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|2012-11-03, 20:32
|Link #162
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Right behind you.
Age: 30
It's amazing how much Mei says without speaking at all.
But I just watched episode 4 and OH MY GOD I already can't stand Hayakawa. Apart from his blindingly obvious insincerity (which at some points even had Yamato looking at him askance), he EATS WITH HIS MOUTH OPEN. Dude, nothing is more gross than watch food roll around in your mouth as you make loud smacking noises. I wouldn't be able to look at him if I was eating across from him. Poor Mei, having to deal with both his annoying personality AND his lack of table manners.
But I really like this show. Even stuff like that makes it more realistic. Though the overall vibe I get of "people not giving a shit about the relationships they're in" is a bit overdone, if you ask me.
|2012-11-03, 21:30
|Link #163
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Trendy Backwater
Age: 32
This anime is good that I forgot to drink the rest of the coffee while I was watching. And to above, nope, that s#$% happens all the time where I live so much I think I thought love lost its meaning a while ago. Watching this anime made me remember.
|2012-11-03, 21:33
|Link #164
Join Date: May 2007
Location: gs series
Age: 29
so um let see yamato look saw mei & black cat then go help raise black cat til call mei for help all good.
then mei go to yamato's house & meet his sister sure then give yamato's sister had probs in past aka just like mei cause so called "friends" just only play & eat not notice yamato's sister.
then when yamato go out mei & yamato's sister had some talk, weaponized cookies that mei make for her dad, stuffed animal, etc get along all fine got better with two cats as well.
|2012-11-05, 01:46
|Link #168
Waiting for more taiyuki!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Hayakawa = dirt bag.
|2012-11-08, 03:33
|Link #170
Strangely dependable...
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: some random place out there...
Watching this show...seems so relaxing for some reason. It's just a steady pace seeing the relationship between the two grow slowly...quite nice.
Mei is quite a deep thinker and observer. One thing that's interesting about her character that, though she's soft spoken, shy and hesitant, she sure has a strong will to go forward on her beliefs and ideals. An example is how she stood up against Hayakawa and told him straight what she thinks and feels.
|2012-11-10, 13:57
|Link #171
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Mei & Kurosawa.
Megumi & Kurosawa.
This doesn't look good.
It was nice seeing Yamato turn Megumi down without second though.
I don't like her type that thinks others should be happy to date her.
Her "let's be friends" act didn't really convince me.
I bet that girl has some ulterior motives.
Making Mei feel worthless is working to Megumi's advantage to get Yamato.
|2012-11-10, 15:21
|Link #173
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Age: 56
By my count, Mei's final sentence was the first time she called Yamato "Yamato" even in her thoughts. So her growing fear that she might lose Yamato has done some good by pushing her beyond her natural reticence into a growing recognition of how much he's come to mean to her.
|2012-11-10, 16:27
|Link #174
Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
I loved the walking home together scenes. The fact that they were repeated made me feel comfortable, and cemented the fact that they were a couple. I especially loved the long silences and the sunset. Hopefully by next episode Mei will start allowing herself to get closer to Yamato, at least to the extent of using his name. Sigh.
And why didn't I notice that Mei started inwardly thinking of Yamato by his name at the end? I guess he found a way to make her start doing that, lol.
I think I may agree with your second point, but I'm not sure how many other shows give much depth to their "mob" characters (as they are called in Japanese). Their roles are, or should be, only in relation to the main characters. In this case, the classmates and staff are like a Greek chorus, commenting on what's going on. I understand how artificial it may seem, but for me it worked here. And I don't feel this show portrays these people so negatively -- at least compared to some other shoujo titles, lol.
|2012-11-10, 20:40
|Link #176
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Trendy Backwater
Age: 32
I think it was so obvious the moment Megu appeared in the first scene that she's going to be the love rival and she did exactly what I expected. From the moment she saw Yamato, she was going to use modelling agency as an excuse to get closer to him without him even realising.
I loved all the silent moments between the couple and I mean Mei and Yamato. This is one such perfect moment that such quote as the picture tells thousand words applies. Hell, I'm just a romantic and sucker for something like this.
These days I do not like how all these stories have some gimmicks to compensate full of cliche they got in their plots. I love how this anime is just pure good old execution and not pleased that the people needs to keep nitpicking every little flaws and dismissing it. The show laying on thick that Yamato and some other popular girl go together is just portraying how often that sort of situation occurs. It describes the people in general well. They like to assume things and jump to conclusion without knowing anything about the situation too much.
|2012-11-10, 20:55
|Link #177
Strangely dependable...
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: some random place out there...
|2012-11-10, 21:06
|Link #178
Join Date: May 2007
Location: gs series
Age: 29
another day as usual mei & yamato include mei trying to bake cookies with yamato's sister give phone message & yea no longer weapon version.
give til meet female model aka Megumi Kitagawa who has fallen for yamato yet while sure trying get yamato yet mei in the way oh well hmm & so have model pic shooting with yamato?
give it all look fine with yamato with glasses then pic shooting got mei like feeling bit lonely & why?
|2012-11-11, 01:03
|Link #179
Surprisingly, most of the girls are really cute... nonetheless, I wish we get more of Mei's family past as well as more of anything from Asami
Plus, it's nice that there are still anime that acknowledge biological behavior at its proper age
|2012-11-11, 10:18
|Link #180
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Singapore
Pretty obvious that Megu is trying to steal Yamato away, the scene where she confronted him alone and asking him to be her boyfriend was more than enough to support that notion. "oh, I don't mind if you continue dating your current girlfriend, just be mine too! we'll have fun together" and that is somehow just her way of getting him to help out with the model agency? Pfft.
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4 December 2012
BEIRUT—Iran aired footage Tuesday of what it said was a U.S. drone it had captured over Iranian airspace in the Persian Gulf, a claim the U.S. Navy denied.
The incident underscored the tensions, and behind-the-scenes surveillance battles, between the West and Iran over Iran's nuclear program. Iran has targeted U.S. drones before and used its announcement to burnish its defense credentials. Americans familiar with the defense industry, meanwhile, underplayed the intelligence significance of the craft Iran said it had captured, characterizing it as a small and relatively low-technology model.
Iran's English-language news channel Press TV aired an 11-minute footage Tuesday of two Iranian military officials inspecting an intact drone that the broadcast identified as a ScanEagle, made by a Boeing subsidiary.
The drone was captured by a naval unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps when it entered Iranian airspace in the Persian Gulf after it had circulated for a few days in the area, the IRGC said in a statement Tuesday. It didn't say when the alleged capture occurred.
All of the U.S. Navy's so-calledUnmanned Aerial Vehicles operating in the Middle East were 100% accounted for, said Cmdr. Jason Salata, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
"We have seen the [Iranian] footage. There is nothing we see that corroborates the claims made by Iran," Cmdr. Salata said.
Last month, Tehran sent a letter to the United Nations formally protesting what it called repeated U.S. violations of Iranian airspace with drones, according to a copy viewed by The Wall Street Journal. U.S. officials have confirmed they have stepped up surveillance of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor amid concerns about the security of weapons-grade plutonium there, but said information-gathering is conducted beyond Iran's borders.
