, I just couldn't help it; I started writing songs."
Back at their headquarters in Oakland, California, Green Day started arranging and structuring the new material. "Next thing we knew, we ended up with something like 30 songs. So it was like, 'What do we do with this? Is this a double album? Are we doing Sandinista! here?'" Armstrong says, referring to the Clash's 1980 triple-album. "So we said, 'Let's do three discs and release one record at a time, and wouldn't it be funny if we called it ¡Uno! ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!? It's almost like Volume One, Volume Two…in the way of Van Halen I and II or Led Zeppelin I and II. Only we have three of them, and we put one of our faces on each album's cover."
The joke gets an extra lift from the fact that Green Day drummer Tré Cool adorns the cover of ¡Tré!. Billie is Uno, as befits Green Day's main songwriter, lead singer and guitarist. But one isn't sure how Dirnt feels about being stuck with Numero Dos. "At first it started out as a joke," says Armstrong, who admits to being the one who came up with the names and the whole idea in the first place. "But the more we talked about it, the more we said, 'You know, it's pretty catchy.'"
The band, its label and its management also came up with the idea to release the three discs in succession rather than put them out all at once or as a set. ¡Uno! comes out September 25, ¡Dos! hits on November 13, and ¡Tré! will be released on January 15, 2013.
It's an unconventional move, but one that's perhaps more attuned to the short-attention-span digital era. Even at the height of the record biz, double and triple albums were a tough sell. And with so much attention on single song downloads these days, even a single-album release is risky business. But then again, the idea of a punk band doing a rock opera seemed pretty crazy back in 2004.
Each of the new discs has its own stylistic character, more or less. Classic Green Day predominates on ¡Uno! whereas ¡Dos! is more in the raunchy garage-rock mode of Green Day's 2008 side project, the Foxboro Hot Tubs. "It's a real Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas kind of death-trip vibe," Armstrong says, "like a party out of control." ¡Tré! is more of a mixed bag. It contains some of the set's more reflective songs and some of the most epic arrangements, complete with string and brass orchestrations.
Armstrong says that the pop-punk material is what came pouring out of him first. "Just because I've been doing it for so long and I love that kind of music," he says. "It's just in my DNA at this point. On the last record I veered away from it so much, to the point where I sort of drove myself crazy. But the last record did have a song called 'Murder City,' which is a straight-up Green Day punk-rock song, and it ended up becoming my favorite song on that album.
"So with the new stuff, that kind of thing just came naturally. I think that the first songs that were written were 'Stay the Night,' 'Nuclear Family' and 'Carpe Diem.' So there was this power-pop thing happening. Then it became, like, 'Guys, no ballads. Let's just write rock and roll!' But all of a sudden 'Oh Love' came out. It's not really a ballad, but it's not a power-pop song either. It's powerful, but it's slower and it's got a groove to it. It's kind of something we haven't really done before, and at the same time it's pretty epic."


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Four Hope College soccer players have received all-region recognition from the National Soccer Coaches Association.
Named to the men's second all-region team is junior goalkeeper Darren Toohey of Canberra, Australia (Mason, Mich. HS) while receiving third team honors is junior back Andrew Dressler of Portage (Portage Northern HS).
Receiving second all-region team recognition in women's soccer is junior Tina Gill of Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo Central HS) while a third team honoree is junior Gretchen Schoon of Holland (West Ottawa HS).
The all-region teams are sponsored by UMBRO. The men's Great Lakes region consists of NCAA Division III teams in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio while the women's team consists of players from Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
Dressler and Schoon achieved All-MIAA first team status this fall while Toohey and Gill were second team honorees.
The Flying Dutchmen finished second in the men's MIAA standings, posted an overall 15-5-1 record and qualified for the NCAA Division III tournament. The Flying Dutch were third in the women's MIAA standings and had a 13-6-0 overall mark.


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Anyone Know anything from the Open?
Anyone Know anything from the Open?
Qualifier was won today by Coastlines High Tide Reef***, "Reef" Owner is Stanley Hurd from Richmond Hill, Georgia and was Handled by Jason Baker of Sandhill Kennels ( Hugh and Al Arthur ) This 20+ 2012 Derby List dog had a great day at his very first Qualifier winning his debut. Congratulations to Stanley and the folks at Sand Hill Kennels.
