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Irene was not so bad. She knocked down a few trees, flooded a few basements. But, in the end, she was a good girl who left quietly when her time came.
Traders, players, speculators and mid-night ramblers drifted back into Manhattan as soon as they could clear the fallen trees. They must have felt they had been spared for some great purpose. They must have looked to the heavens as clouds parted and rays of golden sunlight struck their uplifted faced. Whatever got into them, they rushed to the stock exchange and bought US stocks! The Dow rose 254 points.
If you believe the stock market, the storm is over…all is well…
But US GDP grew at only a 1% rate last quarter. That is a small number. Don't look too carefully or it will disappear altogether. If you deflate the latest 'growth' number by the inflation rate published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (actual year-to-year CPI-U is 3.6%) you get negative real growth. Recession, in other words.
And then, you have to wonder. Suppose you were to adjust that number for population? US population is growing at something just under a 1% rate. What you would see is that the average American is getting poorer (his share of GDP) at about 3% or 4% per year.
And then you are able to make sense of a lot of the other economic information that comes your way.
For example, a report out yesterday tells us that the personal savings rate in America keeps edging up — just as you'd expect. From next to zero, it has moved up over 5%. Households continue to cut back on spending…and increase savings. In the last quarter, they paid down $50 billion of debt. A drop in the bucket…but at least it was the right bucket. The Wall Street Journal:
In a marked shift from their borrow-and-spend behavior during the boom, US households are now by and large prioritizing saving and debt reduction. On Monday, the Commerce Department is to release July figures likely to show the personal saving rate, or proportion of after-tax monthly income unspent, in the 5% to 5.5% range…
We also learned that gasoline use is at a 9-year low. Labor Day weekend is less than a week away. But this year, forecasters believe more Americans are going to stay home. They can't afford the cost of filling up the tank for a long road trip.
We hope this is true. We're driving up to New York from Baltimore to attend a wedding. We don't want to get stuck in a lot of traffic.
But it is sad to think that people can't afford to visit friends and relatives because they don't have the cash to pay for gasoline. Oh, for the good old days! We remember buying gasoline for 25 cents a gallon back in the early '70s.
Sigh…but that was before Richard Nixon came up with the funny dollar we have today. Let's see…suppose Nixon had done the right thing? Suppose he had honored America's commitment to settle her debts in gold?
There would have been Hell to pay in the mid-'70s…but isn't it better to pay Hell sooner rather than later? After all, the entire amount of foreign claims against the dollar at the time was something on the order of $50 billion. Now, it is around $4 trillion. Maybe more.
So, just for fun…let's imagine what would have happened. Of course, there would have been this aforementioned period of wailing and gnashing of teeth. And then? And then, US producers would have had to get busy making and exporting products…while consumers would have been forced to curtail their reckless spending. America's trade deficit would have remained under control…and the US would still have jobs in manufacturing. And it wouldn't have debt equal to 370% of GDP.
But how much would people pay for a gallon of gasoline? Well, let's see…let's assume that gold has done a fair job as real money, of holding its purchasing power steady. Back in the early '70s you could have bought 160 gallons of gas with a single ounce of gold. And today? At $1,800 an ounce, and gasoline at $4, you can buy 450 gallons. It's as if the price of gasoline had fallen to about 10 cents a gallon!
Hmmm….go figure.
Either gasoline is too cheap. Or gold is too expensive. If we were a trader we'd short the latter and go long on the former.
And since we're always just guessing, we'll take a guess as to what this means…
Gasoline is weak because the economy is fundamentally weak. Gold is high because Richard Nixon destroyed the integrity of the dollar, the US economy, and the world's monetary system. Each of these trends will have to play itself out. In the meantime, gasoline…and/or gold…may need a little adjustment. And the storm continues…
And more thoughts…
At least the feds aren't cutting back. The private sector spent itself silly in the '00s. Now it's the feds' turn.
With all the talk of 'cuts' and 'budget reduction' you might have the idea that the feds are putting the same screws to their budgets as everyone else. You might have thought, too, that much of recent government spending was temporary 'stimulus' spending, intended to kick the US economy in the derriere, in order to get it moving faster. That spending might have been expected to taper off as the emergency passed. If you thought that you would be as dumb as a voter. The 2011 budget is on target to hit an all-time high of $3.6 trillion, more than $100 billion up from last year. Total outlays are increasing at a breathtaking pace — up by a third in just four years.
