text:
Bailey's Best Gives Wabash a 74-65 Win over Kenyonby Brent Harris • January 29, 2011 Share:
Wabash returned to its winning ways after Wednesday night's setback with a 74-65 victory over Kenyon College Saturday afternoon at Chadwick Court. Wes Smith led the Little Giants with 25 points, while Derek Bailey chipped in a career-best 16 points in the win.
View photos of the Little Giants' victory here and here.
Bailey (right) came off the bench to hit 4-of-5 shot attempts in the first half, lifting the Little Giants to a 13-point halftime advantage. His three-point basket with 7:41 left to play in the opening period was the first shot from beyond the arc that fell for Wabash in the half and gave the Little Giants a six-point lead. Kenyon closed to within two points before Smith hit a jumper and Andrew Gilman added a trey for a 24-18 Wabash lead. The Little Giants stretched the advantage to 14 points on a Pete Nicksic layup before the Lords' 7-0 run in the final two minutes cut the lead to seven at the break.
Smith and Bailey combined for the first 14 Wabash points of the second half, stretching the lead to 50-40. Aaron Zinnmerman hit a driving shot and added three free throws over the next two minutes to push the advantage with 15 points for the Little Giants.
Wabash would hold a double-digit lead throughout much of the second half before the Lords made it a six-point game with less than a minute remaining. Smith and Brian Shelbourne hit three key free throws down the stretch to give the Little Giants their 16th win of the season and an 8-3 mark against North Coast Athletic Conference foes.
Kodey Haddox finished with 17 points on 4-of-15 shooting from the field to lead Kenyon (8-12, 4-7 NCAC) in scoring. Brian Lebowitz and Cameron Bell added 11 points a piece.
Wabash outrebounded the Lords 42-35 overall, thanks in part to a team-best eight boards by Ben Burkett. Shelbourne handed out six of the Little Giants' 11 assists in the game.
The Little Giants, ranked 11th in the latest D3hoops.com poll, improve to 16-3 with the victory. Wabash will return to the road for the final time in the regular season with a Wednesday trip to Denison and a Saturday game at undefeated and number-one ranked Wooster.
Josh Estelle, the Little Giants' all-time leading basketball scorer, was inducted into the Wabash Athletics Hall of Fame at halftime of the game. A four-time First Team All-Conference selection in three different leagues, Estelle finish with 2,065 career points. He led Wabash to a record of 83-26 during his career, the best four-year record in school history. Estelle was a D3hoops.com and Academic All-American in addition to earning NCAC Men's Basketball Player of the Year honors.


text:
Total $0.00
The Technical Committee on the Internet of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS TCI) is a forum for furthering research aiming at the advancement of the Internet -- its underlying technologies and the applications it supports. The forum's interests span many areas in computer science and engineering -- areas that are shaping the grand symbiosis of the Internet and the Web.
IEEE-CS TCI promotes the exchange of ideas in a wide range of topics: from application software, middleware, systems, networked multimedia, e-commerce, internet security, to the networking protocols and server architectures. If you are interested in the activities of TCI, please subscribe here for free.
Chair: Weisong Shi, Wayne State University
Vice Chair: Dr. Songqing Chen, George Mason University
Executive Committee:
Secretary: Kewei Sha, Oklahoma City University

