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This paper was prepared by Pierre Poret, OECD, and presented in May 1998 at an IMF Seminar on Current Legal Issues Affecting Central Banks. The views expressed in this paper are not necessarily those of the OECD and its Members. The author is grateful to Robert Ley and Rinaldo Pecchioli for their comments on this paper.
The OECD has the vocation of promoting sustainable economic growth and efficiency in Member countries, and the liberalisation of trade in goods and services and movement of capital between Member countries has been recognised as indispensable to the attainment of this goal. Accordingly, in the Convention which established the OECD in 1961, the Member countries agreed to "pursue their efforts to reduce or abolish obstacles to the exchange of goods and services and current payments and maintain and extend the liberalisation of capital movements".
With regard to capital movements, this solemn undertaking found concrete expression in the OECD Code of Liberalisation of Capital Movements adopted in December 1961. In adhering to the Code, OECD Members have undertaken to remove restrictions on specified lists of capital movements between residents of different Member countries. OECD Members have thereby waived their right under the IMF's Articles of the Agreement to maintain capital controls (while the Code does not alter OECD Members' obligations as members of the IMF). The OECD Code is to date the only multilateral instrument promoting comprehensive capital movements liberalisation as its primary purpose.
The Code's approach to capital account liberalisation cannot be described as doctrinaire. Liberalisation need be neither immediate nor unconditional. Through an OECD Committee mechanism of peer pressure, the Code engages Member countries in a process of progressive liberalisation, allowing reasonable scope for Members in different circumstances to move towards the ultimate objective of complete freedom of capital movements in different ways and at varying speeds, according to the economic circumstances they face.
OECD Member countries' experience since the adoption of the Code has confirmed that the Organisation's objective of free movement of capital is well founded. Where accompanying economic policies and supporting institutional frameworks are in place, international capital mobility has proved to bring essential macroeconomic benefits and efficiency gains: it offers a better allocation of world savings to productive uses; it ensures liquidity against domestic income fluctuations; it reduces investment risks by allowing portfolio diversification; and it provides signals from international markets that are salutary for the discipline of macroeconomic policies. Liberalisation of capital movements is also an integral part of regulatory reforms to improve corporate and public governance and transparency of rules.
Two new OECD Members, Mexico and Korea, were recently affected by major currency crises. Currency crises are not new phenomena, however. Other OECD countries -- in Europe and elsewhere -- experienced in the past severe currency crises, notably in the 1970s with the collapse of the Bretton Woods system and the first oil shock, and in the early 1980s and in 1992 within the European Monetary System. But despite the possibility of episodical serious financial instability, it has been recognised that the adoption of corrective policy measures which pass the test of free financial markets represented a long-run investment which offered a far better guarantee for economic stability in the future than recourse to capital controls.
In adhering to the Code, OECD Member countries undertake in particular the following obligations:
The Capital Movements Code covers all capital movements, ranging from direct investment to derivatives and currency trading. The definition of a capital movement under the Code includes not only a capital transfer or a payment but also the underlying transaction since many capital operations, in particular capital inflows, are regulated at the level of the underlying transaction. Regarding inward direct investment, the Code's liberalisation obligation extends to regulations affecting the establishment of non-resident investments where FDI restrictions continue to apply.
Liberalisation means that residents should be allowed to transact freely with non-residents in any operations and instruments available abroad. This means for instance that residents should be free to buy on foreign markets commercial paper issued by non-residents, even if domestically no market for commercial paper exists or is permitted; or that residents should be free to issue securities abroad without prior approval from their national authorities even if an approval is required for issues on domestic markets.
Liberalisation also means that Members are required to apply National Treatment to non-residents wishing to engage in operations with residents on their territory. For instance, non-residents shall not be subject to more burdensome requirements for access to local capital markets than those applicable to residents. On the other hand, Members are not required to extend preferential treatment to non-residents on their territory. This implies for instance that non-residents may be prevented from issuing commercial paper on the domestic market if residents are not permitted to do so. In other words, the Code does not inhibit the normal exercise of regulatory powers of governments provided that they are carried out in a non-discriminatory manner.
The Capital Movements Code protects the liquidation of a foreign investment and the free cross-border transfer of profits and proceeds of liquidation in relation to a foreign investment, but it does not include provisions on expropriation, as host-country regimes on expropriation are not considered to interfere directly with the ability of non-residents to make an investment. More generally, the primary purpose of the Capital Movements Code is to ensure the freedom of capital movements between residents of different Member countries and does not address the treatment by a host country of foreign-controlled enterprises once established on its territory. The test of discrimination under the Capital Movements Code is therefore primarily based on residence criteria consistent with a balance-of-payments approach, rather than nationality criteria.
