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Time magazine gives its invaluable Person of the Year award to the man who will lead America for the next four years from the White House's official John Deere D140 48-inch 22 HP Hydrostatic Front-Engine Riding Mower, complete with utility cart:
Obama says he long ago decided that he should not compare himself to Lincoln. But he nonetheless begins his second term with a better sense of what is possible in his job as well as what is not, something Lincoln struggled with as well. "You do understand that as president of the United States, the amount of power you have is overstated in some ways," Obama says. "But what you do have the capacity to do is to set a direction." He has earned the right to set that direction and has learned from experience how to move the country. After four of the most challenging years in the nation's history, his chance to leave office as a great president who was able to face crises and build a new majority coalition remains within reach.
December 31, 2012/January 7, 2013
Ken Knabb, editor of the Bureau of Public Secrets, muses nostalgically on the late Occupy movement and endeavors to explicate a peculiar American fetish, just before the cops sweep him away on yet another charge of shoplifting and evacuating in public:
The Occupy movement already had the implicit goal of "reclaiming the commons"—occupying public squares or parks played on this theme, since regardless of quibbles about permits it was obvious that such spaces belong to the public and are, or at least originally were, intended for public use. But these more recent actions have the merit of challenging the fetish of private property in a more direct manner. That fetish has always been extremely strong in the United States, and the police responses to its transgression have always been more immediate and brutal. But I like to hope that these types of actions will eventually weaken the fetish, just as happened in the days of the civil rights movement.
November 20, 2012
Gourmand advice offered with a clear conscience in an age free of D.D.T. by the culinary nuts at National Public Radio:
Want to eat sustainably? Then eat bugs.
That's the word from the Dutch, who are doing their best to make a scientific case for the environmental benefits of insect proteins. Reduce greenhouse gases? Check. Produce more edible protein while using less land than more traditional livestock? Check.
That last one's an easy target; livestock take up about three-quarters of the world's agricultural land. And livestock production is also a major source of greenhouse gases, accounting for about 15 percent of emissions caused by human activity….
But no one had run the numbers on bugs as livestock, until now.
The bugs in question are mealworms, actually larvae of the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor. Mealworms are no strangers to Americans; they're common in nature, often used as fishing bait, and sold in pet stores as food for reptiles and fish. But most people don't consider snacking on the wriggling tan larvae themselves.
December 19, 2012
New York Times
Zoological observations of the strange American flora and fauna found on the Acela Express by Frank Bruni, Times columnist and fellow traveler:
I once took a long train ride with Grover Norquist. This wasn't intentional. We found ourselves next to each other on the line to board an Acela from Washington, D.C., to New York, and we fell into a conversation, by which I mean that he did a great deal of talking, in that faintly maniacal way of his, while I presented a captive audience. He continued to talk as we walked along the platform and was still talking as we entered the train, so it was more or less unavoidable that we sit together. Besides which, I was genuinely fascinated, which is a very different adjective from amused.
November 27, 2012
Poughkeepsie Journal
On the Howl Page of a leading organ of the MSM in progressive Poughkeepsie, Eli cries out for help:
Men and male energy are dangerous. Men are violent. They rape and beat women. (More than one rape a minute in the U.S.) Men take us to war. Men glorify violence (just watch the NFL). Men run the government. Men run the corporations. Men run the military. Religious men oppress and often kill women (look at the Taliban). The men of Hamas oppress Palestinian women. The men of Israel oppress all Palestinians (men, women, and children).
Golda Meir brutalized and oppressed Palestinians, Margaret Thatch [sic] devastated the poor, and Madeleine Albright approved sanctions in Iraq that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. These are women who behave like men.
The Bible, the Koran, and the Constitution were written by men. Is it any wonder that women have been exploited and abused for centuries? In the quest for power and profit men have not spared "mother nature" either—as the result of endless warfare, deforestation, mining, drilling, and countless other assaults on our air, water, and soil the stability of our climate is in jeopardy.
As long as men (and women who act like men) run our governments, militaries, corporations, religious institutions, media, families, and schools, we are destined for endless wars and violence. Our environments will continue to deteriorate and all the creatures on this planet will face ever increasing threats to their survival. Are we doomed? Only if we continue to be ruled by men, their male energy, and women who act like men.
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November 7, 2012
South Florida Gay News
Higher education as practiced at Florida Atlantic University between volleyball classes and hula hoop lectures:
Condom Bingo isn't your normal, run-of-the-mill bingo game your grandmother plays on Thursday afternoons at the community center. Local drag queen Misty Eyez was on hand to be the guest bingo caller. Students were handed a playing card upon entering the hall. Instead of the usual BINGO and numbers on the card, it was covered in sexual organs and jargon. Everything from penis and blue whales to "splooge" and cunnilingus was listed on the bingo cards. Eyez didn't just call out answers. Question and definitions were randomly drawn, and their corresponding answers were marked on the bingo cards. Students were enticed to come play with prizes, including FAU gear, movies and an iPod shuffle if they stuck around for the fifth and final game. Student Health Services also provided Papa John's pizza.
November 22, 2012
Exigent market research for the age of the Internet and the Peeping Tom:
It's no secret that more and more holiday shopping is now done online, but apparently many Americans buy loved ones gifts while on the toilet. Some 16% of mobile-device owners do their holiday shopping in the bathroom, according to a recent survey by CashStar, a digital gifting company. The survey of 2,000 adults, which was taken by polling company Harris Interactive last month, found that the shop-til-you-plop approach was more prevalent among men than women. "Smartphones and tablets have enabled consumers to shop and gift on the go in more ways and places than ever before," says David Stone, co-founder and CEO of CashStar. Other odd places consumers have done their online gift-buying, according to the survey: during business meetings and, despite the safety warnings about texting and driving, while stuck in traffic.