subset: commoncrawl


text:
He's played a 'blokey' psychopath, a tormented Israeli assassin, and a piece of ineffectual green matter called the Hulk (please don't ask him too much about that one). This month he takes on Henry the bloody Eighth. But who knew Eric Bana got his start as a stand-up comic
I once heard a standup comic—it might have been Woody Allen—declare, "Comedians are failed intellectuals." They can't, he said, shake the feeling that their work should serve a high, serious purpose; they're haunted by their own glibness, lack of discipline, and short attention span. His premise explains not only Allen's own Bergman phase, I think, but also the trajectories of actors like Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, and Eddie Izzard.
I think of Allen's remark as I sit in the darkened bar of L'Ermitage in Beverly Hills, listening to Eric Bana, 39, himself a former standup and sketch comic, tell me a story. Acting, Bana says, was never on his radar when he was a kid. In the workingclass suburb of Melbourne, Australia, where he grew up, the closest thing to a cultural landmark was the airport. There was no theater, no museum, nothing. He'd wanted to drop out of school at 15 to apprentice as a mechanic (he's obsessed with cars), but his father, a Croatian immigrant, wouldn't allow it. Bana compromised He stayed in school, but he didn't do much homework. The feeling of never being prepared for class—"a real, solid, deeprooted feeling of failure, of not having done what you were meant to do"—hung over his entire childhood, he says, and reappears today, particularly when he's about to begin a film. "In fact, I had an anxiety dream last night," he tells me. "I was roaming around school trying to find my class. I was too embarrassed to knock on every door. It used to happen in real life."
But to the story Despite his disinterest in school, he hugely admired one English teacher. One day she assigned an oral book report. "So I watch the video of Christine, by Stephen King, instead," Bana recalls. "Since I'm a car guy, it was a match made in heaven. I write a few notes in alphabetical order, and up I get to present my book report. I finish, and my teacher gets up and says, 'Thank you.' And I'm feeling pretty dirty, feeling pretty guilty, because I loved this teacher. I mean, she was as good as they get. And she says, 'In my twenty years of teaching, I've heard hundreds of book reports. And Eric, you need to know that this is without a doubt the best oral book report I've ever heard. I'm giving you 10 out of 10.' "
Bana, in a confessional frame of mind, answers my next question before I can ask it. "It was a moment of such joy for a student who was so used to failing or just getting by. Pure joy that I might have a skill in bullshitting and that there might be something legitimate within the storytelling world that somehow fitted with me. At the same time, there was such an incredible, overwhelming feeling of guilt."
I notice that he's blushing. Nearly twentyfive years later, the moment still retains its power for him. You can go too far in analyzing this stuff, of course, but Bana's anecdote has more than an echo of a Freudian case study. In the instant a guy discovers his purpose in life, that discovery is joined permanently to an "incredible, overwhelming feeling of guilt." I'm not saying Bana thinks about this moment every time he gets in front of a camera, but it's in his muscle memory. Above all it's in his eyes. In person his eyes are so dark they don't even shine; they're practically expressionless. In the searching lens of a camera, though, they're luminous and soulful. Ang Lee gave Eric Bana his big Hollywood break, in Hulk, because of those eyes—even made them the foundation of the CGI character—and if you've seen Steven Spielberg's Munich, you know that the hauntedness his eyes convey is the reason Eric Bana is a movie star.
If you saw a Bana movie before Munich, it was probably Hulk, a fascinatingly neurotic but lifeless film that was, in Bana's account, basically an enormous green headfuck. Hulk seems to have been his first and only calculated attempt to become a star, and today he consciously shies away from what he calls "chessboardtype decisions" about taking roles. Ang Lee gave him virtually no direction, Bana says, and put him through as many as 140 takes of at least one scene. Who knows, maybe Lee meant to induce in him Bruce Banner's own conflictedness and rage, but if so, he failed disastrously. The process just emptied Bana out, and the deeper into shooting they got, the less he understood the character he was playing. I ask him to describe what it's like to do 140 takes of the same scene. "Shithouse, you know" he says. "It's no different from running until you can't run anymore. There's nothing that interesting at the end—besides someone who doesn't really know what he's doing." Certainly, when you watch the film, you don't identify with, or even feel for, Bruce Banner; in Lee's camera, he's more a laboratory specimen than a character. And for all its cartoonish subject matter, the movie lacked a sense of fun. "Humor and irony were not welcome on the set," Bana recalls, though he felt he couldn't lodge objections. "At that stage in my career, I don't think anyone would have listened to me." Filmed for $137 million, the movie lost money domestically. And it seems to have created a resolve in Bana never to work in such a highprofile way again. Around the time of _Hulk'_s release, he told the Australian Associated Press, "That pressure in itself is huge and enormous and makes me feel sick and gives me nightmares."
"I have been in some highprofile films," Bana says now, "but I think I've been pretty careful about what my level of involvement is in them. I find the notion so daunting that a movie is actually all about you. I don't think it's healthy." He has played the doomed warrior Hector, opposite Brad Pitt's Achilles, in Troy; the doubtplagued assassin Avner in Munich, a film whose star was really Steven Spielberg; a professional gambler in Lucky You, opposite two bigger names, Drew Barrymore and Robert Duvall; and in this month's The Other Boleyn Girl, King Henry VIII—a commanding, complex, sometimes frightening performance for which he's billed third in the credits, with an _and _preceding his name. Also opening this month is _Romulus, My Father, _a beautifully filmed, vaguely Ethan Frome–ish Australian indie in which Bana plays—what else—a supporting role opposite the film's star, an 11yearold boy.
"More than once," Bana says, "I've read a script and thought, This movie is going to be huge. This movie is going to make a star out of whoever does it. But I don't see myself in it." He won't name names, but one film he reportedly passed on, XXX, did in fact establish Vin Diesel as an action hero. Notwithstanding his complaints about the lack of humor on the set of Hulk, his American roles are marked in large degree by just that—strange, given that he began his career doing standup comedy.
Bana didn't know until his midtwenties that he was going to be a comedian. After graduating from high school and embarking on an impressively varied series of deadend jobs (among other things, he hauled cargo on the Melbourne docks, cleaned up glasses at a nightclub, and steamcleaned carpets), he awoke to his prospects one night when a coworker dragged him to a comedy club. "One of the performers was pretty good, and the rest were just lousy, and my friend said, 'Three of the six people you saw tonight are making a living doing this.' I'd thought everyone was as good as Richard Pryor. I went, 'What am I doing picking up glasses' " His early years sound very Broadway Danny Rose—he gigged at the Terrace Hotel's Fox & Hounds Room, he worked as a sideman to a conjurer called the Amazing Johnathan, he toured with someone or something called Jimeoin. "I found it to be incredibly sad," he says. "I found a lot of the company very tortured and troubled." In 1993 he began his TV career on Full Frontal, Australia's answer to SNL, playing mostly Phil Hartman–type roles newscasters, pitchmen, coaches. After four seasons, Bana was given his own show—Eric—to staff, cast, and write. "We'd come up with a few different names, but the network decided on that one," he says. "To this day, I've never felt more pressure."
The best sketches came out of nowhere. Meditations on character, they were marked by an affection for thwarted workingclass people and by an underlying melancholy reminiscent of SCTV. My favorite of Bana's cast of characters is Alex Topolino Amateur Magician, a teenager in a turtleneck, medallion, and lushly curly New Kids on the Block coif that was horrifically outdated even when the episodes aired in 1997. Alex is a lonely, gentle sociopath, just this side of retarded, and all his tricks conclude morosely and unsuccessfully, with gruesome bodily damage.
Bana also does two excellent celebrity impressions, of Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and in some of his funniest work separately interviews them in the guise of a third character, a reallife Aussie TV personality named Ray Martin. In the most provocative sketch of the entire series, BanaasCruise chokes up while discussing his love for his kids, at which BanaasMartin comfortingly clasps the star's hands. Startled, Cruise gazes at Martin. Then both men lean forward into a passionate kiss. "I'm sure Tom hasn't seen it," Bana says uneasily when I bring up the sketch. He downplays what the sketch suggests about Cruise's sexuality. Ray Martin, he says, is a notorious sycophant, and "I wanted to get to the side of him being so in love with the person he's interviewing that he wants to pash them." Maybe so, but I think Bana's being a bit disingenuous here. Watch the sketch for yourself on YouTube and tell me it's not Cruise who initiates the pash.
Bana still fantasizes about making a return to standup comedy. "As I've moved on with my life," he says, "I have thought, How capable would I be of coming up with another half hour or twenty minutes or hour Then I had a very sobering moment when I watched Jerry Seinfeld's documentary _Comedian. _I just went, 'I'm kidding myself.' Because you'd have to take twelve to eighteen months out of circulation."
As a standup comedian, Bana could assess his performances according to the responsiveness of an often prickly and inebriated audience. As a film actor, how does he know when he's clicking—or not—in front of the camera "There are times when I feel like I'm in the zone," he says, "but it may not be interesting to watch. And that is so fucking confusing." You can see why this might be disorienting. The authentic emotions he produces in the artificial environment of a film set don't read as they should in the objective lens of the camera. So what's real This is what Bana means, I think, when he says the following story "really upset" him "A friend of mine was at acting school in England, in a room that had glass windows into another room. And in this other room was a couple, and they were rehearsing a scene together. It was a scene of an argument. The guy or the girl was getting upset. Watching them, he was so mortified by how bad the acting was that he nearly went in and said something. After five or ten minutes, he got up to get something from a fridge, and he had to go through that room. And he realized, as he passed them, that they were having a real argument."
At another point in our conversation, he'll vent about the isolation of working in Hollywood ("You will go insane if you rely on other people to foster your selfesteem"), but to me the isolation of revealing yourself to a camera that doesn't really "see" you sounds worst of all—something like telling a woman you love her as she indifferently files her fingernails. Understandably, the experience makes him testy. "I have had instances where I've done a scene and the director has gone, 'No, I didn't see that,' and I will say, 'Well, you maybe need a tighter lens. Maybe there's not enough light on my face. I'm in the fucking dark here!' " Bana's considerable affability as an interview subject—a British journalist once described him as "blokey"—belies his resolve as an actor. "Are you easy to work with" I ask. To my surprise, he responds with a decidedly unblokey answer. "I can be," he says.
Which brings us back to discussing Hulk. "I generally don't like being told what to do," he explains. "I come from a place that is instinctual. I like to experiment, I like to feed off my costar, and I like to be in the moment. So if those instincts are being squashed, it's extremely frustrating."
Like Denzel Washington, Bana has a powerfully masculine, intimidating physical presence and brings an epicheroic dimension to his roles that's rare in recent movies. A hallmark of his acting is an ability to be at once courteous and nitrogen cold; you can see it throughout his career, notably in The Other Boleyn Girl. As Henry VIII, "he's very much the man who's never had anybody say no to him," says his costar Natalie Portman. It's an unsettling quality to experience in person, as I discover when, excited by his willingness to speak so candidly about Hulk, I ask once too often about it and Bana announces "Tomorrow, there will be no Hulk questions."
Play a hoppedup psychopath, make him terrifying, funny, and charismatic, and the world will fall at your feet. It's a lesson that made stars of Jimmy Cagney, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci. It made a star of Eric Bana, too. The Australian film Chopper (2000) was based on the true story of a national folk hero, Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read, who allegedly murdered nineteen people in Melbourne during the '70s and '80s. To prepare for the part, Bana put on thirty pounds and spent a week on Read's Tasmanian farm with him. Footage exists of Bana shifting in his chair as Read, beer in hand, bellicosely holds forth. "The stories were uncomfortable," Bana says. "After a few hours I'd be completely spent from listening. It was my job to make other people feel that." Bana's performance holds together not only a disjointed script but also a character whose abrupt mood shifts ought to make no sense. In one virtuosic sequence, Chopper, having been stabbed four times with a shiv, embraces his distraught attacker, murmuring, "It's all right." How did Bana play such an implausible moment "It's a matter of convincing yourself that's a believable beat 'It's okay to not react to being stabbed.' " The role remains Bana's most flamboyant and actorly "I was spoiled. I was lucky," he says. "A psychopath is so nice."
Of _Chopper, _Josh Hartnett, later Bana's costar in Black Hawk Down, said, "Suddenly, everybody wanted to work with him. To do that off one film, you've got to be the luckiest man on earth." Bana bristles at the notion he didn't pay his dues, though, and alludes to his early days as a standup comic touring his vast country in the cheapest possible way "Maybe Josh wasn't traveling around with me then in a Tarago van," he mutters.
"He has a quality no acting school can teach and few actors can match," Roger Ebert wrote of Bana's performance. "You cannot look away from him." Bana seems especially proud that he's never formally studied his craft. "The IMDb says I went to [Australia's prestigious drama academy] NIDA," he says with some exasperation. "I've asked them, but they won't take it off the site!" He goes on, "I know enough about what they teach in a lot of those schools to know that those approaches wouldn't be right for me. I never wanted to shroud acting in mystery." His approach is instinctive, unsystematic. Scarlett Johansson, his costar, with Portman, in The Other Boleyn Girl, says, "Onscreen you can see his thoughts blossoming, you can see him making discoveries, all the pieces sliding into place. He's processing his words as he's saying them; it gives the lines a kind of life." Bana says, "It's just through feeling. Like trying to build a world in my head for that character. To me the attraction is immersing myself in his experience. It's addictive." More than once, I ask him what he finds addictive about losing himself in another person's life; repeatedly and frustratingly, he says, "It just feels right. I don't know how else to explain it."
Bana still lives in Melbourne, fifteen hours away from Hollywood by plane, and remains, partly for reasons of selfdefense, very much a son of his city. "Living away from Hollywood is a big advantage," he says. "You can be so impinged in this town by physical beauty, by things that aren't real, by paranoia and insecurity, that it can alter your mind." Today, walking around Melbourne, he forgets he's a movie star. "I'm part of the furniture," he tells me. Eric, his TV show, draws on his experiences growing up in Melbourne as much as any first novel would. The six episodes of the show remain his most autobiographical work. But has he been shying away from roles that are close to who he is in life Has he had opportunities to play them A few years ago, he told a reporter, "I don't believe in acting where people just walk through the film as themselves. I get quite resentful of that." I ask him about those remarks. "Maybe that comment comes from jealousy," he says. "For whatever reason, I've found myself in a place where I never really get to be anything close to me. You're either doing an accent or you're pretending to be from a different country." He acknowledges, too, that he has yet to find "a vehicle that would suit my comic style, which wasn't super broad. My most interesting work tended to be subtle and based in pathos. Maybe that will be the second half of my career."
Bana's father worked for Caterpillar but also raised racing dogs. "I spent many nights at the track, hanging out with the bookies and trainers, staying up late to watch the races. I'd get home at midnight and go to school the next day." He also spent, he says, "hundreds of hours parked in the driveway talking to truck drivers on CB radios. You'd get to become someone else. There was a degree of danger. You'd sometimes arrange to meet people. Their onair persona was so huge, and then you'd meet this scrawny 11yearold pissant of a kid and go, 'Wow, you were so much better on the airwaves.' " At the age of 21, Bana flew alone to New York, bought a '79 Ford Mustang, and embarked on a sixmonth, 12,000mile odyssey through America. "I would go days on end without speaking because there was no one to speak to. I got really lonely. There are times when you're by yourself in a car in the middle of nowhere, and you don't know where you're going, and you can't afford to stay somewhere you want to stay. You don't have anyone to call, and you don't know anyone. I learned certain tools that have been very handy in this business. It's a very lonely job, though you're surrounded by hundreds of people. How you cope with it is up to you."
A few weeks after this conversation, Bana calls me to discuss his role in The Other Boleyn Girl. I ask him if there's a way that the film industry is like the court of Henry VIII. He lets out a low moan, and I realize that the question, as I've phrased it, sounds like an essay topic. I try again "Is Henry your most autobiographical Hollywood role, in a sense" He laughs. "I don't think so." So I propose to Bana that as King Henry, he brings to life all the isolation and toxicity of stardom in America as he has described it to me. Consider the plot of the film, which is set in motion when the queen can no longer bear children. A courtier hatches a plan to procure one of his nieces as a mistress for the king. If the girl can give birth to a son, her family stands to gain extraordinary wealth and position. None of this, I suggest, is very different from the way agents and producers and directors intrigue as they try to manipulate and seduce a movie star. "Everyone in Hollywood is doing what they think they need to do," Bana carefully replies, "some more honorably than others. It's a bit of a shark tank."
I press him harder, trying to locate a chink in his redoubtable blokeyness. How, I wonder, can such an uncomplicated, goodnatured guy find it in himself to play such nuanced, haunted characters How can he make himself so accessible to me yet seem to have so little to reveal The beginning of an answer might lie in something Natalie Portman tells me. "Eric has a great capacity to turn on and off," she says. "He'd be making faces, and they'd say 'Action!' and he'd instantly be the king. It was an amazing transformation." This ability runs counter to everything I've ever read about actors and preparation, so I ask Justin Chadwick, the film's director and a former actor, to help me make sense of it. "I think it comes from Eric's background as a comedian," he says. "Being able to improvise, he's able to recklessly go for something."
It's above all that tiny piece of imaginary space between Bana and his leaps into character that I've wanted to explore. But I'm not sure he knows much about it himself, or cares to. I try him one last time. I ask him whether he, as a movie star, identifies with Henry's loneliness. He replies that he does. And then he says, companionably, "But I don't know if there's a better way of saying what I've already said."
NATE PENN_ is a GQ staff writer._