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13 back to Open water marks in the morning.
5, 8, 17, 19, 21, 24, 27, 29, 32, 36, 39, 43, 55
There was 27 called back to the Am. land blind. I know they finished the land blind and 17 have been called back to the water blind in the morning. I don't have #'s to the 3rd series, only the call back to the land blind.
1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42
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Provided from memory (Am placements) while waiting for my flt back to ATL after judging Am....
1st Jo Driver #41
2nd Alvin Hatcher #30
3rd Alvin Hatcher #40
4th John Thomas #34
RJ Steve Bireley #13
Several Jams.........
Also heard B. Goldstein won open, that's all I've got. Nice folks, nice grounds & great weather.
David Didier, GA
Thank you to all of the contestants and to everyone who helped make the trial a success. The weather was perfect, the grounds spectacular, and the tests hard but fair. A special thanks goes to Patsy and Steve Ferguson for allowing us to hold the trial on their farm. I look forward to seeing everyone next year!
Steve Bireley
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CONGRATS to George Francis and his Stoney Knolls Shermans Nightmare (Jeb) on their 2nd place Derby finish!!!
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By Shuli Ren
Behaving nothing like Ibovespa Brasil Sao Paulo Stock Exchange Index – down 0.7% at the time of this post – Brazilian steelmakers are making advances today, benefiting from the depreciation of Brazilian real, which lost 4% of its value last week.
Gerdau S.A. (GGBR4-BR) is up 1.2%. Its US ADR (GGB) traded up 2.2% to $6.9. Usiminas (USIM5-BR) and CSR (CSNA3-BR) gained 4.7% and 2.2%.
In a report today, HSBC analysts Leonardo Correa and Luiz Fornari upgraded Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau S.A. (GGBR4-BR) from Neutral to Overweight and increased their price target by 35% from 14 Brazilian real to 19. Gerdau is trading at 16.4. The HSBC target has another 15% upside.
Currency depreciation is not the only reason the analysts changed their rating. Their channel checks show Gerdau is increasing price for some of its long steel products in August:
According to our channel checks, Gerdau has been implementing selective long steel price hikes of c8-13% in August in Brazil (some adjustments in the specialty steel unit), which we believe will likely impact 2H13 results.
Recent currency moves and global steel mini-cycle should support some price increases in the domestic market. In our view, long steel players should have an easier pass trough of BRL depreciation to prices (vs. flat steels) given the more pulverized underlying client base, lower import pressures and demand conditions.
In addition, Gerdau trades at 6.5x 2014 forward EV/Ebitda, a 10-15% discount to Usiminas (USIM5-BR), which the analysts believe is unjustified.


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ireland / britain | anarchist movement | link to pdf Thursday January 22, 2009 17:37 by WS editors - WSM wsm_ireland at yahoo dot com
Workers Solidarity 107, the Jan/Feb edition of the Irish anarchist paper is now online for you to read or download. This is the online version of the paper, 10,000 printed copies of each edition are also distributed for free in Ireland, if your interested in helping with distribution contact us.
Click on one of the links below for a PDF version of the northern or southern edition of Workers Solidarity 107.
Anarchism and the WSMNovember saw WSM public meetings about anarchism in Cork and Dublin, with 40 people at one and about 60 at the other. With the crisis and a growing employers offensive on wages there is a greater openness to radical ideas, and we will be holding more meetings around the country over the next couple of months.
November also saw big numbers turn out for demonstrations against the education cuts. A leaflet by WSM education workers asked why do we keep inviting Fine Gael and Labour TDs to speak at our rallies. When they were in government, they were every bit as mean as Fianna Fáil, every bit as good at cutting services in order to keep down the tax bill of the rich. When in opposition they make promises, when in government they stick the boot in.
Surely we should be looking to others in the same situation as ourselves. Surely we should be looking to join up with other working people who face the same attack on their jobs and services. The governments cuts strategy is an attack on the standard of living of all working people, a united resistance where an injury to one is the concern of all is the best response.
