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Guest Post: Investors Are "Whistling Past The Graveyard" Over Global Geopolitics
Submitted by John Browne of Euro Pacific Capital,
When the former Soviet Union collapsed almost 25 years ago, most global strategic forecasters assumed that the U.S. would adapt pragmatically to her new status of sole world superpower. Instead she has pursued a variety of misguided nation-building adventures and has largely shrunk from her primary responsibility of neutralizing the ambitions of petty dictators around the world. From this perspective, America's multi-generational expenditures on military personnel and equipment has become more of a stealth economic stimulus program rather than an insurance policy for global stability.
The massive failures of U.S. intervention in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan have caused the Western Allies to fear the future deployment of troops. Instead they have resorted to preserving an impression of strength by pressing their agenda with minor nations like Serbia, Libya and Syria through a combination of endless diplomacy and relatively riskless air power. In doing so, they exposed not just a reduced military capability, but also far worse, a lack of will. This vital fact was not lost on America's potential enemies.
Sensing this weakness, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who is likely the continent's most aggressive power player since the Second World War, felt free to redraw the map of Europe when political events in Ukraine did not go his way. On the economic front, the crisis has vividly illuminated the differing interests of the European Union (EU) and the U.S. According to Eurostat, the EU imported 212 billion euros ($293 billion USD) worth of goods from Russia in 2012, while the U.S. imported a mere $29 billion. Furthermore, eight of the EU member nations are in trade surplus with Russia and the adverse trade balances of the remaining nineteen EU nations are relatively small. The difference in relative costs between the U.S. and these European nations that would arise from isolating Russia with major sanctions, let alone military action, are clear.
Thus far the Western response to his power grab has been underwhelming in the extreme. The minor financial sanctions placed on Russian oligarchs tied to Putin's inner circle, and the few guided missile destroyers that have been deployed to the Black Sea will do little to change the trajectory of the Kremlin. It should then come as no surprise that Russian pressure on Ukraine did not stop with its fast motion annexation of Crimea, but has been steadily increasing in the last few weeks. In early April, cities throughout eastern Ukraine experienced the occupation of government buildings and police stations by 'unidentified' protestors, whom many suspect are Russian special forces in plain clothes. By mid-April, speculation was rife that Ukraine might be headed for civil war, providing an excuse for Russian intervention to 'keep the peace' and, like Hitler in the late 1930's, to protect his own countrymen living in a bordering nation.
In Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. and its NATO Allies squandered large quantities of blood and treasure in fruitless experiments to alter the political and sociological realities of the Muslim world. However, in the Ukraine, which yearned for western-style democracy, the West offered merely money and rations. In doing so, they eroded drastically the age-old force multiplier of international prestige.
President Putin appears set on a clear strategy to re-colonize Russia's old 'empire' by means of so-called salami tactics in which he takes small slices of territory too minor to spark a conflict. But the slices ultimately pile high enough to provide a satisfying meal. If Putin's victory in the Crimea is followed by success in the Ukraine, his next targets likely will be the so-called 'Baltics' of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. All of which are NATO countries possessing the guarantee of mutual defense from other NATO members including the U.S., UK, Canada and Germany. The potential for Putin to prove false this myth of guaranteed defense could usher the world into a world of much higher uncertainty.
On the other side of the globe, China is building its military, exerting increasing influence and extending its territorial claims in the eastern Pacific. Worse still, China and Russia appear intent on destroying the U.S. dollar's privileged role as the international Reserve currency. Any major loss of this role could threaten severe declines for the U.S. dollar and spikes in U.S. interest rates. In short, a loss of U.S. dollar's Reserve status would create a sudden and massive strategic change in a world to which entire populations have grown accustomed since WWII.
Despite the considerable risks created by the situation in eastern Europe, most western stock, bond and property markets, fed on massive central bank fiat liquidity, continue to flirt with new highs. (See an explanation of this in our latest report Taxed by Debt) This strikes me as an exercise in whistling past the graveyard. In the short term, investors may continue to profit from risk-taking in financial markets. However, as recessionary forces mount, commodity prices can be expected to drop, even exerting some downward pressure on precious metals. In the longer term however, as realization that serious threats exist, including the possibility of armed conflict in continental Europe, precious metals once again may shine as a safe haven asset.
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Empires come to an end eventually. Are we coming to our end or will we be reborn under a new moniker after a period of chaos?
and then it begins all over again
Investors? What are those?
Until the rule of law returns in America, I suspect her image in the eyes of the world will continue to decline. Don't hold your breath.
Until the rule of law returns in America, Let me help you,,,it will never return, we are headed for the hell of collapse..
Kill switch...,
the name suits you.
An article full of crap that fails completely to identify even the causes of the Ukrainian crisis and the major geopolitical issues at stake - and yet suggests that "investors" should pay more attention to them.
Talk about an ignorant telling people they shouldn't be so - ignorant.
is demand for fascism drying up?
This article is Crap - end to end - then i hit the link - Peter Schiff comes up - world class bullshit artist
same mime as NYT and Kerry - - please stop - "Power Grab by the Russians" please then who is Nuland -
is she from Nulandistan or another Kenyan from DC?
Depends on a lot of variables. Primarily the international response to a rapidly degenerating America and how quickly some event or series of events forces North Americans can tear themselves away from their TV's and Big Macs and fight for their life and libertahhhhh.
The only hope I can see is there are people like those on ZH making comments about the sad state of affairs. We might have to forego the masses. It is too late for the FSA and socialist/fascist types.
Is China (and / or Russia) Part of the New World Order?
It was never our primary responsibility, as the author suggests, to neutralize the ambitions of petty dictators around the world. When we ceased leading by example and chose instead to coerce other nations through force, we assumed the mantle of an empire and began an inevitable slide toward collapse. Nation-building was a logical outgrowth of the philosophy that we should be the world's police.
John Quincy Adams: America "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
I suggest no more Olympics.
As with Georgia's invasion of South Ossetia with Israeli and USA approval during the 2008 Beijing summer Olympics, we now have Victoria Nuland's Neocon coup of neo-Fascists in Ukraine during the Sochi Olympics.
Clearly there is an unfortunate trend by the US to attempt to destroy countries during any Olympics -- using it as distraction.
The distraction must therefore be removed to promote world peace.
Just load the front lines with bearded hipsters please
I'd rather see the likes of Bush, Obama, Biden, Cheney, etc. on the front lines than some obnoxious hipster; I'm cool with them because they aren't trying to get me killed on a daily basis -I take that kind of stuff personally even though it's just business.
...on the other hand, what if we gave a war and EVERYBODY came?
Just say "free food and beer" and you'll get all the bodies you need.
very shitty article bordering on western style propaganda
We do live in interesting times. I tend to note the events I can do absolutely nothing about and then keep stacking.
"massive failures in interventions" in Iraq? Where have you been? Post surge = success. Post Obama = disaster.
Much the same in Vietnam - leave it to the left to screw it up politically.
Afghanistan I'll agree on.
Vietnam was a failure from day one when we decided to set up a false flag operation in the Gulf of Tonkin and every single war and conflict beyond that was a failure because of shitty foreign policies that were more about building a hegemony rather than stick to the policy that we were founded on: Leave everyone the fuck alone. If this was was truly about getting UBL and combatting terrorism we would of went to the source: The House of Saud. Terrorists have their uses too, as the politicians know, to keep us in line with their goals of hegemony building "fer freedum".
Edit: Actually, all of our wars were for shitty reasons come to think of it.
Technically, like Sandy Hook, you really can't call the "Tonkin Incident" a false flag since pretty much nothing happened and there were no Merikan's or paid mercenaries attacking US naval ships. It would be more correct to simply call it a hoax.
However, in the Ukraine, which yearned for western-style democracy,,..................bwahahahahahahah
Setting up "western-style" democracy = the west taking over your banks, pipelines and resources. Ask Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan.
Any ideas on which currency I should open an everbank account with? Thinking when the dollar does finally crap the bed the Norwegian krone or Swedish krona might be the safest bets.
if anyone knows of another option than everbank please share.
Lost me at bank.
If its not in your hand...............