And now that the debt ceiling has been cracked…the sky's the limit.
*** Baltimore. Our home town. What a dump.
But what a nice place to study "stimulus" projects. Baltimore has been drawing money from the feds for years…presumably to redress one failure or another. Of course, one failure only led to another….and to more federal funds! In fact, the city is an urban example of the old maxim — you get what you pay for. The feds paid for education programs…infrastructure programs….police programs…welfare programs…
And they all worked beautifully. Now, the city is more failed than ever — and getting more federal funds! Steve Hanke has the report:
How Property Taxes and the 'Curley Effect' Are Killing Baltimore
As affluent residents leave town, the political playing field tips further and further in favor of pro-tax Democrats.
By Steve H. Hanke and Stephen J.K. Walters
This coming Labor Day weekend, traffic in downtown Baltimore will move at more than 100 miles per hour — or not at all: The city's main streets will be closed so that IndyCar racers can compete in the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix. Much more than prize money is at stake.
Nine days later, on Sept. 13, voters will pick a mayor, and incumbent Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is betting that the auto race will draw thousands of free-spending tourists and stimulate the local economy, thereby demonstrating her vision and competence. In fact, it will be an economic dud, a money-loser even for its promoters, and a logistical nightmare for residents.
The race exemplifies the city's development strategy: Subsidize big downtown projects with other people's money — in this case, over $6 million in federal stimulus funds for the two-mile race course — and proclaim an urban renaissance.
Away from the waterfront, this strategy's failure is apparent. The city has lost 30,000 residents and 53,000 jobs since 2000, marking the sixth consecutive decade of population and employment exodus. About 47,000 abandoned houses crumble while residents suffer a homicide rate higher than any large city except Detroit. The poverty rate is 50% above the national average.
Much of this decline is a result of the city's exorbitant property- tax rates, which are twice as high as any other jurisdiction in Maryland and Washington, D.C. The encouraging news is that all four major mayoral candidates are promising property-tax relief.
Ms. Rawlings-Blake promises an inconsequential cut to 2.068% from 2.268%, spread over nine years. It would be "paid for," she says, with revenue from a casino that doesn't exist. Her reluctance to consider stronger medicine reflects not only poor economics but something more sinister.
To attract what little investment Baltimore has in recent decades, public officials awarded subsidies to big developers to offset the difference between the city's confiscatory tax rate and that of nearby counties. But developers have to "pay to play," which assures a reliable flow of campaign contributions to sitting officials — and invites corruption. Indeed, Ms. Rawlings-Blake took office only 18 months ago, after the previous mayor resigned as part of a plea bargain to resolve a scandal involving her allegedly accepting gifts from a developer seeking subsidies.
Now Ms. Rawlings-Blake's challengers are asking: If tax breaks for the connected are a good idea, why not give them to everyone? State Sen. Catherine Pugh promises to halve the city's tax rate in her first term or not run for a second. Otis Rolley, a former director of city planning, offers a similar 50% cut for the first $200,000 of assessed value and higher rates for more expensive properties (or vacant ones). And Jody Landers, a former city councilman, promises a cut of 30% to 35% phased in over four to six years.
But tax revolts are hard to win at the local level. The problem is what Harvard economists Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer have called the "Curley effect." In Boston during the first half of the 20th century, Mayor James Michael Curley built a political machine by strategically shaping the electorate — taxing well-heeled "Brahmins" heavily and redistributing the proceeds to poor Irish immigrants. This not only bought Irish votes but chased the old Yankees out to the suburbs, further tilting the political playing field in Curley's favor.
In modern Baltimore, the machine has exploited class divisions, not ethnic ones. Officials raised property taxes 21 times between 1950 and 1985, channeling the proceeds to favored voting blocs and causing many homeowners and entrepreneurs — disproportionately Republicans — to flee. It was brilliant politics, as Democrats now enjoy an eight-to-one voter registration advantage and no Republican has been elected mayor in 48 years.
But Baltimore's high property taxes have repelled investment in physical capital for decades. As that capital decayed and became scarce, labor became less productive and less prosperous. In 1950, the city's median family income was 7% above the national average. Today it is 22% below it. And it won't be easy to undo this damage as long as City Hall remains in the hands of politicos who are committed to a fatally flawed business plan.
