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Jen: Today welcome Lisa Orchard to Romancing the Book. Lisa, will you share a short bio with us?
Lisa: Lisa Orchard grew up loving books. She was hooked on books by the fifth grade and even wrote a few of her own. She knew she wanted to be a writer even then. Her first published works are the "Super Spies Series." These stories revolve around a group of friends who form their own detective squad and the cases they solve. "The Starlight Chronicles," is the next series that Lisa created with musical misfit, Lark Singer as her main character.
Lisa resides in Michigan with her husband, Steve, and two wonderful boys. Currently, she's working on the next book in the Starlight Chronicles Series along with a few new ideas that may turn into stand-alone novels. When she's not writing she enjoys spending time with her family, running, hiking, and reading.
Jen: Tell us a little about your Starlight Chronicles.
Lisa: Here's the blurb for the box set that is currently on sale for $0.99.
Lark Singer is seventeen years old and already on the way to a brilliant music career. But as she and her band, Starlight, gear up for a competition, life seems to be throwing her a few curve balls. The mysteries of her past seem to be unraveling, and she's no longer certain she wants to know those answers or how knowing about her past will affect her difficult relationship with her mother. And when her best friend, Bean, changes things between them, all her plans for a musical future are placed in jeopardy. How can she balance her complicated personal life to keep her musical goals on track?
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Lark Singer
Jen: How do you remember ideas that come to you at odd times?
Lisa: I remember ideas at odd times by writing them down on a grocery list or a small notebook I keep in my car. However, I know it's a good idea when I can't stop thinking about it. I work on the characters and their personalities in my head. I also think about the beginning to the story and the end. That tells me that I've got an idea worth pursuing. The whole thing just kind of percolates in my brain and then when I can't keep it there, I start writing.
Jen: What kind of research did you do for this book?
Lisa: I had to do research for Lark's guitar. I really wanted to find a special instrument she had to work hard for to get. In the story, nothing comes easy to her and I feel that makes her guitar that much more precious to her because she had to work so hard to get it. Her music is her way of dealing with a lot of the obstacles she has to overcome so her guitar is a very important piece of the story.
Jen: What's been the highlight of you career to this point?
Lisa: I would say the highlight of my career at this point is the fact that I get to present my writing at schools and I also organize writing workshops with other groups of kids. It is such an awesome feeling to see these kids get excited about writing and then to watch them grow as writers, it's very rewarding.
Also making the Amazon bestsellers list was rewarding too, but in a different way. I like the author visits and writing workshops the best. I should have been a teacher!
Jen: What did you do to celebrate your first book? Do you do anything to celebrate a sale, new contract or release?
Lisa: The family and I went out to dinner. My boys were so excited and then when I ordered some paperbacks it became real to them. My boys are so proud of my accomplishments and they encourage me every day to keep writing. My oldest has read the first two books in my Super Spies series and he loved them. My heart swells every time I hear that. His friends have also read them and they are so excited to know a real author. I hope that when they see me, an ordinary mom, writing that it gives them inspiration to chase their dreams as well.
Jen: What do you do in your free time?
Lisa: I spend time with my family. I absolutely love hiking in the woods, especially in the fall. I also run, I feel physical activity is good for the mind as well. I seem to work out plot points when I'm hiking or running in the woods.
I like to read too. Reading is a great way to relieve stress and I love getting lost in a book for a while. Some of my favorite authors are Stephen King, John Green, and Jody Piccoult.


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Even people who dislike bugs can warm up to butterflies. Sometimes called flying flowers, butterflies come in all colors of the rainbow. Whether you've created a butterfly habitat to attract them or just encounter them during your outdoor activities, you've probably wanted to know the name of the butterflies you've observed.

Identifying butterflies begins with learning the six butterfly families. The first five families – swallowtails, brush-foots, whites and sulphurs, gossamer-wings, and metalmarks – are called the true butterflies. The last group, the skippers, is sometimes considered separately.

When someone asks me how to learn to identify butterflies, I always recommend starting with the swallowtails. You're probably already familiar with some of the more common swallowtails, like the black swallowtail or perhaps one of the tiger swallowtails.

The common name "swallowtail" refers to the tail-like appendages on the hindwings of many species in this family. Should you see a medium to large butterfly with these tails on its wings, you are almost certainly looking at a swallowtail of some kind. Keep in mind that a butterfly without these tails could still be a swallowtail, as not all members of the family Papilionidae have this feature.

Swallowtails also boast wing colors and patterns that make species identification fairly easy. Though about 600 Papilionidae species live worldwide, less than 40 inhabit North America.

The brush-footed butterflies comprise the largest family of butterflies, with some 6,000 species described worldwide. Just over 200 species of brush-footed butterflies occur in North America.

Many members of this family appear to have just two pairs of legs. Take a closer look, however, and you will see the first pair is there, but reduced in size. Brush-foots use these small legs to taste their food.

Many of our most common butterflies belong to this group: monarchs and other milkweed butterflies, crescents, checkerspots, peacocks, commas, longwings, admirals, emperors, satyrs, morphos, and others.

Although you might be unfamiliar with their names, you've probably seen some whites and sulphurs in your backyard. Most species in the Pieridae family have pale white or yellow wings with markings in black or orange. They're small to medium butterflies. Whites and sulphurs have three pairs of walking legs, unlike the brush-foots with their shortened front legs.

Worldwide, whites and sulphurs are abundant, with as many as 1,100 species described. In North America, the family checklist includes about 75 species.

Most whites and sulphurs have limited ranges, living only where legumes or cruciferous plants grow. The cabbage white is much more widespread, and probably the most familiar member of the group.

Butterfly identification gets trickier with the family Lycaenidae. The hairstreaks, blues, and coppers are collectively known as the gossamer-winged butterflies. Most are quite small, and in my experience, quick. They're difficult to catch, tricky to photograph, and consequently a challenge to identify.

The name "gossamer-winged" refers to the sheer appearance of the wings, which are often streaked with bright colors. Look for tiny butterflies that flash in the sun, and you'll find members of the family Lycaenidae.

Hairstreaks live mainly in the tropics, while blues and coppers can be found most often throughout the temperate zones.

Metalmarks are small to medium in size, and live primarily in the tropics. Only a few dozen of the 1,400 species in this family inhabit North America. As you might expect, metalmarks get their name from the metallic-looking spots that often adorn their wings.

As a group, skippers are easy to differentiate from other butterflies. Compared to most any other butterfly, a skipper has a robust thorax that may make it seem more like a moth. Skippers also have different antennae than other butterflies. Unlike the "clubbed" antennae of butterflies, those of skippers end in a hook.

The name "skippers" describes their movement, a quick, skipping flight from flower to flower. Though showy in their manner of flight, skippers tend to be drab in color. Most are brown or gray, with white or orange markings.

Worldwide, over 3,500 skippers have been described. The North American species list includes about 275 known skippers, with the bulk of them living in Texas and Arizona.


