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Advances in Feminist Geography
Kate Driscoll Derickson, Lorraine Dowler, and Nicole Laliberte
Geography and international studies are both deeply rooted in masculinist, imperialist, and patriarchal ways of viewing the world. However, over the past 20 years, the increase in the number of women within these fields has planted the seeds for the introduction of feminist intervention. Feminist geography is primarily concerned with the real experiences of individuals and groups in their own localities. It can be viewed as the study of "situated knowledges derived from the lives and experiences of women in different social and geographic locations." Feminist geographers consistently seek out techniques which are in line with their feminist philosophies. Although much of the work will be categorized as qualitative, such as ethnographic fieldwork, feminist geographers recognize the need for feminist approaches in quantitative analysis, and techniques alone do not render the project feminist. Rather, feminists in geography argue that all types of data collection must recognize the power relationship between the researcher and the researched. Feminist geography also operates at the local scale and crosses to the global. This is illustrated by geographers who not only study the daily lives of women in a refugee camp but also construct theoretical arguments focused on global forces such as climate change or war in relation to the international migration of women.
African Foreign Policies
John James Quinn
Studies on African foreign policies and policymaking have received much less attention compared to other aspects of African studies. Most foreign policy-related studies have been in-depth case studies illustrating how foreign policy decisions were limited, shaped, and constrained by international, regional, and domestic constraints. Forms of these studies include single case studies, a collection of single case studies within an edited volume, a comparative study of few regional countries, a study of a subregion, and discussions of the whole region of Africa. The region has some of the smallest and weakest states in the world. As such, African foreign policy analysis is often consistent with earlier analyses of small state foreign policy literature. The primary foreign policy behavior of small states are the following: (a) low levels of overall participation in world affairs; (b) high levels of activity in intergovernmental organizations; (c) high levels of support for international legal norms; (d) avoidance to the use of force as a technique of statecraft; (e) avoidance of behaviour and policies which tend to alienate the more powerful states in the system; (f) a narrow functional and geographic range of concern in foreign policy activities; (g) frequent utilization of moral and normative positions on international issues. Most of these views are reflected in studies of African foreign policies.
A History of International Communication Studies
Elizabeth C. Hanson
International communication (also referred to as global communication or transnational communication) is the communication practice that occurs across international borders. As a field of study, international communication is a branch of communication studies, concerned with the scope of "government-to-government," "business-to-business," and "people-to-people" interactions at a global level. Apart from journalism, international communication also occurs in other areas and the nature of the "information" that is circulated can be classified in a wide variety of categories, such as cultural, scientific, and intelligence. Efficient communication networks had played crucial roles in establishing ancient imperial authority and international trade. The extent of empire could be used as an indication of the efficiency of communication. Ancient empires such as Rome, Persia, and China all utilized writing in collecting information and creating enormous postal and dispatch systems. By the fifteenth-century, news had been disseminated trans-nationally in Europe. During the post-Cold War era, the intense relations of super powers halted with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of the Third World countries meant that the unequally developed communication order can no longer exist. But the moment international communications stepped into the information age, the convergence of telecommunication and computing and the ability to move all types of data—pictures, words, sounds—via the Internet have revolutionized international information exchange.
Air Power
Karl P. Mueller
Air power refers to the use of aviation by nations and other political actors in the pursuit of power and security interests, along with the use of long-range missiles. Since armies and navies first began to experiment with the use of airplanes as implements of war, air power has emerged as an integral component of modern warfare. Air power was born in the crucible of World War I, but came of age in the conflagration of World War II. The developmental history of air power is significant to security studies in general and to the study of air power in particular. Owing to the rapid series of state changes in air power, trying to understand the nature of air power and its effects on modern warfare and international security has become more complicated. Two questions that are central to the study of international security are whether air power facilitates offense as a whole and whether it encourages aggression as a result. There has also been a debate over the issue of how air power can most effectively be used to coerce an enemy through strategic bombing. Another source of disagreement is the question of whether air and space power constitute one subject or two. In general, there are compelling merits in treating space power as a domain of national security theory and policy separate from those of land, sea, and air power.
Alliances and War
Patricia A. Weitsman
Military alliances predate even the state system as a form of international cooperation, and they take on many forms. The motivations of states seeking to join, the commitment levels formalized in the alliance agreement, and degrees of institutionalization all take different forms in the literature, but these scholarly perspectives can be boiled down to a few approaches: the realist, the rationalist and formalist, the liberal or institutionalist, and finally, the constructivist arguments on alliance identities. Moreover, a common thread among the literature on military alliances is an understanding that alliances provide a wide range of services to their members, and contain more than one motivation for forming and maintaining the alliances. Given that the motivations for forming alliances are varied, especially during different threat environments, it is important to ask what the consequences are. In this vein, scholars consider two primary issues: if these alliances can fulfill their intended missions, and if there are unintended consequences which may arise and lead to undesirable results. A related issue to the study of what motivates alliances is in how well they perform in terms of cohesion. Cohesion is, roughly speaking, the capacity of an alliance to effectively carry out its goals. Finally, there are the coalitions—ad hoc multinational understandings that are forged to undertake a specific mission, and dissolve once that mission is complete. They are not wholly analytically distinct from wartime alliances, although the latter may have a greater degree of institutionalization and may predate a specific wartime operation.
Anarchy in International Relations
Silviya Lechner
The concept of anarchy is seen as the cardinal organizing category of the discipline of International Relations (IR), which differentiates it from cognate disciplines such as Political Science or Political Philosophy. This article provides an analytical review of the scholarly literature on anarchy in IR, on two levels—conceptual and theoretical. First, it distinguishes three senses of the concept of anarchy: (1) lack of a common superior in an interaction domain; (2) chaos or disorder; and (3) horizontal relation between nominally equal entities, sovereign states. The first and the third senses of "anarchy"' are central to IR. Second, it considers three broad families of IR theory where anarchy figures as a focal assumption—(1) realism and neorealism, (2) English School theory (international society approach), and (3) Kant's republican peace. Despite normative and conceptual differences otherwise, all three bodies of theory are ultimately based on Hobbes's argument for a "state of nature." The article concludes with a summary of the key challenges to the discourse of international anarchy posed by the methodology of economics and economics-based theories that favor the alternative discourse of global hierarchy.
Articulations of Sovereignty
Claudia Aradau
Sovereignty has been variously understood as the given principle of international relations, an institution, a social construct, a performative discourse subject to historical transformation, or a particular practice of power. The "articulations" of sovereignty refer to sovereignty as a practice that is worked on and in turn works with and against other practices. Alongside territory and supreme authority, sovereignty is characterized by the capacity to make and enforce laws. Sovereignty has also been defined in opposition to rights, as the spatiotemporal limits it instantiates are also the limits of rights. Another conceptualization of sovereignty has been revived in international relations, partly in response to the question of exclusions and limits that sovereign practices enacted. In addition, sovereignty is not inextricably tied up with the state but is articulated with heterogeneous and contradictory discourses and practices that create meaning about the international, and has consequences for the kind of community, politics, and agency that are possible. There are three effects of the logic of sovereignty in the international system: the ordering of the domestic and the international, the spatio-temporal limits to politics, and the exclusions from agency. In addition, there are three renditions of the international as a "thick" social space: those of globalization theories, of biopolitics, and of empire.