Well said. But now let's just get back to work and BTFD! Party like the world could end tomorrow.
Everyone knows that the treasonous globalist in Western nations are going to get their asses kicked and thrown into prisons and that the parasitic too big to fail banks are going to be bankrupted, so the stock market is going up because freedom, democracy and the rule of law as well as free markets are going to be restored.
I'd like to think you're right but I'm not at all sure. They've been getting away with it, well, forever. And there's not a whiff of revolution in the air, even with all the banking collapses, bankster crimes, billionaire parasites gloating while the ordinary Joe's life circles the drain.
I've always said that things will explode only when the EBTs stop working and the FSA starts heading for the suburbs. That will force the middle class into action.
My dog has an account on the Facebook; it seems to be popular with the jobless and those whiling away their useless lives, amicably waiting for Death's sweet embrace.
I'm thinking of buying up to 10 shares in FB, confident in the devolution of Humanity.
you just don,t have a currency collapse in the 21st centuty.
"In the larger picture, much of the geopolitical balance of power that has been in place for much of the past 25 years will be tested on the banks of the Black Sea. Investors should take a few minutes from their daily technical chart analysis to consider these major developments."
Why should they? It's a CASINO - there are no clocks on the walls and you don't look out the windows anyway...(*)
(*)Until the first dividend cut.
It is a big advantage to play in your own back yard!
big fun.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — Whistling Past The Graveyard
@"..Sensing this weakness, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who is likely the continent's most aggressive power player since the Second World War, felt free to redraw the map of Europe when political events in Ukraine did not go his way. "
comment: author, get back to your crack pipe, the world has better things to do.
What I'm seeing develop is an "almost surreal" feeling of indifference towards reality. Companies have already ushered saving from interest paid on debt into the earning column and a major reason inflation remains low is they are sitting on a hoard of cash this has lowered the velocity of money. We must remember the artificially low FED controlled interest rates are a massive one-off or onetime tailwind that is mainly behind us.
When rates stop going lower or reverse the positive effect will ebb and become a major headwind. With massive government debt in many countries and the economy still weak this headwind has the potential to become devastating. The collision of MMT, social unrest over inequality, and other destabilizing factors have the potential to create the perfect storm. More on this subject in the article below.
The Dark Ages lasted almost 700 years (or 500-ish if you consider the begining of the crusades as the official end of the chaos following the fall of the Roman Empire*). During that period, wars were constant and brutal..IF the US and the Western World can be considered "Empire", whats to say the next period after our decline and collapse won't be similar? Stack your Gold, plant your food and live as you may. Geopolitical balance and other contrivances are falsities manufactured to blind the masses from the wolf at the door.
Article is B.S. Should probably close my Euro Pacific Capital account.
Another Neocon Zionist member of the speculator class spews his mindless drivel. As if the Neocon movement needs more press space. He sounds like he is disappointed that the neocon dream of world conquest is going so badly. He also seems to know jackshit about history or reality. He forgets who funded and organized a coup in Kiev using violence to take over an elected government. Then he cries when the people of Crimea and East Ukraine refuse to accept dictatorship of the EU coup leaders. Calls Putin agressive for giving Crimeans the right to vote, to rejoin a nation they have been part of for centuries. Of couse the Zionist writer is crying over this, his NATO missile bases and Navy base in Sevastopol was just pulled out from under him by the people who live there refusing the offer of IMF loans and debt slavery to the Communist rulers in Brussels.
All in all the author is another fake zionist neocon liar. Warmongering all across the globe, and now his neocon plan just got shown the door by the half of Ukraine that refuses to submit to the coup leaders in Kiev, hand picked by the zionist Nuland and her Israeli team of puppet masters.
So sad that this crying necon cunt lost out on the hoped for big victory of NATO in Ukraine. IMF loans, debts and austerity. Ukaine will get nothing froma bankrupt communist EU and a bankrupt USA. A few billion in loans to pay for Russian gas imports. Ukraine's economy is in collaspe and the latest meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Republic of Brussels is going to print Euros and offer loans to Ukraine. The Nazi Right Sector is planning on holding on to power in Kiev, the East will fight them and the EU will slowly use death squads to reduce the Right Sector powers. Notice the NATO death squads have already killed three or four Right Sector leaders, military guys and one Right Sector propaganda agent.
Lets here more form the Neocons like this author, they are fun to listen to as they cry and piss all over themselves over their failed move east. Nothing to offer Ukraine but 40 euros a day to keep the right sector in vodka, bullets and cheap whores. NATO had big plans for it's new military bases in Crimea and on Russia's border, now the people of East Ukraine have fucked up NATO's party, so sad.
Bravo, Jack Burton. Your commentary is superior to this article in every way.
Although they try, the neocon cockroaches can't scurry away from the light of the truth forever.
Some of the sources in Russian internet land are beginning to sense a imminent move by the Ukraine forces to attack the East Ukrainian protest movement. Not sure what this is based on, but some Russians who blog in english are saying the backgound noise on Russian and Ukrainian interent is high, lots of talk of a big move coming by the Coup Leaders in Kiev, sending in Right Sector gangs to do what the Ukrainian army seems unwilling to do. Only time will tell, but the current standoff is making the Kiev coup leaders and their army seem like powerless fools. Either they get on with the attack or nobody will take them seriously. The Gas Queen Yulia has been calling for Right Sector gangs to go east and settle the score. Unfortunately for Right Sector, the East has been arming itself and digging in. If fighting kicks off soon, it could turn very bloody very fast.
A day of reckoning is coming for those in the Ukrainian military. They will be forced to demonstrate, explicitly, whom they serve: the Ukrainian people or the Kievan junta. I pray they make the right choice.
You seem disconcertingly hopeful. They'll not make 'right choices' mate, there's no right choice, all the choices are shitty, people are not choosing anything, they are just inheriting the shit-ness of the situation, no matter how much gold glitter and lipstick they put on it.
Each new 'revolution' for the people somewhere in the world (bought to you by Smuckers and UtopiaPimp4U) is another failed shambles to add to lists of vandalized demoralized places where all solutions and answers are fakes, with their faked images and their fakery conceptual baggage, being borrowed and carried over from earlier complete fakes of the already entirely abstract.
We live in the age of making nothing look like something, and something look like nothing, where even the calamities are for the most part totally fraudulent.
ANZAC day tomorrow, the bit where the State and TV tries to lie convincingly to everyone that senseless lost-battles and complete waste of millions in the service of despotic king and fascist cuntry are 'heroic' and honorable and where former generations made the 'right choices'. Fakery upon faked counterfeits heaped up over a towering geometrically impossible spire of trellised deceptions that knive to a bulwark of swirling untruths.
And it works every time too.
Then again if it were ww3 money in the market vs. anywhere else isn't going to matter anyway.


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Support for graduate students typically comes from the following sources:
Teaching is an integral part of the graduate experience at Brown. Typically, doctoral students in chemistry will work as teaching assistants (TA's) for two semesters during their graduate careers. A TA's financial award includes a stipend, tuition, health insurance, and health services fee.
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- GAANN Fellowships: The Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need program provides fellowships to assist graduate students of superior ability who demonstrate financial need. The fellowship covers tuition, stipend and health care insurance. The Department of Chemistry is able to award three GANNN fellowships for the current academic year.
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|Bruins at Sabres preview
|12.15.10 at 12:14 am ET
The Bruins will take on the Sabres for the third time this season as the two teams face off in Buffalo on Wednesday night. The Bruins have points in their last six games (4-0-2) and have taken both of their meetings with the Sabres. Their most recent win over Buffalo came last Tuesday when Mark Recchi tipped a Dennis Seidenberg shot past Ryan Miller to give the B's a 3-2 win in overtime.
Tuukka Rask was first off the ice for the Bruins, an indication he'll be between the pipes come game time.
– The Sabres are a sub-.500 hockey team (12-14-4) because of their struggles at home. Nine of their 14 losses this season have come in Buffalo, as they've posted a 6-9-1 record at HSBC Arena. They are 3-3-0 in their last six home games.
– The Bruins remain a more dangerous team when playing away from TD Garden. They've posted a 9-3-1 road record. They took a shootout loss to the Maple Leafs in their last road game.
