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New Nail Trend! Caviar Nails
Whew, these new nail trends seem to be coming out every day! Well the new-new nail trend is Caviar Nails. A UK nail company, Ciate, is now packaging tiny crafts pearls for usage in nail art design. A few friends/fellow nail enthusiasts brought this article over on Madame Noire to my attention recently and I knew I had to find a way to make this concept my own. I already owned some of these tiny beads and I'd used them in an exploratory manicure just because I was so excited to get a package full of stones, rings, pearls etc. For this manicure, I decided to put more thought into the color scheme and incorporate the last new-new nail trend, the Outline/Border manicure. So here you go!
For this manicure, I layered China Glaze Midnight Mission and Tempest for my thumb, ring, and pinky fingers. For the pointer-outline/border nail, I used OPI Pompeii Purple (which is really more of a fuchsia, no?) and outlined it with gold glitter polish. On the middle-caviar nail, the base color is the same as the majority of my nails, but I affixed purple, pink and gold "caviar pearls" to it.
Judging by this pic currently on the Ciate site, it looks like you'll need to use your own craft pearls (which can be found at Jo-Ann's) for now if you'd like to try this manicure yourself. Hope you enjoy!
UPDATE 4-13-2012: Sephora is now offering the Ciate Caviar Manicure kits online. http://www.sephora.com/ciate-caviar-manicure-tm-P311207?skuId=1429588
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Victoria's Secret Model Jessica Hart Says She's Learned Her Lesson After Dissing Taylor Swift
Even Angels make mistakes -- something Victoria's Secret model Jessica Hart has learned the hard way. After snubbing fan-favorite singer Taylor Swift in an interview, she says she's learned her lesson.
Hart recently graced the cover of Vogue Australia, and within the pages of the magazine, she admits that her comments about Swift weren't her most graceful moment. "It was taken out of context, but I have certainly learnt my lesson," she says.
As a recap, during press interviews for the VS Fashion Show, Hart was asked if Swift had what it took to join the Angels' team team. After all, the star did rock the catwalk in two smashing performances, earning rave reviews from just about everyone -- except for Hart, who said bluntly at the time, "She didn't fit."
Of course, the wrath of Swifties worldwide caused Hart to quickly take back her words. "I can't imagine why I would have said anything bad about her," she reflected, but it was too late -- Hart had to learn the very hard lesson of what happens when you insult a singer who is loved globally across different genres of music.


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The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 – meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series, our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional objects from the Museum's immense storehouse of specimens and artifacts—one for each year of our history. Check back here frequently to learn more about this diverse selection of behind-the-scenes curiosities—we will post the image and description of a new object every few days.
This description is from David Temple, the museum's curator of paleontology. He's chosen a selection of objects that represent the most fascinating fossils in the Museum's collections, that we'll be sharing here – and at 100.hmns.org/ – throughout the year.
Brachiopod, Grandaurispina kingorum
(Permian, Willis Ranch Member, World Formation, Brewster County, Texas)
The Glass Mountains are famous for silicified fossils of Permian age, such as this Brachiopod. Unique build-ups of fossil shells, both wave-generated accumulations of dead shells and massive brachiopod-dominated reefs, produced by the complex interactive growth of millions of marine invertebrates that occur in the Glass Mountains.
Fossils from the Glass Mountains are of special interest because of their level of detail. Blocks of limestone from the Glass Mountains can be treated with weak acids to dissolve the limestone from the acid-resistant silicified fossils. This process often leaves unharmed the delicate spines and ornamentation found on some brachiopods and bivalves.
Wander among prehistoric beasts in the Paleontology Hall, a permanent exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
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JMU student's search engine project in the running for $20,000 prize
A JMU senior has won $5,000 for his capstone project and he's in the running for the grand prize of $20,000 in the Dream it. Code it. Win it. competition sponsored by the MIT Club of New York.
Integrated science and technology major Tim Borny will be traveling to New York City for the Wednesday, April 30 awards ceremony, where he hopes his innovative take on an Internet search engine will prevail.
Borny came up with the idea for his project, dubbed Oaddo, more than three years ago, but he only learned how to code it within the past year. The idea behind Oaddo is to categorize the wealth of human knowledge that can be found on the Internet in a way that sparks people's imagination, creativity and desire to learn.
While search engines, like Google, make it easy to find what someone is looking for, "The main purpose of Oaddo is to aggregate valuable content on the web and allow users to discover and learn about the core concepts of any discipline they might be interested in even if they don't know what those core concepts are yet," said Borny. In other words a user has the capability to begin a search without knowing precisely what they're looking for.
Borny said he still has a lot of ideas to continue developing Oaddo, which is available in a beta version at www.oaddo.org. One of those ideas is to translate it into every language to make it universally accessible. The website is already translated into more than 40 languages.
Borny also envisions getting lots of help to continue Oaddo's development. "Ideally I'd like to try to develop a community around the project that would turn the site into something that people want to spend time doing and want to keep returning to," he said. "There is a lot that needs to happen before that point is reached."
After graduation, Borny will begin a teaching fellowship at Singularity University in Mountain View, Calif., but he won't stop developing Oaddo.


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Friday marks the 30th anniversary of one of the deadliest weather events in Carolinas history -- an outbreak of tornadoes that stretched from the western edge of South Carolina to the northeast coast of North Carolina.
Over a six-hour period, a series of 22 twisters smashed through 25 counties -- eight in South Carolina, 17 in North Carolina. Among the twisters were seven F4 storms, the second-strongest rating of tornadoes on the Fujita scale.
By the time the last of the tornadoes moved ashore from Albemarle Sound into Chowan and Perquimans counties, 57 people were killed and a staggering 1,248 injured.
None of the tornadoes hit Mecklenburg County, although large hail associated with one twister was reported in Matthews and southeast Charlotte. Only two counties in the Charlotte region -- Union (N.C.) and Lancaster (S.C.) -- were hit. But the storms were nearby, and anyone who drove on Interstate 77 from Charlotte to Columbia or to Myrtle Beach through the Bennettsville areas saw the damage for several years.
The tornadoes were bred from a powerful low pressure system that dropped barometric pressure to 28.95 inches in Charlotte. The low pressure system rode along a stationary front draped across central North Carolina. While Charlotte had temperatures in the 70s, it was 25 degrees colder in Greensboro.
In advance of the storms, the Severe Local Storms unit, a predecessor of the Storm Prediction Center in operation today, forecast a "high risk" of severe weather on March 28, 1984, for Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas.
It was the first time a "high risk" ever had been issued.
Alabama and Georgia largely were spared of the weather.
