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Spectrum auctions
The Radiocommunications Act 1989 heralded a new era for the management of the radio spectrum in New Zealand. This Act enabled the creation of property rights for spectrum and also the use of market-driven allocation mechanisms for the distribution of the newly created rights.
The Act does not specify any particular allocation mechanism. Radio spectrum was initially sold using second price then first price tender systems. The first auction was held in 1996, making New Zealand the first country to sell rights to use spectrum in this way. An Internet-based computer system was developed for the second auction, held in 1998.
Internationally, spectrum auctions are now widespread. They are recognised as an efficient way to allocate spectrum to its highest value use.
Early auctions
Radio Spectrum Management (RSM) initially used simultaneous ascending auctions. This type of auction involves making all lots available for bidding at the same time. The auction takes place over a number of rounds of a specific duration (say 30 minutes), until no further bidding takes place on the lots being offered.
This type of auction allows bidders who wish to purchase specific combinations of lots to take a part in the auction. Advantages of this type of auction are that bidders obtain full market information and are able to determine their level of success on any combination of lots at any time during the auction.
Spectrum auction design in New Zealand
RSM produced the report Spectrum Auction Design in New Zealand in November 2005. The report describes how New Zealand has competitively allocated radio spectrum, factors pertinent to auction design, and alternative options for competitive allocation. This report has been published to provide the industry with further information on auction design.
Recent auctions
More recently, auctions have been used for AM/FM broadcasting licences, wireless broadband management rights in the 2300 and 2500/2600 MHz ranges, and cellular management rights.
In 2013-14, the rights to the 700 MHz band were auctioned for 4G-LTE cellular use. This 'digital dividend' band became available after New Zealand switched to digital television broadcasting, thus freeing up the former analogue broadcasting spectrum.
The 700 MHz auction was structured as a simplified combinatorial clock auction, with nine lots available. This was a new auction method for New Zealand. The auction began with a clock allocation phase in which bidders were limited to bidding for three lots each. One bidder only bid for two lots, which meant that a supplementary allocation phase was held to auction the final lot. In both these phases, bidders bid for generic blocks of spectrum. Finally, a combinatorial assignment phase was held in which bidders, knowing how much spectrum they had won in the allocation phases, bid again for particular placements (frequencies) in the 700 MHz band.
Spectrum auctions and results 1996 - present
A table of spectrum allocations (generally by auction) held from 1996 to the present.
Tenders for radio spectrum rights 1989 - 1995
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The broader stock markets have been hitting new highs all year. Corporate profits and corporate profit margins have been hitting highs for several years. Confidence in the steadiness of the bull market and strong economic cycle in turn is leading to more mergers and acquisitions activity. High paying corporate jobs and investment in infrastructure and long-term technology bets are actually starting to catch traction too.
We've been properly positioned with lots of longs that have gone up huge and having avoided falling into the bear trap as so many hedge fund managers and traders have done for this economic cycle and market phase.
It's been historic how steady this market has been as this part of the economic cycle upswing has built upon itself since the bottom in 2008. And we don't even get temporary panicky sell-offs over geopolitical crises like we did in the last few years. The escalation of war and terror in Iraq itself is sickening and my prayers go out to everybody there. And as a market observer and trader, it's rather surprising that the stock markets have hardly hiccuped as the violence and uprisings and potential for more anarchy and destruction in Iraq and its surrounding countries escalates.
In the last week, we've had several of our long positions spike and go crazy to the upside. Yelp /quotes/zigman/9021597/delayed /quotes/nls/yelp YELP was up 15% on Friday and is up nearly 50% since I added it to my Revolution Investing portfolio just a few short weeks ago. RocketFuel FUEL and FireEye FEYE are up big again today and are up huge since we added them at the same time as Yelp a few weeks ago. Other stocks from my Revolution Investing portfolio includes Intel /quotes/zigman/20392/delayed /quotes/nls/intc INTC told Wall Street that business PC demand has picked up along with the aforementioned stronger economic cycle and it added more than $15 billion in market cap as it spiked 15% last week, as well as Ciena CIEN, which popped 15% in the last couple weeks after reporting strong earnings too.
Sandisk /quotes/zigman/54370/delayed /quotes/nls/sndk SNDK announces a billion dollar acquisition today and the stock goes up to yet new all-time highs again for it. (I've owned $SNDK for years and now that Sandisk is acquiring Fusion-IO $FIO for $11 per share cash, looks like I'll own Fusion-IO again as a shareholder of Sandisk. Sandisk's got more than $5 billion net cash on the balance sheet before this buy. Smart buy and smart use of shareholder money. Vertical integration is often profitable.) In "normal markets" you often see the acquiring company sell off when it buys another company, but just today, I heard surprise from market pundits that Level 3 /quotes/zigman/7013898/delayed /quotes/nls/lvlt LVLT actually did sell off after announcing a $7 billion deal to buy TW Telecom /quotes/zigman/110786/delayed /quotes/nls/twtc TWTC . Level 3's own market cap is only $10 billion, making the deal worth more than what Level 3 was worth just a few months ago before the LVLT stock doubled.
Apple's added nearly $100 billion to its own market cap so far this year and is back to within 7% of its all-time high from a couple years ago, making the company worth more than half a trillion dollars again.
Meanwhile, you know that the Federal Reserve's 0% interest rates and QE and other "emergency liquidity measures" are still on full-blast! With corporate profits, banking profits, corporate cash balances and stock prices at all-time highs and with the cost of capital for corporations at all-time lows, what do you expect is going to happen to this market in the near-term? What about over the mid/long-term when the full cost and ramifications and unintended consequences of all these trillions of dollars and years worth of "emergency liquidity measures" come home to roost?
So what are we supposed to do now? Step back and remember how horrible it felt to lose all that money in 2008. Remember how scared you were in 2010 when the EU financial crises and Greek bankruptcy and Cyprus deposit theft were playing out in the headlines and the markets were tanking 10%-20% in the blink of an eye.