text:
Supreme Court of
This order is subject to further editing and modification. The final version will appear in the bound volume of the official reports.
In the matter of amendment to Supreme Court Rule (SCR) 40.05 relating to admitting lawyers upon proof of practice elsewhere.
David R. Schanker
Clerk of Supreme Court
On April 1, 2008, the Board of Bar Examiners, by its director, John E. Kosobucki, petitioned this court to amend Supreme Court Rule 40.05 relating to admitting lawyers upon proof of practice elsewhere. On July 24, 2008, an amended petition was filed to show a marked version of the proposed amendments to SCR 40.05. A public hearing was conducted on November 18, 2008. At the ensuing open administrative conference the court voted to adopt the petition as set forth herein. Therefore,
IT IS ORDERED that effective January 1, 2009, Supreme Court Rule 40.05 is amended as follows:
Section 1. SCR 40.05 (title) and (1)(b) of the Supreme Court Rules are amended to read:
SCR 40.05 (title) Legal
competence requirement: Proof of practice
40.05 (1) (b)
Proof that the applicant has been
primarily substantially
engaged in the active practice of law in the courts of the United States or another a state or territory, the
federal government or the District of Columbia for 3 years within the last 5
years prior to filing application for admission. A lawyer may satisfy this
requirement by proof of practice in more than a single jurisdiction and under
more than one provision of this rule.
Section 2. SCR 40.05 (1) (c) and (1m) of the Supreme Court Rules are repealed.
Section 3. SCR 40.05 (2) of the Supreme Court Rules is amended to read:
40.05 (2) Legal service as corporate counsel or legal
service as a trust officer, or lawfully before the courts or
administrative agencies of a state or territory, the federal government or the
District of Columbia, if conducted in
a state compliance with the rules where the applicant
was admitted to practice law, may be
deemed to be is the practice of law for the purposes of sub. (1)(b) and (c) this
Section 4. SCR 40.05 (2m) of the Supreme Court Rules is created to read:
40.05 (2m) Legal service as corporate counsel in
Section 5. SCR 40.05 (3) (intro.) of the Supreme Court Rules is amended to read:
40.05 (3) (intro.)
The following activities, whether or not conducted in a state or territory,
the federal government or the
and (c):
Section 6. SCR 40.05 (6) of the Supreme Court Rules is repealed.
IT IS ORDERED that notice of this amendment of Supreme Court Rule 40.05 be given by a single publication of a copy of this order in the official state newspaper and in an official publication of the State Bar of Wisconsin.
Dated at
David R. Schanker
Clerk of Supreme Court
¶1 DAVID T. PROSSER, J. (concurring
in part, dissenting in part). In
approving this petition, the Wisconsin Supreme Court adopts the most liberal
standards in the
¶2 The essence of Petition 08-07 is to amend SCR 40.05 by repealing
reciprocity in the admission of attorneys on motion by proof of practice
elsewhere. The petition also facilitates
easier admission of corporate counsel and trust officers to the
¶3 The court modifies the title of SCR 40.05 so that it reads, "Legal competence requirement: Proof of practice." The word "elsewhere" is eliminated from the title. I support this change.
¶4 The court modifies subsection (1)(b) of SCR 40.05 by substituting the word "substantially" for the word "primarily." The court also strikes the word "active" in the phrase "active practice of law." These changes will reduce the practice requirements for attorneys in other jurisdictions seeking to qualify for admission to our bar. In general, I support these changes.
¶5 The revised SCR 40.05(1) will now read as follows:
1. An applicant shall satisfy the legal competence requirement by presenting to the clerk certification of the board [Board of Bar Examiners] that the applicant has provided all of the following:
(a) Proof of admission to practice law by a court
of last resort in any other state or territory or the
(b) Proof that the applicant has been
substantially engaged in the practice of law in the
¶6 The court repeals all reciprocity requirements in the former rule by striking out (1)(c) and (1m). Subsection (1m) is the more important provision. Former (1m)(a) provided:
(1m) Eligibility for admission under this rule shall be limited as follows:
(a) An applicant who proposes to satisfy sub.
(1)(b) by practice in a jurisdiction that does not grant bar admission to
attorneys licensed in
¶7 What paragraph (a) addressed was the prohibition in some
jurisdictions against admitting
¶8 Former subsection (1m)(b) read:
(b) An applicant who proposes to satisfy sub.
(1)(b) by practice in a jurisdiction that does not grant bar admission on the
basis of practice to attorneys licensed in
¶9 Paragraph (b) addressed jurisdictions that admit attorneys on
proof of practice elsewhere——except
attorneys from
¶10 I strongly oppose these changes.
The free movement of attorneys from one jurisdiction to another might be
a desirable objective if every jurisdiction played by the same rules. But they do not. This court gave no consideration to any strategy
or plan to attack existing barriers to
¶11 The court also repeals subsection (1)(c). This subsection read as follows:
(c) If any state, territory or the
¶12 Paragraph (c) imposed an additional requirement for admission to
our bar. The best example of an
additional "requirement" is the requirement that an attorney admitted
on proof of practice elsewhere has practiced 5 years, instead of "3 years
within the last 5 years." See
SCR 40.05(1)(b). The following states
admit out-of-state attorneys on motion but they require 5 years of practice:
¶13 Two states,
¶14 The number of years of practice in another jurisdiction is only one
of the numerous qualifications that states can impose on admission by
motion. For instance,
¶16 Proponents of these changes made a number of arguments to support the repeal of reciprocity. In his filing on behalf of the Board of Bar Examiners, the Director of the Board, John Kosobucki, wrote:
. . . .
SCR 40.05(1m)
and (1)(c) should be repealed because
¶17 There are a lot of holes in this explanation. First, the explanation fails to acknowledge
that some states refuse to admit any attorneys without a bar examination,
regardless of their competence, and that this barrier discriminates against
¶18 Second, the explanation makes an argument for "wider
choices" for
¶19 Under the old reciprocity provisions, attorneys from only
¶20 Clearly, attorneys who practice in Wisconsin courts practice
¶21 Third, the explanation implies that bar examinations are
"artificial barriers" to the admission of "capable
lawyers." If this were true, then
recent law graduates from out-of-state law schools should be admitted
immediately without bar examinations.
However, such openness would seriously undermine
¶22 Attorney Steve Levine offered additional reasons for the change in
the rule. Mr. Levine said that
reciprocity provisions penalize individual attorneys who have no control over
the bar admission rules of their states.
He claimed the reciprocity provisions did not accomplish the purposes
they were theoretically intended to accomplish.
He asserted that the old rule hurt the
¶23 Arguments that focus on the hardships faced by individual
out-of-state attorneys who are required to take a Wisconsin bar examination
apply to recent law graduates as well as attorneys who have practiced for three
to five years or more. Those hardships
would be eliminated only if
¶24 Mr. Levine's argument that "
¶25 The Director of the Board of Bar Examiners tantalizes the court
with the proposition that additional attorneys would mean additional trust
accounts earning additional interest for the Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation
(WisTAF). The problem with this theory
is that attorneys who practice from
¶26 In my view, the change in the reciprocity provisions was pushed through without adequate documentation and without serious consideration of the consequences. The fact that the petition was formally supported by the State Bar of Wisconsin raises questions about whether the bar leadership has lost touch with its members. At the risk of offending political correctness, I respectfully dissent.
[1] Statements in this
opinion describing the bar admission requirements of other American
jurisdictions are based on the Comprehensive Guide to Bar Admission
Requirements 2008, published by the National Conference of Bar Examiners. National Conference of Bar Examiners &
American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Comprehensive
Guide to Bar Admission Requirements 2008, http://www.ncbex.org/fileadmin/mediafiles/downloads/Comp_Guide/CompGuide.pdf
[hereinafter Comprehensive Guide].
The National Conference of Bar Examiners is headquartered in
[2] Based on information
from the National Conference of Bar Examiners,
[3] The statistics cited in this sentence were obtained from the State Bar of Wisconsin.
[4] For what it is worth,
some states have no mandatory continuing legal education (CLE) requirements for
their attorneys. According to the
Comprehensive Guide to Bar Admission Requirements 2008,