Art in International Relations
Barbara Baudot
Art can leave an impact on international politics by offering inspiration and perspective to relations between peoples of different nations and life experiences. It can furthermore "re-enchant" the world as humanity faces many critical challenges, such as threats to peace and security; widespread and massive violations of political, civil, social, and cultural rights; and the deterioration of the biosphere. The most direct and easily perceptible contribution of art to international relations is of an instrumental nature, where art is deliberately used to obtain certain objectives such as awakening a sense of patriotism, or stirring people's emotions to take action against a perceived problem. Art also has an extrinsic value in international relations, where the knowledge, ideas, inspirations, and sympathies of international political relevance that can be derived from a work of art by the discerning reader, listener, or observer. It is differentiated from the instrumental value of art through the artist's intent. A work of art is considered of instrumental value when it is meant to fulfill political objectives, while extrinsic works of art seek to convey the artist's thoughts and feelings, regardless of political persuasion. Finally, there is the intrinsic value of art, which can be found in many artworks that have universal appeal. These pieces communicate feelings and ideas that are universally perceivable and enchant the sensitive observer, and can influence the affairs of nations by bringing into relief ennobled visions that draw together imagination, intuition, and objectivity.
Assessment of Active Learning
Kay Gibson and Carolyn M. Shaw
With the shift in learning objectives that were more focused on the development of skills and processes, new assessment techniques were required to be developed to determine the effectiveness of new active-learning techniques for teaching these skills. In order for assessment to be done well, instructors must consider what learning objective they are assessing, clarify why they are assessing and what benefits will derive from the process, consider whether they will conduct assessments during or after the learning process, and specifically address how they will design solid assessments of active learning best suited to their needs. The various types of assessment for active-learning strategies include written and oral debriefing, observations, peer- and self-assessment, and presentations and demonstrations. In addition, there are several different measurement tools for recording the assessment data, including checklists and student surveys. A final aspect to consider when examining assessment techniques and measurement tools is the construction of an effective rubric. Ultimately, further research is warranted in the learning that occurs through the use of active-learning techniques in contrast with traditional teaching methods, the "portability" of active-learning exercises across cultures, and the use of newer media—such as internet and video content—as it is increasingly incorporated into the classroom.
Inanna Hamati-Ataya
Behavioralism is an approach in political science that became predominant in American social sciences from the 1950s until well into the 1970s. The Behavioral Revolution in American political science began as a "protest" against "traditional" political science, which it views as being both too descriptive and too speculative, lacking rigor and ambition, and incapable of analytical theorization and therefore of cognitive growth. Behavioralism opened up the discipline to various theories and methods imported from the social and pure sciences. Behavioralists replaced political philosophy with the philosophy of science, thereby setting new standards for the formulation of concepts, hypotheses, theories, and protocols for empirical testing. Behavioralism thus represents a sharp break from the previous discipline. Two "great" debates mark behavioralism as a paradigm: the first was between "realism" and "idealism" over the what-question concerning the discipline's subject matter, while the second was about "methodology" and the how-question. Recently, some scholars have called for a revival of behavioral international relations (IR) as a subfield concerned with the explanation of the behavior of leaders, rather than states —an approach that refocuses behavioralism on the individual as a unit of analysis and on the underlying processes that account for political judgment and decisions. Whether such a research program can reclaim behavioralism's place among the leading paradigms of IR, or whether the discipline is ready to welcome such a revival, is unclear.


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Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert Video Gets Release Date
Back in June it was announced that the tribute concert held in 1992 in memory of Freddie Mercury would soon be released on DVD and Blu-ray in a remastered and expanded package. Now it has been revealed that 'The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert: The Definitive Edition' will be available on Sept. 3, two days before what would have been the Queen frontman's 67th birthday.
The three-DVD/Blu-ray package brings together the concert's main set -- featuring the surviving members of Queen with Robert Plant, Elton John, David Bowie and others filling in for the late Mercury -- and previously unavailable footage of the opening acts, including performances by Metallica, Guns N' Roses and Def Leppard. A third disc contains a 60-minute documentary, rehearsal footage and photo galleries.
Blabbermouth reports that the Blu-ray will be an SD Blu-ray with upscaled standard definition original material with uncompressed stereo and DTS-HD surround sound. You can watch the trailer above.
Proceed from the sale of the video will go to the Mercury Phoenix Trust, which distributes funds to AIDS-related charities worldwide. The Mercury Phoenix Trust was launched in 1992 with the money raised by the original tribute concert, which took place on April 20, 1992.

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BERLIN (AP) — The German Parliament has given its overwhelming backing to a deal aimed at trimming Greece's debt load and keeping the country financially afloat.
Lawmakers voted 473-100 on Friday to back the complex deal reached by European finance ministers earlier this week. There were 11 abstentions.
The agreement paves the way for Greece to receive €44 billion ($57 billion) in critical rescue loans, without which the country would face bankruptcy and a possible exit from the euro.
It also contains measures including a debt buyback program and an interest rate cut on loans. Those are aimed at cutting back Greece's debts and giving it more time to push through economic reforms and trim its budget deficit.


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EMI Sneakily Trying To Pretend Many Of Its Artists Can't Reclaim Their Copyrights
from the but-of-course deptWe've talked plenty about the coming legal battles over "termination rights" in various works. If you're not familiar with it, under the 1976 Copyright Act, content creators have a guaranteed right to terminate any copyright assignments after 35 years. That is, if a musician assigned the copyright to a label, as is standard, they can take that copyright back after 35 years. This is not a right that an artist can give up. Even if they sign a contract saying they give up their termination rights, it doesn't matter. Those rights cannot be taken away from the artist under the law. The exception to termination rights, however, is if a work is classified as a "work made for hire." However, the definition of what qualifies as a work made for hire is very, very narrow:
A "work made for hire" is--There are a lot of specific conditions there. If you're wondering how such an odd list was put together, some have suggested it was basically just who was in the room. Somewhat surprisingly, one of the main parties who apparently wasn't in the room were the major record labels. Notice that sound recordings aren't there, and you'd have to stretch the definition mightily to cover sound recordings. Of course, the labels have been freaking out about this for decades. Famously, back in 1999, Mitch Glazier, a Congressional staffer, snuck some language into a totally unrelated law about satellites to make sound recordings count as work for hire too. He allegedly did this in the middle of the night such that no one -- even the "authors" of the bill -- knew it was there until after the bill passed. This one time, the outcry (especially from musicians) was so loud, that Congress had to go back and repeal that section. Of course, by then, Glazier had jumped ship to a job at the RIAA making about half a million dollars. He's still at the RIAA where he's now the second in command. Remember that the next time anyone pretends the RIAA is about helping artists. Their number two guy tried to screw artists out of their copyrights.
(1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or
(2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. For the purpose of the foregoing sentence, a "supplementary work" is a work prepared for publication as a secondary adjunct to a work by another author for the purpose of introducing, concluding, illustrating, explaining, revising, commenting upon, or assisting in the use of the other work, such as forewords, afterwords, pictorial illustrations, maps, charts, tables, editorial notes, musical arrangements, answer material for tests, bibliographies, appendixes, and indexes, and an "instructional text" is a literary, pictorial, or graphic work prepared for publication and with the purpose of use in systematic instructional activities.
Of course, that hasn't stopped the efforts by the record labels to still pretend that the copyrights they hold are "works made for hire." They've been testing out a few legal theories, none of which seem very strong, but many of which will soon be tested in court. Why now? While there have been a few lawsuits over this (especially in the comic book space), the key aspect of termination rights came into effect in 1978, with that 35 year window. 35 years after 1978 is... 2013. So, a battle is shaping up.
Michael Robertson, who has been involved in a long term legal fight with EMI, is calling attention to the fact that EMI seems to be trying to just declare that music made by bands signed to its labels are works made for hire. How are they doing this? Well, just by declaring that the songs are "made for hire" on the copyright registration. You can see one example of that on a Billy Idol copyright registration embedded below. But, simply declaring it as a work made for hire on the copyright registration is totally meaningless. It doesn't mean the work hits any of the qualifications under the law.