And as you remember that, make sure that you're not so long that you'd be hurt if the markets were to tank, sell off or just pullback for a while. My own playbook says to trim back a bit when stocks go vertical and that is indeed what I'm doing today.
I'm going to trim about a fifth or so of my positions in some of my highest-flying stocks and biggest positions today, including some of the aforementioned stocks. I'm also selling half of my remaining Apple call options which leaves me with about a fourth of my original number of call options, which are up huge since we bought them.
Sell when you can, not when you have to.
Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch, posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com, which is not affiliated with MarketWatch, and is the largest shareholder in Scutify's parent company, Wall Street All-Stars. At the time of publication, Cody was net long Apple, Yelp, Sandisk, RocketFuel, FireEye, Intel and Ciena. Follow Cody on Twitter at twitter.com/codywillard.
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We all know it's coming. Steve Jobs said so. AT&T said so. Everyone and their blog has posted so. But it's still super sweet to see Apple code confirming it!
Apple Insider (via Chronic Productions) brings word that deep delving the latest iPhone SDK firmware has yet again revealed buried treasure. This time, Beta 5 gives up the strings for 3G:
Most notable is a setting that will allow users of the second-generation iPhone -- expected for an unveiling sometime in the coming weeks -- to disable 3G access in favor of prolonging the handset's battery life. "Using 3G loads data faster, but decreases battery life," reads a caption beneath the setting toggle.
The ability to toggle 3G data on and off -- in other words, manually handle the transition -- is an interesting decision for Apple, and one they're squarely labeling the blame for on battery life.
Is this a way to cover still poorer-than-needed power efficiency on the 3G chipset? Something that may annoy users? A beta feature for people testing the mythical 3G right now inside Apple? Something that might not survive to the release version?
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Twitter Chat: Eclipse
Q. Moonkin: What are your plans for Eclipse, and why dos it infect so many of our talents? What are your plans for make Moonkin fun?This is an interesting change. It will go a long way to fixing the big issues with the current Eclipse. It doesn't give us charges in a way that we traditionally think of them, but it is basically a charge system since we should be able to get the bar back to neutral long before the 45 seconds is up.
A. The model we are trying now lets Solar and Lunar Eclipse last for about 45 seconds, and each spell of the appropriate type that you cast moves the bar back closer to the middle again. The buff is canceled by reaching the middle. This should let Moonkin "hold" the buff for short periods of time when they need to move or get out of the fire.
What I find interesting about this mechanic is how it will affect our rotation and stat valuation. Moonkin have a lot of talents that are to help us move along the Eclipse bar. Lunar Guidance causes Starsurge generate "energy." The Euphoria talent gives us extra "energy" when we crit. Therefore Starsurge and Critical hits during Eclipse will effectively shorten the Eclipse buff and have a limiting affect on the value of eclipse. I think this is a clear indication that you won't want to cast Starsurge during Eclipse, since I don't remember an comment suggesting it will be buffed by Eclipse.
Crits during Eclipse is a more interesting dilemma. They will shorten the Eclipse buff, but this doesn't mean you won't want to crit during Eclipse. The extra "energy" from a crit is proportionally smaller then the extra damage you would gain. Criting is still good, but not as good as it was before. Unless there are additional changes I don't see how Crit Rating won't be our least desirable secondary stat (yes, I know we don't know anything about mastery yet).
Since we already know Haste Rating is going to be an excellent stat for us, and Crit Rating is being limited, I wonder if Blizzard will do something to prop of Crit Rating a little bit. I think it would be interesting if Blizzard gave us a way to make our crits do 225% - 250%.
Twitter Chat: Moonfire
Q. Is Mo0nfire designed to be a damage-over-time spell with an instant cast nuke, or the other way around?I find this to be an interesting answer. First, it means that the Glyph of Moonfire is probably gone, since it limits the nuke portion of Moonfire quite a bit. Second, I would like to see how they plan to make both the direct damage and DoT significant. I think it's going to be a delicate balance to make both portions significant without making them over powered.
A. Both. We want the instant nuke to be more meaningful in Cataclysm, especially on the move.
Cata Build 12604:
When build 12539 was released I was quite disappointed that very few changes were made to the druid trees. The good news is that a second cata build was released a few days later with a whole lot of druid changes.
Overview: At several points in the last talent tree it felt like I was choosing between several bad talents just to advance up the tree. In the new trees they have fixed some of those issues, but they have done it in a cheap way. It seems like they took the easy way out and brought back a lot of old talents rather then doing something interesting and new as they have been talking about since Blizzcon. As a result the tree still feels quite raw to me.
Passive Talents: One of the stated goals of Cataclysm is to get rid of a lot of the passive talents, and build 12604 was the return of a lot of them for moonkin at least. Nature's Majesty is back with the passive 4% crit buff. Master Shapeshifter is back in the Resto tree with the 2% damage buff. Worst of all Earth and Moon is back in tier 5 with the raid buff and the passive personal buff. These talents are better options then what we had in the previous builds, but they feel like a cop out, when one of the stated goals is to get rid of these type of talents.
Lunar Justice and Planetary Alignment: Both of these talents are gone. That isn't a huge deal since neither talent was all that good to begin with. Planetary Alignment while valuable was quite boring. Lunar Justice was pretty much useless. While I am not sad to see either of them go, I which they had redesigned them to make them interesting rather then just replace them with old passive talents.
Where is the Choice? I'm starting to sound like a broken record on this point, but it is a stated goal of Blizzard to provide more meaningful choices in the Cataclysm expansion. If this is still a goal then Blizzard is still failing. I created a couple of possible raiding builds for a level 85 moonkin, and all of the choices center around what I want to do in the resto tree. I am forced to pick up situational talents I may not want like Typhoon, Solar Beam, and Fungal Growth. The Balance three only has 38 points in it in the first place, and most of the later tiers have only 5 points in them. The only way you can skip a talent in tiers 3-7 is if you use extra points in tiers 1 and 2.