But about 4:30 p.m. that day, an F1 tornado descended into the town of Due West, S.C., in Abbeville County. That storm injured 24 people. For the rest of the evening, National Weather Service offices across the Carolinas scrambled to keep up with these staggeringly strong storms.
Some notable facts:
-- Sixteen people died in an F4 tornado near Greenville, N.C. That storm narrowly missed a direct hit on the East Carolina University campus.
-- A tornado that hit near Bennettsville, S.C., was 2 miles wide.
-- Another twister was on the ground for 45 miles, from Bennettsville, S.C., northeast to Parkton in North Carolina.
-- The F4 tornado that crossed I-77 in Fairfield County cleared out an area of trees, about 300 feet wide, on both sides of the road. Motorists could see that damage for several years.
-- The twister that hit a shopping center in Bennettsville destroyed a shopping center and produced fatalities. Beach-bound motorists could see that damage for more than a year.
Here is a list of the 22 tornadoes and their damage:
4:30 p.m. ... F1 in Due West, S.C. (Abbeville County). 24 injuries.
4:40 p.m. ... F2 hits north of Laurens, S.C. (Laurens County). It destroys 19 mobile homes, with 19 injuries.
5:20 p.m. ... F2 hits near Newberry, S.C. (Newberry County). It is on the ground for 23 miles and destroys 80 businesses in Newberry, causing $11 million damage. One death, 38 injuries.
5:40 p.m. ... F3 hits east of Newberry. it destroys 254 homes and 86 businesses, causing $14.2 million damage. 10 injuries.
6 p.m. ... F4 hits Winnsboro, S.C. (Fairfield County). This storm crosses I-77, killing a trucker. In all, five died and 110 are injured.
6:10 p.m. ... F1 touches down briefly in Fairview (Union County), the closest storm to Charlotte. There are no injuries.
6:20 p.m. ... F4 causes massive damage to forests near Kershaw, S.C. (Lancaster County). There are 31 injuries.
6:40 p.m. ... An F2 hits north of McBee, S.C. (Chesterfield County), wiping out part of the tree cover in the Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge. There are no human casualties.
6:45 p.m. ... F4 hits near Cash, S.C. (Chesterfield County), destroying 36 farm buildings. 24 injuries.
7:10 p.m. ... Another F4 rips into the Northwood Shopping Center in Bennettsville, with a path 2 miles wide. The storm rumbles 17 miles, across Marlboro (S.C.) and Scotland (N.C.) counties. There are seven deaths and 100 injuries.
7:20 p.m. ... A devastating F4 follows a path parallel to the storm above, pushing 45 miles across Marlboro County and into North Carolina across Scotland, Robeson and Cumberland counties. The town of Red Springs is devastated, as is the South Carolina town of McColl. The toll: seven deaths, 395 injuries.
7:45 p.m. ... An F3 storm in Bladen, Cumberland and Sampson counties kills 12 and injuries 101. Six deaths are in Clinton.
8:10 p.m. ... F2 in Nash County, with no injuries.
8:15 p.m. ... F4 makes a direct hit on Mount Olive College and causes more than $25 million damage in Sampson, Duplin and Wayne counties. The toll: three dead, 70 injures.
8:30 p.m. ... F3 injures 81 persons in Wayne and Lenoir counties.
8:45 p.m. ... The deadliest storm, and F4, leaves 16 dead and 153 injures in Wayne, Lenoir, Greene and Pitt counties. More than 300 homes are destroyed in Greenville, and the storm brushes the ECU campus.
8:55 p.m. ... F3 kills six and injures 19 in Bertie County. Five deaths are in one family, living in a mobile home.
9:10 p.m. ... F2 in Bertie and Ahoskie counties. Seven injuries.
9:17 p.m. ... F1 with no injuries in Hertford County.
9:35 p.m. ... This F2 was separated from the main area of storms, down in Horry County west of Myrtle Beach. It injured eight.
9:37 p.m. ... F3 hits Gates County, killing two and injuring 10. This storm actually crossed into Chesapeake, Va.
10:15 p.m. ... The last tornado. It started as a waterspout and then came ashore as an F1 in Chowan and Perquimans counties. One person died and one was injured.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
30 years ago Friday ... tornadoes devastated Carolinas
Friday marks the 30th anniversary of one of the deadliest weather events in Carolinas history -- an outbreak of tornadoes that stretched from the western edge of South Carolina to the northeast coast of North Carolina.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Amazing storm off New England coast
Remember that big winter storm that some meteorologists thought we might get in the Carolinas yesterday?
It never came together, as we all know, but it certainly got itself organized farther to the north. The storm has turned into a meteorological bomb off the New England coast, and it appears likely to deliver quite a wallop to Canada's Maritime Provinces.
One piece of energy that went into this amazing storm system dumped several inches of snow in North Carolina's mountains. I saw a 9-inch snowfall registered at Beech Mountain.
The main part of the energy stayed off the coast, and that spared the big cities along the Eastern Seaboard -- Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, New York and even Boston -- from damaging winds, coastal flooding and heavy snow. The only parts of the United States far enough east to feel the real impact of the storm were Nantucket Island and Cape Cod in Massachusetts and northeastern Maine.
Winds are strong enough around the low pressure system to cause flight delays in New York and Boston, but the reports from Nantucket and from eastern Maine have been something to behold.
This is basically a hurricane-force storm system. The central pressure at 1 p.m. was about 960 millibars. As WCNC-TV meteorologist Brad Panovich tweeted around midday, that pressure is deeper than any of our hurricanes last summer.
Some reports I've seen as of early Wednesday afternoon:
101 mph gust at a buoy off Johnston, Maine (there is some question about the reliability of this report).
91 mph gust at 11:40 a.m. at the Westmoor Club on Nantucket.
87 mph gust at Grand Etang, Nova Scotia.
Almost 10 inches of snow has fallen on Nantucket, and more than a foot is expected in northern coastal sections of Maine. More than that will fall in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
As you might imagine, it's not a good day for a boat ride in the Atlantic east of Maine and south of Nova Scotia. I've seen wave reports of 25 to 30 feet, but there certainly must be 40-foot waves there today. It's like a scene out of "Perfect Storm."
Fortunately, this wasn't a Carolinas storm.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Another bout with winter next week?
It looks as if changing the calendar from winter to spring won't make much of a difference in the weather across the Carolinas and the rest of the eastern United States.
In fact, several computer models are predicting a storm system next Monday and Tuesday that could bring more wintry precipitation to the Carolinas. In case you're keeping track, that would be several days after the official start of spring at 12:57 p.m. Thursday.
It's starting to appear as if spring -- sustained spring, not the pattern we've seen, with a few days of 70 degrees followed by 30s -- won't be coming to the Carolinas anytime soon. Brace yourself for a possible continuation of March's nasty weather into April.