The RIAA has been trying to claim that any albums are really a "compilation" so they qualify as a "collective work" under the law, which does create a work-for-hire situation. But there are other conditions that need to be met, and it's unclear if those have been. Plus, the claim that an album is a "collective work" is a pretty weak one all around.
Either way, many artists probably don't even recognize that their works have been designated this way (or even what it means), so Robertson has been putting together a big list, and seeking artists on that list to proactively challenge the claims, rather than waiting until the 35-year window hits. There are some pretty big names on the list he's dug up already -- including the Beatles, the Beastie Boys, the Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, Billy Idol, Coldplay, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Frank Sinatra, Iggy Pop, Janet Jackson, John Lennon, Katy Perry, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins and many, many more. Robertson is hoping at least someone on the list will go legal and claim their own works:
What I'm looking for is an artist who has the courage to stand up on this issue and claim their works, laying the groundwork for them and ALL artists who share their plight to take ownership in the near future and escape this slavery. (Rather like Curt Flood did battling to get free agency for baseball players: See The Curious Case of Curt Flood which should have been called the Courage Case of Curt Flood.)Of course, some of this may get sorted out by the long list of coming lawsuits for those artists who have actually begun the process of trying to terminate the copyright assignment, starting with The Village People (though that's a weaker case, since the band itself was put together by the label). Either way, it's pretty ridiculous to see how far the labels are going to try to deny artists the ability to take back their copyrights, despite the law being pretty clear that they have that right.
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Even though I wasn't born or raised here, there's a reason I feel at home in America.
America's principles align with Islam's teachings. In fact, America's principles are not just based on Judeo-Christian values, but Judeo-Christian-Islamic values. After all, the three religions share the same father, Abraham, and the same God.
After some research and a chat with a friend, who shared with me the work of a few authors and scholars, I'm convinced that this relationship and compatibility between Islam and America is not a coincidence.
It is because America's forefathers were influenced by Islam itself.
Hear me out.
There's no doubt that when the Founding Fathers were forming the Constitution, they relied heavily on thinkers like John Locke.
Thomas Jefferson, the main author of the Declaration of Independence, used the terms "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," which were taken directly from Locke's "Second Treatise of Civil Government," according to a comparative religion paper written by Zulfiqar Ali Shah, an Islamic scholar.
Locke's ideas were used to form the Constitution and heavily influenced figures like Thomas Paine, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams.
You probably knew all of that. Locke was one of the political philosophers I studied in graduate school, and I often thought his ideas on human rights were in line with Islam's.
But what I didn't know is that Locke got many of his ideas from Islam and was often accused of being a Muslim by others, according to Shah. Apparently, accusing your opponents of being Muslim is not a new thing (ahem!).
Locke, as well as Jefferson, owned a copy of the Koran. Jefferson was the first president to host a Ramadan Iftar dinner at the White House, and, while campaigning for religious freedom in Virginia, he demanded that people recognize the religious rights of the "Mohamadan," the Jews and the "Pagan," according to a Library of Congress article by James H. Hutson, chief of the Manuscript Division.
Muslims were also part of this country from its inception.
"Readers may be surprised to learn that there may have been hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Muslims in the United States in 1776 — imported as slaves from areas of Africa where Islam flourished," Hutson wrote. "Although there is no evidence that the Founders were aware of the religious convictions of their bondsmen, it is clear that the Founding Fathers thought about the relationship of Islam to the new nation and were prepared to make a place for it in the republic."
Did you know that there's a statue of the Prophet Muhammad in the Supreme Court? It has been there for many years and no one is up in arms over it.
TheCouncil on American-Islamic Relations(CAIR), however, petitioned the court to remove the statue in 1997. The organization argued that the statue's depiction of the prophet with a sword was not accurate, that Islam — fearing idol worship — discourages its followers from portraying prophets in photos or any other artistic forms. CAIR also said that pamphlets about the prophet handed out to tourists were inaccurate, according to an article in Mental Floss.
Then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist denied CAIR's request, saying the sword is depicted as a symbol of justice and that the statue wasn't intended for idol worship but to recognize the prophet "as an important figure in the history of law," according to Mental Floss.
Rehnquist, however, said he would ensure that the pamphlets would be corrected.
So how do Islam's principles align with America's?
The answer is they both call for a just system that suggests democracy.
The Koran never specifies which kind of a government people should establish, but lists certain principles and values that must be followed. These include the right to protection of life, human dignity, family, religion, education and property from harm or abuse in a system that is just to all, regardless of faith.
This is basically the definition of — wait for it — Sharia, Islam's code of ethics, conduct and belief.
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, one of Islam's early leading scholars, said, "The foundation of the Shariah is wisdom and the safeguarding of people's interests in this world and the next. In its entirety it is justice, mercy and wisdom. Every rule which transforms justice to tyranny, mercy to its opposite, the good to the evil, and wisdom to triviality does not belong to the Shariah."
Most Islamic scholars agree that Islam demands justice to be at the heart of any society, and it's evident in how the prophet conducted his affairs and forged treaties with what Muslims call the People of the Book: Jews and Christians.
The Koran is clear on the issue of diversity and states that it is part of God's divine wisdom. I'd be pretty bored if everyone looked like me, thought like me, believed like me and acted like me.
And this is why America's system closely resembles that of what God intended.
It is why this is my home.
MONA SHADIA is a reporter for Times Community News. An Egyptian American, she was born and raised in Cairo and now lives in Orange County. Her column includes various questions and issues facing Muslims in America. Follow her on Twitter @MonaShadia.


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text: Show Hide image Politics 14 March 2013 Ken v Saddam, dinner with David Blunkett, and when Julie was queen of the Groucho Sign-up Signs of the times When the Sunday Times Magazine celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, I felt young and cool because I could revel in its glamorous Swinging Sixties past while being part of its future. Now, as the New Statesman's centenary fast approaches, it's lovely to be back in these pages. But a couple of decades have passed since I wrote a politics column here, so I guess I'm just a footnote in some dusty archive. How 20th century it all seems now: a time of political sex scandals and sleaze, an enfeebled Conservative prime minister torn apart over Europe . . . Has anything else happened in between? A line in the sand Back then, there was also the first Iraq war. I remember tracking down Ken Livingstone, the then MP for Brent East, who was abroad at the time, and persuading him to condemn Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. Posing as devil's advocate for a moment, I asked, "Aren't the borders just some colonial fiction? Why should Iraq respect them?" I feel sure he replied that so many national boundaries were arbitrary that a line had to be drawn in the sand – and Saddam should be sent packing. His recollection, it is fair to say, differs from mine, so I may have imagined the whole episode. Perhaps he was against Saddam's use of force but equally against doing anything about it. However, I'll always believe that his original impulse was right – and that he, like many people on the left, was anti-Saddam, before he was nobbled by the anti-American brigade on his return home. Feeling dodgy The Gulf war presented an awkward challenge for the left. Sales at the NS were on the up, driven by John Pilger's fierce tirades against intervention, while a few people, including me, supported the liberation of Kuwait. I'd been influenced by Republic of Fear, a devastating portrait of Saddam's tyranny by Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi who was writing under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil. The splits over this –which seemed fairly insignificant at the time – widened irreparably during the second Iraq war. A few days ago, I had dinner near Westminster with David Blunkett (and his handsome dog, Cosby) and was impressed to find that, ten years on, he was sticking by Labour's decision to overthrow Saddam. The "dodgy dossier" on weapons of mass destruction, which has achieved such prominence that the story was