– Fighting majors aside, the Bruins have been avoiding the penalty box as of late. They had just one penalty in both Saturday's game and last Tuesday's Buffalo game, both of which contests went into overtime. The B's are 15th in the league in penalty minutes per game (12.9), though that is helped by their 26 majors, a number that puts them fifth in the league despite tying seven teams for playing the least amount of games.
– Milan Lucic is on pace for 44 goals. Does anybody truly see him as a 40-goal-scorer? Variables such as empty netters and a couple softies have been on his side thus far, so while he may eventually slow down, he still figures the finish the season as the team's top goal-scorer if he remains healthy.
– David Krejci has three points (all assists) against the Sabres this year. He's only had three points against one other club, and he knocked that out in one game when he scored two goals and tallied an assist in the team's 8-1 win over the Lightning. Krejci is also on a three-game point steak that began with his two assists last Saturday against the Sabres.
– Marc Savard and Tyler Seguin have combined for just two points — an assist apiece — since Savard made his return to the lineup on Dec. 2. One would have to assume the two will get going and that Seguin will eventually be big asset for Savard, but it simply hasn't happened yet.
Savard's ice time has generally been anywhere from 13:15 to 16:26, and he's averaged 15:01 per night.
– Here's a totally useless and hardly telling stat from the good ol' WEEI.com stat truck: The Bruins have won the first game of a three-in-four stretch every time this year. In those games, they've grabbed wins in Buffalo (5-2 on Nov. 3), Pittsburgh (7-4 on Nov. 10), New York (3-2 over the Rangers on Nov. 17), and Philadelphia (3-0 on Dec. 1).
– Tim Thomas has started and won both of the team's games against the Sabres thus far. It's quite remarkable that Tuukka Rask is on pace for just 26 starts this season, but he'll get his first crack at the Sabres Wednesday.
– Miller was dealing with a groin injury when the Bruins beat up on Jhonas Enroth and Patrick Lalime on Nov. 3, but he manned the pipes last Tuesday vs. the B's. It wasn't his best showing, as he allowed a bit of a softie to Lucic — letting a shot from a tough angle just sneak between his leg and the left post.
Miller is coming off a rough loss to the Penguins on Saturday. He allowed four goals on just 23 shots.
– It is up in the air whether the B's will dress Tyler Seguin or Daniel Paille. Seguin didn't play Saturday with what the team called flu-like symptoms, and Paille played well. Claude Julien told reporters that it would be a game-time decision.
– Adam McQuaid, who could have been badly injured on Jody Shelley's cheap shot Saturday, is also fine. Both players practiced Tuesday.
|Bruins lead Islanders, 1-0, after one
|12.09.10 at 7:46 pm ET
Milan Lucic scored his 14th goal of the season, a power play tally, and the Bruins lead the Islanders, 1-0, after a period.
It appeared that Lucic's shot actually hit the right post, bounced of New York goalie Rick DiPietro and into the net. Marc Savard got the assist on the goal, registering his first point since his return from post-concussion symptoms.
DiPietro had the save of the period on Dennis Seidenberg. After giving up a big rebound off a shot from Nathan Horton, DiPietro had to lunge to stop Sedidenberg on the rebound.
The Bruins outshot the Islanders, 16-7, and Tuukka Rask didn't really face much pressure. The Bruins are 1-for-2 on the power play, while the Islanders are 0-for-1. The Bruins will begin the second period on the man advatnage, as P.A. Parenteau went off for boarding with 10.2 seconds left in the period.
Adam McQuaid and Zenon Konopka squared off in the only fight of the period.
|What the return of Marc Savard really means to the Bruins
|12.03.10 at 11:08 am ET
Less than an hour after the Bruins croaked the Tampa Bay Lightning, 8-1, at TD Garden, Bruins coach Claude Julien was asked if the team was given an emotional boost by the return of Marc Savard after a bout of post-concussion syndrome.
"Boy, you're giving him a lot of credit, aren't you?" Julien quipped in his classically wry sense of humor. "It's nice to have him back, obviously everybody's happy to have him back, but you know, I think our players, as a whole, even yesterday when he wasn't in the lineup, decided that they were going to play hard and play well and they did. So he just added to that, I guess, fuel for tonight."
Savard skated 21 shifts in 15 minutes and 45 seconds, taking one shot while winning 5-of-10 face-offs on the night. But his impact was felt early when he got into the fray early with a fore-check. He played on several combo lines and everyone thought he didn't miss a beat.
"I mean, he brought a lot of offense today," two-goal scorer David Krejci said. "He wasn't on the score sheet but he had a lot of last minute chances. We have big depth now with him and all four lines can score goals and it's hard for their top defensemen to defend our top guys. So, it's good to have him back and it's good to see him and hopefully we will keep doing the same thing we did tonight."
And that can only help this Bruins offense. It certainly appeared that way Thursday night.
"I think that's the first eight goals the team has scored that I haven't had anything on it, but I kept telling Claude I was a presence tonight," Savard said BEFORE Julien's post-game observation. "I felt good, obviously had some shifts where I felt a little tired and as the battles wore on, I just stood in front of Timmy [Thomas], so hopefully he can stop it. It was great to be back. The fans were fantastic. I got a little emotional there. It was a little tough to go out on that shift there, but it was special."
Tim Thomas set the tone for the night, stepping aside before leading the team on the ice for pre-game warm-ups. Instead, Savard had that honor against Tampa Bay.
"I didn't know what he was doing there. I didn't even realize. I just thought he was stepping aside, that's maybe what he does now. I just kept skating, then I looked over and no one was there, so it was kind of nice of the guys, I think they did that on purpose, but it was funny."
Still, for skating in a game for the first time since May, it was quite the adjustment for Savard.
"I mean, it's been six months, so it's been a long time," Savard said. "Shaking off a bit of rust, but you know, I felt I made some good plays. I felt there's some stuff I can build off of, some things I can work on still, obviously. Battles I had a little trouble as the shift wore on in our zone a couple times, but I felt good, I felt strong. I got in there a couple times, tried to bang around, didn't really move anybody, but it was a lot of fun." Read the rest of this entry »
|Looking back on a busy day of Marco Sturm comings and non-goings
|12.02.10 at 11:11 pm ET
The Bruins came right out and said it on Thursday night: Marco Sturm is not a member of the Los Angeles Kings. The same day that he reportedly waived his no-trade clause to facilitate a deal to LA, health issues held up the trade and kept him in Boston for the time being.
Amidst all the uncertainty, the Bruins went out on Thursday night and gave the Lightning a thorough beating, running up the score on Mike Smith and Dan Ellis to the tune of an 8-1 victory. It was a long day for the Bruins, and they end it with a big win in hand and Sturm still on the roster. Here's a look back at the day:
11:00 a.m.: Sturm is one of five Bruins to take the ice at TD Garden, as he skated with Marc Savard, Daniel Paille, Jordan Caron, and Tuukka Rask.
Noon hour: Darren Dreger of TSN reports via twitter that a deal was struck between the B's and Kings that would send Sturm to LA. The deal seemingly would end the team's salary cap woes, as Sturm, who is in the final year of his contract, has a $3.5 million cap hit.
1 p.m. hour: ESPN.com reports the Bruins would receive a conditional fifth-round pick for Sturm.
7 p.m. hour: After crickets from the Bruins regarding an announcement, TSN's Bob McKenzie tweets that "medical issues" had complicated the deal and that there was "uncertainty" as to whether it could get done.
9:43 p.m.: Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli issues the following statement on Sturm:
"I am aware of the various media reports today regarding Marco Sturm. I can confirm that I spoke to Marco about waiving his no trade clause and have had discussions regarding Marco with other teams. I can also confirm that there is no trade in place with Marco. At this time, Marco is a member of the Boston Bruins and will continue to train with our team."
11:20 p.m.: McKenzie tweets the following:
"Final word on aborted Sturm deal: LAK were furnished with player's medical records. They had concerns with what they saw."
POSTGAME: Teammates acknowledge an odd day in which they thought Sturm was gone, only to learn he would stick around.