December 5, 2012
Washington Post
Thus begins another E.J. Dionne Jr. column of giddy sophistries to which the magnanimous conservative may respond, "E.J., you are not psychotic but there are other problems":
I try to be hopeful about things. I long for a time when people on the left and the right might exchange opinions without assuming the very worst of each other. I don't view conservatism as a form of psychosis and would like conservatives to harbor the same attitude toward progressives. Happy warriors are better than grim antagonists.
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By News Division On November 4, 2011 · In News, Technology
Google Inc. this week said it has improved its ranking algorithm to compile more timely search results.
The update to the Caffeine web indexing system will affect roughly 35 percent of searches to provide more up-to-date results.
For example, when users search 'nba lockout' the search engine will display recent pages or images that may be only minutes old.
In addition, reoccurring events will automatically search for the most recent or upcoming event rather than a prior event.
Google introduced Caffeine in June 2010 to offer 50 percent 'fresher' results than the previous algorithm to find relevant content soon after it was published.
Google in Oct. updated the Google TV product with a new interface, search functions, and developer options for Android apps on the device.
The company said the new Google TV interface is simpler with a customizable home screen and an 'all apps' tab to view all current applications like an Android smartphone.
A new app called 'TV & Movies' allows owners to browse through content from cable, satellite, Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and more.
YouTube is now more closely integrated with Google TV to allow users to turn any topic into a channel.
Finally, Android developers can now push Android Market apps to Google TV or develop new apps specifically for the device.
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text: I was going to replace some old gas trimmers and the one thing I hate is getting the spool to feed properly with the bump and go trimmers. I have not done a lot of research but have seen a few road crews use the type of trimmer which uses a pre-cut line that you simply feed into the head. When I was in SEARS I saw some there and the guy said you can use ANY trimmer line in these trimmers (from a spool for example more economical) rather than buying a package of 15 pre-cut lines. Is anyone using these very much and can you truly use most any mfg.'s line and cut your own rather than the pricey prepackaged stuff? Which mfg.'s make this type of trimmer? Thanks for any help.


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This report concerns the future technologies and functions of mobile phones (cell phones) and, to a lesser extent, the allied products phablets and tablets. The primary emphasis is on what will become possible in the next decade. The potential for mobile phones seems almost limitless so, obviously, no one report can cover everything. Indeed, sensors and other components in a phone may be introduced for one purpose and then used for others in unforeseen ways. Barometers and gyroscopes being used for inertial navigation are examples of this. In other words no one can predict all the things a mobile phone will perform or even how its existing and future parts will combine in "sensor fusion", "structural components" and so on, to achieve new this.
Nonetheless, this report clarifies many key trends, unfulfilled needs and future routes to commercialisation. This vision is based on a plethora of interviews, event attendance, data searches and careful analysis. It recognises that improving the hardware and firmware are just as important as adding new infrastructure such as ubiquitous contactless charging and Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS).
What is the importance of forthcoming functions and enabling technologies such as Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS), the Internet of Things (IoT) and printed electronics? For the next decade, what is the market for planned tightly-rollable displays and key parts of them such as transparent conductive films, of which use in mobile phones forms just a part? How can the human interface be radically improved and the intolerably brief availability of today's smart phones before recharging? What new components will be useful in mobile phones and how will they merge? It is all here with the main emphasis on what is coming beyond improved integrated circuits.
This is the master, overall summary report of the new IDTechEx Mobile Phone series of reports which has in it reports going in depth into specifics. For example, there are reports separately covering IPS, NFC, energy harvesting, OLED displays, stretchable electronics and printed electronics.