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By Jay Mathews When Linda McVeigh began second grade at Kit Carson Elementary School in Lawndale, Calif., her teacher saw she was far ahead. She had learned to read at age four from her 12-year-old aunt. The blonde 7-year-old from a rural Oklahoma family was funny and talkative. Her math scores were very high. The… Read more
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More NYC Students Qualify as Gifted after Error Corrected
Nearly 2,700 New York City students were wrongly told in recent weeks they were not eligible for seats in public school gifted and talented programs because of errors in scoring the tests used for admission, the Education Department said. Read more
So What if Your Gifted Child Gets All A's?
There will be a time when Sara, used to getting A's, finally gets to that class where the A is not so easy to achieve. The work demands attention in a different way, and study skills that have not had a chance (or even a reason!) to develop in the past are suddenly, dramatically, and… Read more
Latin America Not the Place for Gifted Students
While gifted students are heralded in China, India and other developing countries, most Latin American countries have special programs for remedial students, but not for the gifted. Read Andre Oppenheimer's piece about horror stories young children with IQs higher than Einstein have confronted in their home schools. One boy interviewed from Mexico City was even… Read more
My Babies Can Read!
By Lisa Jobe When our oldest son Brendan was 22 months old, we silently listened in awe as he recited his favorite Thomas books in his crib. Shortly after his second birthday, Brendan would "read" his well-worn Step Into Reading books as we turned the pages, pointing to the correct text and calling out words… Read more