Tuesday's conflicting accounts leave open the possibility that Iran could have obtained the ScanEagle by other means and unveiled it now for maximum publicity. Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of Iran's capture of an RQ-170 Sentinel drone that was operated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency from Afghanistan.
But in contrast with the Sentinel—a high-tech stealth craft used, among other things, to conduct surveillance on the Pakistan compound used by Osama bin Laden before he was killed in a U.S. raid—the ScanEagle employs a lower-tech, lower-cost technologies. More than 1,600 have been sold to governments for defense operations and for civilian applications—including helping commercial fishing vessels locate schools of fish—according to Insitu Inc., the Boeing subsidiary that makes them.
The U.S. military has been using hundreds of ScanEagles since 2004 in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and to monitor pirates in the Horn of Africa, Mr. Salata said, adding that other regional governments also use ScanEagle models. Those used by the U.S. fly in international airspace, he added, except in wartime applications in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The U.S. has lost a number of these craft in the waters of the Persian Gulf, though not in the past few months, he said.
The Iranian television footage of the drone showed the craft, elevated on a tripod, against a backdrop of a large poster showing a map of Iran and the Persian Gulf. On the poster was a quote from the founder of Iran's Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei: "We will trample American under our feet."
"The Revolutionary Guard's navy unit is more prepared than ever," Rear Adm. Ali Fadavi, the top commander of IRGC's naval unit, said on Iranian television.
The Revolutionary Guards have targeted U.S. drones at least twice. In early November, Iran fired on and missed a Predator drone flying over the Persian Gulf and said it had entered Iran's airspace. The U.S. said the craft had been over international waters when it was fired upon.
A year ago, Tehran said it had overriden the computers in the U.S. Sentinel operating out of Afghanistan and commanded it to land. The U.S. didn't comment publicly on the loss. U.S. officials at the time said privately that the drone had been in Iranian airspace when its remote pilots lost control of it, blaming the loss on mechanical failure.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck a defiant tone Tuesday during a speech at an industrial complex in the city of Isfahan. He contradicted his earlier comments that international sanctions were hurting Iran's economy, saying that Iran was heroically "riding the wave of sanctions."
"Our enemies should know that our history is 10 times longer than theirs. It's possible that the enemy will take a few steps forward but we will push them back to their own borders," Mr. Ahmadinejad said.
— Julian E. Barnes in Washington contributed to this article.
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Perfectly-timed big plays backed by its usual sound defense in Friday's 9-4 win over No. 3 Elkin at The Den paved Hendersonville's way to the fourth round of the 1-A state playoffs.
Hendersonville leading hitter Justin Sparks's two-run homer in the first inning put the Bearcats on the board. He then turned a 3-1 HHS lead into a 6-1 lead in the bottom of the fifth when he crushed a line drive to left center field for a three-run RBI double, after two bunt singles and a walk loaded the bases.
Sparks (2-for-3) finished with a whopping five RBIs.
"Justin's bat is hot right now, and so is Bradley Schmidt's. They're hitting the ball really well," said HHS head coach Mark Cook. "The kids laid the bunts down and we moved people on base."
Troy Carter (2-for-3, two runs, RBI) and Schmidt (3-for-4, two runs, two RBIs) each had bunt singles down the third-base line after Jacob Schandevel's base hit to load the bases in the Bearcats' four-run fifth inning.
Derrik Doyle stepped to the plate to taint Elkin pitcher Jamey Cranford's stats with his only walk of the game, which walked in a run for the 3-1 score before Sparks pulled HHS ahead even more.
Winning pitcher Sam Linn (13-0) went three up, three down in the top of the sixth to put his team back on offense. Linn remained undefeated on the season as he gave up a run on four hits with five strikeouts and no walks in six innings. He didn't bat Tuesday evening because of a strained muscle.
"We DH'd Noah (Linhart); it was a good chance to let him get some hits and for Sam to concentrate on throwing," Cook said. "We're trying to keep Sam healthy. He threw well but we need him back in our hitting lineup next week."
With two outs on the board in the bottom of the sixth Schandevel (2-for-3, two runs) got things going again with a grounder up the gap between first and second bases. With Carter up Schandevel stole second on the throw and then made it home on Carter's grounder deep down the third base line.
Leadoff batter Caleb Williamson's base hit set the stage for Schmidt's two-run double line drive to right field to close up Hendersonville's scoring at 9-1.
Elkin ace Cranford, who the Buckin' Elks relied on throughout the playoffs, pitched all seven innings, giving up the Bearcats' nine runs on 12 hits, a walk and four strikeouts. Cranford pitched all 22 innings of the team's postseason run.
"He had a good changeup and a good curveball," Cook said of Cranford, "but our guys sat back and waited. They were patient."
Henry Clements was the fifth Bearcat who went 2-for-3 or better, with a double.
Elkin scored three more runs in the seventh on HHS relief pitcher Linhart, who tallied a strikeout on seven batters. The Buckin' Elks finish their season at 11-13.
The top-seeded Bearcats (19-5) will enjoy yet another home game on Tuesday against Lincoln Charter (20-2), assigned a wild-card seeding in the playoffs because it doesn't belong to a conference.
Sparks's five RBIs lift Bearcats over Elkin, onto fourth round
Perfectly-timed big plays backed by its usual sound defense in Friday's 9-4 win over No. 3 Elkin at The Den paved Hendersonville's way to the fourth round of the 1-A state playoffs.


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Palmetto Moon gift and novelty retailer Bob Webster walks out of his Citadel Mall store and looks at all the shuttered shops near his business.
"It's disheartening," he said as one by one he counts nine gated-up storefronts in the vicinity of his retail outlet. "Maybe I need to move."
Other empty shops pepper the 1.1-million-square-foot West Ashley shopping center in every wing while standalone kiosks sit empty. In two places, tubes collect water from leaking skylights and direct it toward plants below. Missing bathroom tiles, chipped flooring and leaks over the Food Court show signs of aging and the need for maintenance in the 32-year-old building.
With loads of empty space and non-anchoring tenants that draw limited foot traffic, the once-prominent shopping landmark now faces another problem.
In May its owners, Chattanooga, Tenn.-based CBL & Associates Properties started missing its monthly mortgage payments on the $68 million balance of a $75 million loan it took out in 2007.
That resulted in U.S. Bank National Association claiming the owner defaulted on the 10-year loan. It then sued to foreclose on the property. In the interim, a judge appointed New York-based Spinoso Real Estate Group as a receiver to manage the mall, effective Sept. 1.
In addition, CB&L in its most recent quarter took a $21 million write-down in the book value of Citadel Mall. As of June 30, the shopping center was worth $23.9 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Citadel Mall generates insufficient income levels to cover the debt service on the mortgage," according to CBL's financial filings. "In June, the lender on the loan began receiving the net operating cash flows of the property each month in lieu of scheduled monthly mortgage payments.... The loan is currently in default, and the company has classified Citadel Mall as a non-core property as of June 30."
Phil Alldredge, the shopping center's general manager, declined to disclose the vacancy rate of the mall.
"As we work through this process, we expect to conduct business as usual and that our retailers, vendors and customers will see no disruption in day-to-day operations of the mall," he said Monday. "Our goal is to assure that Citadel Mall remains a vibrant retail entity to serve the community."