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1.1. Scope
1.2. Future needs
1.3. Technology required
1.4. Healthcare diagnostics and more
1.5. Sensor fusion
1.6. Internet of Things
1.7. Indoor Positioning Systems IPS
1.8. Near Field Communication NFC
1.9. Key enabling technologies - hardware
1.10. Electrical power, multiple energy harvesting
1.11. Impediments to progress
1.12. The dark side
2.1. Dreams and realities
2.2. Mobile phone improvements - responses from general survey
3.1. Human senses that can interact with a device or be a feature
3.1.1. What is wanted?
3.2. Roll out screen, photovoltaics, keyboard
3.3. Wearable electronics
3.4. Healthcare
3.4.1. Food poisoning
3.4.2. Diagnostics and more
3.5. Sound
3.5.1. Sound fidelity and localisation
4.1. Summary of technologies
4.2. Flexible transparent conducting film
4.3. Technology Assessment
4.4. Market Assessment
4.5. Players
4.6. Market for flexible and conformal electronics
5.1. Sensor fusion
5.2. Internet of Things IoT
5.3. Intelligent contextual sensing
5.4. Sensor fusion leveraging NFC
6.1. In-Location Alliance
6.3. Ranges
6.4. Principles of locating using RTLS and IPS
6.5. Choice of infrastructure
6.6. No infrastructure as an option
6.6.1. Inertial/ dead reckoning measurements
6.6.2. Single beam RSSI
6.7. Enhanced infrastructure
6.8. Dedicated infrastructure
6.9. Trend for IPS infrastructure
6.10. Choices of signal interpretation to find position
6.11. Applications, compromises and value chain
6.12. IPS/RTLS Interviews
6.12.1. CSR (formerly Cambridge Silicon Radio) USA
6.12.2. Decawave Ireland
6.12.3. Ekahau Finland
6.12.4. In-Location Alliance UK
6.12.5. Redpine Signals USA
6.12.6. Ubisense UK
7.1. Timelines for NFC adoption
7.2. Forecasts 2014-2024
7.3. The purpose of NFC
7.4. NFC Forum
7.5. Lessons from NFC World Congress Nice France September 2013
7.6. NFC Interviews
7.6.1. Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc, USA
7.6.2. MeaWallet, Norway
7.6.3. Nissin Czech Republic
7.6.5. Smart-TEC, Germany
7.6.6. Tag & Play, France
7.6.7. Ticketmobile, Norway
7.6.8. Interview in Japan
8.1. Flexible OLED displays
8.2. Flexible memory
8.3. Flexible transistors
8.4. Flexible batteries
8.5. Graphene
8.6. Emerging metallisation inks
8.7. Printed electronics and allied interviews
8.7.1. Bayer MaterialScience - Artificial Muscle Inc Germany
8.7.2. CAP-XX Australia
8.7.3. ISORG France
8.7.4. KWJ Engineering Inc USA
8.7.5. Paper Battery Co USA
8.7.6. Peratech Ltd UK
8.7.7. Synkera Technologies Inc USA
8.8. IDTechEx Printed Electronics Portal
9.1. New battery and supercapacitor technologies
9.2. Photovoltaics technologies and Africa
9.3. Contactless inductive charging
9.4. 3D Printing
9.5. Flexible haptic keyboards
9.6. Scanner, printer, separate flexible display and energy harvesting, battery boosters
9.7. Progress with harvesting tolerant electronics
1.1. Examples of identified future needs and need for improved hardware/firmware and/or system/infrastructure changes are needed to achieve them
1.2. Some emerging mobile phone candidate technologies and the demands they may help to satisfy in the future
4.1. Candidates for ITO replacement and flexible screens
4.2. Benchmarking different TCF and TCG technologies on the basis of sheet resistance, optical transmission, ease of customisation, haze, ease of patterning, thinness, stability, flexibility, reflection and low cost. The technology com
4.3. Market value $ billions of only flexible/conformal electronics 2012-2022
6.2. Official list of In-Location members
6.3. RTLS and IPS compared in terms of other names used, usual purpose today, standards, frequencies, typical users involved and typical suppliers through the value chain.
6.4. Overview of indoor positioning technologies
6.5. Comparison of the three generations of active RFID
6.6. Defining features of the three generations of active RFID
6.7. Choices of infrastructure
6.8. Comparison of options for basic measuring principle to find position
6.9. Forecast of global RTLS market by value in millions of dollars 2012-2023
6.10. Primary market objective for IPS vs RTLS
7.1. Important milestones in the adoption and use of NFC 2014-2024
7.2. IDTechEx conclusions about the status and potential of NFC technology
7.3. Comments by supporters and skeptics of NFC in 2013
7.4. Worldwide shipments of PCs, mobile phones, tablets and derivatives, millions 2012-2024 with the most NFC friendly devices highlighted
7.5. Sales of NFC enabled phones vs all mobile phones millions 2012-2024 with % penetration
7.6. Phases of attempted rollout of NFC uses
9.1. 142 manufacturers and putative manufacturers of lithium-based rechargeable batteries with country, cathode and anode chemistry, electrolyte morphology, case type, applicational priorities and customer relationships, if any, in sel
9.2. Number, unit value ex-factory and total market value rounded of WPT hardware sold for consumer electronics worldwide 2012-2022
1.1. Some statistics relevant to the potential for mobile phone use
1.2. Tightly rollable display promised by Samsung
1.3. Structure of the value offering of IPS vs RTLS
1.4. IPS principle of operation
1.5. GPS location (left) compared with the more detailed IPS (right)
1.6. Digital cash options
1.7. Power requirements of small electronic products including Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and GSM mobile phones and the types of battery employed
3.1. Samsung promise of a mobile phone derivative with tightly rollable display
3.2. Polymer Vision concept of a PDA with rollable display
4.1. Examples of flexible displays
4.2. TCF technology market share in the smart phone sector
4.3. Mobile phones
4.4. Market value $ billions of only flexible/conformal electronics 2012-2022
5.1. ISMB gesture recognition by sensor fusion
6.1. Structure of the value offering of IPS vs RTLS
6.2. IPS principle of operation
6.3. GPS location shown left compared with the more detailed IPS right
6.4. RTLS schematic
6.5. Samsung RTLS objectives
6.6. RTLS, IPS and OPS compared
6.7. Some options for location systems from very short range to long range, showing RTLS and IPS
6.8. Overview of indoor technologies in dependence on accuracy and coverage
6.9. User requirements left with important technical parameters of less interest to the user right
6.10. Possible area of deployment vs system cost
6.11. Tolerance of faults and unauthorised repositioning vs system cost
6.12. Tag cost today vs system cost
6.13. Number of tags per interrogator vs system cost
6.14. Infrastructure cost vs system cost
6.15. WSN system diagram where the gateway can be a cellphone in future
6.16. The most popular forms of RTLS based on RFID
6.17. RFID and other appropriate systems through the traditional supply chain
6.18. RFID value chain
6.19. Examples of technologies derived from and/or interfacing with active RFID
6.20. Range vs approximate up-front cost of RTLS tags based on different frequencies and protocols compared with passive (no battery) RFID