The Code contains a number of safeguards. In particular:
The OECD Code has the status of an OECD Decision, which is legally binding. Accordingly, the Members are expected to take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that the obligations accepted are honoured. The strength of the Code lies also in the determination of the Member countries to make active use of it as an instrument of international co-operation.
While the Code does not explicitly refer to the possibility of countermeasures against a Member which would breach its obligations, it does not exclude that countermeasures may be taken under certain conditions, in accordance with international law. But in practice, there have never been such cases of countermeasures. Peer pressure, political persuasion and compromise solutions were felt by the drafters of the Code more suitable to resolve disputes in the field of capital controls which usually apply for general public policy purposes, in a non-discriminatory manner and on a cross-industry basis. This approach to dispute settlement has generally proven effective.
The Code provides a framework of notification, examination and consultation within a specialised Committee which culminates in Recommendations and Decisions by the OECD Council, through which observance of its prescriptions can be effectively monitored and achieved and disputes can be settled.
Experience shows that this framework exerts effective pressure on Member countries to accelerate capital control liberalisation and avoid backsliding. Often, national policymakers working to pursue liberalisation in their own country found that an internationally recognised forum as the OECD constituted a valuable source of support for their reforms. The role of the Code goes also beyond that of exerting a pressure on particular countries for unilateral liberalisation. Individual countries are better off if they act collectively to remove capital export barriers within the framework of multilaterally agreed rules and procedures that provide some assurance that others will follow the movement.
The scope of the Code was progressively broadened as OECD economies developed and the stance of policies changed. In 1961, the liberalisation obligations of the Code were essentially limited to the free disposal of non-resident-owned blocked funds and free transfers in connection with the making and the liquidation of inward direct investments. The Code was revised in 1964 to include basic underlying transactions such as direct investment, certain long-term securities and credit operations and personal capital movements, and in 1984 to cover the right of establishment of direct investors. But it is only in 1989 that the Code was amended to cover all other capital movements, including short-term capital movements, such as money-market transactions, operations in forward markets, swaps, options, and other derivative instruments.
This evolution reflects the gradual process of liberalisation and its sequencing in most OECD countries.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the majority of OECD countries were prepared to liberalise only operations which were most closely related to business and trade activities and were perceived, for this reason, to be relatively stable. Only later, starting from the middle of the 1980s, other operations of a more financial character and of shorter maturities, which were considered more volatile, began to be liberalised. Along this process, investments in equities were usually liberalised before debt-creating capital flows, and operations in long-term bonds before those in short-term debt securities. (Interestingly, it seems that a number of emerging market economies affected by the recent crisis in Asia followed a pattern which in several respects was the opposite of the sequencing of liberalisation in OECD countries.)
In fact, the issue of "hot money", including the danger of excessive short-term and speculative capital inflows, which is widely debated today in the aftermath of recent currency crises, is not new to OECD Member countries. Already in 1964, they discussed the issue extensively in the context of the first reform of the Code. At that time, they took an explicit decision not to extend the scope of the Code to short-term operations on the grounds that their liberalisation would make their balances of payments vulnerable to shifts in market participants' sentiments and compromise the independence of their economic policies, in particular undermine exchange rate objectives set out within the framework of the Bretton Woods system of fixed but adjustable exchange rates.
After a period of turbulence in the 1970s, the 1980s brought a new era in policy attitudes, heralded by the abolition of exchange controls by the United Kingdom in 1979 and by Japan in 1980. Other countries have since followed suit. By the early 1990s, no OECD Member countries maintained capital controls of any significance.
Many factors explain this new approach towards capital movements liberalisation in the OECD area. Factors common to most OECD Member countries, i.e. irrespective of differences in their level of economic and financial development, include the following:
It is against this background that the conviction grew among OECD Member countries that the time had come to consider a significant strengthening of the obligations and broadening of the scope of the Code to include all cross-border operations including those most sensitive to changes in interest rates and market sentiment, and that the 1989 amendment to the Code was adopted.
While the accession processes of the five new Members (Mexico, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Korea) that joined OECD in recent years involved OECD Committees reviews in a wide range of areas, an essential condition of their accession to OECD membership was their acceptance of the obligations of the OECD Codes. Although each application to OECD Membership is judged on its own merits, all candidate countries are expected to meet inter alia the following standards under the Capital Movements Code:
The capacity of a candidate country to meet minimum OECD capital account liberalisation standards is considered to be in the interest of the country concerned itself. Liberalisation is seen as an integral part of regulatory reform, especially necessary in countries where capital controls could contribute to excessive government interference with normal corporate governance practices, opacity of rules or even corruption. In addition, access to direct corporate finance from abroad brings some of the disciplines of organised international stock markets over corporate governance. Liberalised capital outflows force domestic enterprises to compete more actively for scarce capital and financial institutions to improve the functioning of their local capital markets, and greater financial integration helps domestic financial institutions to familiarise themselves further with modern financial techniques and regulatory disciplines.