Both the Global and European models are showing the storm system, and they also show yet another intrusion of very cold air into parts of the Southeast.
Remember the whole thing about the Polar Vortex back in January?
Well, the pattern really hasn't changed a lot. Very cold high pressure has taken up residence for the last few months over the northern United States, from the Great Lakes to the East Coast. On occasion, high pressure relaxes its grip, and temperatures get mild for a few days in the Carolinas. Then it reasserts itself, and the cold air returns.
The problem has been worsened by a steady stream of low pressure systems which have moved across the Gulf of Mexico and through the Southeast. They've produced precipitation which has fallen in the cold air. The result: Carolinas ice storms, mountain snow, and heavy snow in the Mid-Atlantic. Up to 10 inches of snow fell earlier this week in the Washington area, threatening the blooming of cherry blossoms later this month.
So enjoy the 60s and 70s on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but be prepared for a return to the cold stuff early next week.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
The Winter That Won't Go Away ... won't go away
The same weather story that has enveloped the Carolinas since January is adding another chilly chapter this week, as we prepare to turn the calendar from winter to spring.
Yet again, a few mild days are being followed by an abrupt and major cool down, along with the threat of frozen precipitation.
The players are the same as in previous cases over the past two months. A strong high pressure system with unseasonably cold air settles in place somewhere over the Great Lakes or Northeast (the Great Lakes, in this case), pumping an ample supply of cold air into lower levels of the Carolinas atmosphere.
Meanwhile, a low pressure system forms in the Gulf of Mexico and pushes across the Southeast. As the precipitation from the Gulf low moves into the Carolinas, it changes from rain to frozen precipitation in spots.
The last time, it meant a big ice storm for the northern part of North Carolina. This time, it appears as if the icing threat will be a lot lower. But freezing rain or drizzle is likely at times early Monday and again Monday night and Tuesday morning in parts of the Charlotte region, especially along the Interstate 40 corridor.
For the immediate Charlotte area, it means another round of a very cold rain.
The temperature drop will be noticeable today (Sunday), with highs only in the lower 50s and rain arriving. The rain will continue overnight, although it will taper off or possibly end Monday morning -- only to start again later in the day as another low pressure system arrives. On Monday, Charlotte will have temperatures in the mid and upper 30s with rain. Even Tuesday, it appears as if temperatures will recover only to the lower 40s for highs.
It will be Wednesday before we're able to break this latest cycle of cold and precipitation.
Along the I-40 corridor, some freezing rain is likely, especially Monday night. For now, it appears as if ice accumulations will be 1/10 of an inch or less. That is not enough to cause widespread power outages. But it's a situation we'll have to watch.
Farther to the north, this system means a heavy snow even for much of Virginia.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Charlotte did get ice ... a couple hundred feet above ground
Those of us who live on the ground in Charlotte are undoubtedly very happy that we managed to avoid the crippling ice storm that hit about a 15-county area in North Carolina to our north and northeast.
Early Friday afternoon, there were more than 400,000 power outages in the state -- the result of several hours of freezing rain that fell early Friday from the strong winter storm that is finally pushing out to sea.
That will make this storm one of the worst in state history, from a standpoint of power outages. Certainly, it's the most damaging winter storm in more than a decade.
As you've probably heard, Charlotte barely escaped the freezing rain. You didn't have to go very far north -- just to southern Iredell County or the northern parts of Cabarrus and Stanly counties -- to see the glaze on trees and power lines. Several trees and lines were downed in Mooresville, for example.
But not all of Charlotte escaped the ice.
While the city's ground temperature hovered at 33 degrees from Thursday evening until around daybreak Friday, it was a degree or so colder just a few hundred feet above the ground. And if you live or work in one of the taller of the high-rise buildings in the city, you probably saw ice outside your windows Friday morning.
As temperatures gradually warmed a few degrees Friday morning, that high-rise ice began to fall.
According to police, falling ice broke a car windshield about 10 a.m. in front of the Bank of America Corporate Center on North Tryon Street. At another of the city's big buildings, the Duke Energy Center, falling ice was reported a couple times during the morning. Employees reported that a main entrance was closed for safety reasons.
For much of Thursday, we talked about how Charlotte would be near the dividing line between rain and frozen precipitation. The ice on the big buildings uptown was a reminder of that.
Unusual storm: If you've lived in the Carolinas for any length of time, you know that ice storms are rather rare for March. I saw several lists of ice storms in this part of the country, but we're talking about only a half-dozen or so icing events over the past 40 or 50 years.
For freezing rain to develop, you need a pocket of cold air near the ground. And that usually requires a strong and very cold high pressure system over the Northeast to supply the layer of cold air near the surface in the Carolinas. Those are not very common in March, when climatology begins saying "spring."
But this has been a different winter. Since early January, there has been episode after episode of polar air masses pushing into the continental United States. That was the case again this week, and the result was an ice storm over parts of North Carolina.


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Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn kissing...for a movie!
Sometimes filming a movie must be a hard thing for actors to do....especially if you are Vince Vaughn kissing Reese Witherspoon!! They are filming a movie together called, Four Christmases, where in the movie, Reese and Vince are both children of divorce and they struggle to equally spread yuletide cheer to all four of their parents.
It looks pretty steamy...but most Christmas movies are!
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This is not late-breaking news. I saw my first Tim Hortons™ advert in a Spar™ (that's a 7-11-type convenience store) just off Trafalgar Square back in May, but only recently parted with my pence for a coffee and donut. When one thinks about it, unless they are going to open a window in every grandmother's living room, Tim's will have to go abroad for growth, to keep the investors happy (happy investors: what a quaint idea). Any more shops domestically and Canada will have more Tim's outlets than voting citizens. I'm sure they already outnumber beavers and caribou put together. While it's never great coffee, Tim Hortons™ is the comfort food that most Canadian adults can recognize and agree on, and whenever homesick I could sure go for one. So I gave it a go this week: the results were mixed.
In my local Spar™ the Tim Hortons™ coffee is dispatched by push button from a machine. Not surprisingly, it tastes like any other pod-dispensed coffee, and nothing like the real McCoy. Not even close. No resemblance whatsoever. If you want a timmies in the UK, grind a medium-quality mocha java and drip it at home. But the donut (neither gluten- nor egg-free; I can eat what I like when on the street) was much more authentic. Chemically-speaking, it was the same boston cream donut one would be served in or Coquitlam, or Flin Flon, or Gander. If it disappointed, it was because it was clearly puffed-up in an oven off-site, and shipped to the store. In Canada, the donut is puffed-up in the oven on-site, and so is one step fresher. But the boston cream was essentially correct (although I'm more of a honey cruller girl, myself; I'd stop into a Spar™ for that).