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Destroying Democracy
When I was a kid, we were taught the importance of voting and the greatness of democracy. However, as I grew up I was exposed to an ever louder litany regarding the evils of government and the virtues of private enterprise. This year the Republican candidates are working hard to be the one who dislikes government the most and to promise that they will reduce the state more than any other candidate. Well, aside from defense and homeland security, of course. The Democrats have generally pushed to expand the state, but they have done little to create a favorable climate for democracy. This worries me.
I shall begin by noting the obvious: bureaucracies (public or private) seem analogous to people: unless properly maintained they tend to bloat, weaken, and slow down. As such, there is clearly a need to (as Socrates argued) keep an eye on the state and offer legitimate criticisms and corrections. There is also the added concern of corruption-money is a bit like termites: once it gets into a structure, it tends to start spreading until the whole thing is decayed and rotted.
Both the Democrats and Republicans are guilty of encouraging corruption and allowing the monied interests to dominate American politics. Fortunately, some Americans have begun to fight back against this. While today we see what some would call modern hippies protesting Wall Street, this could be the beginnings of a new movement that will push back the power of money and repair some of the terrible rot in our house of democracy. Naturally, more is needed than drum circles and other such things-what is needed is meaningful reform and the will to take on this corruption with courage and integrity. This, I am sure, will not arise from the established members of the political parties. The Democrats do make pious noises about it, but generally seem content to be part of the existing system (this includes Obama). The Republicans are quite active in simply making things worse under the banner of the Tea Party. The folks in the media largely seem to be going along with the establishment they are part of. While CNN has been accused of a liberal bias, in recent days the new morning folks have been making the disingenuous claim that the protestors do not know what they want. This is presumably to make them appear to be confused "hippies" who are just protesting in liberal ignorance. While these people do not have a detailed plan of reform, they do have clear goals-mainly to push back the corruption of our democratic system. That is a laudable goal, albeit one that will be hard to implement. After all, this is supposed to be a democracy and not a plutocracy.
While the Democrats are accused of adding to the state, the Republicans also do so-mainly under the guise of defense and security. However, the Republicans claim that they want to reduce the government. For example, Bachmann says she wants to eliminate the EPA. The Republicans also make a point of relentlessly attacking government and cast it as a great evil. On the face of it, it seems odd that folks who want to be in government are so intent to bash it. After all, if I was at a road race and someone spent her time telling me how awful running is while she was running, I would say the obvious "why the hell are you running?" Naturally, the Republicans say they are running so they can dismantle the state from the inside. This should worry us for two reasons. First, it seems like they are threatening to undermine democracy. Second, people who go into the system to fight it often end up simply becoming part of that system. That said, perhaps people can go into the system to make it better. There is, of course, a certain irony in hearing people talk about the founders with (alleged) reverence while promising to slash the government these people designed.
The Republicans have also been pushing to "reform" the voting laws. While countering fraud is fine, the main focus seems to have been on lowering voter turnout for the opposing party. To be fair to the Republicans, what they are doing now pales in comparison to the horrible Jim Crow laws of the Southern Republicans. But the fact that some Democrats once did something worse does not make what is happening today any less bad. This sort of tactic is a fundamental assault on the very foundation of democracy and must not be tolerated.
The Republicans have also pushed to make the state more business like. One problem with this is that it is based on the myth of private sector virtue and public sector vice. There is nothing inherent to the private sector that makes it better than the public sector (just look at all the inefficiency and corruption there). There is also nothing inherent to the public sector that makes it worse than the private sector. The quality of both private and public sectors depends on the quality of the people involved and the degree to which the people (customers or citizens) hold them to account. In the private sector this is done by customer choice (of course, some companies do not need to worry about this) and in the public sector it is done by voting. It is an amazing act of thought control that the Republicans have gotten so many people to repeat, zombie like, the mantra that private is good and public is bad. Such people fail to see that this is essentially accepting that a non-democratic, profit focused authoritarian system (the business model) is superior to the democratic system.
Of course, it could be argued that a democratic system is, in fact, an inferior system and that the authoritarian model is superior. Socrates argued against democracy in favor of rule by the best, so perhaps there is something to this claim. However, when people praise the private sector business model and say that the state should be run the same way, they need to keep in mind that this is not a democratic model and its main goal is profit and not the good of the people. Naturally, the Republicans also praise democracy while proposing a system that is fundamentally undemocratic. Interestingly, people uncritically accept this inconsistency-mainly because they hear what they want to hear (and have been conditioned to praise).
Let there be no doubt, democracy is in grave danger and the responsibility lies with us, the people, to defend and restore government of the people, by the people and for the people. And no, corporations are not people-no matter what bullshit the lawyers and politicians spew.
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"To be fair to the Republicans, what they are doing now pales in comparison to the horrible Jim Crow laws of the Southern Republicans."
To be fair to the Republicans, it should be noted that Jim Crow was created and propagated mainly by Democrats:
In the 1870s, conservative white Democrats gradually returned to power in the Southern states, sometimes as a result of elections in which paramilitary groups intimidated opponents, attacking blacks or preventing them from voting. Gubernatorial elections were close and disputed in Louisiana for years, with extreme violence unleashed during the campaigns. In 1877, a national compromise to gain Southern support in the presidential election resulted in the last of the federal troops being withdrawn from the South. White Democrats had regained political power in every Southern state.[5] These conservative, white, Democratic Redeemer governments legislated Jim Crow laws, segregating black people from the white population.
Blacks were still elected to local offices in the 1880s, but the establishment Democrats were passing laws to make voter registration and electoral rules more restrictive, with the result that political participation by most blacks and many poor whites began to decrease.[6][7] Between 1890 and 1910, ten of the eleven former Confederate states, starting with Mississippi, passed new constitutions or amendments that effectively disfranchised most blacks and tens of thousands of poor whites through a combination of poll taxes, literacy and comprehension tests, and residency and record-keeping requirements.[6][8] Grandfather clauses temporarily permitted some illiterate whites to vote.
Voter turnout dropped drastically through the South as a result of such measures. For example, Alabama had tens of thousands of poor whites disfranchised.[9] In Louisiana, by 1900, black voters were reduced to 5,320 on the rolls, although they comprised the majority of the state's population. By 1910, only 730 blacks were registered, less than 0.5 percent of eligible black men. "In 27 of the state's 60 parishes, not a single black voter was registered any longer; in 9 more parishes, only one black voter was."[10] The cumulative effect in North Carolina meant that black voters were completely eliminated from voter rolls during the period from 1896-1904. The growth of their thriving middle class was slowed. In North Carolina and other Southern states, there were also the effects of invisibility: "[W]ithin a decade of disfranchisement, the white supremacy campaign had erased the image of the black middle class from the minds of white North Carolinians."[10]
Those who could not vote were not eligible to serve on juries and could not run for local offices. They effectively disappeared from political life, as they could not influence the state legislatures, and their interests were overlooked. While public schools had been established by Reconstruction legislatures for the first time in most Southern states; those for black children were consistently underfunded compared to schools for white children, even when considered within the strained finances of the postwar South. The decreasing price of cotton kept the agricultural economy at a low.
In some cases, progressive measures intended to reduce election fraud, such as the eight box law in South Carolina, acted against black and white voters who were illiterate, as they could not follow the directions.[11] While the separation of African Americans from the general population was becoming legalized and formalized during the Progressive Era (1890s–1920s), it was also becoming customary. Even in cases in which Jim Crow laws did not expressly forbid black people to participate, for instance, in sports or recreation, the laws shaped a segregated culture.[3]
In the Jim Crow context, the presidential election of 1912 was steeply slanted against the interests of black Americans. Most blacks still lived in the South, where they had been effectively disenfranchised, so they could not vote at all. While poll taxes and literacy requirements banned many poor or illiterate Americans from voting, these stipulations frequently had loopholes that exempted white Americans from meeting the requirements. In Oklahoma, for instance, anyone qualified to vote before 1866, or related to someone qualified to vote before 1866 (a kind of "grandfather clause"), was exempted from the literacy requirement; the only persons who could vote before that year were white male Americans. White Americans were effectively excluded from the literacy testing, whereas black Americans were effectively singled out by the law.[12]
Woodrow Wilson, a Southern Democrat and the first Southern-born president of the post-Civil War period, appointed Southerners to his Cabinet. Some quickly began to press for segregated work places, although Washington, D.C. and federal offices had been integrated since after the Civil War. In 1913, for instance, the Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo – an appointee of the President – was heard to express his opinion of black and white women working together in one government office: "I feel sure that this must go against the grain of the white women. Is there any reason why the white women should not have only white women working across from them on the machines?"[13]
Wilson introduced segregation in federal offices, despite much protest.[14] He appointed segregationist Southern politicians because of his own firm belief that racial segregation was in the best interest of black and white Americans alike.[14] At Gettysburg on July 4, 1913, the semi-centennial of Abraham Lincoln's declaration that "all men are created equal", Wilson addressed the crowd:
How complete the union has become and how dear to all of us, how unquestioned, how benign and majestic, as state after state has been added to this, our great family of free men![15]
A Washington Bee editorial wondered if the "reunion" of 1913 was a reunion of those who fought for "the extinction of slavery" or a reunion of those who fought to "perpetuate slavery and who are now employing every artifice and argument known to deceit" to present emancipation as a failed venture.[15] One historian notes that the "Peace Jubilee" at which Wilson presided at Gettysburg in 1913 "was a Jim Crow reunion, and white supremacy might be said to have been the silent, invisible master of ceremonies."[15] (See also: Great Reunion of 1913)
Early attempts to break Jim Crow
The Civil Rights Act of 1875, introduced by Charles Sumner and Benjamin F. Butler, stipulated a guarantee that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in public accommodations, such as inns, public transportation, theaters, and other places of recreation. This Act had little impact. An 1883 Supreme Court decision ruled that the act was unconstitutional in some respects, saying Congress was not afforded control over private persons or corporations. With white southern Democrats forming a solid bloc in Congress with power out of proportion to the percentage of population they represented, Congress did not pass another civil rights law until 1957.
Only the Tea Party cares about this, and they are called "extremist" for caring:
America has now officially closed the books on the 2010-2011 fiscal year. It is only fitting that the last day of the year saw the settlement of all outstanding and recently auctioned off debt. The result: a surge of $95 billion in total government debt overnight, and a fiscal year closing with the absolutely unprecedented $14,790,340,328,557.15 in debt. Net net, in the past fiscal year, the US has issued a total of $1.228 trillion in new debt and has accelerated over time. At a rate of $125 billion per month, total US debt to GDP will pass 100% in just over a month. Incidentally, one may inquire about the benefits of centrally planned fiscal stimulus (cough Solyndra cough): the US economy added over 3$ trillion in debt in the past two years and the stock market is almost back to where it was back then. Perhaps it is about time someone demanded that all those lunatics who say that issuing debt for the sake of growth (and pushing the S&P higher of course) be finally locked away in perpetuity, and the key dropped into the deepest volcano in Mordor.