Other noteworthy victims of the "Curley effect" have been rescued via statewide referenda. Boston, for example, was in worse shape than Baltimore back in 1980: Its population had fallen more in the preceding three decades (30% as opposed to 17%), its per capita income was 2% lower, and its crime rate was 42% higher. Then, in 1980, Massachusetts voters adopted Proposition 2 1/2, forcing Boston to cut property taxes by an estimated 75% within two years and capping future annual increases at 2.5%.
It was the kind of reform Boston needed but wouldn't have chosen itself (akin to California's earlier Prop 13, which revived cities like San Francisco and Oakland). Businesses and residents flocked back to Beantown. Its population rose 10% between 1980 and today, while its per capita income is now 43% higher and its crime rate 25% lower than Baltimore's.
The spillover benefits of capital-friendliness — enhanced public safety, school quality, and economic and social mobility — are much- ignored but crucial elements of tax reform. As the renowned urbanologist Jane Jacobs once said, "cities don't [just] lure the middle class. They create it."
Baltimore stopped creating its own middle class decades ago, but it has a chance now to reverse decades of disinvestment, depopulation and decay. All voters have to do is invite capitalists back to town for more than just a weekend car race.
Mr. Hanke is a professor of applied economics at the Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Walters is a fellow at the university's Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
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text: "No matter what. Family is family. That will never change." What a nice polite way of side-stepping what really happens if a JW leaves their cult. They are treated as if they are dead or never existed (shunned they call it) by everyone in the cult, including their own family. My 78 year-old JW mother closed the door in my face two years ago when I flew from Colorado to Michigan to visit her because I heard through my non-JW family that she had been sick and in the hospital. This is very typical of how anyone who leaves is treated. They call their organization "the truth" among themselves. So much for truth. That man pretty much lied right to your face by omission. I would urge the writer to take a second look at the "door knockers;" only this time, do your homework. Talk to some of us who have left. Jehovah's Witnesses are NOT the Christian religion they tout themselves to be. They are a destructive and divisive cult. I should know. I was one for 40 years.

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Jockey Tim Doocy will likely miss the rest of the year after suffering injuries that included a separated pelvis during a fall July 21 at Prairie Meadows.
Doocy, who is 27th on the career riding list with 4,586 victories, was injured when Chukkaluk, a first-time starter, reared up approaching the starting gate prior to the first race. The filly fell backwards and on top of Doocy.
"I couldn't get away from her," Doocy said. "She landed on me, and I had a leg on each side of her. Something has to give, and it's usually you.
"I'll be out the rest of the meet, I'm sure. I'll probably wait until Hot Springs opens (in January at Oaklawn Park)."
The first set of x-rays showed no fracture, but Doocy stayed overnight because he felt something was wrong. The next day, the separation was discovered. He also faces possible surgery to repair his urethra.
"It could have been a lot worse," he said. "I could have been crippled. The way I look at it, I've been pretty fortunate with injuries. This is probably one of the most painful. I'll be back."
Doocy set a Prairie Meadows record by winning 132 races in 2004 and was again the leading rider at this year's spring meet. At 49, he said he'd like to reach the 5,000-win mark before he retires, and isn't thinking about life after riding.
"You think about it, but I'm not really thinking about it," he said. "I'm not done yet. I'm enjoying it."
As Doocy went down with an injury, Terry Thompson returned. Thompson hadn't ridden since April 30. Like Doocy, he was hurt when a horse reared and flipped onto him, breaking his pelvis.
With Doocy out, Thompson moved up his comeback by one day and rode two horses Friday scheduled for Doocy. He finished third with Fear de Bay and won with Innisbrook.
"This is the first time that I've come off the injury and won the first night," he said. "I hope it's a good omen."
Thompson said he'll ride about two horses a night for the first week and hopes to build up to a full card by the third or fourth week.
"Fitness-wise, I'd say I'm about 75 percent," Thompson said. "That just comes with riding races."
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Mr Soros is now seen by many as an all-powerful guru who can make self-fulfilling prophecies. In recent months his carefully calculated interventions have materially influenced the British property market and the price of gold. His statement to a press agency yesterday had a significant impact on sentiment in the global money markets.
There were others, however, particularly in the French government, who were praying that this time Mr Soros had lost his Midas touch.