"It was a little different, that's for sure," Savard said. "Especially a good friend like that."
Savard, who made his season debut on Thursday night, had done much of his on-ice rehabbing with Sturm, as the two would take the ice together before they were cleared to practice with teammates.
"We've had a tough run together, that's for sure," Savard said. "We've supported each other along the way, so when the news came that he was getting traded, it was tough for both of us, because we're good friends, obviously. I'm going to see him tomorrow, and be happy he's still there."
Shawn Thornton noted that until Sturm is a member of another team, he is going to continue to embrace him as a teammate.
"I really don't know what's going on, except that he's still part of our team," Thornton said. "He's a good friend of mine. Our families get along really well. As far as I'm concerned, he's still here, so I'm going to continue to treat it as such."
|Bruins lead Lightning, 2-0, after one
|at 7:46 pm ET
It may be Marc Savard's season debut, but after a period, the Bruins have another center and a wacky play to thank for their 2-0 lead over the Lightning.
David Krejci took a pass from Milan Lucic at the blue line, flew past a defender and fired a wrist shot past Lightning goaltender Mike Smith at 10:52. It was his third goal of the season and first since Oct. 30. Dennis Seidenberg puked up first goal tally of the season thanks to a lazy shot gone awry from center ice. Smith misplayed the puck to allow the odd goal with 20 seconds left in the period.
Tim Thomas kept up the impressive play that shut out the Flyers a night earlier, as he stopped all 15 of the Lightning's shots in the first period. He did allow Tampa Bay an opportunity on a big rebound when he was out of position, but Steven Stamkos' line was unable to capitalize on it.
Savard got a standing ovation when he took his first shift of the night, and was once again recognized on the jumbotron during a timeout.
Both teams are 0-for-1 on the power play. The Lightning are outshooting the B's, 15-9.
|Quick reaction to the Marco Sturm trade
|at 1:23 pm ET
With Thursday's news that the Bruins have traded Marco Sturm to the Kings [UPDATE: Multiple outlets are reporting the deal is off for the time being due to health concerns], things may seem to be a bit up in the air for the Bruins. The reality is that they are just the opposite, and that things are finally calm in what was once an endless sea of questions about the team's salary cap situation.
The Bruins first shed salary when they sent Matt Hunwick to the Avalanche on Tuesday, relinquishing the B's of Hunwick's $1.45 million cap hit and allowing them to activate Marc Savard when appropriate. Still, the Bruins weren't kidding themselves by suggesting their selling off of assets was done, considering that Sturm's $3.5 million would be back on the books once his knee was fully healed.
'We have another move to make, and we'll leave it at that,' Peter Chiarelli said after the Hunwick trade.
It had to be a big move, and after months of speculation regarding what it may be, it's finally been made, and the team doesn't need to worry about the cap anymore. According to Cap Geek, the B's are now $46,128 under the $59.4 million threshold. Here's some quick points regarding Sturm's dealing.
– After all the speculation that Michael Ryder would be the odd man out when Savard and Sturm returned, Ryder is sticking around. It seemed a logical line of thinking that given his $4 million price tag, a trade or demotion to the AHL for Ryder might be the cleanest move for the Bruins, as it would solve their cap woes without too many pieces having to move around.
Quite frankly, Ryder deserved to stay, and the Bruins are better off for having chosen to keep him over Sturm. He's third on the team in goals with six, and more importantly, he has perhaps been — surprisingly or not — the best asset for Tyler Seguin. The latest case of their work together was on display Wednesday night when Ryder set up Seguin's first-period goal on a 2-on-1.
While it may seem a bit odd to think the Bruins, who struggled so mightily to score goals a season ago, would be wise to get rid of the guy who led them in goals in 2009-10, Sturm is too big an unknown at this point. From all indications, he's still a few weeks from being able to play in games, and the Bruins have gotten enough out of guys like Ryder and Blake Wheeler that of the three, that Sturm was the most expendable. It will be interesting to see how his knees hold up, as he's had major surgery on each of them.
– Put the kibosh on all of that Seguin World Juniors Championships talk. The team could have temporarily been given some cap relief with Seguin spending Dec. 26 through Jan. 5 in Buffalo, but there's no longer a need for that. With Sturm gone, they would benefit in exactly zero ways from letting Seguin play in the WJC.
– There goes the proof of the Joe Thornton trade happening (well, based on the initial members of the deal, at least). Sturm was the last player remaining of the package the Bruins received from the Sharks in exchange for Thornton. The Bruins also got Brad Stuart and Wayne Primeau in the deal for the center and former B's captain.
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Bruins center Marc Savard will meet with general manager Peter Chiarelli and coach Claude Julien Thursday afternoon to determine the Savard's status for the team's game against the Lightning on Thursday night.
"I don't want to get too far ahead with predicting anything before I have an answer," Julien said following the team's off-ice work on Thursday. Savard was one of five players to skate Thursday morning, as he took the ice with Marco Sturm, Daniel Paille, Tuukka Rask, and Jordan Caron.
Julien did indicate that Savard has reached a point at which he is no longer adjusting or catching up in practice and workouts, and that his only remaining step in his return from post-concussion symptoms is to play.
"I think we've gotten as much as we can out him," Julien said. "'¦ He's at that stage where he's pretty close to have reached his max with conditioning."
Savard, meanwhile, said he's unsure of whether the team even considers him a game-time decision against the Lightning.
"I don't even know if it's that," Savard said. "I just know that I'm meeting with them later on. '¦ We'll see what happens."
The center has missed all of the season thus far after encountering symptoms of post-concussion syndrome late in the summer. The team shut him down and kept him out of training camp to avoid worsening the condition. He has since returned to workout and taking the ice, and has been taking and receiving physical contact on the ice since last Wednesday.
Savard admitted that all of the work has seemed familiar as he's gone through the motions over and over again, but he sees a light at the end of the tunnel.
"I think at the end of the day, skating every day and after practice and stuff, it gets long and gets a little monotonous, because you're doing the same thing," Savard said. "When I am able to play, I can't wait. It's going to be an exciting time."


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Management of Water and Flood Incidents (MWFI) - Defra Module 5
This course is designed for individuals who may be required to undertake the role of Incident Commander at a water or flood incident or act as an advisor to operational or tactical command, or to strategic command when the incident is limited to a Local Resilience Forum response. The course meets the content and learning outcomes of the CFOA/Defra Module 5 - Water Incident Management.
The course is delivered through a partnership between R3 Safety and Rescue and the Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service Academy. This allows for a delivery team that combines R3 Safety and Rescue's technical background with the extensive operational flood management experience that Devon and Somerset FRS have developed over recent years.
Courses can be delivered at one of our three regional training centres (N Wales, Devon, Teesside) or at the clients own venue.
To train existing managers to have a technical understanding of water and flood incident management.
By the end of the course delegates will:-
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Incident Command System when applied to water and flood incidents.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Flood Rescue National Enhancement Project Concept of Operations.
- Demonstrate and understanding of Local Resilience Forum Emergency Flood Plans and local capability register.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the unique challenges of a multi-agency flood response, issues of primacy and quality assurance of teams.
- Demonstrate an understanding of water related dynamic risk assessment and how this impacts on the incident command system, including liaison with responding crews.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the water rescue training guidance modules and the associated capabilities of the personnel.
- Have an understanding of the levels of water rescue PPE and their associated uses and applications.
- Have an understanding of specific water incident issues including; specialist operator skills, welfare, crew rotation, de-contamination, communications plans and emergency procedures.
- Have an awareness of search management techniques for rivers and floods.
- Have an awareness of rescue and evacuation techniques used by teams.
- Have an understanding of Flood Management commonalities such as; accessing and interpreting weather and flood warnings, flood warning schemes, multi-agency working, rainfall prediction, flood development, hazard identification and deployment of crews.
- Have a comprehensive awareness of water rescue policies, SOP's etc and their limitations.
- Have practical experience of the inland moving water environment.
- Have undertaken a multi-phase table-top flood management exercise.