December saw 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos shot and killed by police in Athens in December. WSM spokesperson Siobhan Rattigan said that While Greece was preparing for the December 10th general strike against making working people pay for the economic crisis, Alexandros was killed in cold blood. That is how a special forces police officer answered anti-police slogans that a small group of school students were chanting.
Far from frightening people it sparked off riots throughout the country. A General Strike was called for the following day, and 10,000 marched on the Greek parliament. Schools all over Greece were occupied by their students, and a 3-day strike declared by the High School Teachers Union.
In Dublin WSM members helped to organise a protest outside the Greek embassy. A Greek anarchist addressed the crowd and explained that the special forces are trained by the old guard, the military who were in power. They are not respected by the people, and neither is the government which mirrors our own with its corruption and ineptitude. That is why Greece is in the grip of its greatest social upheaval in decades.
We were on the streets again that month, joining protests against the Israeli slaughter in Gaza. A joint statement from our sister organisations in Palestine/Israel, South Africa, Italy and Canada summed up our rulers' attitude:
"Hundreds of dead and thousands of injured, sacrificed on the altar of Zionist expansionism and fundamentalism. In Europe, the foreign ministers of every EU country talk about an "exaggerated", though "legitimate", reaction on the part of Israel, reversing the true situation with an operation that would make the most cynical illusionist feel proud by making the aggressor, the State of Israel, appear to be the victim."
On a happier note, December also saw the first of the WSMs monthly radio shows on Dublin community radio station NEAR 90.3FM. If you miss the live programme you can download it from http://www.archive.org/details/RadioSolidarityShow1FromTheWorkersSolidarityMovementIreland
In this issue...Make Them Redundant
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett commented on the US financial crisis that its only when the tide goes out that you learn whos been swimming naked, and Wall Street now looks like a nudist beach. Well when it comes to Ireland, the receding tide of the global economy has revealed that not only were our business and political elites swimming naked, they were engaged in a great big orgy as well.
Moving From Protest to Success
The Education Cuts announced in Octobers Budget have unleashed a wave of protest across the country. During the months of November and December approximately 120,000 people took to the streets of Dublin, Galway, Tullamore, Cork and Donegal to register their anger at the governments attempts to make schoolchildren pay for the financial crisis. Cowen, Lenihan and OKeefe have been left in no doubt about the level of popular opposition to these cutbacks. In addition thousands of 3rd level students have also taken to the streets and participated in marches, pickets and blockades to protest at the proposed re-introduction of fees.
Lower Pay, Less Jobs - Whose National Interest?
WSM member Joe King, a clerical officer in the public sector, responds to the calls for pay cuts and redundancies.
A Quick Guide to Social Welfare for the Newly Jobless
Workers Solidaritys Vincent OMalley spoke to his local Citizens Information Centre about some of the obstacles facing people who have lost their jobs.
You Can't Eat a Flag
A recent report produced by Belfast Healthy Cities into the direct link between wealth and class confirms what most of us already know - class pervades every aspect of our lives from the cradle to grave.
Loansharks Prey on 40,000 Across the North
A major financial company with 40,000 customers in the North has admitted that it charges 183.2% interest. This is no backstreet loanshark operation, Provident Financial is a completely legal and government regulated firm.
Organising in Challenging Times
The Grassroots Gathering is a twice-yearly coming together of anarchists and libertarian socialists who are active in political groups and campaigns up and down the island of Ireland. The second of 2008's Gatherings was held in Cork on 14th-16th November. The 90 or so attending, combined with the quality of the discussions, left its organisers very pleased with the weekend. It showed that there's a lot of life left in the Grassroots Gathering as a show-case for trends and thinking among Ireland's libertarian left.
What the hell is a social centre?
Mark Malone spoke to Workers Solidarity about Dublins social centre. He is a member of the WSM and also of the Seomra Spraoi Collective.
Thinking About Anarchism - The Selfish Gene?
Anarchists want to change the world. Instead of the present order capitalism with its focus on inequality and profits for a few, we want to build a new society based around the principles of participatory democracy, freedom and production for need not profit. For anarchists the type of society we want to build is best summed up by the slogan: To each according to their needs, from each according to their ability.