recently dramatised by BBC Radio 4, had nothing to do with his decision, he told me. I wasn't very surprised that no WMDs were found, as Hans Blix and his UN inspectors had been scouring Iraq for them unsuccessfully for months. As Helmut Kohl reputedly said: "Ninety per cent of intelligence comes from journalists and the other 10 per cent is wrong." Yet the short-term advantage to be gained from spin enabled the myth of the big lie to flourish and Tony Blair and George W Bush have been hounded by it ever since. Posse riot Before joining the NS, I worked for the feminist publisher Virago. My salary was pitiful, so when its chairman, Carmen Callil, got together with other publishers to found the Groucho Club (because most clubs, astoundingly, were men-only in the 1980s), I couldn't afford the 90 quid membership fee. Nor could most of my publishing colleagues, so it soon became the hang-out of journalists such as Julie Burchill, who styled herself "the queen of the Groucho Club" and blew her considerable earnings on drink and drugs for her posse. Last Saturday, I returned there for a very respectable affair: the leaving do for Anoushka Healy, the former managing editor of the Times and Sunday Times, and Daisy Dunlop, News International's former communications head, who are off to New York with grand new titles to devise strategy for the new News Corp. On the night, I searched keenly for evidence of misbehaviour but I'm sorry to report there simply wasn't any. Good luck in NYC, girls . . . Indian summer When it splits from the mothership in July, the new News Corp will be the largest publishing company in the world. But, as we know, it is possible for smaller enterprises such as the NS to punch above their weight in the digital world (while the Guardian, despite its seemingly vast tally of online readers, still gets mistaken for the in-house newspaper of LaGuardia Airport in the US). The Staggers already has a great global advantage: a readership on the Indian subcontinent, which has long admired the mag for its support for Indian independence under Kingsley Martin's editorship. I discovered this on a visit to South Africa in the 1990s, where my brother-in-law, who is from the Indian community, introduced me to lots of subscribers. These days, you can also pick up hundreds of followers from Pakistan on Twitter if you are lucky enough to get a single retweet from Jemima Khan. My humble suggestion is that, if the NS ever gets some money for extra editorial staff (is this too much to hope?), it should recruit a few journalists from the Indian subcontinent and become a huge digital player in the region. There's a tremendous market to be tapped: the Jaipur Literature Festival, for instance, has taken off, helped in part by Tina Brown, who wrote for the NS as an absurdly talented teenager. So why not? Sarah Baxter is editor of the Sunday Times Magazine and a former political editor of the New Statesman Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 11 March 2013 issue of the New Statesman, The audacity of popes SUBSCRIBE More


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A few more thank yous for the CHCA annual meeting
To the Top of the Hill MarketCafe for the delicious food. To the Chestnut Hill Business Association for the use of the projector so we could all see Jane Golden's mural pictures. And of course to our entire staff and Noreen Spota for so efficiently organizing everything.
Bob Rossman
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Fresh Market: a threat to Avenue food business?
I'm a veteran of the food industry and currently own my own beverage company. Having lived in Chestnut Hill for the past 15 years, I've seen a lot of positive change in our community.
I've traveled the world and our country extensively over the years and wake up every day thanking my lucky stars that I live in one of the best neighborhoods in America! That being said, I sense danger afoot with the impending construction of the new Fresh Market store.
My experience in the food industry has prompted me to register my opinion and I am very much against it! As I look at the landscape of food retailers in our area, I see a glut. We now have the Co-Op for groceries, meats, veggies and prepared food, the Top of the Hill Market for seafood, meat and farm fresh veggies, the Farmers Market for fresh, specialty and prepared foods, the CH Cheese Shop for cheese, specialty meats and foods, Baker Street and Metropolitan for bread and CVS and the Chestnut Hill Pharmacy for sundries, etc., and Brewer's Outlet for beer.
And that's just for starters, and that list does not include the three local Whole Foods, the Flourtown Farmer's Market, Pathmark, Acme and Genuardi's!What will the Fresh Market bring to our community? In my opinion, it will only hurt the current retailers and it could be the death knell for our Farmer's Market, which I'd hate to see go away.
Knowing what I know about the Fresh Market, it does quite well in the Southeast, but it has struggled in our region. I like the idea of apartments being added to our community because that will only help our Avenue's current retailers, but a new, large-scale, corporate market is redundant and it's injurious to our village's personality.
Most importantly, this new retail addition can hurt our cherished small retailers. I hear too many grumbles about the vacant stores on our Avenue and yet we are prepared to welcome a "category killer!" This store is not in the best interest of Chestnut Hill. I like living like a European, and that is what makes our village so appealing – so let's not mess this up, huh?!
Brian Powell
Chestnut Hill
Adrift over bin Laden killing
Cheering the death, let alone the killing of any mother's son reflects the mindset of those who perpetrate – and often fall victim to – the daily carnage on the streets of Philadelphia.
Few deserved more and few we needed more to stand before an international court of justice to demonstrate our democratic ideals than Osama bin Laden. We, as a society, are adrift at sea. Save Muammar Gaddafi.
Brian Rudnick
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'Book Lady' down,
but she's not out
I had the pleasure of meeting and writing about Mildred Coates, a.k.a. "The Book Lady," for last week's issue of the Local ("'Bookie' will be at Hill Garden Festival"). At 84 years of age, Mildred would hop on a bus or train to find books for readers in her informal group known as FLOB (For the Love of Books).
Equally refreshing was the fact that this woman, who grew up with 11 siblings during the Depression, did not charge anything for the books.
I called Mildred recently only to find that she had fallen on an uneven sidewalk on Germantown Avenue (you guessed it) while looking for books and broke her knee cap. A couple had seen her go down and drove her to Chestnut Hill Hospital's Emergency Room. As a result, she was not able to make it to the Festival on Sunday.
I spoke with Mildred, and, always the optimist, she figured she could catch up on some of her reading during her six-week recovery period. Mildred has been so kind and generous to so many people in this area. If you would like to send a card to Mildred, please send it in care of me at the Local or drop it off at the Local, and I will deliver it to her.
Barbara Sherf
Thank you to our loyal customers!
For the past five years, I've had the pleasure of managing the Sanctuary Yoga Boutique. I've met many interesting people, young and not-so-young, many of whom came in, not for a specific item we sold, but for ideas and conversation.
Some of my Reiki students and private clients, and now friends, entered my life by coming through the Life-Green Door. Inevitably, I've learned just as much from you as I was able to transmit, whether on the subjects of metaphysics, good books, Reiki energy healing, ancient civilizations, philosophy, art, and much more.
For the past two weeks, as soon as our "Going Out Of Business" sign went up, I have been beautifully deluged with the well-wishing of many of you, asking where I could be found on the Hill after May 15. And so, although I don't know the ultimate answer to that question, I'd like to let you in on some of my plans.
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Florida man charged with killing parrot during fight with girlfriend
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville police say a 29-year-old man slammed his 5-month-old parrot to the floor during an argument with his girlfriend.
The Gainesville Sun reports that Luis Enrique Quinones told police he threw the parrot so he wouldn't hit his girlfriend. Police arrested Quinones and his girlfriend, 29-year-old Myres Luanny Thomas on Thursday.
Police say Quinones was upset after Thomas told him she had a beer at work. As they argued, Thomas told him to leave and started throwing his stuff out the door.
That's when police say Quinones grabbed the parrot from its cage and slammed it into the tile floor. The parrot died immediately. Thomas punched Quinones in the face and threw a vase at him.
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by Tom Utescher
In their final Athletic Association of Catholic Academies outing of 2010, the Mount St. Joseph Magic suffered an overtime loss at Villa Maria in the semifinals of the league tournament.
In their first meeting of 2011, the Magic and the Hurricanes were tied once more at the end of regulation play, but this time it was host Mount St. Joe that prevailed in an OT session, 8-7.
Ahead 6-2 a few minutes into the second half of last Tuesday's tilt, the Mount appeared to be cruising to victory, but things are seldom that simple when these two schools mix it up in just about any sport you can name. Villa pulled back into a 7-7 tie in the final minute of the period, and 68 seconds into overtime sophomore Emilee Ehret passed the ball down low to junior Laura Pacheco, who popped in the game-winner from close range.