"It is an amazing act of thought control that the Republicans have gotten so many people to repeat, zombie like, the mantra that private is good and public is bad."
No, Mike. We fully realize that both are made up of people. But it does seem that the public sector does not offer people nearly as much choice as the private sector. And because profit is not a concern for the public sector, it is prone to much waste. What is the motive for good in the public sector? I realize that is need not be money, but could not people in the public sector have those same, non-monetary motives? Could it be that not 100% of all motive in the private sector is money?
Now, let's turn your above statement around. I think it fits you and the Democrats. Afterall, this country did elect a Democrat and far-left liberal as President.
"It is an amazing act of thought control that the Democrats have gotten so many people to repeat, zombie like, the mantra that public is good and private is bad."
I'm of the opinion that democracy is not good in all situations–but in America, with it's cultrue and level of compentency it is by far the best form of government. Democracy to undeveloped cultures is like quantum mechanics to 2nd graders. They don't understand it enough to make good use of it.
"democracy is in grave danger"
Obama's going down so Democracy is in grave danger? You realize the protesters were pro-Obama, right? Well, other reports say they were anti-government. In either case, they don't fit your idealized view.
Democracy is not in grave danger. You're being sucked under another wave of media hype. Turn off the television and stick to xbox; I did and feel better.
Mike fails to make any case whatsoever that Democracy is being destroyed. He just says it's happening. And predictably blames the tea Party.
Sigh…More sophistry trying to masquerade as philosophy. You don't understand the Republican (or libertarian for that matter) point of view because you willfully choose not even to try. Yes, it does seem counter-intuitive to oppose government growth from the inside, but have you considered the consequences of attempts to change government from the outside? How do you get from saying that those who favor limited government want to "undermine democracy"? Sophistry. And again, this is absurd given the arguments by some Democrats, many of their fellow travelers in the media and in "social services", many Philosophers, and by implication, even you yourself that democracy is possibly inferior to a society governed by elites or Philosopher Kings or such.
Look who we have here:
The Cloward-Piven strategy has deeply influenced community organizers ever since. It informs all of Piven's work, even her apparent turn to a more conventional voter-registration strategy in later years. And of course Piven's current call for strikes, riots, and disruptive protests by America's unemployed is a direct descendant of the original Cloward-Piven strategy.
Stelter's New York Times story provides the following excerpts from Piven's Nation column: "an effective movement of the unemployed will have to look something like the strikes and riots that have spread across Greece," and "protesters need targets, preferably local and accessible ones." When, in reply to questioning from Stelter, Piven claims, "That is not a call for violence," Stelter leaves her denial unchallenged. Yet a call for riots on the model of the ones seen recently in Greece manifestly is a call for violence.
Maybe what is happening is that young people are starting to realize they are going to be stuck with the bill from all this borrowing.
And to think the Tea Party is called "extremist" for wanting the government simply to live within its means.
Proposed List Of Demands For Occupy Wall St Movement!
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
Opps, forgot source: http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/
TJ: You should have mentioned the first time not only that the demands were PROPOSED (by LLoyd J Hart, whoever he is) but that they appeared, as posted by Anonymous,and were preceded by the following disclaimer:
"Admin note: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL LIST OF DEMANDS [boldface in original]. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands."
You conveniently omitted that disclaimer. Of course, if you had included it, it wouldn't have fit your story line. Why, if you had not remembered to provide the link, eventually, we'd have never known the full story. Did you get this from Mises.org or Fox News?
President Goldman Sachs. Start at 1:30 if you are in a hurry, although the first part is enlightening, too.
I think I'll take the WTP route (partially, and at least in my case justifiably, I believe) and forgo your video and long, cut and paste offerings for the time being. Why, even in that 6:44am offering of yours–a foot plus an inch or two of text on my screen–you omitted the most important part.
John Bogle on Wall Street circa 2006. This is the real problem with Wall Street, but no one is addressing it:
But Bogle isn't seduced. He offers a stinging indictment of corporate excess and a Cassandra-like warning to individual investors. He invokes ancient history to remind us that "no nation can take its greatness for granted." Bogle, creator of the first index fund, pleads with investors to pay attention to what's happening with their money or risk losing it to corporate managers with dubious motivations.For years, says Bogle, the U.S. had a system in which capital was the property of owners. Those who bore the risk reaped the rewards. That system, which he calls the ownership society, has been transformed in the past 50 years into the so-called agency society. Now investors swallow the risk while managers collect more than their fair share of the rewards. Along with that has come the era of phony accounting, stock-option mania and inflated executive compensation.
A similar transformation has taken place in the mutual-fund world. Bogle frowns on the trend of fund managers flipping stocks to juice their returns and running up transaction costs in the process. Such activity isn't in the long-term interest of shareholders. And when fund companies then charge investors excessive fees, it chips away at overall returns undermining the entire investing process.
"The ownership society is dead," says Bogle, who still keeps an office at Vanguard's Valley Forge, Pa., headquarters even though he long ago gave up the roles of chairman and chief executive. "And the agency society isn't working, so the task and it's a huge, huge task is to develop a fiduciary society that honors trustees."
How to do that? Bogle advocates federal legislation that requires fund directors to serve solely the interests of fund shareholders, an endeavor that will bring about what he calls shareholder democracy. SmartMoney.com spoke with Bogle about what's wrong with investing in America and how to fix it.
SmartMoney.com: How has capitalism veered in the wrong direction?
John Bogle: What I tried to do in the book I don't think has been done before. All these systems are interlinked: the systems of corporate America, investment America and mutual fund America. They intersect to put the shareholder in the back seat. He ought to be up front, in the driver's seat….
Capitalism has changed into a new system, which is not a good system. It's a managers' system. The rewards have to go to the people who assume the risk; that's conventional capitalism. It's been taken over, most notably in mutual fund America. By far too large a share of rewards has gone to the managers. There are lots of reasons for that, but the main reason is that we don't really have an ownership society. It's gone, and it's not coming back. Fifty years ago individual investors directly owned 91% of all stock. In 1985 the balance changed and institutions owned more than 50% of all stock. Now 68% of all stock is held by institutions, and only 32% is held by individuals.
SM: Why the shift?
JB: It's because of a single principle, which is as old as the Talmud, and that's diversification. Most people do not have the capacity to diversify on their own. They do it through mutual funds. They're doing the right thing, but the system isn't working. We're becoming an agency society, where agents aren't representing the principals. They're representing themselves. I quote Adam Smith in the book: We can't expect people to look after other people's money with the same care they look after their own money. Interests are conflicted.
SM: Explain the rent-a-stock industry vs. own-a-stock industry you talk about in the book.
JB: In 1950, when I started in this business, there was an average six-year holding period for stocks [by a mutual fund]. In the last 10 years turnover [has increased to] 100% annually. It can easily be called a rent-a-stock industry. You know [former Treasury Secretary] Larry Summers' statement: No one has ever washed a rental car. Why would you take the trouble? We aren't owners.
SM: Why is the increasing concentration of stock ownership such an insidious development?
JB: The problem is that we have profound conflicts of interest as agents. Money managers nearly all of them are managing both mutual funds and pension funds. So there's not much of a distinction out there from an investment standpoint. The 100 largest institutions own about 58% of all corporate U.S. stocks. That's an amazing concentration. They're managing 401(k) plans and pension plans. They don't want to lose their clients. The managers don't want to offend their clients; and they don't want to offend two types of clients actual and potential. They don't want to offend anybody.
In my time in this business, investment management has gone from a profession with elements of a business to a business with elements of a profession. Now the dominant form of management is the giant financial conglomerate. Companies, in effect, own themselves. Citibank, for example, holds 1% of Citigroup. They're all members of the Business Roundtable [an association of CEOs of leading U.S. corporations]. Members of the Roundtable own each other; corporations own about 12% of corporate shares. Another 11% they arguably control by having moral suasion. That 12% is in their pension plans, the other 11% is in their 401(k) plans. They have enough power to be pretty confident that those 401(k) managers are not going to take them on over any issue…. Agents' and managers' interests are aligned. What I argue in the book is that the ownership society is dead. And the agency society isn't working, so the task and it's a huge, huge task is to develop a fiduciary society that honor trustees. That's best done with a federal statute of fiduciary duty.
SM: In the book you make comparisons between today's executive compensation excesses and the age of the robber barons.
JB: I talk about the compensation for chief executives. In the book I say the top earners have 430 times the compensation of the average worker. It's like a second Gilded Age.
We have to allow some form of shareholder democracy. It's still a stock market with the idea of a republic. Just like our nation we don't vote on every issue, we elect representatives to vote for us.
SM: How would that logistically be carried out?
JB: You have to have access to the proxy. We ought to have shareholders who have 5% of stock be able to elect directors for the company. The Business Roundtable hates it. They don't want anybody else nosing into their business. They don't like the notion that a boss of the business shouldn't be boss of the board. The CEO is an employee of the company, employed by the company to do the best he can for shareholders. The SEC has tried to do something like that, but moved away from it.
to Walt Disney's board]. The cards are stacked in the favor of management and against any form of corporate democracy. In a corporation, even if a majority of shareholders vote for a provision, under laws in most states the votes are nonbinding. The legal word is "precatory," a word I hate. Those votes are only advisory to the corporation. We have to change that…. There need to be structural changes access to the ballot, requiring corporations to do what shareholders want. It will be hard, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
We have to wake up our investors, particularly our mutual-fund investors. The industry is a clear case in which if fund investors move their money to those [mutual funds] doing the right things ones that have low costs, etc. then the system will change because individual investors will see the light. This is not going to be easy to do. There's an educational issue there. However long this process takes, it is moving in the direction I'm suggesting. Investors will not ignore their own economic interests. It's a glacially slow change because there are forces aligned against change by the oligarchs. I realize it's a bit self-serving, but Vanguard is a manifestation of this. I don't just talk this kind of talk. It's what I did when I created Vanguard in 1974. It was run for owners, not for managers. It's not owned by a giant conglomerate or family…. It's truly a mutual-fund group. Our market share has increased every year for 23 years in a row.
SM: You criticize the rise of short-term speculation vs. long-term investment. But isn't that just part of investors' strategy to beat the market?
JB: Yes, but the buck you make is the buck I lose. It's not balanced trade because of the man in the middle. It's tax-inefficient. The records of mutual funds are far worse than they're portrayed, because we look at pretax returns. In a roughly 13% stock market, the average mutual fund earns 10%, and the average mutual-fund investor earns 6.5%. That's not good enough. And I haven't even talked about taxes, which take out another 100 basis points…. That's pretty stunning. This never would've happened if not for the greatest bull market in history. Managers' fees didn't matter because it didn't feel like you were being cheated.
People understand the magic of compounding returns. But few investors know about what I call the tyranny of compounding costs…. You put up 100% of the capital and take on all the risk, but you get only 20-something percent of the return. That's a system that is destined to fail. People will not be that dumb forever.