text:
2011-14 Ford Mustang V6- 3.7L 304SS 2.5" Axle-Back Exhaust System without Mufflers
PART# 70403310-RHKRBe the first to write a review
$464.95 Suggested Retail
$417.95 Your Price
$417.95 Your Price
Free Shipping
In Stock
Add to Wish List
Starting at $37 a month with Learn More
At the heart of any performance vehicle is the exhaust system. Hooker with its classic heart logo has been at the core of the exhaust industry for decades. Many of the most powerful vehicles on the planet have used Hooker Headers. Hooker continues to push the boundaries of performance with the new BlackHeart line of performance exhaust systems for popular late model vehicles. The BlackHeart line is truly a platform designed full exhaust program. From the cylinder head flange to the tailpipe, the BlackHeart line is engineered to provide maximum exhaust velocity, ground clearance, style, performance, and quality!
- Max dyno gains of +3.97 HP & +3.54 LB.FT torque (w/ muffler design) and max dyno gains of +6.97 HP & +6.22 LB.FT torque (w/o muffler design)
- 2.5" lightweight 18-gauge 304 stainless steel construction maximizing strength and durability
- Quality welds for strength, longevity, and good looks
- Available in either a high flow, straight through muffler design or a straight through no muffler design
- 4" dual wall, angle cut, polished 304 stainless steel tips with laser etched Hooker BlackHeart logo to add maximum
- Utilizes factory mounting points for ease of installation
- Tube geometry designed for maximum ground clearance and hassle free installation
- Manufacturer's Limited Lifetime Warranty
|2011-2014 Mustang 3.7L
|Hooker BlackHeart
|Emission Code
|Product Type
|Axle-Back Exhaust Kit
|304 Stainless Steel
|Tube Diameter
|2-1/2 inch
|Type of Muffler
|Part Number
This part is legal for use on Emissions Controlled Vehicles when used in accordance with the manufacturers application guide because it has a California Air Resources Board Executive Order number or is a direct or consolidated replacement part.
The following vehicles are considered Emissions Controlled Vehicles:
- 1966 and newer U.S. manufactured California Certified vehicles
- 1968 and newer U.S. manufactured Federally Certified vehicles
- 1968 and newer Foreign manufactured vehicle
Tech Resources
*Free Shipping & Handling only offered to the contiguous US on orders over $100.
Some parts are not legal for use in California or other states with similar regulations.


text:
Message Board
Melissa Wyatt Message Board
Talk about the novels, new and used books that Wyatt has written!
Author Wyatt's Book Reviews
Raising the Griffin
Alex Varenhoff thinks of himself as an ordinary British teenager. The fact that his family were once rulers of the European country of Rovenia doesn't matter. The royal family was put into exile way before Alex was born. But, one day, Alex comes home from boarding school to find out that the citizens have decided to reinstate the monarchy. Now, Alex, and his parents are moving to a country he's never seen. Worse, he has to be a prince! Prince Alexe...


text:
Was Zimmerman Juror Forced to Drop Book Plan?
Alexandra Cheney and Simon Constable discuss a George Zimmerman trial juror's decision to drop a plan to write a book with a literary agent, and the likely role of social media in the decision. Photo: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... social media campaign to help set and the plans by one and euro ... to one point on is the moment trial while commit Digits I'm Simon Constable ... Alexandra Cheney all the Wall Street gentle joins us now from the Koch implication Family Hills California thanks obeying the Alexandra ... was thinking that any fan ... sites and rather someone chair over to the thirty seven to be thirty seven ... had teamed up with all the free agent to write a book on the cement trial and an eight campaign ... on hinge that tells about it ... who who who was the campaign by ... I'm slowly well as I would say by one particular person there was ... a single Twitter user who kind of sparks and the ... and the ... controversy and so far and she really say ah sharing Martin Gil is a literary agent she had her phone number her email address ... her op ... actual address ... on line and Senapaty everyone reach out to her bought her tell her team team partner with this juror be thirty seven ... an unchanged on our campaign or petition I should say what shortly thereafter be done ... and all that happened yesterday you have to realize the news came out that she leaned Martin the literary agent was going to partner with the thirty seven ... in the morning and late last night around two am on the East Coast time ... when news broke a and and she Lane actually reached out to me saying you know we've decided sees slight the decision was mutual this isn't gonna happen now that do a lot more things that on Twitter than what we just showed but that a lot of that will be included words that we dun views or the name show on the beest live that when one of the lagoon area and that ... this was that they are ... not the problem of scientists than it was the people said I'll what's not found his share of profits ... I'm yet Alexandra isn't it true ... that the TV networks profited by covering this trial ... the lawyer as Coke paid to do that job but the prosecution and the defense ... and the job well paid to wall I shouldn't so that euro and ... why the book about it ... I think that you have to realize this and hire trial was very much a social media trial I mean there are petitions on Change dot au or to say ... I read stories them and then ... the man ... aam who allegedly ... won out he was found not guilty on ... was involved with the Trayvon Martin shooting prosecutor examined and then there was any you know this germ should not write about there was a change that our position saying free George sentiments I think you have to realize that the entire time social media ... has really played a part in this trial and in ... some of the ... I dont wanna die so hard to say the decisions by the by the intake system behind some of the controversy so whether or not who should get paid commission process I don't think that something that I can say yes the jerk should make money and then I didn't think it is something ... that we need to examine you know their protest going on sale in Oakland California and in New York about being vertex and that also everywhere on but I think the more interesting examination is ... not necessarily his profiting by white is the social media ... aam ... in foreign lands in this trial because it's huge I think on precedents and why it is very interesting and it will be interesting to anyone else not on the jury wants to write a book about this ... about whether they have the same pressure I mean a lot of people writing stuff that people in use but does like to run his clever writing stuff ... about about about trials awful all the time and that helps sell news by Pres so it's very interesting is a very selectively ... pains that one of the jurors and depriving the base of the last I will have that that seems a bit ... of sight of ... where America America is the home of making the block ... so you know it is interesting but you're right though to be the social media ... extend our old trials can be like this now Wall high profile trials and influenced by social media to thank ... I think as as social media continues to grow and continues in funds absolutely any you know back ... when we had a CFTC if any trial and we had the Amanda Knox trial you know that was something that I think socially us a little more and ... its embryonic stages and now I think as we move on ... you know I they gotta like that in the courtroom or even be allowed to tweets ... on you know wife tweak some of the ... a I think ... I think it's all to be seen but I am I to blame things on the media is going to change the way and he gets ... our information and sand was allowed to do well ... interesting stuff Alexandra Cheney on the Wall Street Journal we appreciate time ... things get ... I'm Simon Qassam on and that was digits ...


text:
Well, that didn't take long! The first class action lawsuit against Instagram has been filed. This civil lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. The case is called "Lucy Funes, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated vs. Instagram Inc.". It was filed by a San Diego based law firm called Filkelstein & Krinsk.
As you may have guessed, this lawsuit is about Instagram's recent change to its terms of service. After much public outcry, (and a lot of people removing their photos from Instagram and taking them elsewhere), Instagram did make a modification to the unpopular change in its terms of service.
However, the lawsuit is in regards to a portion of the terms that are still there. Instagram kept in the wording that gives it the ability to take user content (the photos people put on Instagram), and place ads in conjunction with that content. There is a part of the terms of service that is still in effect that says that Instagram "may not always identify paid services, sponsored content, or commercial communications as such".
The lawsuit is also about another issue related to the first one. People who used Instagram, but didn't like the new terms of service, had no option other than to cancel their profile. Many did exactly that. However, the lawsuit notes that users who have canceled their profile then forfeit rights to their photos that they once shared through Instagram.
In response, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes had this to say to Reuters:
We believe this complaint is without merit and we will fight it vigorously.
When Instagram changed its terms of service, it included a mandatory arbitration clause. In short, that basically means that users who didn't like the new terms of service could not sue Instagram. It would result in unhappy users waiving their rights to participate in a class action lawsuit.
However, that portion of the new terms of service doesn't take effect until sometime in January of 2013. This means that it is possible for "all others similarly situated" to become a part of this class action lawsuit.