Happy thanksgiving, Canada! Congratulations on all those solvent banks! And don't worry: minority governments look great on you, really!


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Well tonight is one of those nights. I stumbled across this blog talking about simple Italian food, and it's role in Italian culture as well as its misconception by Americans. I found it well thought and written and I wanted to share. Oh yeah! And they also provide a risotto recipe. So enjoy the article from addisonindependent.com and if you wish, check out their site.
"In Italy, if you have bad food, it is not a good day," said Carla Guglielmino.
Guglielmino is the Italian culture consultant and director of the Italian childrens' school at the Middlebury College summer language schools, which wrapped up last week. To her, there are just a few rules of good Italian cooking.
"The oil must be a very good oil," she explained, "and the tomatoes must be fresh. And you have to understand that pasta must be cooked al dente."
The most important part of Italian cooking, though, is simplicity. In the United States, she said, people often ruin Italian food by adding too many ingredients — the worst offender being heavy cream.
Simplicity of ingredients, however, does not limit culinary possibilities. In fact, Italian cuisine varies greatly from region to region. Though many dishes have become standard throughout the country over the years, each region has a very specific cuisine.
Guglielmino's fingers moved across a map of Italy, and at each stop she described the specialties of that region. As she described each dish in detail, a smile crossed her face and her eyes crinkled at the edges.
She began with Turin, her hometown. There, typical dishes are agnolotti and brasato al Barolo — agnolotti is a type of ravioli stuffed with meat, while brasato al barolo is beef marinated in wine for between 18 and 24 hours, then roasted in those juices.
Alpa is truffle country, so they make risotto with truffles. Romagna is grazing country, so they make cheese to fill tortellini. In the coastal regions there is fish, and in Umbria there is boar. During the summers in Genoa, there is pesto with pasta. The food depends on the region's agriculture, but also on its trading patterns — areas close to France have adaptations of French dishes, while coastal trading areas use exotic spices. A common dish in Milan is risotto alla milanese, prepared with saffron.
Risotto with peas
But go to most Italian restaurants around here and that cuisine is not what you will find. What we think of as Italian food — from pizza to pasta to tomato sauce — originates further south. In Rome you will find pasta carbonara, a pasta dish with pancetta and eggs, and in Naples and Sicily there is pizza and tomato sauce.
But even the pizza isn't quite what we think of when we order a pizza here.
"The pizza must have tomatoes, peeled tomatoes and cheese. Not sauce," said Guglielmino.
Today you can find pizza in the north of Italy and risotto in the south. Still, said Guglielmino, each region has very different food, which makes for delicious and varied traveling.
"Lots of people say, 'In Italy they enjoy food too much,'" she said with a laugh. "But for us, it's very symbolic."
Family life centers around food; every night, families — often including grandparents and other relatives — gather to eat a home-cooked meals. Sunday meals are larger and longer. The days are also structured around food; many shops close between noon and three so that the proprietors can go home for lunch.
Even business often revolves around food.
"In America, they talk business, then maybe they have some sandwiches. In Italy that is absolutely shameful," Guglielmino said. "You need to have a good lunch. In the meantime, you discuss."
Food, in Italy, is as much about the social interactions that surround it as it is about the actual act of eating; about sitting down and taking the time to enjoy food and conversation. It is no wonder, then, that the origin of the Slow Food movement — an effort to celebrate local food traditions and counteract a "fast food" culture — is Italy.
"If you eat good food, you are at peace with yourself and you are happy," said Guglielmino
Good food doesn't have to mean Italian food. It can mean any kind of food prepared with care and eaten with enjoyment.
But one of the wonderful things about Italian cooking is that most of the basic ingredients are available here — eggplant, artichoke, garlic, basil, onions and tomatoes are all easily accessible, especially during the summers. Good olive oil and pasta will, of course, run you more than generic brands. Important as the ingredients are, compromises are sometimes necessary (I, for one, sometimes buy Hannaford extra virgin olive oil, much to the dismay of my family).
But try draining your pasta when it is still somewhat chewy, and tossing it with chopped fresh tomatoes in the summer, canned crushed tomatoes in the winter. Toss in some grated cheese, extra-virgin olive oil and some basil, and you've got yourself a simple Italian summer dish. Or try this risotto recipe, perfectly suited to experimentation:
Recipe courtesy Nicole Conti
1 1/2 cups Arborio rice
3 cups broth (make your own, or use a boullion cube)
1 small onion
2 Tablespoons butter
White wine
1/4 Parmesan cheese
Sautee onions in butter until softened. Add rice and stir until coated with butter. Add a dash of white wine and broth, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring until the liquid is mostly absorbed and then adding more. You won't necessarily use up all of the broth—just continue to stir and add broth until the rice is still slightly hard in the middle, but creamy and soft otherwise.
Here's where it gets interesting: add in the parmesan and whatever else you want. To make risotto alla Milanese, add in 1/4 teaspoon saffron. Or add tomatoes, shrimp, chicken — feel free to experiment.


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United Kingdom: Wimbledon Studios in Deer Park Road, London, is being used for the forthcoming docudrama An Adventure In Space And Time, it has been revealed. Written by Mark Gatiss for BBC Two, the 90-minute special will detail the genesis of Doctor Who as part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the series. The casting for the programme, which will be shown in November, is still to be announced. [Wimbledon Guardian, 10 Jan 2013]
Still in the capital, a wooden police box is to be built at Kensington Palace to bolster the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's security. The box, measuring 1.6 metres square, will be dark blue and will have a glazed door. It will stand on the lawn on the south side, between the Grade I-listed building's high perimeter brick wall and iron railings. [Evening Standard, 3 Jan 2013]
Australia: Ex-patriate fan Michael Lauder, originally from north Kent and now living in Melbourne, Victoria, has been talking about the thrill of building two Daleks for his personal collection, using his carpentry knowledge and learning new skills along the way, having discovered the Project Dalek forum. He said: "You never get over the thrill of having a Dalek of your own in your house." His Daleks form part of the Invasion exhibition, which is at the Warrnambool Art Gallery until Monday 28th January. [ABC South West Victoria, 7 Jan 2013]
A cleric is looking to sell his prized collection of Doctor Who videos and magazines. Father Paul Kelly, of Maryborough, Queensland, said: "I've collected them since 1983 and they're in boxes in my carport and I have made a New Year's resolution to clear my clutter." [The Gympie Times, 5 Jan 2013]
USA: A Doctor Who club is being set up at River East Public Library in Illinois. The first meeting will be held on Tuesday 29th January at 7pm. [NorthWest Herald, 6 Jan 2013]
California-based technology expert Greg Kumparak has built a miniature TARDIS that enables an augmented reality app on his smartphone to create the illusion that the model of the police box really is bigger on the inside than on the outside. Buoyed by the positive reaction to it on Twitter and YouTube, he said: "The feedback has been resoundingly positive so far, almost shockingly so, really. Doctor Who fans might be some of the nicest people on the internet." [BBC News, 24 Dec 2012]
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So I cleared tot lfr and a bit of tot normal this week, and only after that I got this part of the legendary questline.