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Sony Alpha DSLR-A500 review
I have used this camera since Dec 20, 2009.
Live View: Ooutstanding and incredibly fast. Much much faster than every other DSLR that I tried.
Face Detection, great for taking pictures of small children
Image Quality: Very sharp at higher ISO settings and under low light.
HDR: Have not played with it that much, but it does do a great job alingning picutures and merging into one photo fairly seamlessly. When shooting under questionable lighting, I will default to the HDR mode. Right now I am playing with how many EVs to use for the 2 shots.
As a new DLSR user, I found this camera to have the features that I wanted at a great price. During the Christmas sale I paid $800 for the A500 and the 18/55 and the 55/200 Sony lenses. Abolutley no regrets!
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Since February, millions of people have been tuning into a livestream that keeps track of April, a pregnant giraffe who is expecting her fourth calf. However, the lanky resident of New York's Harpursville Animal Adventure Park was supposed to give birth in mid-February. Now March has come to an end, and April's followers are starting to speculate that this is all an elaborate hoax. What if #ApriltheGiraffe being pregnant…is the BIGGEST APRIL FOOLS' DAY JOKE OF ALL TIME?" one tweeted. "After all, her name is April. And April Fools' Day is just around the corner."
The zoo recently took to Facebook, however, to assure the public that April's pregnancy is indeed real. "Keep on laughing! Our sense of humor has kept us sane throughout this entire process!" they wrote. "We could be hours away or days–so do not stop your day–but certainly don't stop watching!" For what it's worth, giraffe pregnancies typically last between 13 and 15 months.