Alldredge added cosmetic changes to handle some of the maintenance problems are on the way "soon."
As for the mall's larger problem of not generating enough foot traffic to support itself, he said, "I think there are some things that can be overcome, but I'm not in a position to talk about it."
Immediately after financial markets collapsed in 2008, Citadel Mall, like other shopping centers across the nation, began losing big-name tenants. In 2009, the vacancy rate was 25 percent. Many of the same darkened retail slots inside the sprawling mall never turned the lights back on.
Instead, a fitness center, a restaurant and a hodgepodge of unconventional mall tenants fill some of the vacancies left as merchants pulled out. A railroad museum, a military museum, a massage business, a child-care shop and a dance studio are among them.
The mall's lagging performance was evident in March, when CBL issued its annual report. It said the property generated $233 in sales per square foot for 2012. By comparison, Northwoods Mall in North Charleston, also owned by CBL, had $338 in sales per square foot last year.
Citadel Mall's major anchors Belk and Target appear to be doing well, but anchor J.C. Penney hasn't bounced back from a botched attempted corporate makeover. Sears sits on the wing with most of the vacancies at its entrance.
In contrast, Northwoods Mall has one small vacancy, said spokeswoman Leigh Burnett, who once had an office at Citadel Mall but no longer does. She declined to comment on Citadel Mall's financial problems.
Commercial real estate agent Will Sherrod of Lee & Associates said the shopping center "has sort of dropped off the map in the past 10 years or so."
Enclosed malls are struggling all over the country, but Sherrod noted that Northwoods Mall is doing better because it has retail all around it, making it more of a shopping destination. It's also more centrally located to the bulk of the region's population base.
"The demographics in the Northwoods area are some of the strongest in the tri-county area," said Sherrod, who specializes in leasing retail space. "At Citadel Mall, you are trying to draw from the West Ashley corridor, which compared to Northwoods, is limited. It could be it just doesn't get the traffic."
The bigger question, he said, is whether Citadel Mall remains as it is. The bank will likely try to find a buyer once the foreclosure is finalized.
"Maybe it's just aged itself out, and it's time for something new to go there," Sherrod said. "It's a good piece of property."
He noted that nearby Ashley Crossing shopping center at Interstate 526 and Magwood Road stagnated when Walmart pulled out in 2006 and moved near Bees Ferry Road, but it bounced back and was reinvented over the past two years as Kohl's, Marshalls and others filled it back up.
Mall tenants realize Citadel Mall needs more than a brush-up.
"The mall could use some work," said Casey Glowacki of Sesame Burgers and Beer near the Food Court and the entrance to Target. "It's a ghost town. It is a little less than desired. They haven't done anything as far as upkeep. Just look at the ceilings in the Food Court area. They are leaking."
He believes Tanger Outlet Center in nearby North Charleston probably drew some shoppers away from the mall after it opened in 2006.
"They have quality businesses. Banana Republic, Nike and women's apparel shops — all of those places pulled out of the mall. There are places in the mall now where you can't buy stuff. They are just trying to make rent."
As for his restaurant, which opened in 2009 and has its own private entrance separate from the mall, Glowacki said it's doing "really well."
"If the mall closed tomorrow, and we were still open, we would do just as well," he said.
Webster from Palmetto Moon said the Citadel Mall store continues to prosper, but it tallies up the least amount of sales among the eight shops in the chain across South Carolina.
He believes the reason the mall is hurting is that as national tenants pulled out, "there are fewer and fewer reasons to come to the mall other than as a destination for certain stores. Shoppers come to destination stores and then leave. There is no compelling reason for them to come to the mall. If there were more shops, it would give people more reasons to come to the mall."
"You have to have foot traffic," Webster said. "You can't close a sale unless you have people in the mall and in the store."
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A Year of He Said-She Said in 2011
- Cliff Young & Laura MacCorkle Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer & Senior Editor
- 2011 15 Dec
We have thoroughly enjoyed writing this singles' advice column for almost four years now. The questions we receive from "He Said-She Said" readers are always thoughtful and have really caused us to do some in-depth thinking ourselves when trying to offer you helpful advice.
As always, our answers are first and foremost informed by our own study of God's Word and then by the spiritual journeys and life experiences each of us has gone through as single adults. How we respond to our readers is exactly how we would respond to our friends should we be having some coffee together and parsing through the everyday circumstances and complexities of the single life.
We look forward to answering more questions in "He Said-She Said" in the year to come. And now that we've increased the column's frequency from monthly to biweekly, we hope you'll consider submitting a question that you would like for us to answer (CLICK HERE to submit) in the days ahead.
Thank you for a year of great questions and interaction with us! And until 2012, we hope you'll enjoy taking a look back at the questions answered this past year in "He Said-She Said" . . .
Can Long-Distance Relationships Really Work?
I know long-distance relationships are possible, but I don't even know where to begin. Do you have any thoughts or wisdom on this subject?
Read our answers . . .
Stop Thinking About Finding a Mate
They say that the moment you stop thinking about finding a mate is the moment it will happen for you. But is it even possible to stop thinking about it?
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Involvement with Married People
If I'm single and am attracted to or emotionally involved with someone who is married, separated or engaged, what should I do?
Read our answers . . .
Living in a Married World
All my coworkers talk about are their kids and husbands. I'm single and don't enjoy the conversations because I feel left out. What can I do?
Read our answers . . .
When Parents Interfere
My parents are unbelievers and are threatening to disown me if I marry my boyfriend who is a believer. Why is the Lord allowing us to be ripped apart like this?
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Is This Behavior Inappropriate?
I feel that it is totally inappropriate for a senior pastor, who is a married man, to call my fiancée on a daily basis. What should I do?
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How Do You Deal with Heartbreak?
How do you get over a break-up, especially when you have to see that person every so often at church or at work and cannot escape?
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Dating As a Single Parent
As a single parent, is it better to seek our partners who have children or those without? And how long should I wait until introducing them to "the one"?
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Single, Female and Ready to Date
I'm a single Christian woman and have never been in a serious relationship. But should that stand in the way of jumping into the dating waters?
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He's Husband Material but Doesn't Share My Faith
How do you reject a guy who has "everything" but doesn't share your faith? I want him to be a believer, but obviously for the right reasons.
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She's Interested and He's Not Pursuing
I am good friends with a single man from church and am interested in taking the relationship further, but he's not pursuing. What should I do?
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Older Singles Need Resources Too
I am in my 50s and am craving good books as an older single Christian woman. Are all the books for singles geared only for the younger set?
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How Far Is Too Far Sexually?
What's appropriate sexual behavior for singles? I know the Bible favors sex only in the context of marriage. But what about just kissing or sharing a bed?
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Why Aren't You Married Yet?
People are always asking "Why aren't you married yet?" or "When are you getting married?" So how do I respond in a Christ-like and appropriate way?
Read our answers . . .
How Do I Get through a Holiday Party Alone?
Attending holiday functions, family gatherings or work events can be hard when you're alone and don't have a date or friend to go with. So what's a single to do?