The willingness of a candidate country to deliver a timetable for future liberalisation in the area of capital movements is also viewed as a positive signal that the country concerned will strive to implement the necessary macroeconomic policies in support of liberalisation and maintain the momentum for further regulatory reform more generally.
The OECD membership conditions cannot be held responsible for the recent currency crises and banking instability experienced in some of the emerging market economies which recently joined the OECD. In particular, the OECD did not request the candidate countries to liberalise short-term cross-border capital operations, including interbank lending with respect to which excessive reliance has been identified as one cause of the problems faced in Asia. Moreover, tighter non-discriminatory banking regulations would have been fully consistent with the Code, the lack of which appears very much at the root of financial sector difficulties in some of them. As a matter of fact, the competent OECD Committees at the time of accession drew the new Members' attention to the need to modernise the banking system and, in particular, to upgrade and strengthen the prudential supervisory framework.
Half-way measures and delays in implementing in full the recommendations made by the OECD Member countries in the context of accession actually did not help the new Members concerned and may have contributed to retarding much needed improvements in corporate and public governance practices, and in the predictability and transparency of rules. As a matter of fact, following their recent currency crises, Mexico and Korea took further capital control liberalisation measures. None of them had recourse to new capital controls, though such measures would have been possible if the derogation clauses of the Code had been invoked.
So that the implementation of their accession commitments can be closely monitored and further recommendations can be made by the OECD Council as appropriate, the new Members agreed that full reviews of their positions under the Code should be held two years following their accession.
There is every reason to expect that the Capital Movements Code will continue to play an important role in the future life of the OECD, while adapting -- as in the past -- to the changing institutional and policy landscape affecting liberalisation. The respective roles of the OECD and the IMF (which regardless of the scope of its formal jurisdiction already shares the goal of liberalisation) will continue to be complementary and mutually reinforcing.
First, the Code plays a unique operational role in promoting liberalisation in the OECD area, through peer monitoring, regular policy reviews and direct dialogue among OECD governments. Member countries will continue to make use of these procedures, which have proven well adapted in the OECD membership context of advanced economies and represent one of the comparative advantages of the OECD. Policy reviews can take a variety of forms. There is a broad support to continue horizontal reviews of the 29 Member countries under the Codes such as those recently conducted by the Committee on Capital Movements and Invisible Transactions (CMIT) in the fields of foreign investment in real estate and the admission of foreign securities on domestic capital markets.
Second, the Code provides a well-tested and objective yardstick for admission of new Members and have been instrumental to successful OECD accession negotiations. OECD Member countries consider it very important that the Code continues to play this role. In the context of OECD outreach activities, the Code is being used as a concrete basis for dialogue and assistance to non-Members; it has been studied by a number of non-Members as a reference tool for domestic reform of foreign exchange legislation.
Third, the Code constitutes the institutional expression of OECD leadership in the development of "best international practice" for cross-border capital movements. Already in the past, the Code played a precursor role -- when, through the adoption of the Code, OECD Member countries waived their right to maintain capital controls under Article VI of the IMF Agreement and, more recently in 1989, when the Code was enlarged to all capital transactions. Key to its continued policy relevance is that it is an evolving agreement which can be changed by OECD Council decisions to incorporate further innovative disciplines in the light of direct experience-sharing among Members.
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As it turns out, threatening to stalk, rape and murder women who are dissatisfied with your services isn't so great for business.
Epic cyberbully Vitaly Borker of DecorMyEyes.com was sentenced to four years in jail on charges of fraud and sending threatening communications. He will also have to pay almost $100,000, which will go towards a fine and paying back all of the customers he ripped off as well as terrorized, and is barred from using a computer for three years after his release. Oh, and he'll receive some beyond-needed psychiatric and substance-abuse counseling.
"You didn't actually put a knife to someone's throat, but you got the satisfaction that they felt you would," Manhattan federal Judge Richard Sullivan said when he sentenced him.
When the New York Times originally reported on Borker's myriad ways of scaring customers — which ranged from emails saying "don't forget that I know where you live" (complete with Google Earth photos) to "go fuck yourself cocksucker...lick my asshole" to the rather creative "I hope you fall off a ladder and break your head" — Borker explained that he fucked with customers to generate internet publicity about his business, bringing a new meaning to "all publicity is good publicity." ("Rape threats are good publicity"?)
Judge Sullivan said that, at one point during Borker's 18-month-long case, his victims' stories were so disturbing that he actually revoked his bail, permitting him to live at home with restrictions. Now, Borker won't be able to threaten people who disagree with him — under the guise of business or any other psychotic purposes — for quite some time.