"We wanted this win; it was one of our goals at the beginning of the year," said Pacheco, who played sweeper for the MSJ field hockey team that defeated the higher-seeded Villa team in the AACA finals last fall and then went on to the state semifinals.
Sophomore Olivia Gannon scored four goals for Mount St. Joe, which improved to 10-3 overall and 8-1 in the AACA. The Mount's lone league loss was an 8-7 setback at Merion Mercy at the beginning of April. Villa, which had already swept its season series with Merion, left the Mount 6-1 in the AACA and 9-2 overall. Nine saves apiece were recorded for the two goalies, Mount sophomore Alex Lista and Villa senior Kerry Schubert.
Mount St. Joe coach Jenna Washabaugh attended Germantown Academy (as did Villa mentor Jess Chadwin), and observed, "Being a first-year coach here, I hadn't been a part of this big rivalry, but I could sense their excitement. I got out on the field yesterday in practice and played with them to help them prepare. You could tell by how hard they came out at the beginning of the game how important it was to them."
Villa's first shot of the game was foiled, but on an errant clearing pass by the Mount the ball ended up on the ground and then back in a visitor's stick. Sam Ostoich went right back in at the MSJ cage to put the Hurricanes on the board three minutes into the match.
The Magic would never trail again, seizing the following draw and then using a feed from junior Burke Brabson to set up the first of Gannon's goals. Wells moved the Magic ahead by converting off a free position, but Villa's Erin Kelly tied the game, 2-2, with 15:13 to go in the opening period.
With 6:14 on the clock, Wells came from behind the cage on the left to give the Magic the lead once more, and two minutes later Gannon cut across the arc from left to right and delivered an underhand shot that made it 4-2.
Villa attacked as time wound down in the first half, but a shot by Catherine Bendinelli struck the right post of the Mount cage and the Magic went back up the field. Playing for the last shot of the half, Mount St. Joe had sophomore defender Dominique Nyzio score off an assist from Wells with five seconds remaining, and the Magic were up 5-2 at the interlude.
The Mounties had won most of the center draws and added to their time of possession by recovering most of the rebounds of their own shots.
"Stevie Wells has been awesome all year getting possession off the draw," Washabaugh pointed out. "Today I was also impressed by the way we were backing each other up and maintaining possession. There was a lot of hard work from Emilee Ehret on that; on just one possession she got the ball back for us three or four times."
Back on the defensive end, Shannon Zoldy gives the Magic four years of varsity experience, and Lista, the dynamic sophomore goaltender, has stepped up to help direct the players in front of her.
"Our entire defense played awesome today," Washabaugh said, "and Alex was doing a great job leading them. She's one of the fastest players on our team, and when we need her to, she can fire out of the crease and beat opposing attack players to ground balls."
Barely 90 seconds into the trailing half, Gannon side-armed a free position shot for a 6-2 MSJ lead, but the Mounties would not be able to simply coast to victory.
"When you play a good team, there's going to be an ebb-and-flow," Washabaugh cautioned. "You have to expect them to come back, and then you just have to respond."
Although not one of Villa's most heralded players, Jenna Mertz deposited consecutive goals for the Hurricanes, bringing them back within two points of the leaders. Off of a free position shot with seven minutes remaining, MSJ's Gannon launched a hard bounce shot that glanced off Villa's Schubert and went into the net for a 7-4 count.
On an offensive transition for Villa, it was two-on-two near the top of the arc and the 'Canes' Mertz had the ball. Both MSJ defenders went for a double team, leaving Kelly open closer to the goal. Mertz got her the pass and the visitors cut it to 7-5 with 5:21 to go.
"We had a couple of miscommunications on defense in the second half, a little lapse in concentration," Washabaugh admitted. "We stopped playing the kind of lacrosse that gave us that four-goal lead."
Villa still needed some last-second heroics, and got them. Mertz continued to come up huge for the Hurricanes, scoring with 2:08 on the clock and then leveling the count at 7-7 with 57 seconds left. In the last gasps of regulation play, VMA's Schubert saved an shot by Ehret and at the other end Lista stopped a ball from Mertz, sending the contest into a sudden victory overtime.
In the brief huddle before the additional period began, Washabaugh related, "I didn't want them to concentrate on much else besides getting the ball off the draw. It would be counterproductive to start thinking too many steps ahead."
The Magic initially got the draw, turned the ball over, then got it back again after a few bobbles by both teams. Ehret approached the top of the arc with the ball while Pacheco set up out in the flat to the left of the cage.
"It was spontaneous," Pacheco recalled. "I saw I was open and I cut into the center, and Emilee saw me. It was just kind of like – catch the ball and shoot it. I don't even know where it went in."
"We have quite a few difficult games left on our schedule, but I think we'll be ready," Washabaugh noted. "The girls are proving to themselves that we can stay with these strong teams."


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cdc needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 87 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
"Career Clamp" logo needed.
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I want the logo to convey the impression that the job seeker can trust Career Clamp greatly increase the speed & success of getting a job. The website has not yet been designed... I'm planning to have the website designed around the color scheme and style of the winning logo.
- it should look current (web 2.0?)
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webideas99 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 82 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
We need a memorable logo designed for our email marketing service called OptIn.com. This is a service where users subscribe to an email newsletter and give permission to receive email from a publisher.
We would like the name spelled with a capital "O" and a capital "I" as in OptIn.com as well as include the ".com" in the logo.
We are open to logo ideas, however, we do have a solid idea in mind for a logo concept...
Along with some stylized text of the name itself, having a red 'checkmark' (like someone checking a box) that goes through the "O" as if it was a big circle that someone checked off. (Which communicates the concept of opt-ing in or selecting something.)
Might try have the check start on top of the left-middle of the "O" and then continue through the "O" and out the top; but having the checkmark go 'under' the top part of the "O" and then continuing above. So the check starts ON the "O" but then goes under the top part -- so it's not just completely over the "O" making it harder to read. Might be a good idea to create the concept both ways -- all on top of the "O" and as I just described.
ALSO... it would probably be best to make the ".com" a bit smaller font size than the "OptIn" part. Play with it and see what you can come up with. :)
The targeted audience is for business owners.
No specific colors or other requirements. Feel free to be creative! :)
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|STS102-E-5345 (18 March 2001) --- The International Space Station (ISS) backdropped against black space above Earth's horizon was photographed with a digital still camera from the Space Shuttle Discovery on March 18, 2001. It is a standard practice for the shuttle to make a final fly-around of the outpost following unlinking from it. A new crew comprised of cosmonaut Yury V. Usachev and astronauts James S. Voss and Susan J. Helms will spend several months aboard the station.
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If you're reading this, you know that the Denver Post's re-designed website is a terrific vehicle for expanded — and sometimes exclusive — coverage of events taking place throughout Colorado.
The metro area's vibrant social scene generates more news than could possibly fit on the pages of our newspaper, and so we're utilizing this new frontier to give you stories and photographs that reflect the charitable nature of the community.
As a matter of fact, if you'll click onto denverpost.com/Seen Gallery you'll find something like 31 electronic "albums" with pictures from events dating back to early fall when the Denver Art Museum's new Hamilton Building opened. The three latest albums to go online feature pictures from the Loveland Turkey Trot, which raised $24,000 for McKee Medical Center; Dinner with Kevan, an intimate fete that couturier Brooks hosted in her LoDo atelier for visiting designer Kevan Hall; and For Our Founders, a chronicle of those attending a reception that Wells Fargo Bank put on in honor of the families that made Colorado great.