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Mexican Drug Cartels Join Forces with Italian Mafia to Supply Cocaine to Europe
The Sicilian port city of Palermo has for centuries been an entry point for goods – both legal and illegal – coming into Europe. Home to the notorious Sicilian Mafia, Italian officials recently unearthed information that Palermo's black market, along with other Italian ports, is used by Mexico's ruthless drug cartels as a conduit to bring drugs to the European market.
A 10-year investigation by Italian authorities earlier this year revealed ties between Italian groups and Mexican drug traffickers to move shipments of cocaine across the Atlantic Ocean.
The revelations by Italian authorities is just the most recent indication of Mexican cartels expanding their reach across the Atlantic as the Colombian drug trafficking organizations have slowly been fazed out of the trade.
"Over the last 20 years the Mexicans have really taken over," said Shannon O'Neil, a Douglas Dillon Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations. "Instead of working for the Colombians, the Colombians are now working for the Mexicans."
The Italian-Mexican connection was allegedly spearheaded by Elio and Bruno Gerardi, two Italian brothers based out of Monterrey who shipped hundreds of tons of cocaine on behalf of Cosa Nostra inside of industrial ovens. While the two brothers remain at large, a number of key figures linked to the Italian organized crime group are in custody.
They're involved in drug trafficking and they're getting it from the bad guys down south.
"The investigation into the Gerardi operation demonstrates the degree to which Mexico has become a vital actor not merely in the U.S. cocaine supply chain, but in the global drug trade," wrote Patrick Corcoran of the Latin American security website, InSightCrime.org. "For a gang dedicated to moving South American cocaine to Europe, there was no inherent need for a Mexican connection, but the centrality of Mexican traffickers to the global trade drew the Gerardis to forge links with Mexican traffickers as early as 2002."
Also, with a kilogram of cocaine estimated at over $63,000 in Italy, compared to the average price of between $28,000 and $38,000 in New York, the cartels see Europe as a lucrative and untapped market.
"The Mexican cartels have gone global," O'Neil said. "The question is who will take over in Europe, in Russia."
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) recently announced documented links between Mexican cartels and criminal groups in Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, and Nigeria. The Sinaloa Cartel is also known to have ties not only in Europe but throughout Latin America, Africa, Asia and Australia, where a booming trade has developed in the country's cities.
"The U.S. is not the only game in town," said Rusty Payne, a DEA spokesman, adding that tougher tactics from both the Mexican and U.S. governments have led Mexican cartels to look elsewhere.
"Europe is crazy now with coke," Payne said.
Last August, the Mexican weekly magazine M Semanal reported a sharp uptick in links between the Zetas and Italy's 'Nhdrangheta organized crime group.
The 'Nhdrangheta is an organized crime family similar to the Sicilian mafia and based out of the Calabria region of Italy. It is estimated that the 'Ndrangheta earns between $30 billion and $50 billion annually, mostly from drug trafficking and pirated merchandise.
While not as infamous as the Cosa Nostra is in the United States, the 'Nhdrangheta – which operates through small, individual groups instead of the mafia's pyramid structure – is arguably more important to Europe's drug trade as 80 percent of the cocaine entering the continent's market coming through docks in Calabria, Italian officials estimated back in 2004.
Unlike in their home country and in parts of the United States, the Mexican cartels are in unfamiliar territory in Europe and need a guide to foray them in the drug trade across the Atlantic, O'Neil said.
"The Mexican cartels are on new turf and need to learn the lay of the land," O'Neil added. "The Italians are established and have well-connected networks to aid the Mexicans."
Ties between the 'Nhdrangheta and the Mexican cartels date back a number of years, as a 2008 joint operation by U.S., Italian, Mexican and Guatemalan authorities called "Project Reckoning" led to the arrest of 175 individuals on charges related to internal drug trafficking. Despite the seized cocaine being shipped from South America via New York, the Gulf and Zetas (then part of the same organization) were allegedly the key suppliers.
"The ties between the Zetas and the 'Ndrangheta are the most frequent example of Mexicans and Italians cooperating, even beyond Reckoning," Corcoran said.
While still known for their ultra-violent tactics, dealing with the Italian organized crime groups also appears to have slightly shifted the Zetas' operational model toward that of their European counterparts.
The Zetas now use tactics such as extraction from the local population, extortion and diversifying their products like the Italians do, Cororan said.
"Diversification helps keep the profits up because if [the authorities] crack down on drugs, the cartels have other cash outlets," O'Neil added.
With worries that Mexico's drug violence will spill over the border into the United States and possibly the new European markets, O'Neill said that Europeans should be relieved that so far the bloodshed has remained primarily in Mexico.
"We've heard wiretaps where cartel members say don't kill anybody in the U.S.," Payne said. "I would be shocked if the same wasn't happening in Europe."
The European cocaine demand, which has risen dramatically in the last decade, paired with burgeoning trafficking routes through West Africa and Europe, has allowed Italian organized crime groups to comfortably climb in bed with the Mexican cartels.
"They're involved in drug trafficking and they're getting it from the bad guys down south," Payne said.
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-- clean up any messes left over from before:
if OBJECT_ID('AllTeams') is not null
drop view AllTeams
if OBJECT_ID('Teams') is not null
drop table Teams
-- sample table:
create table Teams
id int primary key,
City varchar(20),
TeamName varchar(20)
-- sample data:
insert into Teams (id, City, TeamName )
select 1,'Boston','Red Sox' union all
select 2,'New York','Yankees'
create view AllTeams
select * from Teams
select * from AllTeams
--id City TeamName
------------- -------------------- --------------------
--1 Boston Red Sox
--2 New York Yankees
-- Now, add a new column to the Teams table:
alter table Teams
add League varchar(10)
-- put some data in there:
update Teams
set League='AL'
-- run it again
-- Notice that League is not displayed!
-- Here's an even worse scenario, when the table gets altered in ways beyond adding columns:
drop table Teams
-- recreate table putting the League column before the City:
-- (i.e., simulate re-ordering and/or inserting a column)
create table Teams
id int primary key,
League varchar(10),
City varchar(20),
TeamName varchar(20)
-- put in some data:
insert into Teams (id,League,City,TeamName)
select 1,'AL','Boston','Red Sox' union all
select 2,'AL','New York','Yankees'
-- Now, Select again for our view:
select * from AllTeams
--id City TeamName
------------- ---------- --------------------
--1 AL Boston
--2 AL New York
-- The column labeled "City" in the View is actually the League, and the column labelled TeamName is actually the City!
-- clean up:
drop view AllTeams
drop table Teams
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And here's the result:
Simply remove "City" from the SELECT clause and the GROUP BY clause to get the median age for all.
There may be more efficient tricks out there, but this is certainly the shortest and simplest technique I am aware of.