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With an exquisite blend of Hacienda style and custom Balinese furnishings, this vacation home includes, 6 ocean view bedrooms, 6 full bathrooms and 2 half baths. There is over 10,000 square feet of living area, 8,000 square feet of which is air-conditioned. There is 16,000 square feet of outdoor space.
This indoor/outdoor design opens to the large outdoor deck area, perfect for entertaining and relaxing. Here you will enjoy the palapa bar and barbeque, with a two level heated infinity pool. The top level of the pool is walk-in "beach style", with a 12-foot slide to the ocean level pool, large enough for lap swimming. The 10 person Jacuzzi is also nestled in this scenic terrace directly above the beach.
The main living area includes a spacious living room, formal bar, spectacular kitchen, formal dining room with a spectacular, round table for 12, and three other dining areas, one of which is on a massive, partially covered, outdoor terrace. There is seating for eight, with dramatic beach and ocean views from here, complete with a unique fire bowl. There are several televisions throughout the home, including the 120-inch rear projection screen, in a comfortable media room. For the fitness enthusiasts, there is also a state of the art gym.
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Super Art Fight Champ Garth Graham stares down a fellow champion…
What a weekend!
So much of one, that it's taken us 3 days to get around to posting this!
Super Art Fight had the very great honor of being a part of the fifteenth Katsucon this weekend in Arlington, VA as we proudly presented – IRON ARTIST VIII: TATAKE! SUPER ART FIGHT!
This show featured the first ever 4 team battle royale, with an unprecendented 24 canvases in play.
It featured the following…
- TEAM SUPER ART FIGHT: Nick Borkowicz & Jami Noguchi
- TEAM GIRLFIGHT: Jamie Baldwin & Yuko Ota
- TEAM WARBIRD: Hawk & Bryan Prindiville
- TEAM LEGEND: Super Art Fight Champion Garth Graham & Steve Bennett
After an hour long battle, the audience's choice was clear, TEAM SUPER ART FIGHT took the win…
…but the question is, who will we see at the next Art Fight show? This event featured no less than 3 new competitors to the SAF stage, so the card for the next Super Art Fight show at the Ottobar should be an eye-opener.
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Equine Photography Article
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When I arrived on the first of Caroline's 16 visits (her mom is in England visiting friends) I was delighted that she greeted me at the door as if to say that she had a surprise waiting for me on the counter AND
there was! Not only did she buy a bag of my favorite Lindt chocolate balls but she also bought four specialty milk bones for my dog! I thanked her immediately, of course, by opening a packet of
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Author has written 16 stories for Kingdom Hearts, Loveless, Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, Final Fantasy X, and Final Fantasy X-2.
Good Morning all, as it is 6:31 a.m. this lovely Saturday morning.
Issues at hand concerning FFN.
Ah, well then, let's see, I have a few stories that need to be updated and a few that will be completely deleted until I get around to rewriting them. Therefore some of my stories will not make another appearance where-ever I chose to relocate. I am of course, not running away I am merely fed up with the . . . well I am fed up, I love this site and have been here long enough to come across some very talented and skilled writers as well as some very avid readers. I am tired of the rules changing and will not filter my stories to meet the new rules of FFN that were not in place when I first joined, it is too much work and lessens the quality of the stories I write too much.
As for the stories that will be removed entirely from my archive they are Darkness or Light, Price of Happiness, and Crimson Ambition. The rest of my stories will remain and will be updated as regularly as possible. Any requests that were made will be fulfilled in the possible near future. College has delayed my writing progress enough to keep me from posting though not from writing fiction. I should apologize for my influx of updates and how I jump from one story to another regarding them but RL has a good hold on me as of late. Excuses are not ideal but these are simply reasons why I have been only mildly active.
I shall be relocating elsewhere I will continue to update my stories on here until I have moved each of them over to another location, I'm not disappearing or discontinuing my writing. Wishing everyone the best of luck and a great deal of gratitude to all those who read, write, and take the time to comment and review any of the stories they read I say farewell.
The imagination is how we enjoy life by thinking beyond what is to what if. Therefore we should embrace where the imagination takes us and try in some form or fashion to get there. -Lady Misaga
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Things I Hate About Everyone:
1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time...I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?
2. People who are willing to get off their butt to search the entire room for the T.V. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually.
3. When people say, "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too." Darn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?
4. When people say, "It's always the last place you look." Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? Gonna kick their asses!
5. When people say while watching a film "Did you see that?" No loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the darn floor.
6. People who ask, "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?
7. When something is 'new and improved!' Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.
8. When people say "life is short" What the heck?! Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does! What can you do that's longer?
9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?" If the bus came, would I be standing here, dumbass?
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VIPER (v7)
Series: Eighteen (2002)
This version of Viper was only available at the 2002 G.I.Joe Convention "Legacy of Valor" at Norfolk, Virginia. Viper was included with a Crimson Strike Team boxed set that included a Crimson Baroness, Crimson Tomax, Crimson Xamot, and twelve Vipers.
Viper came with a black rifle and a black backpack.
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"We attack like a crimson tide washing over the battlefield, leaving only destruction in our wake."
Early versions of the Crimson Strike Team were produced in the wrong shade of red. Unofficially dubbed the "Fuchsia Strike Team," these sets were available for sale at the convention bagged. However, it should be noted that these pieces are considered preproduction items rather than variants. Take care not to confuse the Crimson Viper with the Fuchsia Viper.
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The same mold was used to create Viper (v5) (1997), Cobra Trooper (v2) (1998), Cobra Officer (v2) (1998), Viper (v6) (2002), Viper (v8) (2002), Viper (v9) (2003), and Viper (v10) (2003).
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A group of 15 people travelled as a family vacation. The beginning of the vacation was quite rocky since our flight had been delayed and we arrived at the hotel 3 in the morning. We were given small food boxes with a sandwich and fruits.
We settled in our rooms and were glad to get some rest. Some of our group members were placed in a separate building but we didnt mind at all. We were just satisfied that we were accomodated in the renovated section of the hotel since we had booked in advance and expected to be placed in the new section of the hotel.
The buffet was good and I preferably ejoyed the snack bar where I ate most of the stay. They had hotdogs, burgers, fries and other finger food items. We did not eat at any of the specialty restaurants since they were under renovations.
The nightly shows were great and we took part in both sections.
A major issue was the attitude of some of the workers, they can be quite careless while others such as the waitresses and maids are so hardworking. One day our toilet had overflowed without even using it, which was really disgusting. The stench and the experience was intolerable, we contacted the front desk and waited. They finally sent maintainance to resolve the issue and we agreed to stay in that room because they really did a good job in cleaning up and handling the situation. For the rest of the stay, the washroom worked well.
During our stay, we did the tour downtown where we did shopping on the streets. Beware there are several con artists that pose as currency exchangers offerring you a large rate in fact they conduct black magic. I suggest that you change your money in the hotel, your tour rep or in sae shops. It can become quite uncomfortable and irritating because they people try to hassle and haggle you on the streets. I also suggest walking with single bills and not much cash. We then visited the centro commercial mall, Sambil which was HUGE and really fascinating. The Diverland theme park was also a good experience.
The beach is not the best, quite rocky and dirty but it didnt affect me. I made use of the swimming pools and the waterpark close by.
What i enjoyed the most was the location of the resort, it was close to the waterpark, we actually walked instead of paying the extra bucks to be transported by car. Trust me use your brains and you can save alot of dollars. Parque el Agua was exilarating, it was $20 Bolivars per person i believe but its worth it. I suggest visiting early in the morning so you can enjoy the entire day.
Overall the hotel is a good selection. The atmosphere and vibes of the people are great. Truly a party resort, lots of singing and dancing. The entetainment at nights were never-ending. There were a few hiccups but i would return. We visited during the summer and I'm planning on returning during the Christmas season.
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Early Wednesday Morning