He faxed a statement from his New York base to the London offices of Reuters saying that as the Bundesbank was not prepared to defend the system he felt free to speculate as he pleased, and added that trying to protect the EMS was now futile.
The statement went back on a commitment he made on Monday when he told the French daily Le Figaro that he was not speculating against the franc because he did not want to be accused of destroying the EMS.
'After the decision of the Bundesbank not to lower the discount rate, I feel no longer bound by the declaration I made in Le Figaro on 26 July,' he said.
'It is futile to attempt to protect the EMS by abstaining from trading in currencies when the anchor of the system, the Bundesbank, acts without regard to the interests of other members.
'I continue to believe that the European Community needs some kind of currency system and I hope that the ERM will be reconstituted along the lines outlined in my article in Le Figaro. I feel free to resume trading in the French franc after making this announcement.'
Hungarian-born Mr Soros, 62, now living in New York, used his dollars 5bn Quantum Fund investment vehicle to bet against the pound staying in the ERM last September and made an estimated dollars 2bn in the process.
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We examine the `Group' sunspot numbers constructed by Hoyt and Schatten to determine their utility in characterizing the solar activity cycle. We compare smoothed monthly Group sunspot numbers to Zürich (International) sunspot numbers, 10.7-cm radio flux, and total sunspot area. We find that the Zürich numbers follow the 10.7-cm radio flux and total sunspot area measurements only slightly better than the Group numbers. We examine several significant characteristics of the sunspot cycle using both Group numbers and Zürich numbers. We find that the `Waldmeier Effect' – the anti-correlation between cycle amplitude and the elapsed time between minimum and maximum of a cycle – is much more apparent in the Zürich numbers. The `Amplitude–Period Effect' – the anti-correlation between cycle amplitude and the length of the previous cycle from minimum to minimum – is also much more apparent in the Zürich numbers. The `Amplitude–Minimum Effect' – the correlation between cycle amplitude and the activity level at the previous (onset) minimum is equally apparent in both the Zürich numbers and the Group numbers. The `Even–Odd Effect' – in which odd-numbered cycles are larger than their even-numbered precursors – is somewhat stronger in the Group numbers but with a tighter relationship in the Zürich numbers. The `Secular Trend' – the increase in cycle amplitudes since the Maunder Minimum – is much stronger in Group numbers. After removing this trend we find little evidence for multi-cycle periodicities like the 80-year Gleissberg cycle or the two- and three-cycle periodicities. We also find little evidence for a correlation between the amplitude of a cycle and its period or for a bimodal distribution of cycle periods. We conclude that the Group numbers are most useful for extending the sunspot cycle data further back in time and thereby adding more cycles and improving the statistics. However, the Zürich numbers are slightly more useful for characterizing the on-going levels of solar activity.


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Aug 29 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc said it has agreed to sell certain assets in the Gulf of Mexico to independent oil and gas company EnVen Energy Corp for $425 million, plus royalty interests.
Houston-based EnVen plans to buy the Brutus/Glider assets, which include a subsea production system, and the deal is expected to close in October.
The Brutus/Glider assets have a combined current production estimate of about 25,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), which is about 4 percent of Shell's total production.
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Boat Length
I have a stupid question, but it is something someone asked me today down at the dock and I didn''t know.
On a sailboat with an outboard rudder, does the boat''s official length over all (LOA) include the rudder or just the hull?
Boat Length
Traditionally LOA was measured from the point that the line of the deck met the line of the stem to the point that the line of the transom met the deck. With reversed transoms, this convention eventually was altered to the length of hull from the stem to the furthest aft point on the transom. An outboard rudder would not extend the LOA any more than it would the waterline length.
That said, today, you see ads and the like that include all kinds of corruptions of traditional definitions. You see LOA''s that include the length of bowsprits and boomkins, davits and any other projection fore and aft. In my book that is just plain disingenuous and shows a lack of honesty on the part of the advertisers.
Boat Length
One consideration here is that most Marinas take the total overall length of your boat including the rudder, steering vane, swimming platform and Bowspirit in computing the total length for slip charging. LOA means different things depending on your view
Boat Length
Don''t know if this helps, but the American Sail Training Association defines LOA as "the length between the forward end of the stern post and the after end of the stem. It does not include the bowsprit, pulpit, or any other extention at the bow or stern."
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I remember reading an article about major celebrities raking in the money by doing naff adverts in Japan which they thought nobody would ever see.