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Aus 139 Designs von 30 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
A group of executives from HP, EMC and Sun are starting a new technology solutions company. We need an innovative, professional design and will credit the winning designer. Site needs to communicate our expertise and experience and will have a Blog page. We help companies align their data center infrastructure to business goals. ***Also see our logo contest***
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Our company is a trusted adviser and business partner with our customers. Our customers are executives, CIOs and IT executive management. We will offer services on data center consolidation and optimization which will save customers significant cost. Our consulting and expertise will allow IT departments to match their infrastructure to business requirements.
- We are high-level business and IT consultants and wish the website to convey this.
- We will also have a section of the website that will post Blogs on industry trends and thought leadership showing off our expertise
- Page buttons can include: About Capstone, Services, Expertise, Clients, Blog, Contact Us
- Tagline: Listen, Compare, Execute
- An updated and professional-looking site, a draft site & logo is on our under construction website:
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- We make practical business plans for customers to execute on - the website needs to convey this.
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- Graphic files so we can take the design and use it for other things like business cards and collateral
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- No overused or cliche business images (hands shaking, people meeting, etc.)
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At Ohio State, we are not afraid to take risks, to test bold hypotheses or to rethink traditional approaches to problems. We are innovators of new technologies and medical procedures. We dare to ask new questions and to celebrate the synergy and solutions that result when people from seemingly unrelated disciplines join together for a common cause. With additional private support, we will be able to bring a wider spectrum of research opportunities to Ohio State — and consequently offer more solutions to those we serve locally and around the world.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The Saratoga Race Course Tom Nolan first went to 70 years ago was a far cry from the one fans know today. Much of the track's physical appearance is intact, but the gambling atmosphere surrounding it is altogether different. When Nolan was 10 years old, backroom betting parlors and bookie shops were commonplace throughout the area and almost everyone had inside knowledge about a supposed "hot tip." "I remember going into a cigar shop in Mechanicville with my father," said Nolan, who turns 80 today. "He asked the owner, 'Hey, you got any good tips?' The guy said, 'Yeah, Bunny' -- that was my father's nickname. 'Bet on a horse called Go Chicago.' " "Like most tips I've heard since then, it lost," Nolan said, laughing. The year was 1942, the last summer of racing before a three-year shutdown during World War II that wouldn't see the track reopen until 1946. "That was my first day ever at the track," Nolan said. "I was all gaga, looking around with big eyes." From that long-ago experience he developed his own philosophy about handicapping. "I never lost a bet on something that happened yesterday," Nolan said, smiling. "I have a lot of trouble betting on things that happen today and tomorrow." Growing up in Mechanicville during the 1930s and early '40s, backroom bookmaking was prevalent at places like "Dutch" Amman's on Park Avenue, or a spot behind Joyce's Log Cabin that kept tabs on racetracks throughout the country. It was also the era of gambling rooms at Saratoga Lake resorts like the Piping Rock, Riley's and the Arrowhead. In Saratoga Springs, one of the most upscale sites was a place called the Chicago Club, which ironically sat at the current location of the Salvation Army headquarters on Railroad Place. "You couldn't go in there unless you were dressed in a tuxedo," said Nolan's brother, John "Jasper," Saratoga County Republican Committee chairman. "It was a very private club. It wasn't unusual that someone like Lucky Luciano would be there during that time." Since his initial childhood visit to the track, Tom Nolan has been back many times throughout the past 70 years to see some of the greatest horses in thoroughbred racing history, including Native Dancer, whose only loss was to Dark Star in the 1953 Kentucky Derby. "He won all his 2-year-old races, including The Hopeful," Nolan said. "He'd always get there at the wire. But this time (the Derby), he got bumped at the starting gate. He came from way back but got nipped at the wire." In 1973 Nolan saw Onion upset Secretariat in The Whitney Handicap, and in 1978 he was on hand when Triple Crown winner Affirmed was disqualified from first to second in the Travers Stakes. After graduating from LaSalle Institute in Albany, Nolan joined the Marines and later went to Springfield College. Retired from Amoco Oil Co., he now lives in Connecticut and still frequents the track. "I've introduced an awful lot of people to Saratoga," Nolan said. His favorite visits are when he, Jasper and their brother, Dan, get together for reunions. Like Jasper, Dan went to Mechanicville High School where he was a star football and basketball player. In hoops, he was a member of the undefeated 1951-52 "Whiz Kids" that upset Philip Schuyler High School. Coached by Bill Kalbaugh, the team had one sophomore (Dan Nolan) and five juniors -- Lou Grimaldi, Augie Almela, Bob Tassi and Joe Poella. The next year the squad racked up another long winning streak before an upset by Scotia. Dan went on to Lehigh University, where he was named a Little All-American in football, was named to the Blue-Gray Game and got picked up by the Washington Redskins. However, he was dealt to the Pittsburgh Steelers, then the Baltimore Colts, and because of injuries he never got into an NFL game. He has been a Roman Catholic priest for many years. When the brothers reunite,childhood memories
come flooding back and they enjoy talking about their Irish heritage. Their great-grandfather, also named Thomas, came to America from County Sligo. At some point, however, their conversation almost always turns to racing and the track. The old bookie shops and gambling rooms are long gone, closed by the crackdown on illegal gambling that followed highly publicized hearings in 1950 and 1951 led by U.S. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. "More than 200 state police converged on the whole area," Jasper said. "That brought everything down, the bookie rooms and everything. They all got hit." "It was a colorful era," Tom Nolan said.


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This mod was never dead, just in the webway slumbering! This is the original Harlequins Race mod for Dawn of War which has been handed down to a new team to complete. This is a mod for Dawn of War: Soulstorm which adds a new playable race to skirmish and multiplayer.
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I'll try to keep this a short as possible.
To address slavery in the bible from a moral perspective, it is defined here as: "owning a person as property".
1. The bible implicitly condones and explicitly mandates slavery.
Some common examples:
- Leviticus 25:44-46 states that non-Hebrew slaves are to be acquired from neighbouring nations. They, along with any children they have while enslaved, are the possessions of their masters permanently, and they are passed on to the masters' children as possessions.
- Exodus 21:2-7 provides instructions on how male and female Hebrew slaves are to be treated.
- Exodus 21:20-21 states that slave owners can beat their slaves as long as they don't die within a day or two.
2. The bible fails to express any clear moral opposition to slavery.
Given the above, the bible cannot be seriously considered as a moral guide.


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After four sessions of losses, Japan's Nikkei Average is bopping higher this morning to the tune of 0.5%, with a 0.4% gain for the broader Topix, as the market gets some help from an overnight advance on Wall Street and from the dollar holding to the mid-101-yen level (currently at ¥101.45).
Bargain hunting may be at work, with recent decliners enjoying some solid gains: Renesas Electronics is up 3.5%, trimming its week-to-date loss to 2.3%, while Japan Display is up 2.4%, shaving its deficit for the week to just above 1%.
Retailers are mostly higher, with Aeon up 0.7% and Seven & I up 1%, but coat maker Sanyo Shokai is plunging more than 18% on news it will lose its license to the Burberry brand in June of next year.
At the other extreme, shares of Yahoo Japan (Japan's top search portal — sort of the Google of Japan) are more than 13% higher after its major shareholder Softbank cancelled a deal to sell it its mobile-phone provider eAccess. Softbank investors also like the news, with shares of the nation's top telecom up 0.8%.
And speaking of Google, shares of Toshiba are up 0.5% following a Nikkei news report that it will supply chips to Google for the U.S. firm's planned smartphone with "interchangeable modules," due out next year.
Elsewhere, Fujitsu is up 2.2% on news it has won an Airbus contract to label aircraft parts, while among some of the leading decliners, Rakuten is down 2.2%, and Fuji Electric is off 2.1%.
- 8:54 pm
- Australia, your slim gains are gone
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A modestly higher open in Sydney has given way to a modestly lower market in the early going, with the ASX 200 down 0.2%.