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(For contracted courses if delegates already have practical in water experience equivalent to Defra Module 2/First Responder, then the course can be delivered in a 4 day format without the in-water day)
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- Foundation Knowledge- risks, hydrology, flood theory
- PPE & Equipment
- Specialist Considerations – vehicles in water , weirs, use of powered boats
- Incident group exercises
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- In -Water Practical Day including night exercise when conditions allow
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- Role of the Water and Flood Incident Manager
- TEMPOE Model
- Weather Info, Tools and Resources (Hazard Manager, EA Mapping)
- National Guidance & Emergency Planning (Defra ConOp, LRF plans)
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- Search Management for rivers and floods
- SEA DEPTH model
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Here you can buy all of your favourite old fashioned traditional sweets online and have them posted out to you for a maximum postage charge of £4.99. We also have the largest selection of liquorice in Wales and the 2nd largest in the UK.
All sweets are bagged up at our traditional sweet shop which is registered with Conwy County Borough Council's trading standards department. We also have periodic inspections by the local health and hygiene officers giving you peace of mind that hygiene is our main priority.
On the subject of hygiene, our team all wear vinyl based gloves when weighing out your sweets, ensuring the first hands to touch them will be yours.
We have possibly the largest selection of traditional sweets in Wales. With over 2000 products available in the shop. We specialize in Gluten Free sweets and Sugar Free sweets. We also have a large selection of halal and sweets suitable for vegetarians. We stock all 37 flavours of Dobson's Mega Lollies and offer a bespoke wedding favour and party bag service. Why not visit us today or order your favourite traditional sweets online. We are situated in Rhos on Sea which is just a stone's throw away from Llandudno, Colwyn Bay, Abergele, Llanddulas, and Mochdre on the North Wales coast.


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Now you are able to enjoy a more relaxing, more comfortable and altogether more contemporary experience when you visit the new Business Class Lounge for oneworld customers at Zurich airport.
As part of our ongoing commitment to provide you with the best possible experience before you fly, we opened a brand new lounge at Zurich in March 2013. This new lounge is located in the heart of the terminal with easy access to the extensive shopping area and Terminal B departure gates.
British Airways has been closely involved throughout the design of the new lounge to ensure you can unwind in style and comfort, featuring:
• Extensive range of tasty snacks and delicious food in the restaurant
• Wine Corner serving fine wines
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Perfectly suited to the travelling duo. With a variety of aspects to the property, located on the lower levels of the hotel. These rooms feature 2 King Single Beds and have a similar layout to our Deluxe King Rooms.
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White Hinterland
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Years Active: 1999 - present
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Years Active: 1999 - present
Genres: Pop, Indie Pop
Casey Dienel (born March 10, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She released her debut album, ''Wind-Up Canary'', in 2006 on Hush Records. Dienel presently performs and records as White Hinterland, whose first album, titled ''Phylactery Factory'', was released on March 4, 2008, by the independent record label Dead Oceans.
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Articles :: How to Install a Motherboard :: Motherboards.org
Doc Overclock · 11-06-2000 · Category: Guides
CPU and RAM
The first step is mounting your CPU and your RAM to the motherboard. Check your particular user's manual and see if any jumpers need to be set on your motherboard, such as the FSB, the clock speed, and the core voltage. The CPU has a corner cut out that matches the socket on the Socket 370 type, and your RAM should always start off in slot one of the RAM slots (this is usually the one closest to the CPU). Most motherboards are jumperless these days, but check your manual to see if you have jumpers to be set. If you do, set them at this time. Use your needle nose pliers for this task.


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This stage-to-film adaptation has proved hugely popular with audiences of all ages, as well as creating a new interactive cinema experience with Mamma Mia!: The Sing-Along Edition. Now you can sing and play along at home with this accompanying book for Piano, Voice and Guitar.


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We spent our first Valentine's Day together at a Michelin-starred restaurant on one of New York City's trendiest streets. Our second featured a single rose and authentic Mexican cuisine. Today, Keith and I are spending our third year as Valentines among millions of gallons of raw sewage.
The Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, our destination on this most heart-filled of Hallmark holidays, isn't too far from our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and for the second year running, it's inviting couples -- and loners with strong stomachs -- to tour its facilities. You'd be surprised how many take them up on the offer; more than 300 people are here this morning. Due to demand, plant officials added a third tour earlier this week. Luckily, I was able to snag a spot.
As Keith and I gather with other curiosity seekers in the packed visitor center, we're greeted by superintendent Jim Pynn. He gives me the distinct impression that while the rest of us are celebrating Valentine's Day, this is his Super Bowl. And indeed, television cameras roll, photographers click, and two artists from Queens are aglow, beaming with the knowledge their faces might show up on both NY1 and Brooklyn 12 tonight.
Here in Brooklyn, the irony capital of the world, Pynn is mixing romance with 310 million gallons of sewage, which is what his plant processes each day. He warms up the expectant crowd with tales of 19-century women who used parasols to shield themselves from the urine that city residents would heave out their apartment windows. Yes, we've come a long way, baby. But after more than 45 minutes of Pynn getting into the nitty gritty details of what happens at the plant, Keith and I are ready for some action.
A few couples hold hands while we walk along a chainlink fence to the plant's eight digester "eggs," but I'm not feeling it. I linger back, lost in thought: Is that girl wearing thigh-highs for the tour, I wonder, or is she going somewhere else afterwards? I'm also peeved we won't be seeing the plant's settlement tanks, where treatment workers sift out litter, cigarette butts, grease, toilet paper, and tampons. Keith, a stickler for punctuality, is anxious to catch up to the group. "We are going to lose them!" he says, annoyed when I stop to take a picture. So I take another picture, and then another just for spite.
Things aren't going well.
But it is nothing a trip to the top of 140-foot digester eggs can't fix. The almost 360-degree views of the city, the Sanitation Department, and a graveyard are spectacular, if not particularly romantic.
It was Keith's and my first time … at an anaerobic digester. We peep into the egg from above. Within the tank, 3 million gallons of sludge churned as bacteria feasted, breaking it down and producing methane gas. "We've added a lot of odor control here," says our tour guide Diane Hamerman. From where I stand, they didn't add enough. Keith sniffs and looks my way. "Was that you?" he jokes. "No," I reply, knowing full well from Pynn's PowerPoint that all of my waste goes to the Red Hook facility, one of 13 other wastewater treatment plants in the city, not here to Newtown.
After treatment, the wastewater -- like a born-again virgin -- leaves its sullied past behind and returns to the East River anew. Meanwhile, the biosolids in the digesters head to the Bronx, where the Hunt's Point plant sucks out any remaining moisture. The next stop? A landfill in West Virginia. One day, Hamerman hopes, the process will improve enough that they can use the biosolid for fertilizer.
After almost two hours at the plant, most of my questions about what happens after I flush my toilet are answered. But one remains; if Keith sticks around -- after a Valentine's Day like this -- how do I top it next year? A trip to a landfill, say … in West Virginia?"
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|Spectroscopy Facilities
Shaw Ling Hsu, Coordinator
The Spectroscopy Facility encompasses three laboratories: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Vibrational Spectroscopy, and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy. These laboratories provide instruments and services to nearly two hundred researchers from the UMass system, the undergraduate colleges of the Five College Consortium, and our industrial outreach partners.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory
The NMR laboratory operates five Bruker instruments, which give polymer researchers access to a wide range of modern NMR methods useful on both liquid and solid samples. The laboratory possesses a wide variety of probes, which permit the analysis of any magnetic nucleus using virtually any pulse sequence. Operation of the facility is directed by Dr. L.C. Dickinson who also coordinates feasibility studies of projects, in order to direct experiments to the most appropriate instruments.
The NMR laboratory is open to the entire research community at UMass and affiliated institutions. Approximately 175 users, drawn from 35 research groups in six academic departments utilize its instrumentation as do several industrial research collaborators. The NMR Laboratory houses the following instruments: AVANCD600, AVANCE400, DPX300, DSX300, and an INFINITY PLUS.