text:
Club Deville
After the rain on Saturday, it was sunny and social for our ride with Tern Bicycles and Social Cycling ATX. We started at Club Deville where a marching band sent us off.
Marching Band
After a stop at a park we arrived at The Frontier for grilled food and beer.


text:
Play More Games Like Worms Games Online
This game was a few solid months of work, so I hope you enjoy. You can play mission mode, challenge mode, or custom battle mode. Play against a human opponent or a CPU one. Unlock additional stages, missions, and hats! This game will also track your stat progress as far as kills, head shots, accuracy, etc


text:
Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Wacky American Separatists
The United States of America is no different. There are numerous separatist causes. They have little popular support nationally or in their localities and have no chance of success in the foreseeable future. However, they are wacky. And this is because of their strange (and wrong) readings of international law and history.
Do you believe that the American Congress has no legal right to annex territory via a Joint Resolution of Congress? The international community does not accept this but some claim that Texas and Hawaii are not legally American as they were added to the nation in this fashion.
A history of Texas notes, "Some claim to this day that Texas was never legally acquired by the United States as Congress does not have the power to acquire territory via a joint resolution. However, Texas is not a unique case of the use of a joint resolution of Congress to annex foreign land. Hawaii was also annexed legally in this manner in 1898. International law fully recognizes American ownership of Texas and arguments to the contrary are false, are not supported by any nation or international governing body such as the United Nations or the World Court, or by the vast majority of the citizens of Texas. "
And that is the end of that bogus argument. And if any disagree, please take this case to the World Court. I am sure that the judges would give this argument the swift decision it deserves.
Do you believe that American territories can not become states unless an option for independence is on the ballot during the statehood vote? If so, Alaska and Hawaii (again) are not American states. This ballot requirement is a rule made by the United Nations. However, it does not always choose to enforce it. In fact, the UN removed both Hawaii and Alaska from the list of non self-governing territories after the citizens of these territories voted overwhelmingly (over 90% in Hawaii) in favor of statehood. And there was no option for independence on the ballot for either state.
Do you believe that any illegal action impacting the sovereignty of a prior government invalidates forever any actions taken by successive governments? If so, then the USA has no legal right to exist as all American land was previously owned by sovereign nations which occupied North America and Hawaii. And as these nations never willingly gave up their land, they must still be the legal owners right? As the Chippewa tribe never legally ceded Michigan, that state must still legally be a part of the Chippewa nation. As the Republic of Texas was illegal under Mexican law, Texas must still be Mexican territory. As the Republic of Hawaii was illegal under the laws of the Kingdom of Hawaii, the Kingdom must still exist. Of course, that is not the way that international law works...
My favorite argument used by the various Texas and Hawaiian groups is that their "nations" are undergoing a prolonged military occupation by the United States. This of course turns the meaning of the word occupation on its head and threatens to make the concept meaningless. If they are under occupation, how is it that their websites stay up, their leaders remain free, and they are allowed to participate fully in the political process by voting, running for office, and conducting protests? Heck, if Texas is not American then George W. Bush is not legally President of the USA. How can a citizen of the occupied nation also be the leader of the occupying nation? Get real...
But I will admire the Hawaiian, Texan, and Alaskan separatists on one point. They are non-violent and are content to allow this topic to be an academic debate. Thankfully, there are no Alaskan suicide bombers. America is a free enough country to allow for wacky groups to freely express their "unique" views and the perspective they add to debates reminds many of the freedom they have as Americans.
6 comments:
- jere krischel said...
Check out http://morganreport.org - the complete repudiation of the basis of the '93 apology resolution, the akaka bill, and the claims of hawaiian separtists is now online.
- juanandres said...
To argue if such territories are american or not at this time is pointless.
I believe they should be allowed separatism only if they wanted to, except that they're doing relatively well with USofA help, so separatiam would mean economic disaster to those states (alaska, texas, Hawaii). greetings
In my opinion, the writing is on the wall for the evolution of the United States to separate between liberal and conserative thinkers. The two schools of thought are exactly what George Washington warned aobut and have divided this country. Moreover, it seems to be Christians who are enslaved by the seculars as well as conservatives for the liberals to exploit a tax base. With the massive increase in debt we are experiencing under Obama as well as the polarized concepts of foreign policy as to diplomatic protection against the concept of terrorism only adds fuel to the fire of discontent and reason for separation. In documented history, this combat between Christian and Muslum sects have raged since the times of Christ and have pushed for separatists to search for a land that provides religious freedom. However, under Obama it will be soon perfectly alright for seculars to devulge in hate speech toward Christians, but Christians will not be able to voice an oppinion toward Muslums. Is this diplomatic approach worth the price of our freedom protected by the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights which states all men are created equal with certian unalienable rights endowed by our creator?
To separate means to obtain freedom. I propose a separation based along no fault divorce laws here there is equal separation of government assets and a division geographically between east and west in the United States. It only makes sense that the liberals take the west as it will provide them with the Mexican coridor to promote CAFTA and NAFTA. Texas should become idependent. Alaska and Hawai can be sold to China to pay the debt and all Americans can start fresh. Let the liberals go their own way and reconstruct the constituton to their secular god. Let Conservatives go their way and preserve our founding fathers thought in the American Constituton and the Bill of Rights. Let Liberals have thier ideas of global government and single currency and promote transnationalism. Let Conservatives maintain soverneignty.
There are plenty of infrastucture assets to support the division. Liberals can decide what to do with their borders and Conservatives can employ the military.
Like a bad marriage, each can go their on separate way in the divorce and strive to be happy and embrace change that everyone can believe in.
Don't Tread on US!!!!!!!!!
The new movement isn't wacky and has history on its side.
Texas is still recognized as a Sovereign Nation by many foreign countries.
If all the United States, (federal corporation) had to do is a joint resolution why wouldn't they just claim to own the world?
It is because they have no power over a foreign nation. The Texas Republic is a sovereign nation.
You have to have a treaty where the Texian People and the United States agreedy by contract, or treaty, to join the union.
This never happened.
In 1845 the texian "government" overstepped their boundaries and are instead "STATE OF TEXAS", a subcorporation of the "UNITED STATES".
Texas is a Sovereign Nation. A joint resolution by one country is not enough to claim to "annex" a foreign nation.
- M said...
"Texas is still recognized as a Sovereign Nation by many foreign countries."
Please provide a citation for this. Which countries?
"If all the United States, (federal corporation) had to do is a joint resolution why wouldn't they just claim to own the world?"
Because the nation accepting such a resolution has to accept it. Which Texas did.
If you disagree, file a case with the International Court of Justice.
- Thom Hill said...
A few questions:
(1) I would like to see a list of countries that recognize Texas as a sovereign country. Even in its ten years existence as a separate nation few countries recognized it.
(2) Texas would never allow the US to sell it to China to pay off debts. That's wacky.
(3) Texas could survivie very well without US support. It is a donor state (ie a net contribution of taxes to federal government), it has most of the US oil reserves, it is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other state, it has vast agriculture and other natural resources, and has a well trained population.
(4) Texas could be independent through a collaborative de-annexation process. This would require approval of the US Congress and the other 49 state legistaures (not sure what margin of support is required, quorum, plurality, or all 49 states).


text:
Help secure a more comfortable future with solid planning today. Protecting your wealth and assets involves taking advantage of a diverse array of financial solutions tailored to your long-term needs. You may be budgeting for the mortgage on a new home or learning to manage newfound wealth. Now it's time to look toward the future to help protect your assets. As you think about ways to minimize your taxes, fund your retirement, and protect loved ones, you can work with our Financial Services Representatives to make the process easier.
Here are some options to consider:
Offices operating under an alternative marketing name may offer products, services, or guidance outside of their relationship with MassMutual, MML Investors Services, or their affiliated companies. Any such offices are not subsidiaries or affiliates of MassMutual or its affiliated companies.
Securities, investment advisory and financial planning services offered through qualified registered representatives of MML Investors Services, LLC, Member SIPC. Supervisory Office: 200 West Forsyth Street, Suite 600, Jacksonville, FL 32202; Phone: 904-998-7300.
MassMutual is a marketing name for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) and its affiliated companies and sales representatives. Local sales agencies are not subsidiaries of MassMutual or its affiliated companies. Agency officers are not officers of MassMutual.
Financial services representatives are independent contractors and are not employees of MassMutual, its subsidiaries, or of general agents with whom they contract.
Privacy Policy/Terms of Use


text:
2 comments:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
This is a hobby, I like taking photos and a weblog is a good way of learning how to write. I show off stuff around Ingham, NQ, and other parts of Australia when I get around to travelling. I keep a webcam running almost lifelessly at http://home.exetel.com.au/zzzz/ Hmmm, it may be best to try that URL in lowercase.