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Up With People coming to town next week
Up With People, the group of performers that looks to bridge cultural barriers with song while serving the communities it performs in, comes to North Fort Myers High School next week for the first two shows on a six-month, worldwide tour.
The 120-person song-and-dance ensemble featuring performers from 20 countries arrives Monday, Feb. 11. The performers, who have been staging for their show in Lakeland, will stay with host families and volunteer in the community before performing two shows at the high school Sunday, Feb. 17, at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
"We have some great alumni in the community who were excited about bringing us back. We haven't been in Fort Myers since 1998," said Chelsea Panchot, tour manager. "They went and found sponsors for us and that excitement made them the first stop for us."
The reaction to Up With People has been tremendous, according to Lorna Murphy, a member of the advance team.
"There are people buying tickets in advance, asking about it," Murphy said. "Sales have been good. In our offices we hear every day people are buying tickets."
"We advise people get their tickets in advance so they are guaranteed a seat. We hope we can get a couple sellouts," said Isabelle Belliard, who is promoting the show. "We get a lot of sales the day of the show, but for now sales online are going good."
The troupe will tour through seven countries in North America and Europe before finishing up in June.
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When the tour group arrives the individuals will live with local host families, volunteer in the local community at the Harry Chapin Food Bank and other charitable organizations, do regional learning, march in the Edison Festival of Light parade, rehearse and perform their two shows, Murphy said, adding that most of the cast has found a host family.
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Finding host families is usually the biggest hurdle the organization has.
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Last summer, a Japanese sword exhibit that featured Neon Genesis Evangelion-inspired blades was held in Okayama Prefecture.
This weekend on Twitter, a friend of one of the traditional craftsmen who participated in the event apparently said he created a short sword to leave something behind, whether it's this Asuka carving or whatever, so that it will continue to exist in the future. It will. On the internet.
The other blades that went on display last summer were quite impressive. This Asuka sword, however, might be the most impressive. Below are more photos of the blade.
Watch this video to see how traditional Japanese blades are made.
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CINCINNATI -- The struggling Reds have yet to catch fire and rip off a long winning streak this season. Losses have been more commonplace than in recent memory, and the team isn't overcoming early deficits.
Reds manager Bryan Price isn't satisfied with his team's won-loss record, but doesn't believe his team has grown comfortable or complacent with losing. However, he's had to handle one issue.
"To me, what verifies if guys are still expecting to win is the effort that you get on the field," Price said on Wednesday. "There are times here in the last week where we've had a couple of guys that haven't run the ball out hard. That's disappointing to me. That bothers me and we address it and we'll continue to address it and not allow it to permeate the ballclub.
"What we need are guys that bust their tail every day. As long as we get that, it's hard to complain."


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The largest of the living apes, the gorilla has a characteristically heavy body shape and shaggy dark coat. Until recently it was considered a single species, but DNA evidence has led to the recognition of the eastern and western populations as distinct species; Gorilla beringei and Gorilla gorilla respectively (4). Gorillas have robust bodies with broad chests and long arms. The mountain gorilla subspecies (Gorilla beringei beringei) has a particularly long coat, which is blue-black to brownish-grey in colour. Mature male gorillas are much larger than females with a large skull crest. At about 14 years old, the hair in the saddle of their back turns white and hence they are known as 'silverbacks' (2). Gorillas are quadrupedal, walking on the knuckles of their forelimbs and the soles of their feet (2).
Eastern gorillas live in stable, cohesive family groups, led by a dominant silverback male. Eastern gorillas tend to have larger group sizes than their western relatives, exceptionally numbering more than 50 individuals (2). There is no distinct breeding season and females give birth only once every three to four years due to the gestation period of 8.5 months and a long period of parental care. Newborn gorillas have greyish-pink skin and can crawl after nine weeks; they are not fully weaned until 3.5 years (2). Males defend their females and offspring using their large size in intimidating displays involving charging and chest-beating (2).
Eastern gorillas are herbivorous, with a heavily foliage-based diet (2). They have smaller home ranges than western gorillas as foliage is more abundant than fruit. They are diurnal but most foraging occurs in the morning and late afternoon. At night they build nests by folding over vegetation, usually on the ground (2).
The best known of the eastern gorillas, the mountain gorilla, is found in two isolated populations. One is in the Virunga Volcanoes region, situated on the borders of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The other occurs in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda (1). The Virunga population was estimated to comprise 380 individuals in 2003, while there were estimated to be just 300 individuals in the Bwindi population in 2006 (1). The eastern lowland or Grauer's gorilla (G. b. graueri) is found only in eastern DRC, and is significantly more abundant than the mountain gorilla (1).