I've said it several times already, but I am seen very little choice in these new talent trees. In my opinion then need to make tier 2 a little more interesting so that we can skip talents like some of the more PvP focused talents if we want to. I think they also need to expand tier 3 to 8 points with a new talent to allow us to skip more talents higher in the tree.
My Current Spec: After seeing Heart of the Wild the raid build I would currently choose became clearer to me. Obviously, we don't have enough numbers to do any real analysis, but this build seems to be the best to me.
As someone pointed out in the comments you could go for Genesis over Moonglow. Since we don't have a ton of information, which you choose really has to do with what assumptions you make regarding mana. I could go either way, but I think mana is going to be a bigger issue. However, I wouldn't max it out at this point. I would leave Owlkin Frenzy and which every talent I don't choose completely blank. That leaves 10 points to be spent in the Feral and Resto trees.
Once again, we have very limited info, but I can't see passing up either Heart of the Wild or Furor. Since they are a percentage increase to Int they will scale well as well as increase our damage and mana. From there it's a question of do you want Master Shapeshifter or Blessing of the Grove and Perseverance. I have a hard time spending four points to pick up a 2% DPS increase in Master Shapeshifter, but it is probably a bigger DPS increase then BotG. The question is how big of a difference is it? I am still a big fan of Perseverance and the damage reduction it provides. If the damage difference isn't much I would probably make the switch.
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Tuesday's warnings could signal a new round of heavy airstrikes on residential areas in the Palestinian territory.
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Palestinian militants have urged residents to ignore the warnings, calling them "psychological warfare."
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Murder trial puts 'brutality' of 'choice' in front of unwilling Americans
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PHILADELPHIA – As the nation awaits a verdict in the abortion murder case against Kermit Gosnell, new revelations of his 40-year career continue to surface. And what they reveal about the abortion industry isn't a pretty picture.
Found in Gosnell's background is the "Mother's Day Massacre." The event was given the name because Gosnell and his partner, Harvey Karman, bused 15 poor women from Chicago to Gosnell's Philadelphia clinic to do the abortions on Mother's Day in 1972.
Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor Cheryl Sullenger told WND in an interview that Gosnell and his partner not only did the abortions before Roe v. Wade, they were using an experimental method.
"It was called the super coil, a plastic ball with razor blades on it. They would insert the coil into the woman's uterus to induce an abortion," Sullenger said. "I don't think any of the women knew they were guinea pigs, that they were being used as an experiment."
The blades were gel-coated and laid down. The device was designed so that when the woman's body temperature melted the gel, the blades sprang up to cut the baby, thus inducing the abortion.
"Most of the women experienced complications and needed additional medical treatment," Sullenger said. "One women ended up needing a radical hysterectomy.
"That's why they call it the Mother's Day Massacre," Sullenger said.
That, she said, was the beginning of Gosnell's long career in the abortion industry.
Most of the attention in the Gosnell trial has focused on the four babies that are the subject of the four first-degree murder charges, Babies "A," "C," "D" and "E."
However, Gosnell's "House of Horrors" apparently was the location of other gruesome activity. Among the more macabre discoveries was Gosnell's collection of baby body parts and how they were kept.
Philadelphia Medical Examiner Dr. Sam Gulino told a Washington Post reporter that he had to deal with frozen baby body parts.
"It was really an unprecedented situation. It was the first time I had to deal with fetal remains that had been frozen. All I could do was allow the remains to thaw so that I could examine them," Gulino told the paper.
Altogether, Gulino told the Post, he had received all or part of 47 fetuses, most of them aborted well into the second trimester. At least a couple, he determined, likely would have been viable outside the mother's womb.
That's just the beginning of the list of bizarre discoveries.
The Blaze compiled a list of abuses Gosnell and his staff are alleged to have committed:
- Gosnell allegedly treated his minority clients with much less respect than his white patients. Considering that he was named, according to the AP, in more than 40 malpractice suits, the clinic head would purportedly perform abortions for Caucasian women in cleaner locations (he assumed whites were more likely to complain about him).
- In addition to the murderous allegations being waged against Gosnell, eight former employees of the clinic have pleaded guilty (some to third-degree murder) and have spoken in great lengths about the terrifying conditions at the clinic.
- A 15-year-old girl allegedly helped facilitate abortions – including on potentially live babies – at the clinic. Ashley Baldwin, now 22, claims she worked nearly 50 hours per week. Even more shocking, she allegedly helped give women the drugs needed for the procedure – and apparently assisted throughout. Baldwin said that she saw aborted babies move on at least two occasions following abortions (in one instance, she said "the chest was moving").
- Gosnell purportedly used untrained and low-paid staff to conduct nearly 1,000 abortions each year. The charge for a procedure in the horrific conditions mentioned? Between $350 and several thousand, depending on how far along the pregnancy was. Prosecutors believe he made millions from the practice. Authorities claim the clinic brought in about $15,000 per day.
- Speaking of "untrained," prosecutors claim, according to the Gospel Coalition, that Gosnell is not certified to work in either gynecology or obstetrics.
- In the grand jury report, the clinic was said to smell of animal urine and blood stains were on blankets and furniture inside of the office. Not surprisingly, sterilized instruments were unheard of inside the establishment. And somehow the state had failed to inspect – or even visit – the clinic since 1993.
- In March, Adrienne Moton, a medical assistant at the clinic, provided sickening details about her alleged actions at the clinic, claiming that she snipped the spines of at least 10 babies; she said that another worker – and Gosnell himself – did the same. But that's not the worst part. Moton also claimed that she once killed a baby after it was delivered in a toilet by cutting its neck with scissors. Moton plead guilty and has been in prison since 2011.