I looked up info on it and I never found the answer to my question.
So, if I cleared tot lfr before I got the quest this week, can I still get the Secrets of the empire for re running it? (I know I will not get any loot/bags)
I was in the same spot when I did toes and got my last sigil.... xD But the item still dropped from the Sha of fear when I re ran it.


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Going Corporate
Nearly three-fourths of the millions of small businesses in the United States are sole proprietorships, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Obviously, that makes the "mom and pop" form of business a popular choice for entrepreneurs, but is it the best choice for you and your grounds maintenance business?
That's an important question; one that you should consider carefully whether you're just getting started or if you've been thinking of changing from sole proprietor to the corporate form of business.
Genevia Gee Fulbright, CPA, says there are several circumstances under which a sole proprietor may want to consider incorporation. "If the business has shown consistent growth, the owner wants the company to become more formal or there is some thought about the possibility of adding a partner or additional shareholders, changing from a sole proprietorship to a corporate entity structure should be considered," says Fulbright, who is the senior small business advisor for the National Association of Black Accountants.
There are three classifications of basic business entities from which to choose: Sole proprietorship, partnership and corporation. Each has its own distinct set of advantages and disadvantages. Even if you feel comfortable with your current business entity, you should be familiar with the legal, financial and practical consequences of each choice.
The simplest and least expensive way to launch a new business is, of course, as a sole proprietor with little or no legal expenses, no complex tax structure and no one else to interfere with management decisions.
As a sole proprietor, your business profits flow directly through your personal tax return (using a separate tax form called Schedule C). You get to keep or reinvest all of the after-tax income produced by the business. If it ever becomes necessary, a sole proprietorship is the easiest of all business structures to dissolve.
With so many advantages, it might seem that a sole proprietorship is the only way to go for the small business owner. But hold on, there are other things to consider.
As a sole proprietor, you have unlimited personal liability for all debts against the business. Both your business and personal assets are at risk in the event of legal trouble.
Other disadvantages include possible difficulty in raising funds from outside sources if you want to expand. Also, it may be harder for you to attract high-caliber employees.
As far as taxes and most legal considerations are concerned, a partnership is viewed as essentially the same as a sole proprietorship. Each partner is jointly and separately liable for the financial obligations incurred in the name of the business, and each is taxed on their share of the profits generated by the business. However, partnerships do inject some interesting personal issues.
The choice of a business partner is fraught with potential danger. Some experts suggest that good friends or relatives rarely work out as business partners because of the inevitable disagreements over business issues. Before entering into a partnership, consider these issues:
Who does what? The job of each partner should be clearly defined and scrupulously honored. And don't forget those little undesirable tasks. They can cause more misunderstandings than the big, important jobs.
On what basis will the partners share in the profits of the business? Will it be 50/50? Under what circumstances and in what amounts will this be subject to change? How will the major financial decisions be handled? Such issues are extremely important and should never be left "to be decided later."
What happens if one partner dies? You just may find yourself in business with your partner's widow or widower if you haven't considered this possibility carefully. "To help avoid this, there are two things you should do," says Fulbright. "First, consider purchasing key-person life insurance. Then, with the help of your attorney, draw up a written agreement clearly establishing procedures for buying out a partner's interest in the event of death or any other unforeseen circumstance."
When you form a corporation for your business, you create a separate legal entity with the same legal rights and responsibilities as those conferred upon us humans.
Because of that, some feel that incorporation is the answer to the entrepreneurs dream, and in some ways, that's true. The corporate form of business will limit your personal financial liability, be more stable in the event of your death and will make it easier for you to raise money for expansion and growth.
In theory, the corporation will do all of these things for you. In the light of harsh reality, however, you should investigate carefully before you leap.
One of the problems is the sometimes unrecognized differences between large, public corporations and the closely-held corporations typical in small businesses. If you try to swing a loan in the name of your small corporation, you are likely to find that the lender will require you to sign personally. In other words, you will be just as responsible for the loan as you would be in a sole proprietorship. Further, if you find yourself on the wrong end of a lawsuit, you may find yourself as well as the corporation named as a defendant. So much for the protection of personal assets.
What about selling stock to raise capital? Certainly, that's one of the primary advantages of a corporation; but, again, the small corporation will find a large gap between theory and practice. Finding people willing to invest in a corporation controlled by one or two people might prove as difficult as Diogenes' search for an honest man.
Will a corporation stand a better chance of survival than a sole proprietorship or partnership in the case of the death of a principal? Usually, but not always. Many small businesses survive as a direct result of the talents of the founder and prime mover and shaker. In such a case, if he or she dies, the business may well follow along shortly regardless of the legal form bestowed upon it.
Finally, anyone considering incorporation should be aware that doing business in that form will introduce complications that can be a nuisance to someone used to the simple life. Corporations have to follow some rigid rules, file separate tax returns of their own, maintain specified records and, in theory, at least, hold directors' meetings.
In order to make life a little easier for the small entrepreneur, a special form of corporation known as Subchapter S was created. It allows small business owners to enjoy the advantages of incorporation without such penalties as double taxation.
"Another form of corporation, The Limited Liability Corporation (LLC), can be advantageous to small business owners under some circumstances," says Fulbright. "Typically, the costs and flexibility of the LLC business structure are helpful for smaller enterprises because:
There are fewer requirements and restrictions placed on the business owners in how they pull money out of the business and how much they pull out as compensation (taxing authorities do not place the "reasonable" salary standard on LLC business owner compensation).
The LLC company does not pay entity level taxes on profits (the owners pay taxes on their allocated share of profits and losses can offset owner's other income to the extent of active participation).
The LLC provides greater protection from creditors and general lawsuits if run properly, compared to a general partnership and other entities.
The LLC is a great way to hold real estate because it allows for easier distribution of assets without having to consider dividends or other forms of compensation to the business owners (i.e. C-Corp and S-Corp have to consider salary levels, distribution methods, etc.)."
If you are a sole proprietor considering incorporation, you may have considered using one of those companies that allow you to incorporate over the Internet, taking advantage of some state's liberal laws regarding incorporating. That's an easy and inexpensive way to incorporate your business; however, there are some pitfalls of which you should be aware.