I can totally understand the appeal – Japan is the kind of place that sees nothing weird in mixing cool and cash. Things in North America, particularly Canada, are slightly different. Here, they use Brits or Europeans in ads to try to persuade consumers that we know about things that they don't. This was why I was quite surprised to see an ad last night featuring Judith Chalmers.
"Hello, I'm Judith Chalmers," said Judith Chalmers.
"Have you ever heard of Judith Chalmers?" I asked my in-laws. They had never heard of Judith Chalmers. Judith Chalmers was on Canadian television to tell them about some dodgy-looking machine that did something to encourage circulation. Judith Chalmers started to talk to some British couples who all nodded enthusiastically at Judith Chalmers and professed that the circulation machine really helped their... circulation. It looked as if nobody in Britain was without one of these miracle machines in their sitting room.
"Is this machine big in the UK, then?" asked my in-laws. The powers of Judith Chalmers were obviously working. "I don't think so," I replied, admittedly without knowing much about the world of circulation machines that looked a little like foot spas. Judith Chalmers had obviously been picked because she looked like a trustworthy type of Brit.
In the past, there used to be a channel that ran "infomercials" – full half-hour ads masquerading as some kind of daytime "home" show. The star of these was a skinny little cockney "fella" who looked as though he had spent most of his life in petty crime before having to escape UK shores and relocate to North America. This guy would sell everything.
Thinking about it, he might be partly responsible for the way Canadians view us as characters from Mary Poppins (something I alluded to a couple of columns back). He used to wear a Union Jack waistcoat and looked to me like the most untrustworthy man I'd ever seen. He was a classic Del Boy character, but I think this was lost on Canadian audiences who seemed to think he was "charming" and "fun" as he danced about like some monkey on a barrel organ.
Once again, the implication was that everyone in the UK was using the machines he used to demonstrate: miracle vacuum cleaners that could suck up oil slicks in 10 seconds or kitchen knives that could cut through solid brick with no pressure. The general theme was why have the Brits been hiding all these amazing innovations from Canadians?
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The evolution of food retailing systems: Contrasting the experience of developed and developing countries
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Most writings on the evolution patterns of food retailing institutions have dealt with developed country experiences. This article reviews the evolution of food retailing systems in the developing economies and relates it to the experience of developed economies. Variations in food retailing systems among countries are related, in a systematic manner, to the differences in the environmental factors. The difficulties of introducing an innovative institution, the supermarket, in developing economies are also discussed.
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As a college student at an art school, I feel as though it has become more common for people to not have a tattoo, than to have one. Although I don't personally have a tattoo myself, several of my friends do. To many, tattoos are seen as an artistic form of self-expression. However to others, such as employers who could potentially be hiring you, tattoos may stand out as a sign of not being professional. This of course all depends on the type of industry at which you are interning. If you are interning in the entertainment, music, art, or similar industry, then tattoos may be acceptable. To be safe, the best thing to do would be to leave your tattoos to be seen on Facebook, after work, or with your friends rather then at your internship.
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Transcript BOB GARFIELD: That was a story about a prominent figure for two decades, supported by someone who does not exist. From that, we move to news of a prominent figure for two decades supported by someone real, previously unknown to exist. It's a scandal that has captivated Japan, a national drama triggered, through no fault of his own, by Olympic Japanese figure skater – COMMENTATOR: A brilliant skater, Daisuke Takahashi. BOB GARFIELD: Thursday in Sochi, Takahashi skated his short program to a piece credited to the deaf composer, Mamoru Samuragochi, but an obscure adjunct music professor came forward to say that it was he, not Samuragochi, who had composed the piece, as well as much of Samuragochi's body of work over 18 years. Day by day, more of the mystery has unraveled. Here to discuss the revelations, is Roland Kelts, author of JapanAmerica. Roland, welcome back to the show. ROLAND KELTS: Thank you very much. BOB GARFIELD: How did Samuragochi come to prominence? ROLAND KELTS: When he composed this piece called Hiroshima Symphony No. 1 and dedicated it to the victims of the atomic bomb. And then, more recently, he was featured in a documentary memorializing