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create procedure ProcessCube
@Database varchar(100),
@Cube varchar(100),
@Partition varchar(100) = null, -- If NULL, process the entire Cube
@Server varchar(100) = 'localhost'
Author: Jeff Smith
Version: 10/27/2008
/* variables used to store object handles */
declare @o_svr int, @o_db int, @o_cube int, @o_part int, @o_mds int
declare @hr int
/* different cube processing options. This SP uses "default" */
declare @PROCESS_DEFAULT int
declare @PROCESS_FULL int
declare @PROCESS_REFRESH_DATA int
set @PROCESS_DEFAULT = 0
set @PROCESS_FULL = 1
set @PROCESS_REFRESH_DATA = 2
-- create a DSO.Server object:
exec @hr = sp_OACreate 'DSO.Server', @o_svr out
if @hr <> 0
print 'Error at create server:'
exec sp_OAGetErrorInfo @o_svr
goto cleanup
-- Connect to the server:
exec @hr = sp_OAMethod @o_svr, 'Connect', null, @Server
print 'Error at connect to server:'
-- Get the MDStores property from the Server:
exec @hr = sp_OAGetProperty @o_svr,'MDStores', @o_mds OUT
print 'Error at get getting Server MDStores:'
-- Get the database from the MDStores:
exec @hr = sp_OAGetProperty @o_mds,'Item',@o_db OUT,@Database
print 'Error at get database:'
exec sp_OAGetErrorInfo @o_mds
-- get the MDStores property from the database:
exec sp_OADestroy @o_mds
exec @hr = sp_OAGetProperty @o_db,'MDStores', @o_mds OUT
print 'Error at get database MDStores:'
exec sp_OAGetErrorInfo @o_db
-- get the Cube from the MDStores
exec @hr = sp_OAGetProperty @o_mds,'Item',@o_cube OUT, @Cube
print 'Error at get Cube:'
if @Partition is null -- Process the entire Cube, not just a single partition
exec @hr = sp_OAMethod @o_cube, 'Process', null, @PROCESS_DEFAULT
if @hr <> 0
print 'Error at process Cube:'
exec sp_OAGetErrorInfo @o_cube
goto cleanup
else -- just process the specified Partition
-- Get the MDStores property of the Cube:
exec sp_OADestroy @o_mds
exec @hr = sp_OAGetProperty @o_cube,'MDStores', @o_mds OUT
print 'Error at get Cube MDStores:'
-- Get the partition to process:
exec @hr = sp_OAGetProperty @o_mds,'Item',@o_part OUT, @Partition
print 'Error at get Parition:'
exec sp_OAGetErrorInfo @o_mds
-- Process the partition:
exec @hr = sp_OAMethod @o_part, 'Process', null, @PROCESS_DEFAULT
print 'Error at process Partition:'
exec sp_OAGetErrorInfo @o_part
-- And unlock all objects on the server:
exec @hr = sp_OAMethod @o_svr, 'UnlockAllObjects'
print 'Error at unlock all server objects:'
if @o_mds is not null exec sp_OADestroy @o_mds
if @o_Part is not null exec sp_OADestroy @o_Part
if @o_cube is not null exec sp_OADestroy @o_cube
if @o_db is not null exec sp_OADestroy @o_db
if @o_svr is not null exec sp_OADestroy @o_svr
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A common mistake beginners make when working with SQL is trying to format their output at the database layer, as opposed to simply doing this at the presentation layer (i.e., client application, reporting tool, web page, etc). I've covered that quite a bit in various blog posts, but I've only touched upon another similar issue which I feel is equally as important and also commonly mishandled.
In the SqlTeam forums, I often see code that accepts DateTime input in the form of a string value (say, from a TextBox on a web form) and uploads that value to the database written like this:
SqlCommand c = new SqlCommand();
c.CommandText = "insert into SomeTable (DateCol) values ('" + txtDate.Text + "')";
Now, I think that hopefully even most beginners will agree that this is bad code. The primary issue, of course, is SQL Injection. Avoiding SQL Injection is very easy to do using Parameters. So, let's say that you rewrite this code using parameters like this:
SqlCommand c = new SqlCommand();
c.CommandText = "insert into SomeTable (DateCol) values (@DateVal)";
Looking at that, it seems we have done quite a bit better and should be happy with the code. It works well, and no injection is possible. But there is still an issue! Why? The txtDate.Text property returns a string, not a DateTime! And, since we are not setting the data type of the parameter explicitly, the parameter being passed is a string (i.e., VARCHAR or NVARCHAR) value, not a true DateTime value. This means that SQL Server must implicitly cast your string to a DateTime to store it in your table, and this may or may not work successfully, or as expected, depending on how the string is formatted.
I've said it over and over and I'll say it again: The concept of formatting dates should never be something that your database code should ever worry about. The database layer should be accepting DateTime data from clients, and returning DateTime data to your clients. Where and how the client got the data before passing it to the database, or what the client does with the data in terms of formatting after receiving it from the database is of no concern to the database itself.
So, we might decide that to fix this, we can simply declare the data type of the parameter explicitly:
SqlCommand c = new SqlCommand();
c.CommandText = "insert into SomeTable (DateCol) values (@DateVal)";
c.Parameters.Add("@DateVal", SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = txtDate.Text;
It appears that now we are in good shape, right? Actually -- no! There is still an implicit conversion happening, because we are still passing a string value -- the txtDate.Text property -- to the parameter, not a true DateTime!
Let's try one more time. How can we avoid these implicit conversions? The answer that question is always the same: Convert explicitly! Your client application is fully capable of handling the parsing, validation, and conversion of that string to a true DateTime value, so go ahead and do it:
DateTime dateval = DateTime.Parse(txtDate.Text); // plus more code to validate, of course
SqlCommand c = new SqlCommand();
c.CommandText = "insert into SomeTable (DateCol) values (@DateVal)";
c.Parameters.Add("@DateVal", SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = dateval;
Now we are in business! Before we even create the SqlCommand object, we have a true DateTime value that we are ready to pass along to SQL Server. Our SQL code doesn't need to worry about formatting, parsing, converting, or anything -- it is being passed a completely valid piece of data with the correct type. In short, we can now be sure that whatever value we came up with for the date in our client code is exactly the value that will be stored in our database. That's the idea, right?
So, please, don't rely on your database code to validate your input. Don't just pass along generic string data and "hope" that at the end of the day the database can "handle it". Eliminate the chance of anything going wrong and write your code to explicitly cast and convert and validate any and all input before the database even comes into the picture.
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In a post on the Windows Phone Developer Blog entitled Reflecting on 2012: scale and opportunity, Microsofts Todd Brix quietly revealed a few key facts about the Windows Phone Store. Particularly, the fact that the app marketplace has officially surpassed the 150,000 app barrier.
Now, to be fair, 150,000 is a far cry from the 600,000 to 700,000 apps boasted by Android and iOS, but its a significant figure nonetheless. This is especially due to the fact that half of these apps were added in the last year alone. The average Windows Phone user has now downloaded 54 apps, and 300,000 updates were pushed out over the last twelve months. Thats more than 800 updates per day.
Finally, in addition to recapping the explosive growth in the number of available markets, Brix rattled off a few statistics like the fact that 85% of people now prefer Live Apps (apps which support live tiles, Start screen information, etc.) and that 75% of people actually prefer carrier billing. The latter is especially surprising, and the number of purchases made with carrier billing is actually twice as high as credit cards.
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Powdery mildew on trees and shrubs
Quick facts
- Powdery mildew appears on plant surfaces as white to gray powdery spots, blotches or felt-like mats on leaves, stems and buds.
- It can reduce photosynthesis and cause yellowing of leaves.
- Disease is often most severe on young leaves, water sprouts and green shoots.
- Powdery mildew thrives in humid conditions but does not do well if leaves are wet from frequent rain or irrigation.
- It does not cause significant damage and does not require management.