- Another former employee, Sherry West, shared yet another horrifying story. She claims that she was once called to the back room at the clinic, where aborted babies' bodies were apparently kept on a shelf. Once there, West heard a live baby among the bodies cry out. The screaming child "really freaked" her out, she told the court. "I can't describe it. It sounded like a little alien," she said, noting that she previously referred to the babies as "specimens," because it was easier to mentally handle what was going on at the clinic.
- Then theres Robyn Reid's story. She was only an 87-pound teen when she went to the clinic in 1998. Accompanied by her grandmother, she was looking for an abortion. But once she made it to the office, Reid changed her mind. But Salem-News.com writes that the doctor allegedly forced an abortion on her. "Gosnell ripped off her clothes and restrained the girl. When she regained consciousness 12 hours later at her aunt's home, she discovered that an abortion had been performed against her will," the website reports.
The jury is also deliberating on a third-degree murder charge for the death of 41-year-old Bhutanese immigrant Karnamaya Mongar.
In his closing arguments, Prosecutor Ed Cameron reminded the jury of the woman's past.
"She survived 20-years in a refugee camp after fleeing her country (Bhutan). She was privileged to come to the land of the free. She found a new life here, but that came to an end when she met Dr. Gosnell," Cameron said.
"The defense says she died of a respiratory infection, but we have testimony that says she was very healthy. She died because she kept getting more drugs," Cameron said. "We had a toxicologist testify that the levels of the drug meperidine (Demarol) exceeded safe levels. In his view the drugs killed her."
Crime Library reported that University of Pittsburgh Medical School Anesthesiology Department Chairman Dr. Andrew Herlich testified that in Mongar's case, drug doses were "outrageous."
"Mr. Herlich opined that if average-sized adults, with no particular sensitivities to the drugs, were given two custom doses within four hours, most would stop breathing," Crime Library reported.
Further evidence that Mongar was murdered came from the autopsy, LifeNews.com reported in March.
"Assistant Medical Examiner Gary Collins confirmed that the woman, 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar … died from the abortion due to Gosnell and his staff's medical incompetence in terms of administering a proper amount of anesthesia rather than her dying of some other cause."
However, Mongar wasn't the only Gosnell patients to die as the result of a botched abortion.
LifeNews.com reported in April the death of Semika Shirelle Shaw.
"Semika Shirelle Shaw was killed in March, 2000; two days after Gosnell perforated her uterus during an abortion. She developed sepsis and died, leaving two children motherless. A lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount two years later.
"Marie Smith is lucky to be alive after having had a botched abortion by Gosnell in 1999. She developed a high fever and slipped into unconsciousness a week after her abortion. She was rushed to the hospital where the source of her condition was confirmed," the report said.
Said Smith: "They showed me X-rays and said he [Gosnell] left an arm and a leg inside me. I almost died. I thought he knew what he was doing, but I guess I was wrong."
Gosnell has been named in over 40 lawsuits in the past 20 years.
One was filed by Dana Haynes, who had an abortion by Gosnell in November 2006. Haynes alleges that Gosnell lacerated her uterus, cervix and her small bowel during the abortion, LifeNews.com reported.
Trial testimony also focused on clinic staff and their lack of qualifications to perform the duties Gosnell assigned. Prosecution witness Kareema Cross, who worked at the clinic from 2005 through 2009, said she went to school to become a medical assistant and that she was not certified to give medication.
Cross testified: "No, I didn't learn how to give medication. I was never certified to give medication."
The lack of training and certification is reported to have been one of the major causes of problems at Gosnell's clinic. As a result of the lack of training and experience, Cross testified that patients were frequently overmedicated.
"Most of the staff gave medication, but we weren't certified. We would give the medication and frequently the patients complained about their arms swelling from too much medication," Cross testified.
Some of the clinic staff left their jobs because of fears caused by medication errors. LifeNews.com reported that clinic worker Latosha Lewis said that she left the clinic because she overdosed a patient.
"She stopped doing so in 2007 because she overdosed a woman and was worried about whether she would ever come out of anesthesia. She also said she stopped administering Cytotec, a drug that caused powerful and often unpredictable contractions around the same time," LifeNews said.
It said Lewis also testified that the equipment was outdated and that Gosnell often reused disposable medical instruments.
"Lewis indicated that Gosnell's equipment was outdated and never inspected, and that he often reused disposable curettes, which is the sharp-ended tube that enters the womb in abortion procedures and applies suction for the removal of the pre-born baby and other tissues and fluids," LifeNews said.
Cross testified she was also not certified to do ultrasounds. However, Cross said her lack of experience and training didn't stop Gosnell from giving her that job as well.
"I wasn't trained on how to do ultrasounds. At the clinic, Dr. Gosnell trained me on how to use the ultrasound device, for about ten minutes. Then he turned me loose to do them," Cross testified.
Cross testified that she couldn't give the exact number of ultrasounds she performed.
WND reported that trial testimony frequently revealed how often Gosnell was absent from the clinic, especially during the late-term abortions.
"We did a lot of second trimester abortions. I can't say exactly how many. He was almost never there during a second trimester abortion," Cross testified.
The issue of medication was again raised during the portion of the testimony on second trimester abortions.
Cross said workers would simply give medications based on a chart hanging on the wall.
"There was no monitoring equipment to know how much medication [was] giving intravenously. The medication we would give was Lorazepam," Cross said.
Lorazepam is classified by the National Institutes of Health as an anti-anxiety drug.
"There was no monitoring equipment in the room. There were no monitors, no blood pressure monitors," Cross said. "We had a defibrillator but I don't know that we ever used it."
Throughout the trial, questions were raised concerning how many people and organizations knew about Gosnell's operation.
In February 2010, Pennsylvania's Planned Parenthood CEO Dayle Steinberg told Philadelphia's WHYY that she wasn't aware of the clinic's conditions.