6.21. Forecast of global RTLS market by value in millions of dollars 2012-2023
6.22. Survey of 74 case studies of RTLS by application
6.23. Relative emphasis on IPS, RTLS or both in the value chain by number of organisations identified in the survey.
6.24. Basic RF measuring principle - relative popularity vs ultrasound
7.1. Forms of NFC and non-NFC digital cash with examples
7.2. Worldwide shipments of PCs, mobile phones, tablets and derivatives, millions 2012-2024 with the most NFC friendly devices highlighted
7.3. Sales of NFC enabled phones vs all mobile phones millions 2012-2024 with % penetration
7.4. Retrevo Pulse study of NFC payment attitudes
7.5. Data rate vs range for short range radio protocols
7.6. Scope of the NFC Forum
7.7. Some of the potential stakeholders in the NFC phone value chain
7.8. NFC in the trough of disillusionment
7.9. Samsung TecTiles
7.10. Attempt to link the Internet of Things with NFC
7.11. Many options for a typical interrogation
7.12. Store Electronic Systems activity in stores up to and including NFC enabled shelf edge devices
7.13. Store Electronic Systems' NFC perception and achievements
7.14. Smart meter potential revealed
7.15. ETRI Programmable NFC sensor card
7.16. NFC labels on display
7.17. Murata and Todo Kogyo ultra-small NFC tags
7.18. Screen with NFC enabled images where the NFC tags can be repurposed and videos etc can be triggered on the screen - useful for merchandising
7.19. V Wand - NFC to item then Bluetooth to tablet
7.20. Number of transaction cards on issue globally 2012 and 2018
7.21. LEGIC experience of NFC phones for secure access and payment
8.1. Add Vision process
8.2. Thinfilm printed memory
8.3. PragmatIC capability
8.4. IDTechEx view of potential for graphene in electronics and electrics.
8.5. Plastic foil of organic photodetectors
8.6. Printed temperature sensor
8.7. OPD for object detection by smart systems: logistics, retail, Point-Of-Sales display
9.1. IDTechEx view of OPV


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Phoenix Mercury player Brittney Griner and her fianceé, Glory Johnson of the Tulsa Shock, were arrested yesterday after a domestic dispute.
Baller Alert reports:
Police arrived to the couple's home on 133rd Drive in Goodyear when Griner's sister called police after being unsuccessful at separating a physical fight between Griner and Johnson. According to the report the WNBA stars were "in the living room throwing things at each other." Griner told police that she and Johnson had been arguing every day and got into each other's faces Wednesday afternoon in the home they had bought two days earlier after Johnson said Griner "disrespected" her. According to Johnson, Griner had gotten too close to her so she pushed her away in an attempt to distance themselves. "It turned into a fight," said Griner, "Broke up. We kept arguing, mouthing back and forth, clashed again, separated us, clashed again, separated us, and here we are now."
Brittney Griner had injuries to her wrist and fingers as well as bite marks on her hand. Glory's injuries included lacerations to her right lip.
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When Roy Vega needed to write about his hero for a school assignment recently, he did not choose Michael Jordan, Emmitt Smith or Alex Rodriguez.
He did not choose a Backstreet Boy or someone from N'Sync, nor did he choose a TV or movie personality. He did not even choose a member of the Oakland Raiders, his favorite National Football League team.
The oldest son of Robert and Sabrina Vega of Lubbock knew he needn't look further than his own home.
Roy chose his 6-year-old brother, Montana, for his hero the same little brother he takes a certain pleasure in teasing and pestering, the same little brother he wrestles with on the floor, the same little brother shares giggles with at home ... the same little brother who saved his life.
In May 2001, Roy was at Camp Goddard in Oklahoma with his fifth-grade classmates at Williams Elementary School when he felt a little pain in his left shoulder.
Lymphoma patient Roy Vega, 12, left, plays basketball with his bone marrow donor, Montana Vega, 6, at the brothers' home in Lubbock.
"We thought he had pulled a muscle," Sabrina said. "But it wouldn't get better, so we took him in for a checkup. They took a chest X-ray, and his whole left lung was full of fluid. They were thinking it was pneumonia."
Roy was admitted to the intensive care unit at Covenant Children's Hospital and had four liters of fluid drained from his lung May 30, 2001. The fluid was tested, and abnormal cells were found. Roy was sent for a CT scan that revealed something more sinister.
The next day, Roy was told by a doctor that a tumor (t-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma) was found underneath his left lung.
"I was scared that I was going to die," 12-year-old Roy recalled. "I was lying in bed, and the doctor came in with my parents. They were crying. The doctor said, 'You have cancer again.' "
In 1992, just five days before his second birthday, Roy had been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. According to the American Cancer Society, leukemia is the most common cancer in children, accounting for a third of all cancers in children younger than 15.
Cancer is the leading cause of death in children younger than 14.
Leukemia is the most common cancer in children, accounting for about one-third of all cancers in children younger than 15.
Leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells. It starts in the bone marrow but can spread to the blood, lymph nodes, spleen, liver, central nervous system and other organs.
About 2,700 new cases of leukemia will be diagnosed in children in 2002.
General symptoms include fatigue, weakness, weight loss, fever and loss of appetite.
Source: American Cancer Society
Roy endured 3.5 years of chemotherapy, receiving at least one treatment per week and as many as three treatments per week. He had been cancer free for six years prior to being diagnosed with lymphoma a year ago.
"The first time they gave him only a 50-percent chance of living," Robert said of his son's bouts with cancer. "The second time, they only gave him a 25-percent chance. It's a shock, a scary feeling."