Powdery mildew is a very recognizable and common fungal disease found on several plants in Minnesota.
On trees and shrubs, powdery mildew rarely causes serious damage to its host. The disease can significantly reduce the ornamental value of plants grown for their appearance, like roses and purple leafed ninebark shrubs.
Powdery mildew appears as superficial growth on plant surfaces and is seen as white to gray powdery spots, blotches or felt-like mats on leaves, stems and buds.
- Infected plants may appear to be sprinkled with baby powder or covered in cobwebs.
- Disease is often most severe on young leaves, water sprouts and green shoots.
- Once severely infected, leaves may turn yellow and fall prematurely during the growing season.
- In some plants, leaves turn purple to red around the infection.
- In late summer/early fall, tiny round orange to black balls form within white fungal mats.
- Most prevalent when outdoor conditions consist of cool temperatures with high humidity. But it can be seen in warm, dry conditions as well.
- Disease is most severe on plants or plant parts in shaded areas with poor air movement (interior or lower branches).
Managing powdery mildew
Powdery mildew does not significantly affect the health of the tree or shrub and does not require management.
- Photosynthesis can be reduced in heavily colonized leaves.
- Powdery mildew resistant cultivars are available for many ornamental shrubs. Choose disease resistant cultivars for new plantings or as replacement plants.
- Do not overcrowd plants – use size at maturity as a spacing guide when planting.
- Prune the tree or shrub to increase light penetration and improve air circulation throughout the canopy.
- Many plant species are most susceptible when they produce new, succulent shoots and leaves.
- Pruning and fertilizing can stimulate growth and trigger or prolong powdery mildew.
- Do not fertilize trees and shrubs suffering from powdery mildew infections unless it is recommended by a soil test to correct a nutrient deficiency.
- Remove only severely infected and damaged shoots in the summer to reduce spread and overwintering of the fungi within the canopy.
- Avoid excessive pruning of infected plants.
Fungicides can be used to protect highly susceptible and prized ornamental shrubs like roses or ninebarks.
- Fungicides prevent infection and some kill small infections that have started to form.
- For shrubs that have a history of disease, fungicides can be applied before disease symptoms appear.
- Scout plants regularly. When a few powdery mildew leaf spots appear, apply fungicides to protect the remaining leaves.
- Whether applying before disease appears or after, fungicide sprays will need to be repeated according to label instructions to protect plants throughout the growing season.
Chemical treatments include:
- Thiophanate methyl
- Chlorothalonil
- Sulfur (not for sulfur sensitive plants like viburnum)
- Potassium bicarbonate
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- There are many species of powdery mildew fungi and they affect thousands of plant species.
- The fungi that cause powdery mildew are generally host-specific and only infect plants from the same genus or family. The fungus on your ash tree will not infect your viburnum bush.
- Only a few species of powdery mildew fungi are capable of causing disease in multiple trees and shrubs.
- In many cases, one species of tree or shrub is susceptible to several different species of powdery mildew fungi.
Trees and shrubs affected by powdery mildew in Minnesota
- Powdery mildew fungi survive winter as chasmothecium —dark colored, round, fungal structures that contain spores and protect them through the winter.
- In spring, the chasmothecium rupture, releasing spores that are spread by the wind.
- Some species of powdery mildew fungi survive the winter as a dormant fungus in infected buds or shoot tips.
- In spring, the spores start new infections on succulent, new growth.
- The fungus grows and becomes evident as the white powdery mat on the leaf surface.
- Throughout the growing season, additional spores are produced and spread by wind.
- These spores start new leaf spots on the plant and on neighboring plants.
- Powdery mildew thrives in humid conditions but does not do well if leaves are wet from frequent rain or irrigation.
- Favorable conditions for powdery mildew commonly occur when cool nighttime temperatures are followed by warm day temperatures.
- In Minnesota increased levels of powdery mildew occur in the spring and fall.
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This series is a general repository of manuscripts and articles demonstrating the strength and breadth of the legal scholarship and cross-disciplinary studies at Penn Law.
Submissions from 2013
An Ethical Duty to Protect One's Own Information Privacy?, Anita L. Allen
Bankruptcy Law as a Liquidity Provider, Kenneth M. Ayotte and David A. Skeel Jr.
Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics, Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman
Regulation by Liability Insurance: From Auto to Lawyers Professional Liability, Tom Baker and Rick Swedloff
Copyright Infringement Markets, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Gandhi and Copyright Pragmatism, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Economic and Legal Arguments in PPL v. Commissioner, Michael S. Knoll
Good Enough for Government Work: Two Cheers for Content Neutrality, Seth F. Kreimer
The Reality of Moral Imperatives in Liberal Religion, Howard Lesnick
The Environmental Option, Gideon Parchomovsky and Endre Stavang
Intellectual Property Defenses, Gideon Parchomovsky and Alex Stein
Four Distinctions That Glanville Williams Did Not Make: The Practical Benefits of Examining the Interrelation Among Criminal Law Doctrines, Paul H. Robinson
Institutional Choice in an Economic Crisis, David A. Skeel Jr.
Is Bankruptcy the Answer for Troubled Cities and States?, David A. Skeel Jr.
Submissions from 2012
Poisoning the Next Apple? How the America Invents Act Harms Inventors, David S. Abrams and R. Polk Wagner
Happiness Surveys and Public Policy: What's the Use?, Matthew D. Adler
Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, Matthew D. Adler
The Social Value of Mortality Risk Reduction: VSL vs. the Social Welfare Function Approach, Matthew D. Adler, James K. Hammitt, and Nicholas Treich
Natural Law, Slavery, and the Right to Privacy Tort, Anita Allen
Parallel Contract, Aditi Bagchi
The Uneasy Case Against Copyright Trolls, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Triaging Appointed-Counsel Funding and Pro Se Access to Justice, Benjamin H. Barton and Stephanos Bibas
Property Lost in Translation, Abraham Bell and Gideon Parchomovsky
The Machinery of Criminal Justice, Stephanos Bibas
A Tea Party at The Hague?, Stephen B. Burbank
Whose Regulatory Interests? Outsourcing the Treaty Function, Stephen B. Burbank
Leaving the Bench, 1970-2009: The Choices Federal Judges Make, What Influences Those Choices, and Their Consequences, Stephen B. Burbank, S. Jay Plager, and Gregory Ablavsky
Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies, Howard F. Chang, Hilary Sigman, and Leah G. Traub
A Dialogue on the Costs and Benefits of Automatic Stays for Derivatives and Repurchase Agreements, Darrell Duffie and David A. Skeel Jr.