Miners are trading mixed, with iron ore wallowing in losses at $98.50 a tonne, but with copper and nickel futures rising. BHP Billiton is down 0.4%, and Rio Tinto is down 0.6%, but perversely, the iron-ore extractors are mostly higher, with Fortescue Metals up 0.6%, Mt. Gibson Iron up 0.7%, and Atlas Iron flat.
Financials are broadly weaker, with NAB down 0.5%, Westpac down 0.35, and CBA down 0.1% despite Morgan Stanley raising its target price for the shares, which it rates overweight. Bucking the trend for the big banks, ANZ is up 0.1%.
Meanwhile, stock in Treasury Wine Estates is untraded as the former Foster's unit says it had rejected a $2.9-billion takeover bid from U.S. private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
And later today, Genworth Mortgage Insurance Australia is set to debut on the Sydney market in what is the exchange's biggest IPO of the year so far.
- 8:58 pm
- Markets check -- 9:58 a.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.3%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.1%
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.2%
- 10:10 pm
- Hong Kong stocks bounce on tech-share trampoline
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Tech stocks are leading a rebound for Chinese markets this morning, getting a boost from gains on the Wall Street. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index and the Shanghai Composite Index are each up 0.6% at this point.
Index heavyweight Tencent Holdings is playing a major roll in the advance, rising 2.8%, while software provider Kingdee International Software Group rallies 3.7%, and larger rival Kingsoft Corp. is advancing 1.6%. Other top gainers include online-transaction provder China Binary Sale Technology (up 4.1%) and online-game developer Forgame Holdings (up 2%).
Major state banks are also strong, with Bank of Communications rising 1.2%, ICBC gaining 1%, and Bank of China up 0.9%.
However, property developers remain weak across the board, after suffering losses in the previous session on news that China's real-estate markets cooled further in April. Among the big movers, Poly Property Group is down 1.2%, Shimao Property Holdings is down 1.1%, and Vanke Property is down 0.9%.
Chinese telecom service operators China Unicom and China Telecom are weaker by 1.9% and 1.3%, respectively, after China Telecom reported a sharp drop in its April subscriber growth, which analysts attributed to its lack of an FDD LTE license and competition from China Mobile, the country's largest telecom company. Shares of China Mobile are currently 2.4% higher.
- 10:11 pm
- Markets check -- 10:11 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.6%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.7%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.4%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.2%
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.4%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.3%
- 11:28 pm
- Thailand stocks price in martial law
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The stock exchange has opened in Bangkok, and perhaps not surprisingly, the benchmark SET index is down 1.5% in the wake of the Royal Thai Army's declaration of martial law.
The loss comes even as Army chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha sought to assure the nation that this was not, he repeats NOT, a coup. And the loss comes even though this is just the latest chapter in a months-long saga that has seen deadly rioting and the ousting of prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra (a saga the market has largely blown off, given that the SET was up 8.6% for the year, ahead of today's open.)
Really, Thai investors are a hardy lot when it comes to political unrest.
The coup of September 2006 — when Yingluck's brother was removed from office — did dent shares a bit, but they recovered in a matter of weeks. And those losses were small indeed compared to the selloff in December of that year (a nearly 15% drop in a single day!), when the markets rebelled against capital controls to deal with forex issues.
And looking a little farther back into history, charts show that in the weeks after the previous coup in February 1991, stocks actually rose.
Baht wait, there's more…
The Thai baht is proving a little more resilient to the news than equities are. The dollar was buying around 32.48 baht when the news hit, sending the Thai currency falling and the greenback climbing to 32.65. But the baht has rebounded in the hours since, with the dollar now at 32.53.
- 11:37 pm
- Markets check -- 12:37 p.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.8%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.7%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.2% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.1%
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.4%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.2%
- 12:21 am
- Thailand stocks price in martial law (UPDATE)
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Thai stocks are now coming off their opening lows, with the SET down 0.7% against an earlier deficit of 1.5% (see earlier post on this blog).
Meanwhile, among the initial reactions from the analyst community is this comment from Fitch Ratings Asia-Pacific sovereigns chief Andrew Colquhoun:
"The imposition of martial law is not, in itself, negative for Thailand's ratings, although clearly we are keeping the situation under close review. It may even help to break Thailand out of the political deadlock of the past six months."
Colquhoun adds that the key to Thailand's outlook will be the achievement of "a functioning government."
For now, fresh elections are on hold due to the unrest, but we'll see if the army is able to calm the situation enough to get people to the polls.
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.8%
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Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.1%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.4%
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.4%
Mumbai (Sensex) flat
Taipei (Taiex) down 0.1%
- 2:18 am
- China fires back on hack-attack charge
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Responding to Washington's accusations of Chinese military officials hacking into U.S. companies' computers, China said it has been the victim of massive cyber attacks from the U.S. over the past two months.
While the foreign ministry dismissed the U.S. allegations, a state-media report said Chinese government data show that, from March 19 to May 18, Trojan Horse attacks had taken over 2,077 U.S.-located computers and used them to hack into some 1.18 million mainframe computers in China.
It also said U.S. computers had been used to conduct identity theft in China, as well as to steal trade secrets.
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.5% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.6% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.2% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.2% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.2% (closed)
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Fredi Gonzalez is the new manager of the Atlanta Braves, which didn't take long. Eric Wedge is the manager of the Seattle Mariners.
Meanwhile, the Mets are still waiting to name their new general manager. They have a few more candidates to speak with, notably Jon Daniels of the Texas Rangers once their playoff run is done. After watching them lose last night, you wonder how long that will be.
There will also be a second round of interviews with the finalists, so, we're talking at least another 10 days. If they are lucky, it will be before the World Series. But, it could drag into November if the Rangers regroup and reach the World Series.
The high-profile managerial candidates could be gone by then, but that's the risk the Wilpons took in deciding this route. And, it is a good route. The GM should name his own manager. That's the prudent, sound way to go.
After years of the quick fix, I'm glad to see the Mets go through a complete interview process and get this done the right way as the general manager is far more important in the construction of a team than the manager.
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TUNICA, Miss. — Variable-rate irrigation could make center pivots much more efficient users of water, especially where there are non-crop areas or variations in soil type or crop mix under the watering circle.
Those conditions are prevalent in south Georgia, noted Calvin Perry, research and Extension engineer, University of Georgia, who helped develop a variable-rate center pivot which is now being offered commercially. Perry spoke about the system during InfoAg Mid-South.
Variable-rate irrigation has an especially good fit in south Georgia, where there are around 10,000 center pivots, many of which are partial pivots or pivots which overlap with others, according to Perry. With tree lines, neighboring fields and riparian zones often intruding into the circle, "putting in a pivot often is like putting a round peg in a square hole."
The results can be overwatering in places where pivots overlap and off-target watering where the pivot passes through non-crop areas, noted Perry.
"And there are no uniform fields in the Southeast. We have a lot of soil changes within our fields, and some of our farmers have multiple crops in different stages of development, all being watered by the same pivot."
End guns close to roadways often create a rural phenomenon Perry jokingly calls "a south Georgia carwash," which can test the verve, and perhaps the swerve, of an unwary motorist. "About 90 percent of our pivots have end guns, but only about 30 percent have some means of control."
There is a form of precision irrigation technology currently on the market, said Perry. But the method, which allows the user to slow down or speed up the pivot at certain points in the circle, "only varies water application in wedge shapes.
But the new technology is true variable-rate irrigation. "You can vary the rates based on the water requirements of zones in the field."
The National Environmentally Sound Production Agricultural Laboratory at the University of Georgia and Farmscan, in western Australia, developed the technology, which uses compressed air, solenoids, valves and a GPS to turn individual sprinkler heads on and off as the pivot moves through the field.