text:
(c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved.
Contact us for information about using this image.
Sympathizers of the Regulators were still active in Northfield during April and May, 1787. Toward the end of May, word was received that the Regulators might come into town to raid the commissary and take prisoners of some of the inhabitants. Both the alarm list and the train band were called to arms and detached to various parts of town. Parties of armed men were found on both sides of the Connecticut River (Northfield is situated on both sides) but soon disbanded. The information was coming into Northfield from the town of Winchester, which is the town directly north, just over the border in New Hampshire.
top of page
Send an e-Postcard of this object
See Also...
Insurgents in Northfield article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Court verdicts of punishment for Shays' Insurgents published in the Hamsphire Gazette
List of Colrain Insurgents
Home | Online Collection | Things
To Do | Turns
Exhibit | Classroom | Chronologies | My
About This Site | Site Index | Site Search | Feedback


text:
"Part John Grisham-like thriller, part business and political memoir." —The New York Times
"[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar's Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browder's business saga meshes well with the story of corruption and murder in Vladimir Putin's Russia, making Red Notice an early candidate for any list of the year's best books" (Fortune).
This is a story about an accidental activist. Bill Browder started out his adult life as the Wall Street maverick whose instincts led him to Russia just after the breakup of the Soviet Union, where he made his fortune.
Along the way he exposed corruption, and when he did, he barely escaped with his life. His Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky wasn't so lucky: he ended up in jail, where he was tortured to death. That changed Browder forever. He saw the murderous heart of the Putin regime and has spent the last half decade on a campaign to expose it. Because of that, he became Putin's number one enemy, especially after Browder succeeded in having a law passed in the United States—The Magnitsky Act—that punishes a list of Russians implicated in the lawyer's murder. Putin famously retaliated with a law that bans Americans from adopting Russian orphans.
A financial caper, a crime thriller, and a political crusade, Red Notice is the story of one man taking on overpowering odds to change the world, and also the story of how, without intending to, he found meaning in his life.
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities.
The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories.
Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:
- China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West?
- Are America's best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority?
- What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson's breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions?
Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.
When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter-veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner-travels deeply into a vast, often hidden, 500-billion-dollar industry that's transforming our economy and environment.
Minter takes us from back-alley Chinese computer recycling operations to recycling factories capable of processing a jumbo jet's worth of trash every day. Along the way, we meet an international cast of characters who have figured out how to squeeze Silicon Valley-scale fortunes from what we all throw away. Junkyard Planet reveals how "going green" usually means making money-and why that's often the most sustainable choice, even when the recycling methods aren't pretty.
With unmatched access to and insight on the waste industry, and the explanatory gifts and an eye for detail worthy of a John McPhee or William Langewiesche, Minter traces the export of America's garbage and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of how the way we consume and discard stuff brings home the ascent of a developing world that recognizes value where Americans don't. Junkyard Planet reveals that Americans might need to learn a smarter way to take out the trash.
To most proglobalizers, globalization is a source of economic salvation for developing nations, and to fully benefit from it nations must follow a universal set of rules designed by organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization and enforced by international investors and capital markets. But to most antiglobalizers, such global rules spell nothing but trouble, and the more poor nations shield themselves from them, the better off they are. Rodrik rejects the simplifications of both sides, showing that poor countries get rich not by copying what Washington technocrats preach or what others have done, but by overcoming their own highly specific constraints. And, far from conflicting with economic science, this is exactly what good economics teaches.
One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Books to Read Now • One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year • One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the Year
Shortlisted for the OWL Business Book Award and Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Version 2.0, Updated and Expanded, with a New Afterword
We all sense it—something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once—and it is dizzying.
In Thank You for Being Late, version 2.0, with a new afterword, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them and cushion their worst impacts. His thesis: to understand the twenty-first century, you need to understand that the planet's three largest forces—Moore's law (technology), the Market (globalization), and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss)—are accelerating all at once. These accelerations are transforming five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. The year 2007 was the major inflection point: the release of the iPhone, together with advances in silicon chips, software, storage, sensors, and networking, created a new technology platform that is reshaping everything from how we hail a taxi to the fate of nations to our most intimate relationships. It is providing vast new opportunities for individuals and small groups to save the world—or to destroy it.
With his trademark vitality, wit, and optimism, Friedman shows that we can overcome the multiple stresses of an age of accelerations—if we slow down, if we dare to be late and use the time to reimagine work, politics, and community. Thank You for Being Late is an essential guide to the present and the future.
The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas.
One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In FACTORY MAN, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.
Drawing on his experience consulting with top companies and NGOs worldwide, Hart shows how to craft your optimal sustainability strategy and overcome the limitations of traditional "greening" approaches. In this edition, he presents new and updated case studies from the United States and around the world, demonstrating what's working and what isn't. He also guides business leaders in building an organizational "infrastructure for sustainability"--one that can survive budgeting and boardrooms, recharging innovation and growth throughout your enterprise. Discover:
· The new business case for pursuing sustainable capitalism
· Sustainability strategies that go far beyond environmental sensitivity
· How to fully embed your enterprise in the local context--and why you should
· Tactics for making long-term sustainability work in a short-term world
Before you invest another dollar anywhere in the world (including the United States), read this book by the man Time magazine calls "the Indiana Jones of finance."
Jim Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he co-founded the Quantum Fund. Investment Biker is the fascinating story of Rogers's global motorcycle journey/investing trip, with hardheaded advice on the current state and future direction of international economies that will guide and inspire investors interested in foreign markets.
NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.
—New York Times
An international bestseller, The Miracle by business journalist Michael Schuman offers a fascinating exploration of the most meaningful and far-reaching global event since World War II: the economic ascent of the Asian continent. CNN's Wolf Blitzer calls The Miracle, "An amazing story and it's all true," while the New York Times praises Schuman for being, "not just a skilled reporter [but] also a gifted journalistic storyteller." The Miracle is essential reading for anyone who truly wants to understand today's—and tomorrow's—world.
"There is a temptation, when you are around George Friedman, to treat him like a Magic 8 Ball." —The New York Times Magazine
With remarkable accuracy, George Friedman has forecasted coming trends in global politics, technology, population, and culture. In Flashpoints, Friedman focuses on Europe—the world's cultural and power nexus for the past five hundred years . . . until now. Analyzing the most unstable, unexpected, and fascinating borderlands of Europe and Russia—and the fault lines that have existed for centuries and have been ground zero for multiple catastrophic wars—Friedman highlights, in an unprecedentedly personal way, the flashpoints that are smoldering once again.
The modern-day European Union was crafted in large part to minimize built-in geopolitical tensions that historically have torn it apart. As Friedman demonstrates, with a mix of rich history and cultural analysis, that design is failing. Flashpoints narrates a living history of Europe and explains, with great clarity, its most volatile regions: the turbulent and ever-shifting land dividing the West from Russia (a vast area that currently includes Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania); the ancient borderland between France and Germany; and the Mediterranean, which gave rise to Judaism and Christianity and became a center of Islamic life.
Through Friedman's seamless narrative of townspeople and rivers and villages, a clear picture of regions and countries and history begins to emerge. Flashpoints is an engrossing analysis of modern-day Europe, its remarkable past, and the simmering fault lines that have awakened and will be pivotal in the near future. This is George Friedman's most timely and, ultimately, riveting book.
Beijing's cautious reforms have left the country stuck midway between communism and capitalism, Chang writes. With its impending World Trade Organization membership, for the first time China will be forced to open itself to foreign competition, which will shake the country to its foundations. Economic failure will be followed by government collapse. Covering subjects from party politics to the Falun Gong to the government's insupportable position on Taiwan, Chang presents a thorough and very chilling overview of China's present and not-so-distant future.
Hong Kong and Southeast Asia are home to five hundred million people, yet their economies are dominated by only fifty families whose interests range from banking to real estate, shipping to sugar, gambling to lumber. At their peak, eight of the world's two dozen richest men were Southeast Asian, but their names would not be familiar to most regular readers of The Wall Street Journal.
A complex mythology surrounds these billionaires, but in Asian Godfathers, Joe Studwell finds that the facts are even more remarkable than the myths. Studwell has spent fifteen years as a reporter in the region, and he marshals his unprecedented sources to paint intimate and revealing portraits of the men who control Southeast Asia. Studwell also provides us with a rich and deep understanding of the broader historic, economic, and political influences that have shaped Southeast Asia over the past 150 years.
Asian Godfathers is a riveting and illuminating book that lifts the curtain on a world of staggering secrecy and hypocrisy, and reveals—for the first time—who the leaders of one of the planet's most important and tumultuous markets really are, why they got to the top, and how they keep themselves there.
"The romp around the region's pleasure domes is a blast." —The Wall Street Journal Asia
Bok first describes the principal findings of happiness researchers. He considers how reliable the results appear to be and whether they deserve to be taken into account in devising government policies. Recognizing both the strengths and weaknesses of happiness research, Bok looks at the policy implications for economic growth, equality, retirement, unemployment, health care, mental health, family programs, education, and government quality, among other subjects. Timely and incisive, The Politics of Happiness sheds new light on what makes people happy and how government policy could foster greater satisfaction for all.
But as Ghetto at the Center of the World shows us, a trip to Chungking Mansions reveals a far less glamorous side of globalization. A world away from the gleaming headquarters of multinational corporations, Chungking Mansions is emblematic of the way globalization actually works for most of the world's people. Gordon Mathews's intimate portrayal of the building's polyethnic residents lays bare their intricate connections to the international circulation of goods, money, and ideas. We come to understand the day-to-day realities of globalization through the stories of entrepreneurs from Africa carting cell phones in their luggage to sell back home and temporary workers from South Asia struggling to earn money to bring to their families. And we see that this so-called ghetto—which inspires fear in many of Hong Kong's other residents, despite its low crime rate—is not a place of darkness and desperation but a beacon of hope.
Gordon Mathews's compendium of riveting stories enthralls and instructs in equal measure, making Ghetto at the Center of the World not just a fascinating tour of a singular place but also a peek into the future of life on our shrinking planet.
Drawing on her expertise in both comparative politics and international relations and on her experience as a former public official, Lancaster provides five in-depth case studies—the United States, Japan, France, Germany, and Denmark—that demonstrate how domestic politics and international pressures combine to shape how and why donor governments give aid. In doing so, she explores the impact on foreign aid of political institutions, interest groups, and the ways governments organize their giving. Her findings provide essential insight for scholars of international relations and comparative politics, as well as anyone involved with foreign aid or foreign policy.
Reimagining India features an all-star cast of contributors, including CNN's Fareed Zakaria; Mukesh Ambani, CEO of India's largest private conglomerate; Microsoft founder Bill Gates; Google chairman Eric Schmidt; Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria; award-winning authors Suketu Mehta (Maximum City), Edward Luce (In Spite of the Gods), and Patrick French (India: A Portrait); Nandan Nilekani, Infosys cofounder and chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India; and a host of other leading executives, entrepreneurs, economists, foreign policy experts, journalists, historians, and cultural luminaries. These essays explore topics like the strengths and weaknesses of India's political system, growth prospects for India's economy, the competitiveness of Indian firms, India's rising international profile, and the rapid evolution of India's culture.
Over the next decade India has the opportunity to show the rest of the developing world how open, democratic societies can achieve high growth and shared prosperity. Contributors offer creative strategies for seizing that opportunity. But they also offer a frank assessment of the risks that India's social and political fractures will instead thwart progress, condemning hundreds of millions of people to enduring poverty. Reimagining India is a critical resource for readers seeking to understand how this vast and vital nation is changing—and how it promises to change the world around us.
In February 2013, the director of Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, made the shocking announcement that 700 international soccer matches had been fixed since 2008, including World Cup qualifying and exhibition matches, with a Chinese criminal syndicate pulling the strings. For the first time, investigative journalist Brett Forrest takes us inside the underworld of one of organized crime's most profitable businesses—a $1 trillion annual international betting market, of which soccer comprises 70 percent.
Forrest uncovered a web of nefarious dealings across the world, even on U.S. soil. As he found, no match is safe—not even the World Cup tournament—and law enforcement officials lack the resources to stop it. But one man has taken this criminal enterprise on: Chris Eaton, former head of security for FIFA. Now with the International Center for Sports Security in Qatar, this rough and tumble Australian and longtime Interpol cop has tracked down some of the biggest fixers and their financial backers and continues his mission to clean up the world's most popular sport.