the victims of the earthquake and tsunami up in northern Japan. And this Hiroshima piece became a kind of unofficial theme song of the victims of the disaster. BOB GARFIELD: But he is a musician and he is deaf, right? ROLAND KELTS: Well, [LAUGHS] that's another issue. He penned a mea culpa of sorts on Wednesday, explaining that he was deaf years ago but that more recently his hearing his come back to him. Now, at the press conference last week that broke this story, Takashi Niigaki, who has actually written most of the works credited to Samuragochi, claims that Samuragochi never seemed deaf to him at all. [LAUGHS] It almost puts a, you know, kind of fairy tale Cyrano de Bergerac scheme that here's this – [BOB LAUGHS] - this guy who dresses like a rock star – I mean, he has long flowing hair, he wears sunglasses, labeled in some quarters as "Japan's Beethoven." allegedly deaf, composing this beautiful music that honored the Japanese who had died in Hiroshima and, in the more recent natural disasters, and suddenly he turns out to be a fraud. And then the next step is that he may not be deaf, at all. BOB GARFIELD: The ghost composer who came forward, he said he did so because he was just guilt-ridden at the ongoing fraud. Do – do you think that's what's happening here? ROLAND KELTS: His claim is that he came forward when he did because he felt that on the global stage where so many Japanese were watching this figure skater and hoping that he could win a medal, that he didn't want this young figure skater to be unwittingly participating in a crime of deceit. BOB GARFIELD: Now, if this was pathological behavior on the part of Samuragochi, it also took some significant errors of omission and commission on the part of the Japanese media, which has been retailing this story now for, you know, close to 20 years. Is this a classic case of just too good to check? ROLAND KELTS: Well, classical music in Japan, as it is in most parts of the world, has been losing listeners, and so, in a way, be industry was promoting Samuragochi as a pop cultural figure, a deaf composer who reaches out to the soul of Japan and overcomes his difficulties. It's a classic Japanese hero story. The Japanese media, and, and I suppose it's true of media elsewhere, really tends to track sensationalized sentimental stories. So, in a way, Samuragochi, if he knew what he was doing, it was a very clever ploy to exploit what the Japanese media loves to report. BOB GARFIELD: Some of the newspapers, and these are very large news organizations - the Asahi Shimbun, for example, has something like, I don't know, 12 million daily circulation - apologized to its readers, as – as did other newspapers? ROLAND KELTS: Yes, and some television networks, as well, suggesting that they should have done more thorough background checks, they should have uncovered this fiasco earlier. I mean, after all, it's been ongoing since the late 1990s. BOB GARFIELD: Have we exhausted the possibility that this is actually a con within a con - ROLAND KELTS: Not at all! BOB GARFIELD: - and that all parties have engineered the whole thing to juice CD sales or improve TV ratings or - ? Is, is that within the realm of possibility? ROLAND KELTS: I mean, purely as an audience member watching this happen, I think that would be fantastic. BOB GARFIELD: [LAUGHS] It would, indeed. Roland, thank you so much. ROLAND KELTS: Thank you. BOB GARFIELD: New Yorker contributor Roland Kelts is a visiting scholar at Keio University. [MUSIC/MUSIC UP & UNDER] BOB GARFIELD: That's it for this week's show. On the Media was produced by Alex Goldman, PJ Vogt, Sarah Abdurrahman, Chris Neary, Laura Mayer and Meera Sharma. We had more help from Kimmie Regler. And our show was edited, more or less in absentia - by Brooke. Our technical director is Jennifer Munson. Our engineer this week was Andrew Dunne. Katya Rogers is our executive producer. Jim Schachter is WNYC's Vice President for News. Bassist composer Ben Allison wrote our theme. I just want to quickly plug our blog for a minute. This week OTM and TLDR Producer PJ Vogt wrote about the Facebook reality distortion field. It's the reason you see so many articles about Facebook in the media. He also wrote about his chilling discovery that strangers can pinpoint exactly where you are, just by getting you to open an email. 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Risk-taker Vidya Balan boosts Bollywood's girl power
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - It's a good time to be Vidya Balan. Indian cinema turned 100 this year and the versatile actress has emerged as the face of Bollywood, earning a spot in an elite nine-member Cannes festival jury headed by filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
The 35-year-old actress has picked her way through a minefield of movie roles in recent years, zooming in on strong and diverse female leads that have straddled box-office success and critical acclaim.
Balan, who made her Bollywood debut in 2005, took unusual risks in a male-dominated industry to play an ambitious soft porn actress in "The Dirty Picture" (2011) and a pregnant woman searching for her missing husband in "Kahaani" (Story) last year.