The AVANCE 400 DPX 300 are equipped with a sample changer, pulsed field gradients, and multinuclear probes and can meet the needs of almost andy routine use. The can be remotely reserved during the day for a virtual walk-on basis or for longer periods in the evening. Advanced projects in liquids are performed on the AVANCE600. Studies of protein folding dynamics in water, 19F site positions in amino acid substituted receptor proteins, variable kinetics with change of counterion in palladium catalyzed polymerizations, polymer-polymer binding in supramolecular structures, and tacticity/regiospecificity of polypropylene from advanced Ziegler-Natta catalysts are several of the ongoing research projects that rely on this instrument.
For solids analyses, the DSX 300 and INFINITY PLUS spectrometers are equipped with a variety of probes for static, magic angle, and wideline applications for virtually any magnetic nuclide. Research projects include REDOR distance determinations in selectively enriched receptor proteins, detailed structures of layered silicates, morphology of polyethylene derivatives,
mobility of polypropylene chains in amorphous and crystalline phases, and 27AL-31P cross polarization in some surface modified zeolites.
Data can be processed offline in one of several PCs or R5000SGIs in either the GRC Tower or Conte Building.
All spectrometers and offline processing computers are part of an independent, fast optical fiber network.
Vibrational Spectroscopy Laboratory
The Vibrational Spectroscopy Laboratory houses several modified infrared and Raman spectrometers which are able to accommodate unconventional sample types. Available to the polymer research community are three Raman instruments incorporating dispersive or Fourier transform capabilities, a Bruker FT spectrometer, an HG 25 high throughput laser spectrometer, and a U-1000 high resolution laser spectrometer. The infrared instruments include Bruker 38-FTIR and Bruker 98 vacuum FTIR spectrometers, a Nicolet 60SXB FTIR spectometer, and a Perkin Elmer 2000 FTIR spectrometer. Capabilities of these instruments include; temperature sweeps from 6 to 900 degrees Kelvin, time-resolved spectroscopy at 6 microsecond resolution, time-resolved dynamic-mechanical infrared spectroscopy, low frequency Raman spectroscopy (to assess degree of cystallinity and crystallite size), and reflectance spectroscopy at a lateral resolution of 1 micron and depth resolution of 10 angstroms for air/solid, air/liquid, and liquid/liquid interfaces.
The extension of infrared reflectance techniques to air/liquid and liquid/ liquid interfaces using Langmuir troughs, allows examination for these films at either low compression rates or by step compression. These films can then be transferred to solid surfaces for further processing and analysis. Spectroscopic analysis software, developed in house, extends the laboratory's commercial modeling packages to facilitate spectral comparisons and lends insight into the static and dynamic behavior of polymer chains.
Interface Analysis Laboratory
Housed within the laboratory of T.J. McCarthy, the X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) Laboratory is well equipped to meet the challenges that new polymers present. At the core of this facility, two Physical Electronics Inc., 5000 Series spectrophotometers, provide researchers with elemental analysis of polymer surfaces, measurement of surface composition, and depth profiling. Both spectrophotometers are dual anode, fixed lens instruments and one is equipped with an ion source, enabling ion scattering spectroscopy. This instrumentation also allows for the non-destructive assessment of sample lyophobicity.
Complementing this facility's instrumentation array is a Rame-Hart Inc., Model 100, NRL contact angle telegoniometer, and a Zygo Corporation non-contact profilometer. Training or consultation is provided by the director
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Intel working on low-power Thunderbolt for tablets, smartphones
A low-power Thunderbolt interconnect for smartphones and tablets is in the works, but the wired technology may not thrive if consumers prefer products using the wireless WiGig specification for data transfers.
To give back to investors, Apple goes for massive bond deal
In an effort to return cash to investors, Apple is reaching out to the debt market and offering $17 billion in bonds, the biggest non-bank bond offering in history, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
Apple confident about iPad Mini despite low margins
Six months after its launch, the iPad mini is a drain on Apple's profits, but the company is willing to endure the financial strain as long as it can sell more iPads, analysts said.
Apple teases 'new product categories'
Invoking the success of Apple's game-changing iPhone and iPad, CEO Tim Cook has hinted that Apple will introduce "exciting new product categories" starting this fall and through the end of 2014.
Intel invokes Apple's Knowledge Navigator to envision future smartphones
More than 25 years after Apple introduced "Knowledge Navigator" as a concept that envisioned the future of computers, Intel has reintroduced the concept as the future of smartphones.
Products with faster USB speeds to reach market in 2014
Products based on a USB specification that will double the data transfer rates between host devices and peripherals will reach the market in late 2014, the standards-setting organization said on Thursday.
Intel doubles speed of Thunderbolt interconnect
Intel has doubled the speed of the Thunderbolt data transfer technology, which will soon shuttle data between host computers like Macs and peripherals at a rate of 20 gbps (bits per second).
Wello brings the gym home through live training service
Wello is planning to bring one-on-one and group workouts to tablets, with the goal of offering an app for gaming consoles and TVs.
Intel to take on Apple, Roku with own TV box
Intel later this year will start offering a TV set-top box and service as the company tries to cash in on the fast-growing TV and home entertainment business.
Apple TV emerges from the shadows
Apple TV was until now considered a "hobby," by Apple's own admission, but the product has taken on more importance for CEO Tim Cook.
Apple's lead in Lightning accessories for iPhone 5, iPad faces challenges
A flurry of Lightning connector accessories for the iPhone 5, iPad Mini and iPad are hitting the market from JBL, Belkin, Schosche and iLuv, among others, giving users more choices beyond what Apple offers.
Facebook expands Gifts service with more products
If wishing a Facebook friend on his birthday isn't enough, users can now attach real gifts to their greeting with an expanded gift service that the social networking Web site announced on Thursday.
Design, supply component issues may be hurting iPhone 5 production
Foxconn may be having supply issues tied to new iPhone 5 components and Apple's stringent production specifications.
Intel boosts performance on SSDs and drops prices
Intel on Monday announced SSD DC S3700 solid-state drives with up to 800GB of capacity, designed to deliver improved performance and power efficiency.
Report: Samsung Display terminates LCD contract with Apple
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LONG BEACH — Razor clam digging will be open on the Long Beach Peninsula Friday through Sunday.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday was added to scheduled digging on Saturday and Sunday because diggers harvested fewer clams than expected there in February.
Low tide will be 0.0 feet at 4:01 p.m. on Friday, -0.2 feet at 4:50 p.m. on Saturday and -0.2 feet at 6:33 p.m. on Sunday.
Daylight savings time begins on Sunday.
"If you forget to set your watch ahead, you could miss an hour of prime digging," said Dan Ayres, coastal shellfish manager. The best digging is an hour or two before low tide.
Digging on morning tides tentatively is slated for March 29-30 at Long Beach.
Low tides those dates will be -0.6 feet at 8:40 a.m. on March 29 and -0.7 feet at 9:26 a.m. on March 30.


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Welcome to the latest new artist spotlight! Given the success of the first post in this series, which featured Miami's Monique Abbadie (potential interview in the works), I return today with Rani Ramahi, a passionate singer from the Twin Cities whose style is a mix of R&B/Soul and Pop/Dance. Rani was born in Brazil and relocated to the United States at the age of 12, around which time he developed an avid interest in singing and acting. With a wide arsenal of languages at his disposal – Portuguese, Spanish, English, and Arabic – I believe this artist has a tremendous crossover potential, in addition to possessing the high level of talent necessary to attract a loyal fanbase. The music video for his first single, "Danza Conmigo," will be dropping very soon and the song's catchy hook can be heard at the end of this promo video:
I wish I could share "Danza Conmigo" with you today because the music is magnificent and the video production is breathtaking…it will be well worth the wait! Having grown up in the Twin Cities myself, it is extra meaningful to see a video that features one of our local nightclubs, our DJs, and beautiful women from our own city. I guarantee that this website will be one of the very first to introduce the video when it drops, so be sure to check in over these next few weeks!
While we wait for the video, here are two free downloads that showcase Rani's vocals for both club music and urban R&B. "I Belong To You" features Rani's soaring vocals over a backdrop of guitar strums, dreamy synth pads, and lightly rolling Latin drums. In total contrast, "The End" is a pulsing club track that vibrantly dances with its tale of love. Whatever the style, I expect to hear only the best from Rani, which begins with the release of "Danza Conmigo" in the near future!