The eastern gorilla inhabits tropical forest. Mountain gorillas are found at altitudes between 1,160 and 4,100 metres while eastern lowland gorillas occur between 600 and 2,900 metres above sea level (5).
Snares set to trap other wildlife may accidentally maim and even kill gorillas (6), while poaching for infants has re-emerged as a threat to mountain gorillas (1). The biggest threats to Grauer's gorillas result from armed conflict in and around the parks. In the past decade, many Grauer's gorillas have been shot dead in crossfire, or for food by people hiding in the forest. Ongoing instability in the region means that this problem is getting worse, as civil war has made arms more accessible and continues to create large numbers of refugees (7). A relatively new threat to the gorillas comes from the tourism. While tourism has so far aided its survival, large numbers of people coming into close contact with gorillas may put them at risk from human diseases (7).
The mountain gorilla occurs mainly within national parks and in some areas is protected by armed guards to prevent poaching (7). Gorillas in the Virunga region have been studied and protected for many decades and are now seen as an important source of tourist revenue (8). The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has recognised the urgent need to protect our closest relatives and has established a Great Ape Survival Project (GRASP). This project is aimed at identifying the conservation initiatives required to secure the future of the apes and at obtaining political support and funding to allow these to be achieved (9). A multifaceted approach is needed to ensure the survival of one of our most impressive cousins.
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When I was a small child, one of the biggest treats we would receive was being taken out for an ice cream cone. I loved to press my nose against the glass display case at the ice cream shop, peering into the variously hued tubs, weighing the advantage of chocolate chocolate chip against strawberry, or raspberry sorbet versus vanilla bean. My sister was not one to get bogged down in the decision making process. As far as I remember, every time it was available, she'd pick peppermint.
Just before Christmas this past year we were discussing plans for Christmas Eve and she told me that her family has a tradition of inviting a big group over for a pot of soup and homemade peppermint ice cream with hot fudge sauce. Some people just don't change much.
Having that discussion lodged the idea of peppermint ice cream in my brain and when Christmas was done and it was time to clean up, I found myself with several candy canes on hand. I could have let my kids eat them, I suppose. But all that sugar, right after the holidays....that wouldn't be good parenting, would it? No, it would be much better parenting to put the candy canes into ice cream and give us something we could all enjoy!
Peppermint Ice Cream
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1/4 cup (60 ml) light corn syrup
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- The Turkey: Definitely something my mom does by memory, but her signature techniques include both covering the bird in butter and wedging small pats of butter under the skin, coating the bird liberally in salt and pepper, and covering the breasts in tin foil so they stay moist through the cooking process, and removing the foil an hour or so before the bird's done so the skin gets crispy.
- Stuffing: For as long as I can remember, we've been making the cornbread, sausage, and apple stuffing from The Silver Palate cookbook. A few modifications to the recipe: use fresh herbs (a quarter cup of each), add in diced celery and cook with the apple and onion, and leave out the pecans.
- Mashed Potatoes: Similar to the turkey, we just sort of wing it as we go- but our potatoes always includes and head of roasted garlic and cream cheese. That second addition comes from The Pioneer Woman- it's a must!
- Sweet Potatoes: For years we made these Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Maple All-Spice Butter from Bon Appétit, which are delicious, but in the last few years we've mixed up what we've done with sweet potatoes. These year we're making these Vanilla Bean Whipped Sweet Potatoes from Food & Wine.
- Cranberry Sauce: For years we've been making this Piquant Cranberry Sauce from Bon Appétit. It's got great punch and can be made 3 days in advance. This is so good and easy!
- Corn Pudding: Every year our family friend Lisa brings the most comforting and delicious corn pudding. It's one of myfavorite dishes on our table! I don't have the exact recipe, but this one seems pretty similar.
- Creamed Onions: This is a very traditional dish in our house- something I've come to love simply for that reason. That's another recipe that's tucked inside an old cookbook, but this recipe looks pretty similar, minus the bread crumbs and baking at the end.
- Thanksgiving Salads: Gotta have some greens! I love a big salad at Thanksgiving to help cut through all the heaviness. This year I'm actually going to be making this Tuscan Kale Salad, but in previous years I've made this Brussels Sprouts and Apple Slaw with Mustard Dressing. This Shaved Brussels Sprouts, Pineapple, Avocado, and Sea Salt Roasted Cashew Salad would also be amazing! And if you don't make these on Thanksgiving- definitely get them in this winter.
I'll share dessert recipes tomorrow- including a new apple pie with a delicious twist that I'll be making this year (catch a sneak peak here!). Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!


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The war in Afghanistan has reached a grim milestone as U.S. officials announced that 2,000 service members have died in the war.