[Already Blessed] JUST TALKED TO TONY AND HE SAID....NO BAD NEWS....JUST WAITING...AND THEN HE WENT BACK TO SLEEP
[febgirl] So the 72 hours have passed, I know, NO BAD NEWS, but is there any GOOD NEWS yet, that we know. Are the bank call centre people sitting watching the clock like we are???
Weskat: Don't put a target on your bank act! TOO many people are talking about how big they are going to be and sounds like they are going to advertise it to the world. This will paint a target on your bank account and you. Dont advertise that you are now a new millionaire unless you want to be robbed or have your ID taken by criminals or even travel abroad to countries where hostages are taken .
Keep a low profile enjoy the rest of your new great life of retirement. No one needs to know how much you have and how you got it. Also be careful who sees your Black or Opal bank card.. Criminals know what they are!
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[redhead11] Geeezzzzz - I really want Tony to be right but we have been through so much it is hard to believe - I have been saying "it has to happen someday" - maybe today is that day....
[dudenocoins] redhead11 ZAP said the purple pigs are flying - indicated the Historical Assets and bonds were moving forward at a quick pace... this is part of the entire reset that is about to occur. Money has been moving around the world... If it is not today it will be a great day in the next 24 to 48 hours
[redhead11] dudenocoins - yesterday I would not have believed your post on this matter but late last night I received confirmation on some money transfers that are occuring which people have been waiting for a long time
[dudenocoins] redhead11 If anyone recalls I had asked Papa Bear how things were going with the World Global Settlements, the Historical Assets and the PP packages such as Omega. His response was that it was like TNT and was about ready to explode all at the same time - meaning GCR also.
[burk50] U all hear about a man at major airport , stopped by currency exchange yesterday am ,they sai they had plenty of dinar to sell But had gotten a letter they had to stop, because it is getting ready to revalue! Wow
[BK49] Father, please be with my attitude toward others. Help me be more patient with the failures of others, just as you are patient with mine. Forgive me for not being more of an encouragement to those who are weak and struggling. Forgive me for sometimes being a hindrance to others. Please use me to be a blessing. In Jesus' name. Amen........
[beach] House of Representatives determines the "Friday" the deadline for the receipt of the budget 11/13/2013 Baghdad / Press-term Identified the Presidency of the Council of Representatives, on Tuesday, "the fifteenth of this month the deadline" to take over the budget bill for fiscal 2014, and called on the government to "send the bill before that date," asserting that the parliament "will enjoy Bagazath legislative otherwise." The decision of the House of Representatives Muhammad Al-Khalidi, at a press conference the parliament building, and attended (Long Press), "in the event of non-arrival of the budget bill for fiscal 2014 by the government to the House of Representatives during a maximum period of the fifteenth of this month, the Council is obliged, according to the Constitution, legislative enjoy the holiday, "calling on the government to" send the budget bill before that date. " Khalidi added that "the House of Representatives deserves According to the Constitution the legislative recess before this date," adding, "but because of the election law extended his work to pass the law."
jerseygirl] .In Memory of Tony's daughter Keisha 02-15-90 / 03-04-01 Angelic030401: Regarding If Tony will do a Blast :: I don't know if he will or not. His family are preparing themselves for banquets, three nights, with the cheer organization that honors their daughter every year. A bittersweet week ahead for them. For those that don't know, in 2001 Tony's eleven year old daughter was killed by a drunk driver. So every year the cheer organization she was a member of gives out a spirit award in her honor. So he may or may not. Angel
Trapper55] jerseygirl Thank you for the information about Tony's girl "Keisha", I've been following Tony for the better part of 3 years and never knew this story. My heart goes out to Tony's family as I lost a sister in a car accident 32 years ago--and the hurt is still there today.
[Jamison] before the kuwait rv they ran newspaper articles saying they were happy with their currency, major investors sold back there kuwait cash, the president died the day before after going on tv saying they were happy, then it Rv's and the president is back, they are going to do everything
[Jamison] to mask when this event happens, and nobody in dinar land has those connections to the real trigger pullers
[Robertprofessor] Jamison So, you don't think it's tonight?
[Jamison] Robertprofessor Nothing factual out there that can point to any specific date or time
[Robertprofessor] Jamison Who's the trigger puller?
[Jamison] Robertprofessor I believe dinarland has been trying to figure that answer out for years
[Robertprofessor] Jamison Then how can you say the trigger puller isn't known?
[Jamison] Robertprofessor To the average dinarian, I am pretty sure you know what I meant
[kazorlando] I am the trigger puller!!!! HA HA HA
[mbillions] kazorlando :club: :club: WHAT HAS TAKEN YOU SO LONG? ROFLMAO
[Robertprofessor] Jamison Seems logical that ulitmately CL is the trigger puller in a sense.
[Jamison] Robertprofessor We can logically say things like that, but again its just asumming , when a person ask who it is I dont answer with what my opinion or assumptions are,
[Jamison] Robertprofessor All I know, is the IMF contacts the UST the UST communicates to the banks, who the personal people in that mess I dont know
[Robertprofessor] Jamison After 10 years of efforts by thousands, surely something has been figured out and can be brought to our level other than "no one knows when it will happen, but it will happen."
[Jamison] Robertprofessor This is a major financial transaction that effects the world and we are not entitled to be let known when this will happen,
[Robertprofessor] Jamison Since predictions have been wrong for 10 years, is it therefore always going to be wrong predictions? Can it be possible that enough of the truth has come out that intel can be close to true?
[caddylady89] so tonight at midnight doesnt meant anything ?
[Jamison] Robertprofessor somebody is going to be correct, they predict it everyday, so if you need that hope, there is enough of that to grasp daily
[Robertprofessor] Jamison Is there any intel of the last 2-3 weeks that you think is probably true?
[Jamison] Robertprofessor bits and pieces are confirmable, but none of it pretaining to a day that it is happening
11/13/2013 02:16:24 am
Boots in Green Zone...say C.l. is there now..Arrived Yesterday.....no opinion....just an interesting fact.
11/13/2013 03:25:20 am
Do you mean C.L.?
Thanks to all the head guys on here. Sometimes I wonder how you have the time to check out all this stuff. God Bless you. We know it will RV but the when is in God's hands. Just keep doing your job and living like you have been and when it does RV it will be a wonder gift that you can help out other with.
11/13/2013 02:21:00 am
My prayers are with Tony and his family as they remember their Angel. God Bless You and Yours.
11/13/2013 02:25:46 am
Forget even the bank 800#, as much as I want that. At this point, if Iraq will make their announcement or actuallyRV, RI, RD-whatever they have planned and it does bring some currencies with it,I could handle all these missed marks w/ dates better. At least then, the VND I guess we could cash some out. If CL is there, why is she waiting? Ihope the few who said the banking upgrades and other items would have to happen first. I know it's not long until 2014, but if they drag this to Spring...I will really suffer. Thank you, Lord, for bringing this to a positive conclusion quickly and suddenly, no more delays.
11/13/2013 03:58:56 am
Is there any truth to what papa bear post about if you cash one 25000 dinar you will not get the high rate when you cash the other dinar in. I never pay attention. To anything he post because he is always so negative but I am wondering about this. He said it was one of the traps for us. Just asking appreciate an answer to clear this up. Thanks Tony for all you have done.
11/13/2013 09:26:37 am
"[burk50] U all hear about a man at major airport , stopped by currency exchange yesterday am ,they sai they had plenty of dinar to sell But had gotten a letter they had to stop, because it is getting ready to revalue! Wow"
11/13/2013 10:55:10 am
My prayers go out to Tony and his family, it so hard to loose a child but she is in God's hands that is one comfort. God Bless
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Allergy Frontiers:Epigenetics, Allergens and Risk Factors
Editors: Pawankar, Ruby, Holgate, Stephen T., Rosenwasser, Lanny J. (Eds.)
- The first book to cover epigenetics of allergy
- A valuable tool for scientists and a practical guide for clinicians working in the field of allergy, asthma and immunology
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When I entered the field of allergy in the early 1970s, the standard textbook was a few hundred pages, and the specialty was so compact that texts were often authored entirely by a single individual and were never larger than one volume. Compare this with Allergy Frontiers: Epigenetics, Allergens, and Risk Factors, the present s- volume text with well over 150 contributors from throughout the world. This book captures the explosive growth of our specialty since the single-author textbooks referred to above. The unprecedented format of this work lies in its meticulous attention to detail yet comprehensive scope. For example, great detail is seen in manuscripts dealing with topics such as "Exosomes, naturally occurring minimal antigen presenting units" and "Neuropeptide S receptor 1 (NPSR1), an asthma susceptibility gene." The scope is exemplified by the unique approach to disease entities normally dealt with in a single chapter in most texts. For example, anaphylaxis, a topic usually confined to one chapter in most textbooks, is given five chapters in Allergy Frontiers. This approach allows the text to employ multiple contributors for a single topic, giving the reader the advantage of being introduced to more than one vi- point regarding a single disease.