To get started, the farmer uses a combination of yield maps, aerial photos, soil maps, etc., to help rough out zones of variability in a center-pivot irrigated field.
Set up at the computer is simple for the user, according to Perry. When the software program that controls the technology is opened, the center pivot appears as a circle divided into small grids whose size is determined in part by the swath of the sprinkler head. Once the grids have been selected, "you simply select a rate, from zero percent of normal to 200 percent of normal. You just paint it in."
The normal rate would be what the farmer would apply as his base rate on the field, according to Perry. "So if a farmer wanted to apply a half inch, if he went with 200 percent on part of the field, it would get 1 inch."
The rate is adjusted through a combination of increasing or decreasing the speed of the pivot and by changing the frequency at which selected sprinklers turn on and off as they move through certain parts of the field. The end gun can also be turned on and off.
The system is very reliable and rugged, "and we've tested it to make sure that it doesn't affect the overall performance of the pivot. But if your field is uniform, it's not going to help. If it's not uniform, it is."
On one farmer field where the system is being used, there is an overlapping pivot, a sandy ridge and an airplane hanger within the circle. "Variable-rate irrigation is important to the farmer because he waters from a lakebed. He tells us that he can get one additional watering from the water he saves during a variable-rate irrigation.
"In most cases, variable-rate irrigation will save water, improve irrigation management decisions and reduce disease problems in areas that are traditionally overwatered. There is also the potential to reduce costs and increase yields."
Perry noted that if a farmer "is technology shy, I wouldn't expect him to be able to work with a system like this without a good consultant to hold his hand."
He added that there is the potential for lightening damage "as there is for anything that's sitting in the middle of a field that is metal. In addition, there are pressure fluctuations when individual sprinklers are turned on and off."
Work is under way for a variable-rate lateral overhead irrigation system.
Perry noted that a companion project through Cotton Incorporated uses wireless transmission of soil moisture data, "so we can get real-time feedback from the field to help adjust variable-rate control to match the exact, up-to-the minute needs of a field."
The system was commercialized by Hobbs and Holder Precision Irrigation Technologies and costs run about $15,000 for a 110-acre pivot.
Cost-share money was available for several systems, noted Perry, but only in the Flint River Basin of southwest Georgia. "We had enough money to install 23 systems. The Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District, University of Georgia Precision Team, NRCS and the Nature Conservancy teamed up to run the project.
"The Nature Conservancy funded a full-time person to help us. They want the water in Flint River to remain flowing because of wildlife. They've been great partners."
Also providing some momentum to variable-rate irrigation is pressure from the Georgia state legislature for farmers to conserve water. "And the state of Florida thinks we are using too much water.
"We anticipate regulatory action in the future that may require use of certain conservation measures for our farmers. Georgia has already passed a metering law where meters are to be placed on every water withdrawal system by 2009. Our farmers know that if you can meter what they're using, the next step is to limit how much that can use."
More information on the system is available on-line at www.betterpivots.com.
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Officials say they're close to verifying the name of a man whose body was found burning in an eastern Nebraska farm field ditch.
Sarpy County Sheriff's Capt. Monte Daganaar told the Lincoln Journal Star on Wednesday that Omaha officers are aiding the investigation because the man likely had a connection to Omaha.
Daganaar says investigators are still working on confirming the man's name.
An autopsy showed the man was tied up and probably was killed before being dumped in the ditch on Sept. 24 and set on fire.
The body was found by farmers as they checked out smoke between their fields near Linoma Beach. The resort sits east of Ashland on the east side of the Platte River.


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I'm currently taking combivir, viramune and viread. My viral load is undetectable and my T cells are in the 700s. My doctor said that I will more than likely be on this regimen with great results indefinitely. I keep hearing about these "one-a-day" pills. Is there anything I can take to simplify my regimen or should I stick with what I'm doing?
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Excellent response to therapy!!!
A combination that would consist of epivir, viread and viramune could be taken once a day (5 pills). For you, this would be conceptually simple, as it simply consists of stopping the AZT. Other once daily combinations that are quite simple consist of Viread, Videx-EC and a non-nucleoside drug (Viramune or Sustiva) can be as few as 3 pills/day. If you give the Viread and Videx-EC togehter, you can reduce the Videx dose and can give it with food, due to the pharmacoikinetic interaction with Viread.
There are many options that you can discuss with your doctor that would allow you to take your pills once a day while not sacrificing any downstream options.
On the other hand, it sounds as if you are tolerating the regimen you are taking, and it sure is working...You know what they say about something that isn't broken???
Life is a series of choices. You are fortunate that all the choices available to you are good ones. Talk to your doc.
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Bounce! I would absolutely love to play! Or, given the phenomenal awesome build points you've granted... A dracomorph?
Aaah, hm, definitely interested.Thinking of something along the lines of a face Adept (though from the looks of the post above that's already taken), or a face gunkitty.... I like faces, sue me.
Good point.By the way, since you raised our starting BP to 500, do we get higher limits on how much BP we can spend on attributes and qualities?Currently looking into Drakes, since Muse mentioned them and I didn't know they existed. Interesting...
Would love to reuse my Rigger named Smiley if this isn't full yet.
Callie, is this Adept Face who I think it is? If It is, then I think I'm gonna enjoy this...
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Emergency support for Jules Verne ATV successfully given by Artemis
Artemis, ESA's data relay satellite, successfully answered the call for emergency services from the ATV Control Centre due to anticipated outages at the NASA Space Centre in Houston, Texas.
Artemis is operated from ESA's facility at Redu, Belgium which houses the spacecraft's mission control centre and a
"On 11 September, we received notification that emergency support needed to be given to the ATV by Artemis," explained Benoit Demelenne, Head of Redu's TT&C and Spacecraft Operations Unit. "Hurricane Ike was approaching the Johnson Space Center in Houston, which had to be evacuated. The ATV Control Centre requested emergency support from Artemis as the communications with ATV via TDRSS would be interrupted."
In addition, explained Kris Capelle, ATV Mission Director, a Debris Avoidance Manoeuvre or DAM needed to be performed because some space debris would come too close to the ATV.
"For these operations, we needed some extended visibilities to follow up ATV behaviour. Because both issues came exactly together, additional support from Artemis was needed," he explained.
The mission control team and ground segment support team at the ATV Control Centre at Toulouse and the Artemis Control Centre in Redu immediately began procedures. With only a few hours to prepare, support was successfully provided to the ATV during the night.
Artemis has performed more than five years of in-orbit operations. It is in geostationary orbit over Africa and has three main purposes:
- the provision of inter-orbit satellite communication using advanced S- and
Ka-bandradio links and laser technology
- performing a key role within Europe's EGNOS satellite navigation system by broadcasting enhanced GPS and GLONASS signals for use by civilian 'safety critical' transport and navigational services
- the provision of voice and data communications between mobile terminals in remote areas of Europe and North Africa, as well as in the Atlantic
Throughout the Jules Verne ATV mission phases and working in parallel with TDRSS, Artemis was used as prime during the attached phase to ISS and provided back up for telecommanding and telemetry reception to/from the ATV vehicle during the rendezvous phase, the docking phase, the de-docking phase and the re-entry phase. The Jules Verne ATV had completed a flawless six-month mission, undocking from the International Space Station on 5 September to complete the last leg of its journey in space, which will end with a controlled destructive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere on 29 September.
"Once again Artemis has demonstrated its preparedness to respond to the needs of ESA's Programmes, as it is the case for the long standing data relay service for Envisat," says Andrea Cotellessa, Head of the Artemis Project Office. "We are committed to continue Artemis operations and to provide initial services within in the forthcoming European Data Relay System and thereafter continue providing backup services until Artemis end-of-life."