"We do anticipate that women who might have scheduled appointments for abortion procedures at the Women's Medical Society will be calling Planned Parenthood," Steinberg said during the WHYY interview.
WHYY reported Steinberg confirmed knowing Gosnell had provided abortions in Philadelphia for many years, that she hadn't heard of problems.
However, after Gosnell's clinic was raided, Steinberg's story changed. Phllly.com, the Philadelphia Inquirer and WHYY website reported Steinberg saying, "The Gosnell trial has shifted the focus off the high-quality services we provide. These are criminal, horrendous . . . acts and should be appropriately punished."
Revelations about the clinic condition also prompted Steinberg to admit that staff at her clinics were frequently treated to Gosnell clinic horror stories. Steinberg told Philly.com, "We would always encourage them to report it to the Department of Health."
WND also reported that Dr. Martln Luther King, Jr.'s niece, Alveda King, believes that the prosecution did its duty.
King believes that Gosnell should be found guilty because of his recklessness in dealing with the patients.
"The prosecution has demonstrated that there was always consciously a disregard for the women and the babies," King said. "The prosecution has shown that there are at least seven babies who died as a result.
"I believe there were many more who were injured, harmed, and killed by Dr. Gosnell and his staff's conscious disregard of all the women and those babies."
Prosecutor Ed Cameron clearly believes the case against Gosnell has been proven, and that reckless disregard for the patients has been shown.
WND reported that Cameron illustrated his point by contrasting how his dog was treated when he was put down, Gosnell's treatment of his patients – mothers and babies.
"My dog got better treatment than these babies and these women," Cameron said. "First they gave him a shot to help him sleep. Then they took him to a room, and once he was asleep, they gave him the shot so that he would not wake up.
"They treated my dog with dignity," Cameron said. "My dog was cremated. [Gosnell] took these babies and put their parts in Lime-Aid jars.
"Those babies didn't stand a chance," Cameron told the jury.
In his closing statement, Cameron also said the ultimate issue is human dignity.
"Pennsylvania law requires that once a baby leaves the mother, he be treated with dignity and respect like a human being," Cameron said. "But the question we need to ask that man sitting over at the table: Are you human? To med these women up and to cut these babies' necks is not human."
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, is calling the case a "watershed moment."
"The discovery of his horrific practices helped shed light on an abortion industry that has run amok without oversight or accountability for decades, and has prompted significant changes in abortion laws and attitudes toward enforcement in several states," he told LifeNews.
Clinic worker Ashley Baldwin testified about watching Massof slit the necks of babies that moved or breathed "five or 10" times. Massof, repeating what he had been taught by Gosnell, told her that that it was standard procedure to cut the spine in all cases.
Baldwin's testimony:
Q: These larger babies, when Dr. Steve was there, did he ever – was he ever there when any of the larger babies precipitated?
A: Yes.
Q: Babies that would move?
A: Yes.
Q: So, Dr. Steve – what would Dr. Steve do with babies that moved?
A: The same thing.
Q. The same thing. And how many time did you see Dr. Steve?
A: A lot. He told me that – don't worry about it. They are not living. It is just a reaction.
At one point, Cross testified, staff member Lynda Williams placed a baby on the counter, and it was breathing and moving its arms when Williams pulled on them.
After playing with the baby, Williams slit its neck, Cross said.
Gosnell's clinic isn't the exception, Priests for Life National Director Father Frank Pavone told WND in an interview that Gosnell's clinic is the "rule."
"This trial simply exposes the abortion industry for what it is. Gosnell's clinic isn't unique. I'm afraid it's the norm," Pavone said.
King would agree.
"So because Dr. Gosnell is the most visible tip of the iceberg today – he's the rule not the exception to the rule. He's visible evidence of the rule – that abortion kills babies, sometimes kills women, it hurts human beings," King said.
Pavone believes that there's more at stake than the fate of Gosnell. Abortion itself is on trial.
"When we hear the things that are coming out of the testimony, nothing is shocking us because we've heard it all before," Pavone said. "The fact that Roe v. Wade made abortion legal did not make it safe. We see all sorts of corruption in unregulated facilities. Sadly this is only more of the same."
Newsbusters noted that the local tax-funded National Public Radio station WHYY described Gosnell as "a physician who had worked in our community for 30 years, cared for women in all of that time."
But the NPR station also noted that the jury "didn't hear from one character witness or one person who was put on the stand to say that he was a competent physician."
Actress Patricia Heaton took to Twitter to give her opinion: "Gosnell is just the less sanitary version of what goes on every day … the cheapening of human life. Lord have mercy."
WND also reported earlier that the discoveries at Gosnell's clinic were startling. A partial list reported by WND includes:
- Rusty and filthy abortion equipment has been brought into the courtroom to document unsanitary conditions.
- Medical records appear to have blood and other stains on them.
- Gosnell's staff acted as though they were doctors, even though some had little or no medical training.
- Medications, including anesthetics, found in the office had expired years earlier.
- A defense attorney blamed a woman, Bhutan immigrant Karnamaya Mongar, for her own death, since she left several blanks on her medical form. Prosecutors said she spoke little English and likely was unaware she needed to provide information.
- Patients appeared to repeatedly get overdoses of drugs for their abortion procedures, including Mongar.
- Photographs of the bodies of babies, revealed gaping wounds in the back of their necks. According to testimony, Gosnell or staff members routinely snipped their spinal cords to make sure they were dead. Operation Rescue said: "The babies were all intact and had the appearance of being partially mummified or dried. The brownish-black skin had shrunk as it dried, revealing the upper spinal column that authorities say was pierced with scissors in order to snip the spinal cords of newborn babies born alive during abortions by Gosnell."
- Photographs were introduced of babies' feet, or even whole legs, Gosnell had preserved in jars.