News 5's Laura Borchers spoke with a couple whose son died fighting in the war. They said they hope their son didn't die in vain.
Cindy and Scott Pyeatt said they want every American to take greater notice of each life lost from here on out.
The Pyeatt family is infuriated as the nation passes 2,000 military casualties.
"Nobody's keeping track. No one is paying attention to what's going on," Cindy Pyeatt said.
The Pyeatts said their son, Marine Cpl. Lucas Pyeatt, was killed while on patrol in 2011 when his company suffered an improvised explosive device attack.
The couple said each day they mark the service members who've lost their lives in the 11-year war.
"You learn to live with broken bones that don't ever want to heal," Cindy Pyeatt said.
They said while the death toll has accelerated in recent months, American interest has not.
"It's someone's family. Someone's going to get the knock at the door and their whole life's going to change," Scott Pyeatt said. "I want people to think about the great cost that is happening."
Military officials said most foreign troops are scheduled to depart the country by the end of 2014.
According to reports, about 68,000 troops remain in Afghanistan.
Defense Department casualty statistics for Operation Enduring Freedom puts the number of casualties at 2,120. That figure includes casualties that happened in Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Philippines, Seychelles, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
Many families like the Pyeatts are calling on Americans to shift their attention to what's going on in the war.
"Every night there's an account on how many days we've had our service men and woman in Afghanistan or still in Iraq," Cindy Pyeatt said. "Let's count them, count the loss. Let's remember that these are real people and they had lives. They had really important lives and family that loves them."
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I would love to get Jack Hayford's Bible Handbook available for Accordance.
I just discovered that Logos has it:
(I think they have the old version, I believe there's an update after 1995.)
It contains lots of stuff I still turn for in the hardprint edition:
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Even if I have loads of other resources, charismatic and not so charismatic available, I find this book to be of great value when preparing teaching. Especially when commentaries go too deep, and various study bibles seems to overlook certain "birds eye view" aspects ...
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Uruguay's Senate has voted to legalise gay marriage by approving a single law governing matrimony for heterosexuals and homosexuals.
Senators voted 23-8 in favour of the bill, which was passed by the lower house in December. It must now return to the lower chamber of Congress with changes.
If approved, the law would make Uruguay the second nation in Latin America and the 12th in the world to legalise gay marriage. Argentina legalised same-sex marriage in 2010.
"It goes beyond homosexuality, it's about a law where everyone shares the same rights and obligations," said Federico Grana, a lawmaker in the ruling Frente Amplio coalition and a member of the Black Sheep Collective, a gay rights group that presented the bill's first draft.
The bill lets couples, gay or straight, decide whose surname goes first when they name their children. It also clarifies rules for adoption and in-vitro fertilization, and eliminates the words "husband and woman" in marriage contracts, referring instead to the gender-neutral "contracting parties".
"This is an issue of liberty, of people's choice and justice," said Sen. Rafael Michelini.
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The Roman Catholic Church opposes the proposal, but the church has little political influence in secular Uruguay, which became the first Latin American country to legalise abortion last year.
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Remember that rather gauche Sports Illustrated South Africa fake-cover ad campaign? The one with Der Führer getting the ol' SI jinx dropped on his head? Well, the magazine now claims it didn't like the ads, either.
Craig Ross, group publisher of SI South Africa, sent us this statement:
Several months ago, Saatchi and Saatchi SA presented this campaign concept to our staff and it was immediately dismissed for its for its lack of proper judgment and insensitivity. Without our knowledge or consent, these storyboards were entered into an industry contest and published on that contest's website.
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Grains closed sharply lower today with March corn 7 ½ cents lower, March wheat down 22 ¾, and March soybeans down 17 ¼.
Late last night congress passed the Fiscal Cliff bill which the outside markets viewed as quite positive. There was a sharp rally on Monday afternoon in anticipation of a compromise and that rally was extended today. The Dow Jones futures closed up over 300 points on the trading session!
Congress also passed the extension of the Farm Bill including the $1/gallon blender's credit for biodiesel retroactive for 2012 and for 2013. These credits were particularly bullish for soyoil and we saw a corresponding rally in the March contract finishing 135 points higher! With the stock market sharply higher and the dollar sharply lower the opening grain prices were also quite strong. Within the first half hour of trading it was clear that the rally was slowing and long liquidation appeared to have taken control. This coincided with a strengthening US Dollar index as well.
What fueled the massive selloff? Favorable South American weather is certainly not helping support prices. It could be money flowing out of agricultural commodities and back in the stock market. It could also be additional producer hedging after the 1st of the year. The next downside target for March corn is at the 200 day moving average of $6.83.
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March soybeans broke their recent lows and look poised to try and test the November low of $13.56. The outside down day was also a negative short term technical indicator for March soybeans.