What do you think of the "In The End" and "I Belong To You"? Share your thoughts in the comment box below and follow Rani on facebook, youtube, or twitter for the latest.
Update: The video and a limited-time MP3 download have released – click here to watch!!
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Joseph is an Irish-Honduran radio employee whose experience crossing over between cultures and passion for music led to the founding of Spanglish Noise. Currently residing in the Twin Citiees. Follow: @spanglishnoise


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I almost want to laugh but then I don't because I'm also a road cyclist and I have socks that I prefer wearing when I'm in my cleated shoes, and then I want to bury my head in the sand for having read that thread.
Granted, I'd never discuss the pros and cons of a given sock style with anyone else, but even so.
see, there's this thing i have.
it's called lots of leg hair.
there's this other thing i have, it's called a sense of masculinity and pride in my leg hair.
because of these things of mine, i elect to use ankle socks.
i see the ridiculousness of that thread, but it's nothing when compared to the general insanity of that forum.
serious business
the real special posters come out when a thread is created, wherein the op gripes about their spouse & bikes. That's when you get to see how truly pathetic most of the posters in that sub-forum are.
yeah, that forum is full of people who don't deserve their success.
High five! In fact, high fives all around then we'll skidstop in unison.
how high do you prefer your pant legs rolled up?
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This is like Star Trek and Star Wars fans comparing styles.
At the end of the day, they're still &%ing nerds.
Why is this thread not sticky?
this made me laugh and is great. im no roadie so i laugh...hard
Where's the love man?
Yeah well this is similar, and im a fixed gear rider only. how high do you prefer your pant legs rolled up?
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As the years rolled by Christopher's priorities changed. He decided he'd like a rug in his den and a nice warm pair of slippers. This has been a popular vote from the start so was time to print BUY NOW
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Snapchat for iOS revamp adds swipe navigation, in-app profiles
Snapchat released version 5.0 of its popular photo sharing service for Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS, dramatically overhauling the app's user interface.
Snapchat enables users to capture photos (a.k.a. "snaps") and clips with their smartphone, overlay a text message and transmit the image to friends. Content is available to the recipient for a pre-determined viewing period between just one and 10 seconds, and then it is permanently deleted from both smartphones and from Snapchat's servers. Users now send 150 million snaps each day, up from 60 million in February--by comparison, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB)-owned Instagram generates 40 million photos daily.
The revamped Snapchat for iOS offers new swipe navigation to simplify access to core features like camera and inbox, as well as support for sending snaps directly from the phone's address book. The overhaul also brings in-app profiles, double-tap reply mode and a redesigned Find Friends panel.
Snapchat has not indicated when it will roll out the new UI changes to its app for Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android, although the startup has previously bemoaned the complexities of developing for the Android platform. "The Android phones that many of us use were never designed with Snapchat in mind, and that can be tough when developing a hardware-based application," Snapchat co-founder Daniel Smith wrote in a February blog post.
For more:
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Shrinks the size of the data files in the specified database.
( database_name [ , target_percent ]
Is the name of the database to be shrunk. Database names must conform to the rules for identifiers. For more information, see Using Identifiers.
Is the desired percentage of free space left in the database file after the database has been shrunk.
Causes the freed file space to be retained in the database files. If not specified, the freed file space is released to the operating system.
Causes any unused space in the data files to be released to the operating system and shrinks the file to the last allocated extent, reducing the file size without moving any data. No attempt is made to relocate rows to unallocated pages. target_percent is ignored when TRUNCATEONLY is used.
Microsoft® SQL Server™ can shrink:
- All data and log files for a specific database. Execute DBCC SHRINKDATABASE.
- One data or log file at a time for a specific database. Execute DBCC SHRINKFILE.
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE shrinks data files on a per-file basis. However, DBCC SHRINKDATABASE shrinks log files as if all the log files existed in one contiguous log pool.
Assume a database named mydb with two data files and two log files. Both data and log files are 10 MB in size. The first data file contains 6 MB of data.
For each file, SQL Server calculates a target size, which is the size to which the file is to be shrunk. When DBCC SHRINKDATABASE is specified with target_percent, SQL Server calculates target size to be the target_percent amount of space free in the file after shrinking. For example, if you specify a target_percent of 25 for shrinking mydb. SQL Server calculates the target size for this file to be 8 MB (6 MB of data plus 2 MB of free space). Therefore, SQL Server moves any data from the last 2 MB of the data file to any free space in the first 8 MB of the data file and then shrinks the file.
Assume the first data file of mydb contains 7 MB of data. Specifying target_percent of 30 allows this data file to be shrunk to the desired free percentage of 30. However, specifying a target_percent of 40 does not shrink the data file because SQL Server will not shrink a file to a size smaller than the data currently occupies. You can also think of this issue another way: 40 percent desired free space + 70 percent full data file (7 MB out of 10 MB) is greater than 100 percent. Because the desired percentage free plus the current percentage that the data file occupies is over 100 percent (by 10 percent), any target_size greater than 30 will not shrink the data file.
For log files, SQL Server uses target_percent to calculate the target size for the entire log; therefore, target_percent is the amount of free space in the log after the shrink operation. Target size for the entire log is then translated to target size for each log file. DBCC SHRINKDATABASE attempts to shrink each physical log file to its target size immediately. If no part of the logical log resides in the virtual logs beyond the log file's target size, the file is successfully truncated and DBCC SHRINKDATABASE completes with no messages. However, if part of the logical log resides in the virtual logs beyond the target size, SQL Server frees as much space as possible and then issues an informational message. The message tells you what actions you need to perform to move the logical log out of the virtual logs at the end of the file. After you perform the actions, you can then reissue the DBCC SHRINKDATABASE command to free the remaining space. For more information about shrinking transaction logs, see Shrinking the Transaction Log.
Because a log file can only be shrunk to a virtual log file boundary, it may not be possible to shrink a log file to a size smaller than the size of a virtual log file, even if it is not being used. For example, a database with a log file of 1 GB can have the log file shrunk to only 128 MB. For more information about truncation, see Truncating the Transaction Log. For more information about determining virtual log file sizes, see Virtual Log Files.
The target size for data and log files as calculated by DBCC SHRINKDATABASE can never be smaller than the minimum size of a file. The minimum size of a file is the size specified when the file was originally created, or the last explicit size set with a file size changing operation such as ALTER DATABASE with the MODIFY FILE option or DBCC SHRINKFILE. For example, if all the data and log files of mydb were specified to be 10 MB at the time CREATE DATABASE was executed, the minimum size of each file is 10 MB. DBCC SHRINKDATABASE cannot shrink any of the files smaller than 10 MB. If one of the files is explicitly grown to a size of 20 MB by using ALTER DATABASE with the MODIFY FILE option, the new minimum size of the file is 20 MB. To shrink a file to a size smaller than its minimum size, use DBCC SHRINKFILE and specify the new size. Executing DBCC SHRINKFILE changes the minimum file size to the new size specified.
When using data files, DBCC SHRINKDATABASE has the NOTRUNCATE and TRUNCATEONLY options. Both options are ignored if specified for log files. DBCC SHRINKDATABASE with neither option is equivalent to a DBCC SHRINKDATABASE with the NOTRUNCATE option followed by a DBCC SHRINKDATABASE with the TRUNCATEONLY option.
The NOTRUNCATE option, with or without specifying target_percent, performs the actual data movement operations of DBCC SHRINKDATABASE including the movement of allocated pages from the end of a file to unallocated pages in the front of the file. However, the free space at the end of the file is not returned to the operating system and the physical size of the file does not change. Therefore, data files appear not to shrink when the NOTRUNCATE option is specified. For example, assume you are using the mydb database again. mydb has two data files and two log files. The second data file and second log file are both 10 MB in size. When DBCC SHRINKDATABASE mydb NOTRUNCATE is executed, Microsoft SQL Server moves the data from the later pages to the front pages of the data file. However, the file still remains 10 MB in size.
The TRUNCATEONLY option reclaims all free space at the end of the file to the operating system. However, TRUNCATEONLY does not perform any page movement inside the file or files. The specified file is shrunk only to the last allocated extent. target_percent is ignored if specified with the TRUNCATEONLY option.