After the second cancer diagnosis, doctors said Roy's only hope was a bone marrow transplant. He first had to go through 10 days of chemotherapy to attack the tumor.
The Vegas consulted physicians at University Medical Center's Southwest Cancer Center, the only facility in the region to perform blood and bone marrow transplants, to see about treatment. Montana was tested to see if he would be a donor match for his brother.
"A sibling is the best chance for a match," said Dr. Everardo Cobos, medical director at Southwest Cancer Center and a staff oncologist at UMC.
The Vegas had to wait six agonizing days to see if Montana was a donor match for Roy. But it proved to be worth the wait.
"I wanted to match my brother, because I wanted him to get better," Montana said. "Roy was real sick, and I wanted him to stay alive."
The Vegas were grateful that Roy would be able to stay in Lubbock and receive the bone marrow transplant at UMC.
"We felt that if we went to Houston or somewhere else, he'd be just a number," Sabrina said. "But we knew he could get good treatment here."
On Aug. 13, Roy was admitted to UMC's pediatric bone marrow transplant unit, which was funded in part by Children's Miracle Network, to begin seven days of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. He was the first child in Lubbock to receive full-body radiation at UMC.
On Aug. 20, some of Montana's bone marrow was harvested and transplanted into Roy. The transplantation procedure took 4.5 hours.
"I was strong, and I was tough," Montana said. "I was a little bit scared, but not that much."
Two days later, he was back in school.
"He's my hero, because he saved my life," Roy said of Montana's selfless act. "I'm thankful and blessed."
Roy returned home Sept. 10, but he had to receive homebound schooling until January, when he was allowed to rejoin his sixth-grade classmates at Williams Elementary.
"It was hard, all the chemo and medicine they gave me," Roy said. "It was scary. I just missed being around everybody."
Though the transplant was successful, Roy went through a period when he still fretted about his mortality following the surgery, according to his mother.
"We went through a time when he kept asking us if he was going to die, sometimes 20 times a day or more," Sabrina said. "He would call me up at work, asking me, 'Mom, are you sure I'm not going to die?'
"He thought he would just feel normal right away. But as time went on, he quit asking that."
For his brave battle to beat cancer, Roy has been selected as one of the miracle children for the 19th Annual Children's Miracle Network Celebration, slated for Saturday and Sunday. He will be joined by Montana.
"Montana has a really caring heart," Sabrina said. "He's our little Dennis the Menace, but he knew what he was doing. We're very thankful for him."
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What is Hidden in the Hidden Economy of Pakistan? Size, Causes, Issues, and Implications
There is a worldwide contemporary debate about the role of the hidden economy in achieving the goal of sustained and inclusive economic growth and development, especially in the context of its spillover effects on the formal economy. For this purpose, policy-makers and academicians have made concerted efforts to estimate the size of the hidden economy and to analyse its causes, issues, and implications for key macroeconomic variables. However, there is a consensus among the policy-makers that a better macroeconomic policy formulation and its true implementation are subject to proper management of the associated issues of the hidden economy with suitable policy measures. In Pakistan, it is generally assumed that the hidden economy contributes about 30 percent to 50 percent to the overall GDP. The study investigates the potential determinants of the hidden economy and various interrelated socio-economic issues in the perspective of achieving the national goal of inclusive growth and development. Five statistical and structural modelling approaches are used to estimate the size of the hidden economy and to analyse the characteristic nature of its growth over time: the simple monetary approach, the modified monetary approach using dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS), the multiple-indicators multiple-causes (MIMIC) approach, the electricity consumption approach, and the labour market survey approach. Policy implications are viewed in the context of the 18th Amendment and the 7th NFC Award in Pakistan.
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Are you a smoker? Did you know that there are 29 states in the United States that have specific anti-discrimination laws that protect smokers? There is a negative stigma these days surrounding the use of tobacco products, but in many instances the use of tobacco is not against the law. This means that as a smoker, you cannot be denied employment just because you make the personal choice to smoke! It also means that in these states, you can't lose your job simply because you're a smoker either.
There are, however, places where there are no discrimination laws that prevent an employer from refusing to hire you because of your smoking habit. Is there anything that you can do if you live in an area that has no anti-discrimination laws?
Federal Law Allows Employers To Prohibit Workplace Smoking
Employers are allowed to set their own workplace policies and procedures in many circumstances. Even in states where anti-discrimination laws are on the books, an employer is allowed to say that smoking is not allowed inside their building, is restricted to certain areas, or isn't allowed on their property at all. If you smoke and violate one of these policies and procedures, it's no longer a case of discrimination. It's a case of you deciding to smoke in a place or at a time that you're agreed upon employment contract said you couldn't and that violation is grounds for a termination in many instances.
National anti-discrimination laws do not grant any protections to smokers, which mean if you do not live in an area with anti-discrimination laws that grant rights to smokers, you can be discriminated against because you use tobacco products. You can even be drug tested for nicotine to determine if you are telling the truth!
The ADA Allows For Smoking Prohibition Too
The American with Disabilities Act grants rights to people who have disabilities so that they can function as normally as possible in modern society. All someone must do is make a reasonable request through their employer for an accommodation under the ADA that bans smoking and if agreed upon, this would affect all employees.
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Grafton and Carmellini are back and joined by the Navy SEALs to battle terrorists on the high seas in Pirate Alley, an action-packed tale by New York Times bestseller Stephen Coonts
A luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure; the decks are covered in blood. Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million dollars within seven days, the pirates threaten to execute all their hostages. But information gleaned from a captured Al Qaeda operative indicates that there is a far more dangerous conspiracy afoot.