That's Capitalism!
One child in eight in less developed countries gets no primary schooling, according to UNESCO. Of the approximately 75 million children who receive no primary schooling, about 55% are girls. In sub-Saharan Africa one-third of all children receive no schooling.
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I think that the article called The Selfish Gene? misunderstands the whole selffish gene theory, to be honest.
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There will be discussions, speakers from movements engaged in struggle, home and abroad. There will be books and stalls and much more. If you've been to one, then you know what I'm talking about, if you haven't make sure you keep the date set aside, and we'll be seeing you on the 12th of April. Please mark your attendence on the main Facebook event for the bookfair and invite any friends you think should be interested. Publicity is one of the big costs of hosting it every year so you contribution in that way really helps.
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The WSM had its Autumn national conference in Dublin on the 23rd November. National Conference is the ultimate decision making body in the WSM. It happens every six months usually over a day or two. As well as discussing motions time is also spent on discussing the past six months activity and prospects for the next period. Conference also hears reports of activity from all branches, officers and working groups. This covered areas like the Irish Anarchist Review, WSM Website, Dublin Anarchist Bookfair and our pro-choice and anti racist work.
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We are pleased to announce our affiliation to the international anarchist communist co-operative project, Anarkismo. Our affiliation comes after months of discussion and clarification of Collective Action's political positions as well as the positions of constituent members of Anarkismo.
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In response to yesterdays Irish News (Mon 20 May 2013) front page article, Police to Occupy hundreds of vacant premises in Belfast during G8, the Workers Solidarity Movement condemned security forces scaremongering in the media.
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Patrząc na dzisiejszy świat trudno jest sobie wyobrazic jak miało by powstać społeczeństwo które chcielibyśmy zobaczyć. Ale zamiast siedzieć z założonymi rękami czekając na upadek kapitalizmu albo nadejście rewolucji, wierzymy w organizowanie sie tu i teraz.
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission has submitted a report to Congress and the President on the impact of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993, usually referred to as the "Motor Voter" Act. The report says that voter registration in states covered by the NVRA* rose in 1998 by 3.72 percentage points -- or some 7,100,000 people -- over 1994, the previous comparable election.
In response to an FEC survey, states reported 140,946,508 registered voters in 1998, amounting to 70.15% of the voting age population the highest percentage of voter registration in a non-presidential, Congressional election since 1970.
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-- Motor vehicle offices yielded the highest volume of registration applications, 42.9%. Total of those registration applications was 15,175,653 of the 35,372,213 applications or transactions processed nationwide. But the report also says, "This finding is hardly surprising, though, in light of the fact that, according to the Department of Transportation, 87% of the voting age population obtain drivers licenses or non-driver certificates."
-- Postcard registration accounted for nearly another quarter, 24.9% of new voter registration applications.
-- Registration drives, deputy registrars, and in-person registrations accounted for 24.8% of all new applications. All other agencies covered by the act made up the remainder of new applications.
-- A total of 9,063,326 names were deleted from registration lists under the new list verification procedures of the law, while another 14,640,557 registrants were declared "inactive" and will be removed after 2000 if they fail to respond by or vote in that election.
Based on problems reported by the states to the FECs Office of Election Administration, the Commission reiterates three recommendations for improving the administration of the NVRA:
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Shares of Tableau Software (DATA), the Seattle, Washington-based startup providing programs for Big Data, continue to rocket following their initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange this morning. The shares are up $17.43, or 56%, at $48.43, after opening at $47, above the $31 offer price, and hitting as high as $50.25.
Shares of peer Qlik Technology (QLIK) are also higher, rising $1.17, or 4%, to $30.27.
CEO and co-founder Christian Chabot was kind enough to take a few minutes to talk with me by phone a short while ago. Chabot was previously a partner with Softbank Venture Capital and before that co-founded BeeLine, a software company developing tools for data visualization.