Regulation FD: An Alternative Approach to Addressing Information Asymmetry, Jill Fisch
The Destructive Ambiguity of Federal Proxy Access, Jill Fisch
The Trouble with Basic: Price Distortion after Halliburton, Jill E. Fisch
The Long Road Back: Business Roundtable and the Future of SEC Rulemaking, Jill E. Fisch
Dynamic Resolution of Large Financial Institutions, Thomas H. Jackson and David A. Skeel
Mobile Phones and Crime Deterrence: An Underappreciated Link, Jonathan Klick, John MacDonald, and Thomas Stratmann
The Effect of Any Willing Provider and Freedom of Choice Laws on Health Care Expenditures, Jonathan Klick and Joshua D. Wright
The Connection Between Competitiveness and International Taxation, Michael S. Knoll
Losing My Religion: The Place of Social Justice in Clinical Legal Education, Praveen Kosuri
The Effect of Privately Provided Police Services on Crime, John M. MacDonald, Jonathan Klick, and Ben Grunwald
What Is Tax Discrimination?, Ruth Mason and Michael S. Knoll
Predicting Securities Fraud Settlements and Amounts: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Federal Securities Class Action Lawsuits, Blakeley B. McShane, Oliver P. Watson, Tom Baker, and Sean J. Griffith
New Therapies, Old Problems, or, A Plea for Neuromodesty, Stephen J. Morse
The Relational Contingency of Rights, Gideon Parchomovsky and Alex Stein
Political Authority and Political Obligation, Stephen R. Perry
Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers, Dorothy E. Roberts
The Social Context of Oncofertility, Dorothy E. Roberts
"Life Without Parole" Under Modern Theories of Punishment, Paul H. Robinson
Natural Law & Lawlessness: Modern Lessons from Pirates, Lepers, Eskimos, and Survivors, Paul H. Robinson
The Proper Role of the Community in Determining Criminal Liability and Punishment, Paul H. Robinson
Shareholder Eugenics in the Public Corporation, Edward B. Rock
Reconstruction and Resistance, Kermit Roosevelt III
Valid Rule Due Process Challenges: Bond v. United States and Erie's Constitutional Source, Kermit Roosevelt III
A Concrete Shoe for Brand X?, David J. Shakow
Who's Afraid of the APA?, David J. Shakow
Hauerwasian Christian Legal Theory, David A. Skeel Jr.
States of Bankruptcy, David A. Skeel Jr.
An Experiment on Mutual Fund Fees in Retirement Investing, Tess Wilkinson-Ryan and Jill E. Fisch
Originalism and the Other Desegregation Decision, Ryan C. Williams
Collegiality and Individual Dignity, Tobias Barrington Wolff
Copyright and Personhood Revisited, Christopher S. Yoo
Network Neutrality and the Need for a Technological Turn in Internet Scholarship, Christopher S. Yoo
The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses Are Transforming the Network, Christopher S. Yoo
When Antitrust Met Facebook, Christopher S. Yoo
Submissions from 2011
Estimating the Deterrent Effect of Incarceration using Sentencing Enhancements, David S. Abrams
Harsanyi 2.0, Matthew D. Adler
Managing Moral Risk: The Case of Contract, Aditi Bagchi
Who Should Talk? What Counts as Employee Voice and Who Stands to Gain, Aditi Bagchi
Health Insurance, Risk, and Responsibility after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Tom Baker
The Shifting Terrain of Risk and Uncertainty on the Liability Insurance Field, Tom Baker
The Law and Economics of Liability Insurance: A Theoretical and Empirical Review, Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman
Regulating the Plea-Bargaining Market: From Caveat Emptor to Consumer Protection, Stephanos Bibas
Perceptions of Fairness and Justice: The Shared Aims & Occasional Conflicts of Legitimacy and Moral Credibility, Josh Bowers and Paul H. Robinson
Private Enforcement of Statutory and Administrative Law in the United States (and Other Common Law Countries), Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang, and Herbert M. Kritzer
Adoption of the Responsibility to Protect, William W. Burke-White
Voting Through Agents: How Mutual Funds Vote on Director Elections, Stephen J. Choi, Jill Fisch, and Marcel Kahan
Are Those Who Ignore History Doomed to Repeat It?, Peter Decherney, Nathan Ensmenger, and Christopher S. Yoo
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA): Public Policy and Medical Practice in the Age of Personalized Medicine, Eric A. Feldman
The Triumph and Tragedy of Tobacco Control: A Tale of Nine Nations, Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer
A Cost-Benefit Interpretation of the "Substantially Similar" Hurdle in the Congressional Review Act: Can OSHA Ever Utter the E-Word (Ergonomics) Again?, Adam M. Finkel and Jason W. Sullivan
A Floating NAV for Money Market Funds: Fix or Fantasy?, Jill Fisch and Eric D. Roiter
Rights-Based Theories of Accident Law, Gregory J. Hall
When the Government is the Controlling Shareholder, Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock
Introduction: Appreciating Bill Stuntz, Michael Klarman, David A. Skeel Jr., and Carol Steiker
"Impact" in 3D—Maximizing Impact Through Transactional Clinics, Praveen Kosuri
Pervasive Image Capture and the First Amendment: Memory, Discourse, and the Right to Record, Seth F. Kreimer
Are Institutions and Empiricism Enough? A Review of Allen Buchanan, Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force, Matthew J. Lister
The Story of Frontiero v. Richardson, Serena Mayeri
Gene-Environment Interactions, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing, Stephen J. Morse
Genetics and criminal responsibility, Stephen J. Morse
Mental Disorder and Criminal Law, Stephen J. Morse
Neuroscience and the Future of Personhood and Responsibility, Stephen J. Morse
Protecting Liberty and Autonomy: Desert/Disease Jurisprudence, Stephen J. Morse
Severe Environmental Deprivation (aka RSB): A Tragedy, Not a Defense, Stephen J. Morse
Collateral Consequences, Genetic Surveillance, and the New Biopolitics of Race, Dorothy E. Roberts
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century, Dorothy E. Roberts
What's Wrong with Race-Based Medicine?, Dorothy E. Roberts
Are We Responsible for Who We Are? The Challenge for Criminal Law Theory in the Defenses of Coercive Indoctrination and "Rotten Social Background", Paul Robinson
[A Brief Comparative Summary of the Criminal Law of the] United States, Paul H. Robinson
Mercy, Crime Control & Moral Credibility, Paul H. Robinson
Comments on [Israeli] Proposal for Structuring Judicial Discretion in Sentencing, Paul H. Robinson


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The surrender of New Netherland, 1664
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The Dutch colonization of New Netherland (which included parts of present-day New York, Delaware, New Jersey and Connecticut) began in the 1620s. From the outset, New Netherland was a multiethnic, multireligious society: about half of the population was Dutch and the remainder included French, Germans, Scandinavians, and small numbers of Jews from Brazil. Settlers were attracted to the colony's promises of freedom of worship, local self-government, and free land that would remain tax-exempt for ten years.
Between 1652 and 1674, the Dutch and English fought three naval wars, battling for supremacy in shipping and trade. England's Charles II promised New Netherland to his brother, James, Duke of York. In May 1664 James dispatched Colonel Richard Nicolls [or Nichols] to seize the colony. Three hundred soldiers from four warships went ashore on Long Island in August and moved west to Brooklyn, enlisting support from the English towns on Long Island and distributing handbills ahead of the advancing troops offering fair treatment for those who surrendered.
Nicolls approached Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of New Netherland, promising that in return for surrender the settlers would "peaceably enjoy whatsoever God's blessing and their own honest industry have furnished them with and all other privileges with his majesty's English subjects." Stuyvesant, who favored resistance, tried to convince New Amsterdam's merchants and leaders to keep news of Nicolls's lenient surrender terms secret. They balked, and Stuyvesant was forced to surrender the colony, though under terms that he, the merchants, and leaders agreed upon with Nicolls.