Once the ransom is paid, Islamic militants intend to swoop in and slaughter the passengers in an orgy of terror, hoping to provoke a massive American military response that will set the Muslim world aflame. Jake Grafton is assigned to negotiate with the brutal pirate chief while his right hand man, Tommy Carmellini, and a team of CIA and Navy SEAL operatives mount an undercover operation to save the hostages and keep the U.S. from being maneuvered into a murderous war.
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"Stephen Coonts proves once again, he is the master of the ship. This time in the terrorist infested high seas where Grafton and Carmellini, are fully-kitted, synched, and on target. Pirate Alley is full-steam-ahead, action-packed, chaotic, and final--but with black cladded Navy SEALs in the mix, the fight is anything but fair." —Dalton Fury, New York Times bestselling author of Kill Bin Laden
"Pirate Alley is fast-moving, scary, and realistic. Starting with a bang, it then gets even better. Steve gives us real pirates, not Johnny Depp with eye shadow." —Larry Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Exit Plan
"The one-sit read champion of the season, Stephen Coonts's Pirate Alley races though a maritime terrorist attack in the Red Sea, creating a vivid cast of heroes, victims and villains. It has the feel of a documentary but the soul of an intimate drama, a trick that's extremely hard to pull off." —Stephen Hunter, New York Times bestselling author of I, Sniper, Point of Impact and The Third Bullet
"Steve Coonts is a masterful storyteller--and PIRATE ALLEY his most chilling thriller yet. Never will you see the duplicity of world politics--let alone cruise ships and Somali bandits--in the same light again." —W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV, bestselling authors of EMPIRE AND HONOR and THE LAST WITNESS
"Start with a band of ruthless Somali pirates in a story that has too often shown up on the front pages of the New York Times, add Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini, plus a heavy dose of SEALs on the hunt, and Stephen Coonts's new novel PRIATE ALLEY is one hell of a read! A tale of modern day swashbucklers whose leader is the most ruthless pirate since Blackbeard makes for a book you simply cannot put down. Hats off to Steve for another rip roaring story." —David Hagberg, author of Abyss
"A great, realistic read that could mirror current events. Coonts details this ship high-jacking and take-down as if he has first hand experience WITH the SEAL Teams. After reading this, you will want to postpone that cruise that goes anywhere near the Horn of Africa." —Howard Wadsin, author of Seal Team Six
"Stephen Coonts takes another master turn with Pirate Alley. . . . Coonts weaves a realistic and frightening multi-layered story. . . . The buildup and final denouement will cost more than a few readers a good night's sleep--and change the way you view pirates, cruise ships and Washington forever." —Jim DeFelice, best-selling author of American Sniper and The Helios Conspiracy
"Start Pirate Alley at your peril and then plan for a long night. You won't be able to put it down....Filled with the courage and smarts of Stephen Coonts' SEAL Team heroes." —Former Defense Secretary William Cohen


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Bernadette I too experienced back pain with Taxol mostly extreme lower back. I talked to my onco and he said that was an unfortunate side affect. Sorry you're having to deal with that. How much longer is your chemo? The good news is as soon as I stopped chemo I started to feel better.
Of course that only lasted for a couple of weeks because I started radiation but I'm through with that and hopefully on the mend. Hooray!
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Hunter Campbell is ridiculously wealthy, totally full of himself, and completely, deliciously lickable. It's no wonder women are lining up at the chance to win his heart.
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I'm here for his whole freakin' island.
See, I grew up in paradise, right up until his family ripped it away from us. Now I'm stuck with nothing, while my playboy stepbrother lives the life that was supposed to be mine.
And I want it back.
All I have to do is keep my hands off his chiseled, inked-up body long enough to sneak back into his life, find the proof I need to reclaim my birthright, and get away before he catches on.
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has signed a power-sharing deal with
the opposition to relinquish some of his control for the first time in
nearly 30 years.
Mr. Mugabe and opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara shook hands over the accord before a crowd of several thousand in Harare on Monday.
The ceremony was marred by supporters of the rival parties trading insults and throwing stones outside the venue. Riot police were called to restore order.
Mr. Mugabe will remain president under the deal. Tsvangirai, who leads the largest faction of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, will become prime minister. Mutambara, the head of a smaller MDC faction, will be deputy prime minister.
Tsvangirai said the new government's first priority is to address food shortages. Poor harvests and the world's highest inflation rate, 11-million percent, have made it hard for many Zimbabweans to feed themselves.
Critics blame the situation on the policies of Mr. Mugabe, especially his government's seizure of white-owned commercial farms beginning in 2000.
In his remarks today, the 84-year-old Mr. Mugabe accused Britain and the United States of interfering in Zimbabwean affairs, but he also said he is committed to the deal.
The agreement calls for Mr. Mugabe to chair the Cabinet, while Mr. Tsvangirai leads a newly created council of ministers. The president's ZANU-PF party will control 15 ministerial positions, while the two opposition factions will control 16.
The deal followed several weeks of negotiations between the MDC and the president's ZANU-PF party. South African President Thabo Mbeki brokered the agreement to end political turmoil that followed disputed presidential elections.
The European Union, which has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, welcomed the power-sharing deal. But EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the bloc must review details of the deal before any sanctions can be lifted.


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I'm wondering if it's mandatory even though they say they will take volunteers and go from the bottom up if not enough volunteers, what can they do if I don't show due to being out of state?
Ask for volunteers then force from the bottom up.
Sick day.