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March wheat had an outside down day which is short term negative. Wheat has finally reached its 68.2% retracement level which may slow the selling. Fund rebalancing starts on Monday and expectations are for a large exit of Chicago wheat futures.
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Two decades ago, economics was the conservation community's big blind spot. It was considered the problem, not a part of the solution. Today, economics is accepted by a broad spectrum of conservationists from across the world as an important tool in their fight to protect the environment. A share of credit for the shift goes to Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF), which, since 1998, has taught people to use economics to protect forests, rivers and other ecosystems. CSF's vision is for conservationists to use economics and business sense as shrewdly to sustain nature as developers do to exploit it.
CSF operates with a small core staff based in North, South and Central America, a roster of top university instructors and a network of around 1500 graduates from more than 80 countries who share information and expertise. CSF's instructors provide intensive courses and hands-on field training to people in the non-profit sector and government. These trainings help local conservationists create and strengthen parks, influence policies, craft sustainable development paths and avert damage from major road and dam projects. This training and research effort combined with the hard work of innumerable local allies has helped to conserve around 20 million acres (8 million hectares) on less than $1 per acre. A few highlights include switching to a lower-impact expansion plan for the Panama Canal; thwarting roads that would have cut through Madidi National Park in Bolivia and the Maya Forest of Guatemala and Mexico; and developing innovative pricing strategies to reduce crowding in Tanzania's national parks.
CSF has analyzed the economic benefits and revenue potential of national parks in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Panama, Belize, Mexico and the Bahamas, and now is increasingly supporting indigenous and local Amazon communities — who control vast tracts of forest — in developing sustainable business plans.
The MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions arrives at a pivotal time in CSF's growth. The broad applicability of CSF's training and analysis has sparked increasing demand from a wide array of groups — from indigenous communities and small, activist NGOs to mainstream national and international NGOs and government agencies. In 2011 the organization received 10 applicants for every open seat in its core Economic Tools courses.
The $750,000 award will establish an operating reserve, which will enable CSF to reinforce its organizational base and plan how to scale up and serve more people. CSF plans to move more quickly into geographic regions such as Asia and Africa, and also expand its work to include marine conservation and climate change.
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kyonsenkoku wrote:well if any of you guys care Jason Lisle has reopened his blog to commenting feel free to take a look at it
kyonsenkoku wrote:you mentioned him and oliphint on this blog
kyonsenkoku wrote:ah well okay then, but Lisle's recent posts on his blog show that he hasnt changed one bit that he still believes the ususal nonsense that have been refuted many times over
Those Christians who want to believe in Deep Time along with the biblical God are being dreadfully inconsistent. They may claim that they serve the Lord alone, but by their actions they reveal that Deep Time is their primary god, and the Lord is secondary. We can tell this by the way they handle Scripture. For the Deep-Time-Christian, all Scripture is interpreted in light of the dictates of Deep Time. Thus, Deep Time is primary, and the Scriptures are secondary. Indeed, if the Scriptures were primary, then the individual would have to reject Deep Time as a false god (Exodus 20:3, Isaiah 45:5-6) and fictitious concept (Exodus 20:11)
It can be discouraging to see so many Christians attempting to serve the pagan god Deep Time.
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Many of your works seem interested in the tension between analog and digital in the creation and reception of a work, like physical xerox scans of the screen of an iPad. To what degree do you connect a piece to the technological platform on which it was made?
The Pad Scans are scans of an iPad. The iPad is confused by the light from the scanner that produces heat making it think it's being touched. So the scans are capturing the iPad rolling over to another web page, making visible these digital or web in between spaces.
Error feels a sign of humanness. For me it's important to insert that into an image or work dealing with mediation and technology. In this constant looping between the physical and digital worlds images are unstable in that they are left always open to reuse.
I also recently learned the term 'retronym', which feels a linguistic insight into my working process. (A paralleling of technological advances and in the face of them a return to the past to update/qualify/recontextualize.)
Your naming conventions vacillate between identifying their originating platform (iPhone Videos, Pad Scans) and describing their final form (Prints of Plays). In terms of these degrees of mediation from an initial image, how important to you is the ultimate format of the work versus its role in destabilizing that image's objecthood?
Everything is important in different degrees at different times in different works in different ways. There is so much process, yet when pieces are 'finished' as in hanging on a gallery wall there is no separation between image and form or object and picture. Though this unification is so fleeting, as it lasts for the course of a show and only if you ...


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Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old Internet genius, was eulogized on Tuesday as a person who wanted to make the world better but was hounded into killing himself by harsh government policies.