Prolife activist Lila Rose, whose LiveAction.org has released undercover videos revealing how abortion businesses say they would not help an infant born alive during an abortion, said the government needs to investigate the procedures.
"We believe in human rights for everyone – human rights for the child in the womb, the child outside the womb, and true protection and medical care for women. Not the brutality that goes on during these procedures," she said during a rally Wednesday in Washington.
Congress also is beginning to consider further restrictions on abortions in the District of Columbia as a result of the controversy over the born-alive babies.
And Pavone wrote in the Washington Times that the procedure of abortion not only kills the unborn, but also the abortionist.
Pavone wrote:
"David Brewer, a former abortionist, tells his story: 'I can remember that day watching the first abortion . I saw a little tiny head, and I saw a piece of a leg, and I saw a tiny hand, and I saw an arm. You know, it was like somebody put a hot poker into me . I had a conscience and that hurt. That was a very hard experience for me to go through, emotionally. So I did what a lot of us do throughout our life, we don't do anything. I didn't talk with anybody about it. and do you know what happened? I got to see another abortion. You know what? That one hurt, too. But I kept seeing abortions, and it hurt a little bit less every time I saw one. Do you know what happened next? I got to sit down and do one . The first one that I did was kind of hard. It was like hurting again like a hot poker. But after a while, it got to where it didn't hurt' (Testimony at 'Meet the Abortion Providers' conference in Chicago).
"So yes, I am not at all surprised that Dr. Gosnell is cool, calm and collected, smiling even as he listens to those accusing him of murder. Abortion destroys the abortionists themselves."


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Pretty obvious at this point Guts is going to ride the Spirit Tree down into the Astral Realm.
No matter what, Casca is going to be cured, but what I'm dreading is the journey to Falconia and how long that's going to take.
Plus, of course we'll be seeing how the world has changed over the years, how humans have survived, what "civilization" means in this new world. It's not going to be an unventful journey.
I'm aware that's it's pretty much the only "safe house" in the world right now, but will everyone decide to go there. I mean there must be places that are far from Falconia and the trip there could be very dangerous.
You dread knowing that they are eventually going to go from A to B? That seems pretty shortsighted. It's not as if Miura isn't going to have developments along the way. There is still a TON of stuff to wrap up before the "final battle," presuming that even happens in Falconia. Plus, of course we'll be seeing how the world has changed over the years, how humans have survived, what "civilization" means in this new world. It's not going to be an unventful journey.
It will be very interesting to see how they live in the new world indeed. I'm wondering if, by the time we get back to a Falconia point of view, how many people will have move in the city.
Is Griffith slowly building a bigger army to take on the monsters and "liberate" outpost that are trying to survive against astral creature? I think we breached quickly that subject when we saw Rickert in the forge/armory...
If nothing else, we know the Bakiraka are still holding out in their village. With Rickert and Erika there, there's a good chance that could be the next stop.
I think the war will be against astral creatures (who else).
but more immediately, I think one of the first things Griffith would do is have his troops secure a route for survivors to make their way to Falconia on. I think that's basically what we were seeing when Rickert's caravan arrived on the doorstep of Falconia.
I think it's going a bit far to say that's the "next stop" given how cloudy the horizon is right now. Of course, that makes sense scenario-wise, but not story-wise (right now), given that Guts and co. have no idea about that place, or Rickert/Erika living there.
maybe the departure of Puck - that was talked about on the previous page - will be disclosed/was due to him finding the "Dark Beast" clothed in black from the elfin prophecy ), before we get to Guts verbally state his wish towards the the elf ruler.
But - if my memory serves me right - it is given (to the community) that the party Guts gathered will/have to learn what happened with him in the past at some point and that point will be here on the Island. So do you think that this means all of them will witness the tragedy/massacre that transpired, do you think the Ruler will sent away his citizens and then proceed, or seclude/isolate the party in another specific area?
Passing through that moment of her's, I imagine Ubik being drawn like a still painting in the background that detects what is going on and creepily manifest from the still image of the past into a lively present one.
Interesting ideas, but I don't really see why Ubik would specifically want to target Guts and Casca. He finds Guts amusing, but hasn't really displayed any singular interest in him like Slan has. If Ubik were to make an appearance on Skellig, I imagine it would would likely be more of a full-scale attack on the island's inhabitants, rather than just mucking with an insignificant sacrifice for funsies.
Puck doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who had been searching for Guts all along. I think it happened like it appears -- he simply crossed paths with Guts and together they eventually became wrapped up in each other's travels, as companions.
Alternatively, I think it's possible we'll get some further explanation of what SK meant in Vol 14 when he said that perhaps Guts has a connection with the elves. Perhaps the Sovereign of the Flower Storm knows all about Guts and his travels. There are of course many examples of Guts being watched over by elves, from Chich, to the elf dust Judo procured, to Puck. These could all be coincidences, but it may also have been the Sovereign's influence. While that may sound farfetched right now, it's clear that Miura is setting the Sovereign up to represent a great, transcendental power. A great display of that power would be to connect some of those dots for us.
I don't think that the restoration process is going to be done at this very moment. As you said, it's pretty crowded in that room, and I expect the restoration will be an intimate affair. As for Guts' party, I don't think they'll need to be treated to a magic light show to learn what happened between Guts, Casca and Griffith. I think they'll simply be told. Or maybe there's some other method that will be employed (magic light show).
That is a deliciously creepy image, even if I still I have a hard time believing it will come to pass. I do like your idea though -- that the darkness within Casca is what would allow one of the God Hand to (partially) manifest, even in the presence of the otherwise inhospitable environment of Elfhelm.
Yep, either that initial image was based on canon Elf Knight lore or it's the life in the art imitating the art in the art. My favorite possibility though is Miura just had the same idea twice independently when it came to designing the armor of the Elvin guards. More likely he just couldn't get it out of his head because it's pretty neat, and of course he uses similarly styled "armor" in Gigantomakhia.