The database cannot be made smaller than the size of the model database.
The database being shrunk does not have to be in single user mode; other users can be working in the database when it is shrunk. This includes system databases.
Result Sets
This table describes the columns in the result set.
|Column name
|Database identification number of the file SQL Server attempted to shrink.
|The file identification number of the file SQL Server attempted to shrink.
|The number of 8-KB pages the file currently occupies.
|The number of 8-KB pages the file could occupy, at minimum. This corresponds to the minimum size or originally created size of a file.
|The number of 8-KB pages currently used by the file.
|The number of 8-KB pages that SQL Server estimates the file could be shrunk down to.
Note SQL Server does not display rows for those files not shrunk.
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE permissions default to members of the sysadmin fixed server role or the db_owner fixed database role, and are not transferable.
This example decreases the size of the files in the UserDB user database to allow 10 percent free space in the files of UserDB.
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (UserDB, 10)


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I just started out with C and have very little knowledge about performance issues with
malloc() and
free(). My question is this: if I were to call
malloc() followed by
free() inside a
while loop that loops for, say, 20 iterations, would it run slower compared to calling
free() outside the loop?
I am actually using the first method to allocate memory to a buffer, read a variable-length string from a file, perform some string operations, and then clear the buffer after every iteration. If my method results in a lot of overhead then I'd like to ask for a better way for me to achieve the same results.
Sorry for my bad English.
update 0: thanks so much for all the help, looks like I still have much to learn! ;D
Thanks and regards, K


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Indulge in yourself in our Chef's creations in the Front Range Grill, Olives Martini Bar or Selections Deli, featuring Starbucks.
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Health and Fitness Center (On-site)
Fitness center with 2 treadmills, Elliptical, multi-station and dumbbells.
Health/Fitness Center On-Site
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Health and Fitness Center (Off-site)
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Hotel is located adjacent to the Cherry Creek Bike Path, providing miles of walking, jogging, cycling and general recreation.
Indoor Pool
Activities and Services for Children
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Play area located in the Cherry Creek Mall.
Play scapes located in City of Brest Park adjacent to the hotel
Housekeeping and Laundry Services
On-site Guest Self-Laundry Facilities (washer/dryer)
Hours Of Operation:12:00 AM to 11:59 PM
Daily Housekeeping
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Safety Deposit Box available at Front Desk
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Alternative for business services
FedEx/Kinko's 24-hour services located 0.5 miles from hotel, south on Colorado Blvd.
- Beauty Salon
Hotel Restaurants
Guestroom data services
Wireless Data Connection
High-speed Internet Access
Business Center data services
Wireless Data Connection
High-speed Internet Access
Public space data services
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High-speed Internet Access
Hotel areas that are accessible:
Public Entrance
Guest Rooms
Exercise Facility
Business Center
Hotel areas that have limited accessibility:
Registration Desk
Hotel areas with accessible routes from accessible public entrance:
Registration Desk
Accessible Guest Rooms
Meeting Room/Ballroom Area
Exercise Facility
Business Center
Hotel provides the following:
Accessible Self Parking
Van Accessible Self Parking
Portable Tub Seats
Communication Kits With Visual Alarms And Notification Devices
TTY for Guest Use
Closed Caption Televisions
Number of Accessible Meeting Rooms: 6


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Peter Facinelli Launches Twihards4Charity [Morning News]Brett Singer
Three words — Twihards4Charity. Or is that one word? Or two words and a number? I don't know. Heck, I only just found out that the Twilight vampires sparkled in daylight. Anyway, actor Peter Facinelli is trying to harness the power of the Twilight-obsessed to help raise money for Haiti. Through a quick perusal of the new web site, it appears that if you buy Twilight-related stuff via Twihards4Charity, some of the money will go to Haitian relief efforts. (Facinelli plays Dr. Carlisle Cullen — is he a sparkly vampire?) All kidding aside, it's all good. Can I think it's a good thing and make fun of Twilight? Of course I can. This is still America, even if Sarah Palin wants us to have a revolution.
Speaking of raising money for Haiti, here are a few other notable efforts.
– An Ohio strip club raised $1,000 with their 'Lap dances for Haiti' event. (AP)
– This headline says it all: West End Actors Join Forces to Showcase New Musicals and Benefit Haiti Earthquake Appeal. Because really, when you think of the disaster in Haiti, you think of new musicals. Maybe this is one of those benefits where if you donate enough money you get to stay home. If so, it's a great idea.
– Some celebrity types are donating "items and experiences" to an eBay auction, with the money going to Haiti relief. Miley Ray Cyrus Hannah Montana Stewart Lipschutz is said to be "donating several items, including the Herve Leger dress she wore to the 2010 Grammy Awards." Two things: one, I've always been amazed that anyone would want to own something that someone else wore. Won't it be all sweaty and gross? Two, I am so fashion-clueless, when I saw the name Herve Leger, my first thought was of the late great Hervé Villechaize of 'Fantasy Island' fame. Here is Hervé on 'The Ben Stiller Show', which was his final TV appearance, according to a YouTube commenter.
Random headline of the day: White House vows 'multiple' attacks on Asian carp. I'm not even going to bother reading the story. The image of Rahm Emanuel charging out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with a spear, screaming like Mel Gibson in 'Braveheart' that he's going to get those damn fish is just too amusing to spoil with actual facts.
And speaking of Rahm Emanuel, Saturday Night Live did a sketch about the whole r-word routine. (Routine starts with the letter R!)
The best line is when Andy Samberg as Rahm goes after Sarah Palin, saying, "You come after me on Facebook? What, are you — fourteen?" They even threw in a dig at Mel Gibson, which always works, although it wasn't as funny as this SNL bit that took a shot at the Mel-meister directed flick 'Apocalypto.' (Three words: I smell bagels.)
And speaking of the r-word, we're going to be discussing the whole kerfuffle on Blog Talk Radio this Wednesday at 12:30pm. Jeanne Sager, whom you know from Babble and her recent appearance on ABC will join me, if she isn't signed to take over for Oprah between now and February 10. Tune in on Wednesday to R-Word Radio — we'll take your calls, and have a rockin' good time. (Rockin' starts with the letter R!)
Last, but certainly not least, is this little tidbit. Coyotes at Columbia University. Apparently three coyotes were spotted at prestigious school, which is located on West 116th Street in Manhattan. For those who aren't familiar with the area, it's more Upper West Side than the Old West. Apparently coyotes are still a threat to livestock, but so far no college students have become coyote chow. Woof.
Twi-Hard Inside Vinyl Decal image via Amazon.com. Buying one will not, as far as we know, count as a donation to Haiti.


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Well, that, and a business plan, access road, accommodations and infrastructure. Stratton Mountain was largely inaccessible at the time; there were only logging roads above Taylor Hill Road. Solid forest stretched for miles around the current base area and Sun Bowl.
It took incredible courage, strong vision, persistence and a large dose of naïveté to launch a ski area. Snyder, a managing partner at Moore & Munger in New York City, measured up on all counts. And that was fortunate, because even in the go-go '60s, investors could see there was little potential for profit in a seasonal fringe pastime like skiing. For more than a year, Snyder found no takers. A chance meeting with Pete Seibert, the founder of Vail, unlocked the vault. Seibert had been seeking investors in New York, just as Snyder was, and with the same luck, that being none. Then Seibert hit upon an incentive: buy stock or bonds in his company, and get a lifetime lift pass—and the option to buy a lot on the mountain for $500. It worked for Vail, and for Stratton as well, even when lot prices at Stratton leaped to $5,000.
Once funded, progress was breathtaking. There were few, if any, regulations to impede progress. Stratton began cutting trails in the spring of 1960, started work on the base lodge that summer, worked through the winter, and by December 1961 completed work on the lodge, seven trails and three lifts, including one lift and three trails from the summit—Tamarack, North American, and Rimeline (long since subsumed into Standard). A state-funded access road followed a year later, thanks to the efforts of State Senator Edward Janeway, and Stratton was in business.