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Trying to get by without burning a sick day, saving that for the middle of this month lol
How bad do you need it off?
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Rare Boer War Discoveries
Below are some of the key items the Canadian Boer War Museum has added to its collections
in its ongoing efforts to preserve important Canadian heritage memorabilia from this period.
Rare Great Boer War Discoveries ( Jan. 2006)
British Boer War Veteran with Canadian Experience
Found in rural Ontario!
How often while browsing through an out of the way auction do you come upon a truly wonderful find?
It happened to us recently, at a small Niagara, Ontario auction, that was truly bereft of quality items, until we picked up a discarded volume, in a box of books.
We got it cheap because no one knew or cared for this large and heavy book and what was inside...
Amazingly we had stumbled on nothing less than the private family photo and autograph album of Dot and Basil Lubbock, British imperial adventurers of a century ago. How this precious book, which had once been the repository of the private memories of this remarkable couple, had ended up on the junk heap of history, will never be known. But it has been reclaimed to its rightful place in the history of the British Empire by the Canadian Anglo-Boer War Museum.
Capt. A. Basil Lubbock MC (1872-1944) was:
- the world famous sailor and writer (from 1902-1938) of some 20 acclaimed books on sailing ships of the 19th century
- a founder, & the first Commodore, of the Hamble Sailing Club, 1919 -1931, in southern England.
- the founder of the Sunbeam class of sailing dinghy. The Solent Sunbeam Class was based at the Hamble River Sailing Club from 1922-1930, Bembridge Sailing Club (1930-1939), and since the war, at Itchenor Sailing Club. See details at:
Capt. A. Basil Lubbock, MC, (1872 - 1944) served in the Anglo-Boer War in the Royal Field Artillery and in Menne's Scouts. He was Mentioned in Despatches for helping rescue a comrade while under heavy fire.
When World War I broke out, he, and wife Dot, left to serve in India. This album contains the photos, sketches, watercolours, and autographs they gathered during their tour there from 1914-15.
Great Canadian Heritage Treasure
Photo & Autograph Album, 1914-1915
Dot & Basil Lubbock, Oct. 4, 1914, Hamble, UK
Orig. album - Size - 9.25 x 11 x 2"
Found - St. Catharines, ON
A truly stunningly handsome couple, typical of the Best of Britain, which was once sent out to administer peace and prosperity to the far-flung reaches of Empire.
Dot and Basil were married in 1912, and remained childless. They died within weeks of each other, Dot following Basil, on Nov. 15, 1944.
Basil in Canada
Basil Lubbock came to Canada for the Gold Rush of 1898. He climbed the Chilkoot Trail and went on to Dawson. He was probably one who went for adventure rather than to strike it rich. He returned to Vancouver Island later, intending to prospect for copper, but the Boer War intervened and Basil went to serve there.
It is believed he returned to Canada again afterwards via New York in 1903. In 1912, back in England, he married Dot.
It is a mystery how, a century later, their photo album for the years 1914-15 would turn up in the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, Canada.
Within months the Hampshire would be even more famous; she was on her way to her own date with destiny. With Lord Kitchener, the British War Minister aboard, she struck a mine, and was lost with all hands north of Britain, while on a voyage to Russia. The British Empire was in mourning, but not the Boers and their sympathizers around the world, who never forgave K of Chaos for instituting the concentration camp system in South Africa, that cost some 26,000 Boer women, children, and men, their lives.
However the world was at war, and to upgrade his skills, Basil attended the signalling school at Poona in April 1915, right.
Within months he would leave the idyllic life in India and return to the slaughterhouse in Europe to join the Royal Horse Artillery. He served nobly, once again, being awarded the Military Cross.
Basil was fortunate; he survived the war, which claimed many of his brother officers.
After the war Captain Basil Lubbock MC returned to his career as a writer - which he had begun after the Boer War - basing his books on the wonderful days he had spent, while single, in sailing the square riggers in the Pacific and Round the Horn.
And he started a sailing club at Hamble, and invented the Sunbeam class of sailing boat, being single-handedly responsible for spreading to generations of Brits his love and joy of sailing.
Lord Kitchener's Mentions in Dispatches, of Aug. 8, 1901 read:
Lieutenant A B Lubbock; at Jonberfs Nek, July 15, assisted Sergeant Cima to save a native scout whose horse had been killed, Boers at time being within 150 yards and firing heavily.
But Basil Lubbock did far more than that.
Few men there are, anywhere in the world, who have left to mankind both a rich intellectual legacy, and an enduring outdoor recreational sports heritage, that can still both be enjoyed by people of all races around the globe.
The Best of Britain! Is there a finer example than Basil Lubbock?
And the book of memories of India? It dribbled off into empty pages. There is nothing of late 1915, or the latter years of the war. No other photos were ever added from Europe. One gets the feeling that both Dot and Basil lost heart.
No more gay photos of excursions with rickshaws or picnic outings with friends. The slaughter that Basil witnessed, and reported back to Dot, must have ended thoughts of all that. So frivolous the time in India; so long ago! And so many of Basil's friends, all gone, and ground into the mud of France.
Not a good time for family albums, but a time for mourning that would go on for years.
How and why the India album ended up in Canada, will never be known.
From his vantage point atop Jako Hill in central Simla, Basil painted the distant Himalayas, combining his artistry with the trained eye of a keen British engineering officer. He noted ever mountain peak and valley, and wrote down the elevations.