Her next screen bet is "Ghanchakkar" (Crazy), a suspense comedy that opens in Indian cinemas on June 28. Balan stars as the loud-mouthed wife of a bank robber who loses his memory after a heist.
Balan spoke to Reuters about her new film, breaking stereotypes and playing women who embrace their sexuality:
Q: Tell us about your role as the housewife in "Ghanchakkar"?
A: I am hoping that she's not obnoxious but yes, she is loud. There are people who are loud and they are not even aware. This is her take on being modern. She thinks that I'm fashionable but she buys old magazines for half the price from the neighborhood shop. She's a middle-class housewife, cutting corners. She's the kind of person who goes to a mall, and says "this is too expensive, I'll get this stitched from my tailor." What I find interesting is that Raj (director Raj Kumar Gupta) finds humor in situations that are so mundane and every day. Thrillers are his genre but I knew he'd do humor well too. When he came to me with this, I always wanted to do comedy and this was a breath of fresh air.
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This book describes about 30 years of theoretical, empirical, and experimental work on butterfly sperm competition. It considers the reproductive morphology and sperm utilisation interests of males and females, which shape the mating tactics of each sex. Females of most butterfly species mate multiple times throughout their lives. The reasons are explored, as well as the numerous adaptations males have developed to prevent future mating and fertilisation by the sperm of other males. In particular, this volume focuses on the role of apyrene sperm. Eupyrene and apyrene sperm dimorphism is most likely a key factor in sperm competition, and the study in butterflies promotes understanding of sexual selection across animal species with sperm polymorphism. This book, describing the evolutionary causes and consequences of the sperm competition in butterflies, is a recommended read for students of behavioural ecology.


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Which schools have shown the most interest in Robinson?
"Kent State and Gardner-Webb have offered. I've had a lot of coaches say they'll offer but haven't received any yet. I've received hand written letters from Southern Miss and Louisville. Coach Cain at Vanderbilt has sent me a few letters."
Robinson is willing to play either position in college.
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Where does Robinson plan to attend for his summer camps?
"I was at Miami's camp earlier this summer. I'm probably going to Georgia for their camp tomorrow."
Location and Academics will play a large role in Robinson's decision.
"If two schools are equal I will choose the closer school. If possible I would like to be close to home. I'd like to major in Sports Management or Sports Medicine in college and that will be a large part of my decision too."
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Metropolitan Magistrate Muneesh Garg released Kejriwal, AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Yogendra Yadav on bail after they appeared before it in pursuance to summons issued against them.
Kejriwal, Sisodia and Yadav, through advocate Rishikesh Kumar, furnished a personal bond of Rs 10,000 each.
The court has now fixed the matter for August 16. The court had earlier summoned them on the complaint of advocate Surender Kumar Sharma under sections 499, 500 (defamation) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC.
It had said there was prima facie material to summon the accused. "The press release published in newspapers as well as testimonies of witnesses reflect that defamatory remarks were published in the newspaper which affected the reputation of complainant in the society and lowered his reputation in the eyes of other members of the society," the court had said.
Kejriwal, Sisodia and Yadav furnished a bond of Rs 10,000 each
The court, however, had rejected the complainant's plea that AAP leaders had conspired and cheated him, saying in the absence of the very element of deception, there was no prima facie material against any of the accused for the offence of cheating and criminal conspiracy.
Sharma had alleged that in 2013 he was approached by volunteers of AAP who asked him to contest Delhi Assembly election on party ticket as Kejriwal was pleased with his social services.
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Two very popular managers were at St. James' Park today – Rafa Benitez and Chris Hughton.
Chris did such a fantastic job for Newcastle back in the 2009-2010 season.
In his first job as a manager he got us promoted with a fabulous 102 points and 30 wins against all odds, when things looked really black in the summer of 2009 as owner Mike Ashley was trying to sell the club.
Rafa Benitez and Chris Hughton this afternoon
Newcastle had their 4th win in a row and our 3rd clean sheet in a week against Brighton – and the lads seem to be getting better as the season goes on.
Rafa seems to have straightened things out after those two initial defeats to Fulham and Huddersfield Town.
This is what a down to earth Rafa said after today's game:
"It was important to win against a team going well with players and a manager who has experience in this division."
"We got a lot of the things we were looking for today, but there is still room for improvement."