"If a business owner wants to incorporate in a state other than the one in which the business operates, he/she must understand that in most circumstances the state where the company resides will require the filing of an annual tax return. Also, an 'authority to do business' must be filed in the resident state," says Fulbright. "That means two state returns would be required instead of one."
You should be aware that some states have passed laws intended to make it more difficult to file incorporation papers in a state other than the one in which the business resides. For example, California charges $800 a year for a license for a foreign corporation or LLC to operate in the state.
"That's why I recommend that clients who use the Internet to research information on incorporation consult with legal counsel familiar with the state laws in which the business will operate," says Fulbright.
Does all of this sound complicated? Well, it is. That's why no single form of business structure can be said to be the best choice for every lawn care company owner.
As with most other business decisions, a sound knowledge of the alternatives provides the best foundation for the right choice. Before making any decision involving your business structure, you should consult with your own accountant and attorney.
William J. Lynott is a former management consultant and corporate executive who writes on business and financial topics. He resides in Abington, Pa.
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With the growth of online tools, companies are quickly building products to serve the real estate community. After all, it's a lucrative industry, home buying and selling will always be a thing - even if it does slow down, and companies around the world are diving in to make as much money off consumers as possible.
What are they selling? The ease. The ease of buying or selling a home online. The catch? You actually don't benefit from these online quick-sale services. In fact, you could find yourself out of tens-of-thousands in cost difference. If you're in the market to buy or sell, and are considering foregoing a real estate agent for an online service, be sure you read the fine print. You'll often times find that you aren't benefiting at all. Will they buy your home upfront to resale, so you don't have to worry about the headache? Sure, but you may have been able to get $50,000 more for your house using a Realtor. Can you see and purchase your dream home through said services and "save" on agent commissions? Sure, but you'll probably be overpaying for the home anyway.
The real estate industry is heavily regulated for licensed professionals to ensure the consumer is always getting the best representation for the best savings. These online services don't require regulation and licensing, therefore, they can get away with fine print "scams."
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Retrenchment in Malaysia: Employer's Right?
There are several ways to put a contract of employment to an end. One of them is by way of retrenchment. Termination of employment by way of retrenchment may be relevant when the employer restructures his business. The focus of this article is to evaluate the application of the principle Last in First Out (LIFO) in the case of retrenchment in Malaysia. This article will also assess to what extent the courts defend the prerogative of the employer to retrench his employee in the case of redundancy.
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Career Planning
The real question is what you want to do with your life? Your answers to that question are always provisional, of course; but they are always worth talking about, too. Talk over your thought on the subject with your adviser and your friends. Everybody knows something about it, and almost nobody is shy about telling.
A recent survey of PSC undergrads gives some sense of the possibilities. More than a quarter of those who received their B.A.ís decided to continue studying for their M.A.'s, J.D.'s, or some other advanced degree. Another 25 percent are engaged in government work, either at the state or local level. Another group work as lobbyists or legislative liaisons (about 15 percent). About 6 percent are teaching at the secondary level. The remaining respondents are a diverse lot-occupations range from raising children to working retail.
The Office of Career Services and Placement
This office, located in the Student Affairs Building, offers very useful information on employment trends and types of occupations. During the year, career services sponsors workshops on career exploration, identification of skills and values, and techniques for effective self-marketing. Individual career counseling and occupational testing are also available. Placement services include posted job listings, on-campus interviews with employers, and job leads for networking. The office also has information about professional and graduate schools.
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Start by talking with your political science adviser. If you are thinking about graduate work in political science or going to law school, talk to as many of the political science faculty as you can. Each one knows the good departments in his or her special field, and each has a set of contacts which might serve you well.
Flyers advertising graduate programs in political science, announcements of graduate scholarships and fellowships, notices of internships: all these are posted on the political science bulletin board. There are also files of information on political science graduate programs in the political science office. Information on the Graduate Record Examinations is available from the political science office, career services, and the vice chancellor for student affairs.


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VITAS serves diverse patients of diverse backgrounds, employs diverse staff from diverse backgrounds, embraces diverse causes and lifestyles, and supports diverse communities across the United States and around the world.
VITAS is the only national hospice provider with a significant presence in inner-city areas and other communities of color: We sponsor national initiatives designed to expand hospice access to every individual who can benefit from quality, compassionate end-of-life care.
VITAS believes that ensuring that patients' and families' values and cultures are reflected by those of our caregivers results in a more meaningful experience for all. Because of this, we are committed to recruiting a diverse staff—with more than half of our workforce comprised of minorities.
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The New American
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
For the past several months, Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter and architect of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, has been hawking his umpteenth book, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power. As usual, Dr. Brzezinski can count on the establishment press to sell plenty of copies and keep the royalties rolling in with favorable reviews and lots of face time. The New York Times' reviewer opined that in Strategic Vision Brzezinski "provides a clear-eyed, sharp-tongued assessment of this hinge moment in time, when the world's center of gravity is shifting 'from the West to the East.'"
The major broadcast and cable TV shows, likewise, have been generous in their treatment of the book. Pretty typical of the promotion Brzezinski, Kissinger, Scowcroft, Greenspan and other anointed oracles of the globalist political class can expect. Of course, it doesn't hurt, either, to have a high-profile daughter at MSNBC. Mika Brzezinski, who co-hosts Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough, guarantees that her father will be a frequent expert guest on the program (and other NBC programs), and features his books and videos prominently on her website.
There's nothing at all unusual or remarkable about this general fawning and flattering by the "mainstream" media. However, Brzezinski's interview in the April 2 online edition of Russia Beyond the Headlines highlights a disturbing trend of convergence among the media elites of Russia, China, the United States, and the European Union that parallels a similar convergence among the political and economic elites of the communist and capitalist countries. The Brzezinski interview, "Shining a Light on Russia's Relationship With the West," in an official Kremlin organ will be seen by many as another indication of positive steps forward being made in U.S.-Russia relations. But is it "progress" we should welcome?
During the Cold War, Soviet "journalists" for Pravda, Trud, Izvestia, and Novosti were almost universally recognized as shills for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and agents for the KGB. Besides slavishly toeing the party line and reliably spouting the current Politburo propaganda, they usually fit the stereotype of Soviet-era Russians: dour, sour, stolid, stodgy. Pravda, Trud, Izvestia, and Novosti (and many other Soviet-era communist publications) are still being published in Russia, but they have been given facelifts — and more. They now boast snappy websites, glitzy production values, and attractive news anchors and TV show hosts who appeal to foreign audiences. However, many of the current Russian journalists worked for the same organs during the Cold War as members of the Communist Party. And those who are younger still answer to the iron-handed Kremlin masters, now led by Vladimir Putin, the KGB veteran from the Soviet era.