Other notables whose autographs are found in the book include Sir Harcourt Spencer Butler G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.I.E., I.C.S., Hon. D.C.L. (Oxon); D. Litt. D.L., F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A., F.R.A.S., F.Z.S., Knight of Justice, St. John of Jerusalem, Governor of Burma, and Ist Governor of United Provinces, (1869-1938).
Left is the Pride of Britain, trim and fit, and proud of their mission in life, playing their part in administering the British Empire in India, Reginald Barker, signature right, and STB, posing beside Basil for Dot and her camera.
From time to time, Basil would head off on excursions to the distant frontier regions, like Shaziabad, above right.
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Former Miss Hungary, actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor, 93, seems to have made another stellar choice with her ninth husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, 68.
According to publicist John Blanchette, von Anhalt accidentally glued his eye shut after mistaking glue for eye drops and is now wearing a patch over his eye.
"It was dark and he grabbed his wife's nail glue instead of eye drops," Blanchette said. He has since moved the glue out of the bathroom and into a safe place away from his drops.
"It was stupid," Von Anhalt was quoted as saying when he returned to his Bel Air mansion after having a Beverly Hills' doctor repair the damage.
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* TCW's EBITDA could be slashed by over a sixth if EIG
payments stopped
* Debt deal with banks unlikely to be threatened
* Carlyle already plans major cost cutting at TCW
By Jessica Toonkel and Greg Roumeliotis
* TCW's EBITDA could be slashed by over a sixth if EIG
payments stopped
* Debt deal with banks unlikely to be threatened
* Carlyle already plans major cost cutting at TCW
By Jessica Toonkel and Greg Roumeliotis
NEW YORK, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Carlyle Group LP's
planned $780 million takeover of TCW Group Inc could prove less
lucrative than envisioned due to the investment manager's
financial ties to buyout firm EIG Global Energy Partners LLC, a
TCW document to its lenders shows.
At least a sixth of TCW's profit stems from payments made by
former unit EIG, which spun out of TCW in 2011, according to
data in the document which was seen by Reuters.
TCW is a unit of French bank Societe Generale.
EIG is separately seeking to block Carlyle's acquisition of
TCW in court. EIG's fund that makes these payments has been put
into a special trust by a judge pending an arbitration hearing.
This hearing is expected on Jan. 30, according to a person
familiar with the situation.
While it was known that EIG contributed profit to TCW, a
highly rated Los Angeles, California-based fixed income fund
manager with $135 billion assets under management, the extent of
these payments had not been previously made public.
This revelation and the outcome of EIG's arbitration could
upset the math that Carlyle, which is one of the world's most
powerful private equity firms, carried out in agreeing to buy
TCW in August.
The stakes are high for TCW too. The deal with Carlyle was
expected to end uncertainty about its future as it strives to
become a more formidable competitor against some of the largest
bond managers.
"We are fully committed to seeing the transaction through to
completion," a Carlyle spokesman said, declining to comment on
the document, the financing arrangements, Carlyle's
profitability on the deal, or provide any other detail.
A TCW spokesman said: "As we have said, and as Carlyle has
said, this transaction is not predicated on a restructuring of
any sort."
A Societe Generale spokeswoman declined to comment on
whether there could be circumstances under which the bank would
compensate Carlyle for the loss of EIG payments. EIG declined to
To be sure, the arbitration can have several outcomes,
including the judge siding with TCW. Another possibility, were
EIG's payments to TCW to end, would be for some sort of
compensation to be agreed.
The judge may also decide to set up a Chinese wall, which
makes the EIG fund separate from what Carlyle buys, according to
a person familiar with the details of the legal case.
EIG filed the suit against TCW just days after the Carlyle
deal, claiming that it violated a stipulation of its agreement
with TCW that TCW could not compete with EIG. Like EIG, Carlyle
has energy-focused buyout funds.
Carlyle has agreed to pay $343 million in cash for a 60
percent stake in TCW, while TCW management and employees will
roll over equity worth $114 million for a 40 percent stake on a
fully diluted basis, the document shows. The deal is slated to
close in the first quarter of 2013.
Commitments by banks towards $405 million of debt to finance
the deal are due on Monday, according to the document, which is
part of materials that were distributed to banks to invite them
to participate in a debt deal administered by JPMorgan Chase &
Co. A JPMorgan spokeswoman declined to comment.
The terms of the deal represent pro forma leverage of 2.9
times TCW's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and
amortization (EBITDA) in the 12 months through the end of
September 2012, the document shows.
The document does not list EIG's contribution to TCW's
EBITDA separately but refers to it alongside the sharing of
management fee revenue by Crescent Capital Group, an alternative
credit manager that also spun out of TCW in 2010.
EIG and Crescent, which have $8.6 billion and $7.6 billion
in assets under management respectively, together accounted for
$39 million of TCW's $123 million in EBITDA in the 12 months
ending September 2012, according to data from the document.
The document shows the contribution of management fees
originating from EIG and Crescent to TCW's EBITDA and excludes
carried interest -- the slice of investment profit that goes to
the fund manager. It allows an estimate of EIG's contribution to
the EBITDA because it offers details on how fund fees are shared
with TCW.
Had EIG payments not occurred in the 12 months ending
September 2012, TCW's pro forma EBITDA of $123 million would
have been slashed by at least a sixth, based on management fee
sharing data in the document.
The document does not reference the legal dispute with EIG,
but repeatedly states that leverage, a measure of debt and hence
risk, under the deal is "conservative".
However, if EIG were to succeed in arbitration and payments
were to stop, it would increase the risk that lenders would be
taking to finance the deal, which in turn could affect the
interest rates they charge to lend that money.


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