- About the authors
Prof. Stephen Holgate
MRC Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology
Division of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
University of Southhampton School of Medicine
Applying basic science to the clinical interface in allergy and asthma has been the guiding principle of Prof. Stephen Holgate's career. This has involved him in environmental and genetic epidemiology, physiology, cell and molecular biology of disease processes as they occur in humans. An AAAAI member since 1986 and Fellow from 1993, Professor Holgate has been active in the field of allergy and immunology both in the United Kingdom and overseas and in 2001 received the Academy's Honorary Fellow Award. He was President of the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) from 1990-1993 and the Robert Cook Memorial Lecturer in 1995 and 2000. He received the RCP London Graham Bull Prize for research and was elected an honorary member of the Association of Physicians in UK and Ireland following the delivery of the Sir William Osler Lecture in 2003. He has been an active contributor to the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum since 1990.
Professor Holgate is a member of the Infection, Inflammation and Repair Division in the School of Medicine, University of Southampton at Southampton General Hospital, UK and since 1987 has held a Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Professorship. He received his undergraduate medical training at Charing Cross Hospital, London and specialised in respiratory medicine and allergy. He holds Fellowships from the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Pathologists, Institute of Biology and Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and has been a censor of the Royal College of Physicians. He has served on a number of Government Committees including the Sub-committee for Efficacy and Adverse Drug Reactions of the CSM (SEAR), MRC Project Grant Committee, Systems Board, Cross Board Group and most recently Councils Subcommittee on Corporate Policy and Evaluation (SCoPE), its Clinical Research Oversight Group (CROG) and is Chairman of Councils new Subcommittee on Evaluation (SOE). He has been Chairman of the UK Department of Health Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution and has been appointed as Chairman of the UK Government (DEFA) Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards and Chairman of the Science Council's Science in Health Group. He has been a member of the Royal Commission of Environmental Pollution since 2002. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the World Allergy Organization (WAO).
Professor Holgate is co-editor of Clinical and Experimental Allergy and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He has edited several textbooks on allergy including Asthma and Rhinitis and Allergy, with release of 2nd editions in 2000 and is one of the co-editors of Allergy: Principles and Practice. He has published over 800 papers in peer reviewed journals. His work has been recognised with a Scientific Achievement Award of the IAACI in 1994, the Rhone-Poulenc Rorer World Health Award in 1995, the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine in 1999 and Doctorates Hon Causa at University of Ferrara, Italy and Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland in 1997 and 1999 respectively. He was elected to the Polish Academy of Arts and Science in 2001, received the Royal Society of Medicine Ellison Cliffe Medal in 2003 and the University of Ghent Gold Medal for Achievement in Clinical Science in 2004.
According to the ISI Prof. Holgate was 8th most frequently cited author between 1990-2000 in the field of Biomedical Sciences in the United Kingdom and in 2002 became a member of ISI's most highly cited researcher database.
Prof. Ruby Pawankar
Rhinology and Allergy,
Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
Guest Professor, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul Korea
Prof. Pawankar MD., Ph.D is the Treasurer of the World Allergy Organization (WAO) and has served on the Board of Directors since 2000, is an Executive and Scientific Committee Member of the WHO's ARIA Initiative and Chair of its Asia-Pacific Affiliate. She has served on several boards/ committeees like Vice-Chair of the Rhinitis Committee of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, Vice-Chair Asia Pacific Committee, and International Commiittee American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. She has been the President of the Trans-Pacific Allergy and Immunology Society and Asian Rhinology Symposium, is the Founder President of the International Symposium on Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis (ISBAAR) and Director, Asian Allergy and Asthma Foundation and has served as a Committee Member/ Faculty at several International Congresses as well as government initiatives in the field of Rhinology, Allergy and Asthma.
Prof. Pawankar's research interest is in the pathomechanisms, epidemiology and risk factors of allergy, asthma, air pollution, immune and molecular mechanisms in allerigc airway disease. new strategies in managing respiratory allergy, rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps, focussing on translational research in allergy, asthma and clinical immunology. Most important amongst her original works is the role of masts cells and gamma delta T cells in allergic airway disease.
She is an Editor/Editorial Board Member of several academic journals like Clinical and Experimental Allergy, International Archives Allergy and Immunology, Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Current Allergy Asthma Reports, Journal of the World Allergy Organization, Am J Rhinology and several more.
Prof. Pawankar has received several prestigious academic awards and orations, has published more than 300 original papers and invited reviews and books including the J Clinical Investigation and Am J Crit Care Medicine. She is a member of several academic organizations like the Collegium International Allergolicum and honorary Fellow/ Member of several academic societies. She has been Visiting Professor to many universities including the Dept. of Pediatrics, Showa Univ School of Medicine. She is also an educator conducting courses and symposia and vivid campaigner to increase public awareness on allergy within the Asian region.
Prof. Lanny J. Rosenwasser
Dee Lyons/Missouri Chair in Pediatric Immunology Research
Children' s Mercy, Kansas City, USA
Professor of Pediatrics
Medical Research
Prof. Rosenwasser, MD, Ph.D has been named the first Dee Lyons/Missouri Endowed Chair in Pediatric Immunology Research at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics. Prof. Rosenwasser comes to Children's Mercy from the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center where he was a professor of medicine and the co-director of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Dr. Rosenwasser is board certified in Internal Medicine and Allergy and Immunology, with additional certification in Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology.
Prof. Rosenwasser' s research interests include the molecular, cellular and genetic regulation of cytokines, the genetics of atopy and asthma, the role of cytokines in asthma, and vasculitis. Research-Cellular and Molecular Immunology. Allergen structure and recognition by T cells. Clinical-Asthma, Vasculitis, Drug Allergy, Insulin Allergy, New Therapies for Asthma and Allergy.
He was a former President of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology published by Elsevier since 1994. He has published over 110 original publications as well as invited reviews and book such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Experimental Medicine. He has also served on a number of government and foundation committees for grant review, including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases AIDS Research Center, the National Institute of Health Immunological Sciences Study, the Arthritis Foundation, the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association. In 1997, he received the Solomon A Berson Alumni Achievement Award for research in clinical science from New York University. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the World Allergy Organization (WAO).
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"Allergy Frontiers is a remarkable undertaking by 3 well-known experts in the field of allergy/immunology. … This logical approach for the first book establishes what is known regarding the epidemiology, genetics, and immunology of allergen structure and recognition … . helpful to clinicians, who are often challenged to understand why some patients respond to treatment and others do not. … will serve as an invaluable resource for academicians, allergy/immunology training programs, and curious individuals who require more than a basic understanding of the subject." (Katherine Gundling, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 302 (17), November, 2009)
Table of contents (24 chapters)
The Allergy Epidemic: A Look into the Future
Pages 3-15
Is the Prevalence of Allergy Continuously Increasing?
Pages 17-31
Allergy: A Burden for the Patient and for the Society
Pages 33-46
Epidemiology of Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis
Pages 49-78
Epidemiology of Pediatric Asthma
Pages 79-89
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- Book Title
- Allergy Frontiers:Epigenetics, Allergens and Risk Factors
- Editors
- Ruby Pawankar
- Stephen T. Holgate
- Lanny J. Rosenwasser
- Series Title
- Allergy Frontiers
- Series Volume
- 1
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Tokyo
- eBook ISBN
- 978-4-431-72802-3
- 10.1007/978-4-431-72802-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-4-431-72801-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-4-431-99823-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 23 illustrations in colour
- Topics