Filled with headline making revelations, The Big Fix is must reading for soccer fans and true crime aficionados.
A new breed of world-leading companies are catching their Western competitors off guard. Household names of today -- IBM, Ford, Sony, and Shell -- are in danger of becoming has-beens as these more innovative new superstars in the emerging markets claim dominance. Understanding how they have become world-class market leaders, and where they are taking the world economy, is crucial to understanding not only the future of globalization, but the future of Western competitiveness.
Each year we are buying more planes from Brazil's Embraer, refrigerators from China's Haier appliance maker, smart cell phones from Taiwan's HTC, and gas from Russia's Gazprom. How have these relative unknowns come so far in the world markets so fast? What are they doing right that their Western competitors are doing wrong, and how can Western companies face the intensifying challenges and survive?
With in-depth, inside knowledge of these emerging powerhouses that's based on his thirty years of working, traveling, and investing in emerging markets and his extraordinary access to the leading companies, van Agtmael trains his experienced analyst's eye on twenty-five of the top emerging giants, taking readers into the executive suites and labs where they are outmaneuvering their Western rivals. Profiling these major players, such as Korea's Samsung Electronics, China's computer maker Lenovo, Brazil's iron ore giant CVRD, and India's Infosys, van Agtmael divulges their strategies for growth, and analyzes how their rise to dominance will change our lives. His unique insights point the way to how we in the West can capitalize on the opportunities these companies represent while also mobilizing a powerful response to the challenges they present.
The Emerging Markets Century is a compelling and necessary read for anyone who wants to understand the true magnitude of change under way in the global economy today.
In today's global economy, it would be short-sighted to rely solely on local resources for new-product innovations. Instead, knowledge and activity critical to innovation most likely lie outside your company's home territories—sometimes far outside. And this distance makes it harder than ever to obtain and integrate these resources, eating away at your competitive edge.
How to tackle this challenge? In Managing Global Innovation, INSEAD's Yves L. Doz and Keeley Wilson show you how to build and leverage a global innovation network. Drawing on extensive research and real-life company examples, they walk you through a set of practical frameworks for acquiring and integrating innovation-critical knowledge from multiple sources. You'll learn to optimize your innovation footprint, improve communication and receptivity, and enhance collaboration in order to succeed on a global scale.
Based on in-depth research within more than three dozen corporations—including Citibank, Essilor, GE, GlaxoSmithKline, HP Labs, HP Singapore, Nokia, Novartis, Shiseido, Siemens, Snecma, Synopsys, and Xerox—this book bridges theory and practice.
Managing Global Innovation gives you the tools to harness critical expertise from around the globe—and channel it into your innovation programs.
While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every continent. From startup hubs in Kenya to R&D labs in South Korea, Ross has seen what the future holds.
In The Industries of the Future, Ross provides a "lucid and informed guide" (Financial Times) to the changes coming in the next ten years. He examines the fields that will most shape our economic future, including robotics and artificial intelligence, cybercrime and cybersecurity, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the impact of digital technology on money and markets. In each of these realms, Ross addresses the toughest questions: How will we have to adapt to the changing nature of work? Is the prospect of cyberwar sparking the next arms race? How can the world's rising nations hope to match Silicon Valley with their own innovation hotspots? And what can today's parents do to prepare their children for tomorrow?
Ross blends storytelling and economic analysis to show how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live. Sharing insights from global leaders—from the founders of Google and Twitter to defense experts like David Petraeus—Ross reveals the technologies and industries that will drive the next stage of globalization. The Industries of the Future is "a riveting and mind-bending book" (New York Journal of Books), a "must read" (Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America) regardless of "whether you follow these fields closely or you still think of Honda as a car rather than a robotics company" (Forbes).
A definitive code for managerial success
Some people find management so easy. They appear to be natural leaders, painlessly negotiating the system, the politics, the people, and the targets.
Is there something they know that the rest of us don't? Is it something we can all learn? The answer is a resounding yes. They know the Rules of management.
These Rules are the guiding principles that show you how to inspire your team in a way that gets results. They will help you say the right thing, do the right thing, and know instinctively how to handle every situation.
In this new edition of the international bestseller, Richard Templar has added 10 new Rules to help you make management even easier and your success greater. And when you are headhunted or promoted (again), nobody will be surprised. Least of all you.
Others can be good. You'll be better.
With project management becoming an increasingly global endeavour, a comprehensive and international student text that reflects this reality is essential.
International Project Management does just that, systematically linking the key elements of cross-cultural management and the particularities of an international context, with the tools and techniques of project management.
Key features include:
- A wide variety of examples and illustrations, including an in-depth, end-of-chapter case study with case questions;
- Student exercises and review questions;
- Detailed further reading
- The full support of a Companion Website, featuring a Teacher's Manual
Visit the Companion Website at www.sagepub.co.uk/koster
Although it was written well over two thousand years ago, the Bhagavad Gita ("Song of God"), a revered Hindu religious text, contains an immense wealth of ageless wisdom that speaks directly to the needs of today's business leaders. Timeless Leadership takes this unlikely resource and teases out important lessons on 18 aspects of leadership, from commercial vision to motivation, decision-making, and planning.
Looking in detail at what the Gita has to say about these and other issues of interest to business professionals, Timeless Leadership focuses on one central point: that once the basic thought process of man is improved, the quality of his actions will improve as well, leading to better results.Uses an ancient religious text to highlight and explain key Western management concepts Explores the leadership ideas in the Bhagavad Gita and helps managers and leaders apply them to modern business life Weaves together the threads of wisdom from the Gita to shed light on issues and challenges for leaders at all levels
Covering teachings and ideas that have only got better with time, Timeless Leadership adapts the wisdom of millennia past for today's business leaders.
In China Airborne, James Fallows documents, for the first time, the extraordinary scale of this project and explains why it is a crucial test case for China's hopes for modernization and innovation in other industries. He makes clear how it stands to catalyze the nation's hyper-growth and hyper- urbanization, revolutionizing China in ways analogous to the building of America's transcontinental railroad in the nineteenth century. Fallows chronicles life in the city of Xi'an, home to more than 250,000 aerospace engineers and assembly workers, and introduces us to some of the hucksters, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who seek to benefit from China's pursuit of aerospace supremacy. He concludes by examining what this latest demonstration of Chinese ambition means for the United States and the rest of the world—and the right ways to understand it.
The world's fastest-growing democracy, India has the youngest population on the planet, and a middle class as big as the population of the entire United States. Its market has the potential to become the world's largest. As one film producer told Kamdar when they met in New York, "Who needs the American audience? There are only 300 million people here." Not only is India the ideal market for the next new thing, but with a highly skilled English-speaking workforce, elite educational institutions, and growing foreign investment, India is emerging as an innovator of the technology that is driving the next phase of the global economy.
While India is celebrating its meteoric rise, it is also racing against time to bring the benefits of the twenty-first century to the 800 million Indians who live on less than two dollars per day, to find the sustainable energy to fuel its explosive economic growth, and to navigate international and domestic politics to ensure India's security and its status as a global power. India is the world in microcosm: the challenges it faces are universal -- from combating terrorism, poverty, and disease to protecting the environment and creating jobs. The urgency of these challenges for India is spurring innovative solutions, which will catapult it to the top of the new world order. If India succeeds, it will not only save itself, it will save us all. If it fails, we will all suffer. As goes India, so goes the world.
Mira Kamdar tells the dramatic story of a nation in the midst of redefining itself and our world. Provocative, timely, and essential, Planet India is the groundbreaking book that will convince Americans just how high the stakes are -- what there is to lose, and what there is to gain from India's meteoric rise.
India is the world's fourth-largest economy.
By 2034, India will be the most populous country on Earth, with 1.6 billion people.
India's middle class is already larger than the entire population of the United States.
One out of three of the world's malnourished children live in India.
India is home to the biggest youth population on earth:
600 million people are under the age of 25.
72,000,000 cell phones will be sold in India in 2007.
India just edged past the United States to become the second-most-preferred destination for foreign direct investment after China.
In 1991, Indians purchased 150,000 automobiles; in 2007, they are expected to purchase 10 million.
By 2008, India's total pool of qualified graduates will be more than twice as large as China's.
By 2015, an estimated 3.5 million white-collar U.S. jobs will be offshored.
India is the largest arms importer in the developing world.
American corporations expect to earn $20 to $40 billion from the civilian nuclear agreement with India.
In 2007, there are 2.2 million Indian Americans, a number expected to double every decade.
Twenty-nine percent of India's population speaks English -- that's 350 million people.
Longtime China scholar Kenneth Lieberthal brings to bear a unique combination of experiences as former top government official, political scientist, professor of international corporate strategy, and consultant. In Managing the China Challenge, he draws on his deep understanding of China's political and economic systems and the priorities of local and national leaders to illuminate the strategies foreign companies must master to succeed in the Middle Kingdom.
In straightforward language, using numerous concrete examples to support his ideas and recommendations, Lieberthal cogently presents not only how to benefit from doing business in China, but also how to avoid the serious risks that the endeavor entails. The implications Lieberthal lays out for corporate strategy are wide-ranging and critically important.
The structure of global politics is shifting rapidly. After decades of rising, China has entered a new and critical phase where it seeks to turn its economic heft into global power. In this deeply informed book, Geoff Dyer makes a lucid and convincing argument that China and the United States are now embarking on a great power–style competition that will dominate the century. This contest will take place in every arena: from control of the seas, where China's new navy is trying to ease the United States out of Asia and reassert its traditional leadership, to rewriting the rules of the global economy, with attempts to turn the renminbi into the predominant international currency, toppling the dominance of the U.S. dollar. And by investing billions to send its media groups overseas, Beijing hopes to shift the global debate about democracy and individual rights. Eyeing the high ground of international politics, China is taking the first steps in an ambitious global agenda.
Yet Dyer explains how China will struggle to unseat the United States. China's new ambitions are provoking intense anxiety, especially in Asia, while America's global influence has deep roots. If Washington can adjust to a world in which it is no longer dominant but still immensely powerful, it can withstand China's challenge. With keen insight based on a deep local knowledge—offering the reader visions of coastal Chinese beauty pageants and secret submarine bases, lockstep Beijing military parades and the neon media screens of Xinhua exported to New York City's Times Square—The Contest of the Century is essential reading at a time of great uncertainty about America's future, a road map for retaining a central role in the world.
From the Hardcover edition.
Since the last edition was published in 2006, enormous changes have taken place. The world economy has been in upheaval with the biggest financial crash and ensuing recession since the 1930s; with a global re-ordering of economic power relations; with widespread demonstrations by those left behind; with divergent views about where Europe is heading; with a growing scarcity of essential resources; with increasing international terrorism and with increasing concerns of environmental degradation and climate change. To embrace such urgent issues, this text is an almost entirely rewritten version of earlier editions.
Tony Cleaver takes a long look at the evolution of market systems and how they have liberated peoples on one side of the globe and yet driven others into debt, depression and despair. He analyses causes and consequences, and discusses (and sometimes dismisses) economic theories.
Topics covered include:
Why crashes occur
What causes some countries to grow and others to stagnate
Whether the Euro can survive
The economic underpinnings of terrorism
The dangers of climate change
This book takes the student through the major characteristics of the global economy in jargon-free non-technical language. Chapter summary diagrams and a wealth of boxes and tables make this an essential introduction for undergraduates and A-level students, as well as the casual reader.
A concise look at the foundations of analysis in the political economy of global trade, money, finance, and investment
Suitable for upper-undergraduate and graduate students with some or no economic background
Techniques and findings from a range of academic disciplines, including international relations, political science, economics, sociology, and history
Further reading and useful weblinks including a range of relevant data sources, listed in each chapter
Temin and Vines argue that the financial collapse of the 1930s was an "end-of-regime crisis" in which the economic leader of the nineteenth century, Great Britain, found itself unable to stem international panic as countries abandoned the gold standard. They trace how John Maynard Keynes struggled for years to identify the causes of the Great Depression, and draw valuable lessons from his intellectual journey. Today we are in the midst of a similar crisis, one in which the regime that led the world economy in the twentieth century--that of the United States--is ending. Temin and Vines show how America emerged from World War II as an economic and military powerhouse, but how deregulation and a lax attitude toward international monetary flows left the nation incapable of reining in an overleveraged financial sector and powerless to contain the 2008 financial panic. Fixed exchange rates in Europe and Asia have exacerbated the problem.
The Leaderless Economy provides a blueprint for how renewed international leadership can bring today's industrial nations back into financial balance--domestically and between each other.
Welcome to the Internationalist Business Guides series:
The key to a successful business is knowing the markets. HOW TO GET RICH DOING BUSINESS IN MEXICO: MEXICO BUSINESS GUIDE AND CONTACTS offers executives, investors, and entrepreneurs the need-to-know information about doing business in Mexico.
Written as an in-depth, straightforward reference guide, this book lists key information about the Mexican market, its challenges, and opportunities. It then looks into a dozen of Mexico's leading industries, their backgrounds, current situation, and projected course.
Whether you are looking to break into international business or need to update your knowledge on Mexican markets— this comprehensive guide is for you.
The Internationalist