These "reformed" Soviet media organs have been joined by a host of new media groups, some of which are still officially state owned, others that are ostensibly private (owned by Kremlin-approved oligarchs), and others that are listed as private-state partnerships. Russia Beyond the Headlines (RBTH) is one of the new outreach efforts by the Putin politburo.
"One of the best known foreign policy experts of our time, Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke to RBTH after the release of his 2012 book, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power," the RBTH interview announces. "The work examines the shift of global power from West to East and possible scenarios if the United States fails to maintain its stabilizing influence in the world."
In the interview, Brzezinski reiterates a familiar theme that "Russia should be a member of Euro-Atlantic community" and that Russia's outreach to the United States "is sincere because it is derived from rational and intelligent self-interest. I think that non-communist Russia realizes that if the forces of fundamentalism and extremism were to prevail in Afghanistan the results would spread to Central Asia and probably also to the 30 million Muslims within Russia."
"Forces of fundamentalism and extremism"? That's a bit of a flip-flop for the ever-prescient Brzezinski. In 1998, when the French publication Le Nouvel Observateur asked him whether he had any regrets over his role in arming and training many of the Mujahedeen who then turned into the rabidly anti-American Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists, Brzezinski dismissed the concern as nonsensical piffle over "some stirred-up Moslems." Here is the portion of that 1998 French interview relevant to the matter at hand:
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
Brzezinski: Nonsense!
During the Brzezinski-Carter Afghani operation, you understand, the Brzezinski/CFR/TC new world order crowd found it necessary to convince the American public that it was in our interests to support the supposed "good" Islamic Mujahedeen against the evil Soviet invaders. Now the roles are reversed and Brzezinski and company say we should ally ourselves with Putin's Kremlin against (the formerly "good," but now evil) "forces of fundamentalism and extremism." One of the major problems with this is that the Brzezinski-Carter "Afghan Strategy" was a lie from the beginning, and the lie continues to confuse many about what really took place in the 1980s during the Soviet occupation.
As we have explained in detail in previous issues of The New American (for example, "How to Create an 'Islamic Enemy,'" March 21, 1994), the U.S. aid to the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan went invariably and overwhelmingly not to moderates who were tried, trusted, and true anti-communists, but to the most virulently anti-American, pro-communist bands of cutthroats who rarely (or never) fought the Soviets, but instead regularly betrayed and murdered the other Mujahedeen who were genuinely fighting the Russians. The truth is that the "Mujahedeen" that Brzezinski-Carter strategy aided were the forces led by Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, General Abdul Rashid Dostam, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Ahmed Shah Masood, and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, all of whom were (and are, if still alive) double-dealing, ruthless bandits, or outright communist, KGB-trained thugs.
Brzezinski and his Carter teammates knew all of this, of course, because it was pointed out to them many times in numerous reports and in public testimony before Congress. They nevertheless continued the lie and continued the murderous policy of supporting our sworn and proven enemies for over a decade. And now, many years later, we are engaged again back in Afghanistan — for over a decade — fighting the enemy the Brzezinski-Carter team created with our aid. Meanwhile, Brzezinski and his bi-partisan globalists are forging new alliances with Putin and company.
The "about" page for RBTH informs us that:
Russia Beyond the Headlines is an internationally recognized source of political, business and cultural news and analysis. It offers original, on-the-ground coverage of Russia from professional, independent journalists who are passionate and knowledgeable about the country, and opinion pieces from commentators who hold a wide range of views about Russia's leadership and direction.
Russia Beyond the Headlines is produced by leading Russian daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta (www.rg.ru) is the Russian government's paper of record.
The "Russian government's paper of record" — which is another way of saying that it is an official mouthpiece and propaganda fount for Putin's KGB/FSB regime. And we can be sure that if the journalists at RBTH are truly "independent," "passionate," and "knowledgeable," and if they should happen to really investigate and truthfully report the facts, they will turn up dead, like Anna Politkovskaya and the hundreds of other courageous journalists (see here and here ) whose murders or disappearances have gone largely unreported and unlamented in the Western press. All Russian reporters know this, of course, and only a tiny minority will risk incurring Putin's wrath.
Brzezinski, the geostrategic guru, knows all of this, of course, but doesn't suffer any compunction about cooperating with the Russian equivalent of Goebbels' Nazi Propaganda Ministry. Neither, apparently, do any of Brzezinski's fellow New World Order elitists at the Trilateral Commission (TC), the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), or the Atlantic Council (AC).
Not only can Putin's propaganda ministry depend on regular op-ed contributions, articles, and interviews from globalists such as Brzezinski, but RBTH, like other Putinite organs, can boast that American and European mainstream media are mainlining the Kremlin party line directly to their audiences. The RBTHwebsite, for instance, notes
that in some of the leading prestige newspapers outside of Russia are regularly publishing RBTH supplements and regularly featuring RBTH reports on their web sites. In the U.S., RBTH is partnered with the New York Times and the Washington Post. In Britain, it's The Daily Telegraph; in France, Le Figaro; in Italy, La Repubblica; in Spain, El Pais; in Germany, Süddeutsche Zeitung; in Belgium, Le Soir; in Japan, Yomiuri Shimbun; in Argentina, La Nacion — etc.
While RBTH, Russia Today, Novosti, and most other Kremlin propaganda projects are aimed at the general public worldwide, Russia In Global Affairs is aimed at the intelligentsia and policymaking elites. Launched in 2002, it is a joint project of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Kremlin. The top banner for the home page of the Russia in Global Affairs (RGA) website features the state symbol of the Russian Federation along with the symbol of the CFR and the notation, "published with the participation [of] Foreign Affairs," the journal of the CFR. In the French version of Wikipedia, the entry for RGA says: "RGA is published in English on a quarterly basis and Russian twice a month (with the support of Foreign Affairs for the latest version)."
It is clear that Brzezinski, the CFR, and Foreign Affairs have been giving RGA a great deal of support. TheRGA Editorial Board and the RGA Authors web pages list a veritable Who's Who of TC/CFR/AC heavyweights that also double as experts at Foreign Affairs, including: James F. Hoge, Jr. (editor ofForeign Affairs), Graham Allison, C. Fred Bergsten, Helmut Kohl, Lord William Wallace, Robert Kagan, Madeleine Albright, Roger Altman, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Leslie Gelb, Condoleezza Rice, David Rockefeller, Strobe Talbott (to name a few) — and, of course, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
The chairman of the board of trustees for Russia in Global Affairs is Vladimir Potanin, one of the favored Communist Party members upon whom the KGB directors at Kremlin central bestowed instant billionaire oligarch status. (Potanin, a Putin ally, is also a business partner of Mikhail Prokhorov the flamboyant Russian playboy owner of the New Jersey Nets NBA franchise, who has recently jumped into Russian politics and may soon join the Putin "administration.")