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Hello everyone. I thought I should give an update on the snow conditions. Well we got the storm we were waiting for on Saturday with over a foot of good powder. Although we can use more you can go most anywhere now with the exception of rough cut-overs….but that won't be long either. The roads and trails are really good going and although I wasn't on the Gaff this weekend I suspect it is well buried now with lots of great play spots. I have been no-stop for the past week and put almost 1400 KM on my new Expedition. If you are itching to burn some gas we have some openings this week until Friday so load up the sleds and come on out!
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For instance, lets consider a living, breathing cow. Most people seem to enjoy fancy cuts like beef tenderloin, which, before the butcher gets to it, is located near the back of the cow. In order for that meat to be nice and juicy, it needs to have enough nutrients and oxygen to grow. In addition, muscles (in this case, the tenderloin) need stimulation, and in the cow (and us too!) that is achieved by flexing and relaxing.
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What a great tale. I got a grin out of it mostly because I've done similar things.
I've never used a dapping rod before but I have done what you might call dapping with my fly rod on smaller streams and eddys of bigger ones. It often works well.
Fishing for Arctic Char in Ireland
On a recent trip to Connemara in the West of Ireland we had some really shocking bad luck. Well, we just didn't catch any fish. But we got to walk about ten miles up a mountain in the process, and so got a great view of all the lakes we could have (should have) gone to, and, built on our knowledge base; we will never go there again.
When we finally returned to the car, panting, hot and sweaty, like real men we had a quick bite to eat, and headed off fishing(!). We reached our next spot and were thrilled to see some char rising. But, a problem, something was wrong with the gear count and to keep it short and to save the blushes of the guilty, we found ourselves a party of three with an eight foot fly rod and a twenty something foot dapping rod. Dapping is a great method of catching fish on a big lake from a boat in a bit of a wave, and needless to say the boat which is traditional and somewhat essential was not in the equation and it was a lovely still evening and flat calm. Well the owner of the single fly rod took dibs and left the the remaining two to fight over the dapping rod. We decided that this rod was big enough for the both of us and headed off to catch some char.
We caught nothing, but we rose a few, got eaten alive by midges, got eaten alive by our better halves for staying out fishing for fourteen hours with out so much as by your leave and then to come home with nothing...?!
Much chastened by our experiences, but heartened by the few fish we rose we resolved to do it all again the next day, God willing.
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03-01-2012, 06:20 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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Hi everyone, I'm new here.
I have the follow;
60G acrylic (bought of craigs list about 5 years ago)
Eshopps Wet/Dry filter with a Rio 2700 pushing water 4 feet up to the tank
powerhead moving water around
heater (forgot wattage)
air pump (forgot name, but big and quiet)
Separate 50 gallon water mixing tank with heater, Rio 1100 and air pump
spotted green puffer (2" long)
monster spotted green puffer (4" long)
Green Skat
Wife's been complaining about the pump in the wet/dry filter. It's hum is reverberating throughout the livingroom. I'm looking for a pump that is quieter and possibly smaller. I believe that my Rio 2700 (721 Gal/Hour) is just a little overboard.
What do you think my options are?
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hmm, for the humming you could try to put a towel or styrofoam underneath the sump. This will sometimes dampen the sound quite a bit.
your puffers will be good in a 60 gallon but that scat will certainly outgrow it, I would not get the scat unless you plan for a bigger tank down the road.
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I wish I could offer an opinion, but wet/dry filters are beyond my ken. Now, if you want to talk canisters.... :)20gal long planted community
Have you considered just replacing the wet dry with a good canister filter?
I used to get a lot of noise from one of my return pumps. I took two small pcs of acrylic and put a lot of aquarium safe silicone in between them. After letting it cure for 72 hours, I put it in the return pump compartment of my sump and placed the pump on top of that. The silicone really doesn't grip very well to the acrylic, but it dose provide a nice soft-like padding that absorbs a lot of the vibration that was making the noise.
It did cut down on the noise by about 50 to 75%. The rest I can live with so I have not tried anything elseIf you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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0Originally Posted by jonny5
The green scat has been in the tank for about 5 or 6 years. Started at approx 3" long, now only 5-5.5" long. Should do fine for a while. No signs of stress, mood s good color is good. He is a bit if a bully sometimes.
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