My first thought (which I still hold) is that he decided to style them after the original "Puck Knight" picture, just for the reference.


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You are invited to attend three related workshops, a field trip, and a winter school that will be held in Israel in January 23-29, 2014.
The three workshops will present different approaches to the study of decision making, learning, and bounded rationality.
In addition, graduate students and post doc fellows are invited to apply to a winter school that will be based on the three workshops with the option of getting academic credit for participation. The formal teachers of the course will be Ido Erev (Technion), Eyal Ert (Hebrew University), Doron Kliger (Haifa University), Arnon Lotem (Tel Aviv University). The school requirements include the attendance of the three workshops (the session on Saturday is optional), and one additional session (on Jan 29). The students' main task is to build on the research presented in the workshops to propose new research projects. The proposed projects will be presented on the last session, and the final papers will submitted after two weeks.
The program:
Workshop 1: The Math Psych approach and Decision Field Theory
January 23, Room 527 Bloomfield bldg., Technion (9:30- 17:30):
Organizers: Rachel Barkan and Kinneret Teodorescu.
Speakers: Rachel Barkan, Jerome Busemeyer, James Townsend, Tim Pleskac, Adele Diederich, Amnon Rapoport, Jörg Rieskamp, Tom Wallsten, and Eldad Yechiam.
Workshop 2: Learning and bounded rationality
January 24-25, Dan Panorama, Haifa (9:30 to 17:30):
Organizers: Ido Erev, Reinhard Selten, Sabine Pittnauer and Martin Hohnisch.
The first day will include reviews of distinct approaches to learning and bounded rationality, and the second day will focus on experimental study of decisions from experience.
Field trip to the Dead Sea via Rehovot and Rahat
January 26, leaving Dan Panorama Haifa at 9:00
A visit to Sharoni Shafir's Bee laboratory in Rehovot, lunch and a discussion of the Israeli law and the Beduin culture in Rahat, hike in nature around the dead sea.
Workshop 3: Decisions, risk and ambiguity
January 27-29, the Dead Sea
Organizers: Peter Wakker, Han Bleichrodt and Ido Erev.
The first two days will include short talks on decision theory, prospect theory, and the effect of experience. Speakers (partial list): Han Bleichrodt, Kinneret Teodorescu, Ori Plonsky, Peter Wakker, Tomás Lejarraga,, Tim Rakow, Nathan Ashby, Tilmann Betsch, Renato Frey, Doron Kliger, Idan Zelikovich. The last day (Jan 29, 9:00-12:00) will be devoted to presentations by the students of the winter school.
Our program is supported by a grant from the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences Humanities and the Arts, and by the Max Wertheimer Minerva center, the I-CORE center for empirical law (ISF), the Microsoft-Technion e-commerce research center, and the Erasmus-Technion fund. Some of the students accepted to the winter school will be offered free accommodation in the conference hotel in the Dead Sea.
The registration to the workshops will be opened on December 2nd, 2013.
You are invited to attend part or all events.
The organization committee
Ido Erev, Reinhard Selten, Sabine Pittnauer and Martin Hohnisch


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MIAMI (Reuters) - The Department of Labor has ordered Florida to improve access to jobless benefits for people with disabilities or limited English proficiency in a ruling that could help make the state's unemployment insurance program more accessible to everyone, employment rights and legal advocacy groups said on Thursday.
"This is a huge victory," Valory Greenfield, an attorney for the non-profit Florida Legal Services, said of the Labor Department ruling.
"It's our expectation that this decision will have implications for the way Florida continues to implement its program with respect to all kinds of groups of people," Greenfield said.
Under revised procedures introduced in 2011, Florida requires everyone who applies for unemployment benefits to do so online and to complete a 45-question online exam that tests reading, math and research skills before they can receive a check.
The Labor Department's Civil Rights Center has been investigating the changes, based on a complaint filed by the National Employment Law Project and Florida Legal Services. In an initial determination, made public on Thursday, the department found that some of the more onerous online procedures may have opened the door to civil rights violations involving people with language and disability barriers.
"The way it's been operating does in fact violate certain federal discrimination laws," said George Wentworth, a senior staff attorney with the National Employment Law Project.
Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity, which administers the state's jobless benefits program, denied any legal violations. It said in a brief statement that the changes introduced in 2011 "conformed to federal law and regulations." Florida was working, however, to improve jobless aid, it said.
A Labor Department spokesperson said the federal government and Florida were now working together "to ensure that all persons who have limited English language proficiency or have disabilities, and who are eligible for unemployment compensation, have fair and meaningful access to those benefits."
Under a timeline laid out in its preliminary ruling, Florida was given 60 days beginning on April 5 to reach voluntary compliance with the ruling or face civil action by the U.S. Attorney General's Office and the potential loss of federal funding.
The ruling also provided a list of proposed remedies to fix some of the problems in Florida, which has a large population of people for whom English is not their primary language.
A separate, broader complaint filed with the Labor Department over the revisions to Florida's unemployment benefits program is still pending. Greenfield said the preliminary ruling was sure to set some precedent and influence other states considering online-only systems like Florida's.
"We think this signals a blueprint," she said. "It's telling these states, including Florida, that if you're going to do this you have to do it in a thoughtful way and protect people's rights."
She did not elaborate, but Florida ranks among the most tight-fisted states in the country when it comes to providing jobless benefits for the unemployed.
The average unemployment benefit paid to recipients in Florida was just $231 a week last year. Only Alabama and Mississippi paid out less in average weekly jobless aid.
Florida also ranks among the lowest in the nation when it comes to the number of eligible people receiving jobless benefits. In Florida these benefits are available for only 19 weeks compared with 26 weeks in most other states.
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It's two in a row for the Chiefs in Super Rugby and after upsetting the Crusaders 24-19 at McLean Park tonight as they showed they must be taken seriously by all other sides.