Swartz was "killed by the government," his father, Robert Swartz, said at the service at Central Avenue Synagogue in Highland Park, Ill., according to the Chicago Sun-Times. "He was killed by the government, and MIT betrayed all of its basic principles," he said.
Facing the possibility of a long prison sentence if convicted of charges that he illegally downloaded millions of academic journal articles, Swartz hanged himself in his New York apartment Friday. The death of one of the founders of news and entertainment website Reddit and a longtime activist for an open Internet has ignited outrage among many in the electronic community who view him as a martyr to government prosecution.
"Today is the funeral of Aaron Swartz, who contributed so much to the launch of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and our technology during our first 20 months," the group said in an email to reporters. "His suicide followed an over-zealous prosecution for a crime with no victims — by a Justice Department that has yet to prosecute the Wall Street bankers who destroyed our economy and harmed millions of lives. Our hearts go out to Aaron's family and partner."
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New clocks to keep time for Galileo satellite navigation system
If you want to know precisely where you are, get an accurate clock. This was true in the seventeenth century, when sailors struggled to find a way of measuring longitude at sea. And it's equally true now, even though satellites have taken over from sextants, the Sun and fixed stars as the navigation aids of choice.
Seventeenth century navigators could tell local time from the position of the Sun, but to determine their longitude, they needed also to know the time at a fixed reference point, i.e. Greenwich, the location of the prime meridian. This is because local time moves forward or backward by one hour for every 15 degrees longitude one travels. The clocks available at the time were notoriously inaccurate at sea and the problem was solved only when John Harrison, a joiner from England, built a seaworthy clock that kept time to within about 1 second per day, equivalent to a positioning accuracy of about 500 metres. His clocks, which took him all his life to build, can still be seen at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
The clocks that will mark time for the next generation of navigation satellites will look very different from Harrison's elegant timepieces. Based on atomic frequency standards, they are under development for Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system at the Observatoire de Neuchatel and Temex Neuchatel Time, both located in the centre of the Swiss clock industry. These clocks are being designed to a standard that seventeenth century sailors would find impossible to comprehend. They will keep time to within a few hundred millionths of a second per day.
Why, you may ask, would anyone want to keep time so closely? The answer has to do with the speed of light. Nowadays, you can determine your position on the Earth's surface by measuring the time taken for a signal broadcast by a navigation satellite to reach you. As signals travel at the speed of light, this means measuring tiny fractions of a second very accurately. And to do that, you need to know precisely when the signal left the satellite and precisely when it arrived at your receiver. "In navigation, clocks are the driving factor for determining positions accurately. With an accuracy of better than one billionth of a second in one hour, the clocks on the Galileo satellites will allow you to resolve your position anywhere on the Earth's surface to within 45 cm," says Franco Emma, the clock expert and navigation engineer at ESTEC, ESA's technical centre in the Netherlands.
Each of the 30 satellites in the Galileo system will have two clocks on board; one based on the rubidium atomic frequency standard and the other using a passive hydrogen maser. Both clocks use different technologies, but make use of the same principle - if you force an atom to jump from one particular energy state to another, it will radiate a microwave signal at an extremely stable characteristic frequency.
This frequency is around 6GHz for the rubidium clock and around 1.4GHz for the hydrogen clock. "We will use the clock frequency as a very stable reference by which other units can generate the accurate signals that the satellites will broadcast," says Emma. The broadcast signals will also provide a reference by which the less stable clocks in user's receivers can continuously re-set their time.
ESA chose the rubidium and hydrogen maser clocks because they are very stable over a few hours and their technology can fly onboard the Galileo satellites. If they were left to run indefinitely, though, their accuracy would drift, so they need to be synchronised regularly with a network of even more stable ground-based reference clocks.
These will include clocks based on the caesium frequency standard, which show far better long-term stability than either rubidium or hydrogen maser clocks. The caesium frequency standard is based on atomic transitions in the caesium atom and is the standard on which universal time is based. "The clocks on the ground will also generate what we are calling Galileo System Time," says Emma.
The clocks that will fly on the satellites are the first of their type to be developed and built in Europe. "Similar clocks are available in the US and in Russia (e.g. those flown on the GPS and GLONASS satellites), but we believe that we need to have an independent capability," states Emma. The passive hydrogen maser clock will actually be the first one of its type ever to fly. It is being built by the Observatoire de Neuchatel in co-operation with Officine Galileo of Italy, the former being responsible for the overall development and in particular for the so-called physics package, and the latter being in charge of the electronics. A similar arrangement applies for the rubidium clock, with Temex Neuchatel Time assuming overall responsibility and Astrium, Germany contributing the electronics.
The rubidium clock should be ready for qualification by the end of 2001, by which time an engineering model of the hydrogen maser should be available. Both clocks will really show their capabilities in 2004, when the first Galileo satellites go on trial.