The RGA editorial board doesn't even bother to camouflage its totalitarian roots, proudly listing (among others) former KGB chief Yevgeny Primakov (who also was Moscow's Middle East terror boss) alongside his CFR/TC/AC colleagues. But then, Brzezinski, Rockefeller, and company have never been squeamish about cozy relations with communist mass murderers. Although Brzezinski is frequently described as "anti-communist," and even as "fanatically anti-communist," his public statements that have given rise to these absurd characterizations have always been deliberately made as political cover for official policies or policy proposals, the aim of which is to integrate and merge the non-communist world more closely with the communist (and/or "formerly" communist) world. "Strategic engagement," "interdependence," and "convergence" are some of the terms of art used by the CFR/TC/AC political insiders to disguise this process of engineering a global political, economic, social merger that (they intend) will culminate inworld government.
The Trilateral Commission, which Brzezinski founded with David Rockefeller, is a prime model of the rule by elites that the engagement/interdependence/convergence program is producing. The TC's European deputy chairman is Vladimir Dlouhy, the "former" Communist Party member and Czechoslovak Minister of Economy; now Comrade Dlouhy is an "international advisor" to Goldman Sachs (which is a CFR corporate member) and a one-world chum of Brzezinski and Rockefeller.
In his 2009 essay for the Financial Times, "The Group of Two That Could Change the World," Brzezinski speaks proudly of his 1978 clandestine mission to Beijing for Jimmy Carter "to initiate the secret negotiations that resulted in the normalisation of US-China relations." This, he claims, was not only advantageous to the United States, but "to the disadvantage of the Soviet Union." He also argues that "we need to widen and deepen our geostrategic co-operation" with China, for economic reasons as well as for shared security on issues such as Iran, North Korea, Israel-Palestine, and "climate change."
Of course, it was Brzezinski who led Team Carter's vicious betrayal of Iran's Shah Pahlavi, effectively defenestrating our most loyal ally in the region and replacing the most rational, moderating force in Islam with the virulently anti-American, pro-Soviet Ayatollah Khomeini. And at virtually the same time, the same Brzezinski-Carter crew overthrew America's staunchest ally in Latin America, Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza, supplanting him with Daniel Ortega and the communist Sandanistas. The Khomeinist terror regime in Tehran and the Sandinista regime in Managua are but two of the dreadful legacies for which we are still paying a terrible price, thanks to the "brilliant" and "far-sighted" Brzezinski.
According to Brzezinski's Financial Times piece cited above, we must "at all times keep in mind the centrality of our interdependence" with China, in order to "be able to cope with other contentious issues." And we should, says he, favor "creating a larger standby UN peacekeeping force for deployment in failed states."
This writer has not yet read Brzezinski's new tome, Strategic Vision, but having read a number of his recent articles and having seen him on many recent television programs promoting the book, it is safe to bet that he is still thumping his favorite themes of engagement, interdependence, and convergence — and always more centralized power and control for the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and other international institutions — with concomitant losses of sovereignty and independence for the United States. For Brzezinski and his likeminded one-world brethren, the ultimate desideratum is world government — run by them, without the constraints of nasty checks and balances, such as those imposed by our Constitution.
Occasionally, the one-worlders come right out and say openly what they usually adorn in opaque and deceptive verbiage. Such was the case when Brzezinski was one of the key speakers at Mikhail Gorbachev's 1995 State of the World Forum in San Francisco. This writer was in the audience, only a scant 25 feet from the speaker, when he (Brzezinski) declared:
Yet five years after the end of the century's greatest ideological struggle and five years before the onset of the next millennium, the end of the ideological centrality in global politics has not ushered in a new world order…. We do not have a new world order. Instead we are facing growing doubts regarding the meaning of our era and regarding the shape of our future.
"We cannot leap into world government in one quick step," Brzezinski told his audience, an august Who's Who of politics, business, finance, academe, philanthropy, and entertainment. Such a grand goal, he averred, "requires a process of gradually expanding the range of democratic cooperation as well as the range of personal and national security, a widening, step by step, stone by stone, [of] existing relatively narrow zones of stability in the world of security and cooperation. In brief, the precondition for eventual globalization — genuine globalization — is progressive regionalization, because thereby we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units."
The goal remains world government, and Brzezinski and many of his globalist comrades are anxious to speed up the gradualist process they have been pushing along toward that objective for many decades.
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Hoboken, N.J. – With the explosion of big data and information technology in the financial markets, Stevens researchers are leading the charge to change the way the world views business data.
At the 2013 XBRL Research Workshop, a one-day conference held on Nov. 9, 2013 at Stevens, experts from academia, the financial services sector, the investment community and regulatory agencies collaborated on the development and usage of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) technology.
XBRL is a digitized format which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mandates publicly traded corporations use to exchange and share financial information with the public, including investors, regulators and financial researchers.
While delivering data in XBRL is intended to make financial information more relevant, timely and reliable, the lack of analytical tools to interpret the data and make it user-friendly and easily decipherable has called the usefulness of the XBRL format into question.
The Stevens workshop united public and private researchers specializing in accounting, finance, statistics, economics, financial engineering, information engineering, computer science, systems engineering and related fields to collaborate on tools, technologies and services which would improve XBRL disclosure quality, build confidence in data integrity, and facilitate better understanding and utilization of financial information disclosed by XBRL.
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Dr. Steve Yang, assistant professor in the School of Systems & Enterprises (SSE) at Stevens, was the lead organizer of the workshop. Yang is leading a Stevens research project hosted at the Hanlon Financial Systems Center to create an XBRL infrastructure system which applies various analytic techniques, such as statistics and data mining, to publicly available financial disclosure information. The system will provide a platform for investors to use meaningful analytic results for better-informed decision making, and for the academic community to conduct financial disclosure-related research.
"I called the XBRL journey 'the XBRL Marathon' during my opening speech at the conference, and I challenged the attendees to work together to finish the last six miles of this race", said Yang. "This analogy resonated very well with many attendees. Yes, it is going to be tough and challenging for the last six miles. However, I strongly believe that it takes a collective effort and collaboration across the board to make it happen. It is my goal to make Stevens a place where the regulators and the investment community can meet to make things happen. I am very happy to say that we achieved more than just the goal we set out at the beginning. Many collaboration intents have started to take shape, and many attendees are looking forward to the next year's conference."
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