The "Articles, Whereupon the Citty and Fort Amsterdam and the Province of the New Netherlands Were Surrendered" were remarkably generous. The Dutch were allowed to stay on their land, religious freedom was upheld, and the pubs stayed open. These terms, coupled with New Netherland's multiculturalism, had a lasting impact on the character of New York City.
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Wee consent that the States Generall, or the West India Company shall freely enjoy all ffarms & Houses (except such as are in the fforts) and that within six months they shall have free Liberty to transport, all such arms and ammunition as now do belong to them, or else they shall be payd for them.
2. All publick Houses shall continue for the uses, wch. now they are for.
3. All people shall continue free Denizons and enjoy their Lands, Houses, Goods, Ships, wherever they are within this Country, and dispose of them as they please.
4. If any Inhabitant have a mind to remove himself he shall have a year and six weeks from this day to remove himself, Wife, Children, Servts. Goods and to dispose of his Land here.
5. If any officer of State of publick Minister of State have a mind to go for England they shall be transported fraught free in His Ma.t's ffriggatts, when those ffriggats shall returne thither.
6. It is consented to, that any people may freely come from the Netherlands and plant in this Country; and that Dutch Vessells may freely come hither, and any of the Dutch may freely return home, or send any sort of Merchandises home in Vessells of their own Country.
7. All ships from the Netherlands or any other places, and goods therin, shall be received here & sent hence, after the manner, wch. formerly they were before our coming hither for six months next ensuing.
8. The Dutch here shall enjoy their Liberty of their Consciences in Divine Worship and Church Dissipline.
9. No Dutchman here or Dutch Ship here shall upon any occasion be prest to serve in Warr against any Nation whatsoever.
10. That the Townesman of the Manhattoo shall not have any Soldiers quartered upon them wth.out being satisfied and payd for them, by their officers, and that at this present, if the ffort be not capable of lodging all the Soldiers, then the Burge Master by His officers shall appoint some House capable to re[illegible]e them.
11. The Dutch here shall enjoy their own Customes concerning their Inheritances.
12. All publick writings and Records wch. Concerns the Inheritances of any people, or the Regulment of the Church or Poor or Orphans shall bee carefully kept by them in whose hands now they are, and such writings as particularly concern the states generall all may att any time be sent to them.
13. No Judgement that hath passed any Judicature here shall be called in question, but if any conceive that he hath not had Justice done him, if hee apply himself to the states Generall, the other party shall bee bound to answer for the supposed Injury.
14. If any Dutch living here shall att any time desire to travell or traffique into England or any place or Plantation in obedience to His Maty of England, or with the Indians he shall have (upon his Request to the Govr.) a Certificate that he is a free Denizon of this Place, and Liberty to do so . . .
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If you are in the market for a cheap Google TV box, you now have two choices. The Hisense Pulse just went on sale for $99, joining the Vizio Co-Star that also retails for $99. Both boxes feature similar specs and functionality, so it's not immediately clear which is the better buy.
Details are limited, but it appears the Hisense Pulse has a remote with a microphone that should eventually work with the new Google TV voice actions. The Vizio Co-Star remote does not have a microphone, but this functionality should be available on the official Google TV remote app for Android (if Google ever updates it).
I ordered the Vizio Co-Star a couple months ago, and I'm happy with my purchase so far. Vizio had some issues with shipping and I somehow got a used unit (with someone else's Google account already signed in), but the device has performed as I expected. It's great for watching movies from Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, or Google Play and the Chrome Browser with Flash Player is a nice addition.
Hisense has been around for awhile, but I have never purchased any of their products. Vizio has already delivered three software updates to my Co-Star, so hopefully Hisense will provide the same level of support for the Pulse.
Google TV recently got access to the new Google Play store, but the app support is mostly disappointing. There are a handful of useful apps (like Plex), but most developers have yet to really embrace the platform. Google has also kind of ignored the platform, choosing to focus on the failed Nexus Q, but I have a feeling these $99 devices will start to attract more users (and more apps).
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The Model "B" Carburetor is completely balanced. The balance tube connects the carburetor air intake and the float bowl, thereby equalizing air pressures. In this manner any accumulation of dirt in the air cleaner is compensated for and prevents any erratic mixtures.
To aid in maintaining the correct fuel level under all conditions the carburetor employs twin floats. It is of the utmost importance that the floats 1,,e adjusted carefully and accurately. See adjustments bulletin for correct float setting.
To provide fuel for smooth quick acceleration a double spring hump plunger is used in the Model "B" Carburetor. The rates of compression of the top spring versus the bottom spring is calibrated to insure a smooth, sustained charge of fuel for acceleration.
As shown on Figure 2, to exclude dirt all fuel for the pump system first passes through the pump screen (4) in the bottom of the float bowl. It is then drawn past the ball check (5) into the pump well on the intake stroke of the plunger. Upon acceleration the force of the pump plunger seats the ball check (5) and forces fuel up the passage (6). The pressure of the fuel lifts the pump outlet ball check and spring (7) from its seat. The fuel is then sprayed on the bottom edge of the venturi by the pump jet (8) and delivered to the engine.
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head has been designed to eliminate fuel percolation in the pump system. This has been accomplished by the unique design of a ball check and seat (1) in the plunger head (2). When the engine is not operating any build up of fuel vapors in the pump well rise and by-pass the ball. This allows the hot fuel and vapors to circulate up the passage (3) in the plunger head and return to the float bowl. Without this feature, any vapor pressure built-up would evacuate the fuel in the pump system into the engine manifold, causing poor initial acceleration due to lack of fuel in the pump system.


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Pangolin Laser Systems, the world's largest producer of laser display software and control hardware, will be showcasing their award-winning LASORB component at this year's SPIE Photonics West Exhibition in San Francisco, California. LASORB has been taking the laser industry by storm, and has recently been featured in major publications including Laser Focus World, NASA Tech Briefs, Photonics Spectra and US-Tech. LASORB is considered by many to be like "Viagara" for laser diodes… It gets them up, and keeps them up longer.
LASORB is the world's first electronic component designed specifically to protect laser diodes from direct and indirect electrostatic discharge (ESD) and power surges. Developed in 2008 by Pangolin's President and CTO, William Benner, LASORB protects laser diodes, LEDs, and superluminescent diodes from single, multiple, and repeated ESD events of both positive and negative polarity.
Laser diodes are known to fail long before the manufacturers' rated life expectancy, and ESD is a suspected cause in many of the malfunctions. With the global market for laser diodes at around 750 million units per year (Laser Focus World), LASORB has been a cost effective means for many companies, in multiple industries, to protect their laser diodes from ESD and power surges.
Pangolin is producing three separate lines of LASORB, one optimized for red and infrared diodes, one optimized for BLU-RAY diodes, and one optimized for 445nm blue laser diodes. The LASORB website (www.LASORB.com) offers detailed product information and datasheets, and related information on laser diodes and ESD. Videos demonstrating the effects of ESD on laser diodes and the effectiveness of LASORB in protecting them are available at Lasorb.com (http://www.lasorb.com/11_videos.htm) or YouTube: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bvoC81ZsTM) and (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bow7pL4n3Ak).
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