text:
NativePoolMaxThreads determine the maximum number of threads in the native (kernel) thread pool.
A higher value allows more requests to execute concurrently, but has more overhead due to context switching, so bigger is not always better. Typically, you do not need to increase this number, but if the CPU is not saturated and you see requests queue up, then increase this number.
You can modify the NativePoolMaxThreads by editing the NativePoolMaxThreads parameter in magnus.conf.


text:
It's amazing how much offspring the konqueror-derived webkit browser engine has created. I think it's a good hint to see how high the code quality of kde and qt is generally. One of the newest offspring is vimprobable. It's a browser that focusses on keyboard controllability. And it has a really fancy AJAX, Flash animated, SQL-Server backed website. ;) ;)
It's so fresh, there may not even be packages yet, so you'd have to compile it.
Other non-standard browsers of my readers include Opera Mini (.5%) (ok, that's the mobile standard), Seamonkey, Midori, "wg" and Playstation 3.


text: Hi I have problems accessing my website stats @ http://domain.tld/stats I can log in but after that i get Wordpress' 404 page. http://s12.postimage.org/6mlkagn6j/stats.png My .htaccess file: Code: ## Default .htaccess file # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress Wordpress is installed in root of web directory, that might be the reason? Because on another Wordpress site that is installed in web/wordpress directory stats work just fine. Whatever the reason might be, is there any way to fix this and make http://domain.tld/stats to work without breaking anything on Wordpress installation? Ubuntu 12.10 and ISPConfig 3.0.4 on Apache


text:
Friday, February 02, 2007
Quick Dinner & Skillet Corn Bread
6 comments:
Oooh, sorry about the field roast incident! I could easily make a meal out of the veggies and the delicious looking cornbread, though! I don't know what it is, but I love skillet cornbread more than any other kind. I don't buy many cookbooks (I don't even own VwaV!) but I've always eyed the Real Food Daily book, because the recipes look so magnificent.ReplyDelete
I'm glad your day was so much fun! :) Wow, that cornbread looks so good. I haven't found a vegan southern-style cornbread recipe that truly satisfies me yet--looks like you found a winner!ReplyDelete
That corb bread looks super--esp. made in your cast-iron skillet.ReplyDelete
Hi Tracy,ReplyDelete
This recipe was very quick and easy - and delicious! I definitely recommend it.
Hi Bazu,
wow! I'm amazed that you make all that delicious food without cookbooks. I am thouroughly cookbook dependent. From what I've seen of your cooking, i do think you would like the RFD cookbook. it's one of my favorites.
Hi Laura!
Well, of course, I'm not truly a southerner like you are - so I thought it was superb, but I don't know if it was truly authentic. Of course, it'd be worth a try to find out!
Hi UV,
yeah, it was fun cooking in my skillet! I'd never done that before!
I love cornbread! And I love RFD! I've wanted the cookbook ever since I went to the restaurant last year - it was fabulous. I really need to get a cast iron skillet so I can make some cornbread like this - yum!ReplyDelete