"The team has been working very hard. But when you want change and improvement, it takes time."
"It is good to have another win before the international break, and it would be good to carry it on, but we have a rest now."
Chris Hughton heard the chant "There's Only One Chris Hughton" at the end of the game – but he was disappointed Brighton didn't do better:
"I thought it was a harsh red card. If you watch the second challenge, the keeper kicks Sam Baldock. He is not that sort of player."
"Newcastle were very efficient but it feels like a missed opportunity. They scored from two set pieces and although they hit the bar, we had the better chances."
"We are disappointed because we felt we had a good chance today and we didn't pose as much of a threat as we should have."
This was an excellent win for us and now our next game is on September 10th at Derby County in exactly two weeks time after the International break – we have to win that one too.
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I gotta say, I love a domestic situation in a trailer park via the medium of music video. Which is only bettered when said trailer park is Britishised as a caravan park by the seaside.
Laurel is a 19-year-old singer-songwriter from London and her debut single, Fire Breather is so delightfully down in the dumps it doesn't need a stunning visual to go with it, but that is exactly what Laurel has gifted us in her first music video. The blonde babe falls hard for a chav in this clip, which as you would expect invited all kinds of trouble for her.
Fire Breather was directed by Patrick Killingbeck, who I would like to invite to film my life when I move down to London later this year as this is exactly the kind of shit I want to get caught up in.
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Although the family continues to be a critical unit in demographic and social analysis, perceptions of what constitutes the "family" vary across groups and societies. The standard definition of the family used in U.S. censuses and surveys (persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption, and living in the same residence) may limit description and analysis of family structure. Yet, it is what determines official data on the family. Because information on alternative family definitions is not available for the U.S., we use data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study to assess the effect of three definitions on dimensions of the family. We find significant differences across the three definitions and by stages of the life cycle, and we discuss implications for our understanding of family structure and functions in the U.S. and elsewhere, and some policy and programmatic consequences.


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The hit makers' diverse musical backgrounds have helped them become leading song writers and producers. Carl Falk has worked with many top artists including Backstreet Boys, Taio Cruz, Gavin DeGraw, Nicole Scherzinger, and Tommy Lee. Rami Yacoub's career began when he was asked by renowned producer and songwriter Max Martin to join the legendary Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. Yacoub gained notoriety with his first project with Martin: Britney Spears' career launching hit "Hit Me Baby One More Time." Yacoub has written and produced for leading musicians including N*Sync, P!nk, Enrique Iglesias, and The Wanted. After leaving Cheiron Studios, Yacoub established the legendary Kinglet Studios in Los Angeles. The songwriting and producing team of Carl Falk, Rami Yacoub, and Savan Kotecha now split their time working between Stockholm and Los Angeles.
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Aluminium is all around us, an indispensable part of modern life, taken for granted in applications as diverse as planes and chocolate wrappers.
So deeply is it embedded in our world that it takes a surge of stinking, caustic red mud, turning the blue Danube crimson, to remind us of its real and potential environmental costs.
In essence, manufactured aluminium is clay plus electricity – electricity in stunning quantities: one ton of the metal takes up to 17,000 kilowatt hours of electricity to produce, which in turn requires nearly 1,400 tons of water. The production of one ton of aluminium also gives rise to one ton of red mud, which contains several toxic heavy metals in a highly unstable form. There is nothing to be done with this stuff except to store it as safely as possible. As the Hungarian authorities admitted, the catastrophe that engulfed the village of Kolontar, killing at least six people and eliminating all life in its path, was a human, not a natural disaster.
Its proximate cause clearly lay in negligence at the local level, which may be traced to the vicissitudes that affected many eastern and central European industries after the collapse of the socialist economies. But the repercussions do not stop at the Hungarian border: even if the amount reaching the Danube is contained to a minimum, when the mud dries, the toxic dust will blow wherever the wind takes it.
There are no votes in toxic waste: all over Europe nuclear waste is held in temporary storage because of the local outrage that greets efforts to give it a permanent address. But the Kolontar disaster underlines the need for us to take these hazards seriously, to share information and to address them jointly. This may not be one of the more glamorous functions of the European Union, but it is one of the most vital. The risks posed by nuclear reactors are well known, but we neglect the liabilities of these older technologies, such as those used to produce aluminium, at our peril.Reuse content