Dave Rennie and his support staff have gambled on a number of young players and, partly due to early injuries, have thrown them in to the heat of battle almost from the outset.
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The result is back-to-back wins over the Blues and Crusaders after losing the first New Zealand conference derby narrowly to the high-flying Highlanders.
Some felt it would take time for the new-look Chiefs to build but Rennie's crew have done their homework very thoroughly and it is showing as the belief builds among the players and the huge work ethic that the coaches have stressed from the outset and made a key ingredient of their recruiting is paying off early.
The Chiefs dominated possession and territory for the second week running, although they had to withstand a typically determined Crusaders fightback in the second spell after taking a 16-6 lead to the halftime break.
In the end they scored two tries to the Crusaders' one, emerged triumphant again from the physical battle, stood up and at times dominated in the set-pieces - usually the Crusaders' strength - and for the third week in a row defended outstandingly.
The Chiefs took the game to the Crusaders right from the start and the confidence soared as the much-vaunted red and black scrum buckled and twisted under pressure, conceding turnovers and penalties as 20-year-old rookie Ben Tameifuna had Ben Franks under all sorts of trouble.
The visitors dominated both possession and territory, playing a strong mix of ball-in-hand and kicking for territory to keep the Crusaders pinned back in their own half for the majority of the time.
The only try of the opening spell went the Chiefs' way when inspirational blind-side flanker Liam Messam was driven over in the right corner from a blind-side attack after another solid buildup which featured Sonny Bill Williams taking the ball up strongly, the forwards taking it on and then Messam finishing off before getting the nod from television match official Richard Kelly.
That try came 26 minutes into the half and vaulted the Chiefs to a 13-3 lead once five-eighth Aaron Cruden knocked over the wide-angled conversion.
Earlier, Cruden had kicked the Chiefs into a 3-0 lead in the opening minute of the match, but hit a flat patch with his kicking and missed his next two attempts, Crusaders No 10 Tyler Bleyendaal having levelled the scores at 3-3 in the eighth minute.
Some big Chiefs scrums, strong running from Williams up the middle of the field and great ball carrying from youngsters Tameifuna and workaholic lock Brodie Retallick thus went unrewarded until Cruden finally found his rhythm and range again halfway through the opening spell.
Down 13-3, the Crusaders suddenly looked like the awakened sleeping giant as halfback Andy Ellis and No 8 and captain Kieran Read looked to inspire the match favourites, who were playing yet another home game away from Christchurch.
Messam stopped Read scoring after a blind-side scrum break from Ellis and then Ellis was unlucky not to get a try himself when he was harshly ruled offside with a base-of-the-scrum steal inside the Chiefs' 22.
Bleyendaal and Cruden exchanged penalty goals in the last five minutes and the Crusaders finished the half on attack with Tawera Kerr-Barlow and Tim Nanai-Williams bundling Corey Flynn into touch in the right corner right on halftime.
As the teams trooped under the stands for the 10-minute break, the Crusaders knew they had not been their usual efficient selves with a high error rate under the pressure applied by the upstart Chiefs.
The Crusaders opened the second spell looking determined to finally impose their game on the Chiefs, but again in the conditions made greasy by pre-match rain they let themselves down with their handling and even a stunning break by winger Israel Dagg brought no reward.
A crucial ruck steal by Chiefs fullback Robbie Robinson spoilt a dangerous Crusaders attack at the line, but then Robinson had the ball stolen from him after fielding a high kick and the Crusaders made no mistake this time with centre Robbie Fruean running a great angle to score behind the posts, Bleyendaal's conversion closing the gap to 16-13.
The Chiefs needed to get back into the game and when they worked their way marginally into Crusaders' territory Cruden was handed the ball for a tough penalty kick 50 metres out, the ball just dropping under the crossbar.
But it gave the visiting side much needed field position and when Ellis flicked an awkward pass back to Flynn on the Crusaders' 22m line the resulting knock-on it put the Chiefs in prime attacking territory.
They took quick advantage with the midfield scrum and went left to hammer the corner where pumped up loosehead prop Sona Taumalolo got over in a melee for the try that referee Garratt Williamson awarded when Kelly was unable to give him any reason not to from inconclusive video footage.
Cruden's conversion missed but the try gave the Chiefs breathing space once more at 21-13 - not for long though as Bleyendaal nailed consecutive penalty goals from out in front in the space of three minutes to close it back up to 21-19.
With the Chiefs suddenly on the back foot it took some great defence from centre Richard Kahui - outstanding all game - and right winger Asaeli Tikoirotuma to inspire a rearguard action.
Finally they worked their way back into the attacking half of the field, Cruden chased his own chip kick and Zac Guildford knocked on to give the Chiefs an attacking scrum on the Crusaders' 22m line.
There was no immediate reward apart valuable field position and when Bleyendaal was penalised for not rolling away less than five minutes from the end he made no mistake from 40m out to give his team some breathing space at 24-19.
Not done yet, the Crusaders swept back downfield from the kickoff, Read desperately stretched out for the intercept that would have given his team the winning chance, but he knocked on and the Chiefs were able to clear from the resulting defensive scrum. Their defence held out against phase after phase before the mistake came after the final hooter and the Chiefs had their second win in a row.
The Chiefs now go to Mt Maunganui next Friday night to take on Australia's Brumbies, brimming with confidence after holding their own so far in the home conference.
CHIEFS 24 (Liam Messam, Sona Taumalolo tries; Aaron Cruden conversion, 4 penalty goals)
CRUSADERS 19 (Robbie Fruean try; Tyler Bleyendaal conversion, 4 penalty goals).


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Wantan Recipes
Shrimp Wonton Soup Recipe
Shrimp wonton soup is a delicious soup made with dumplings and chicken broth. It's perfect for soothing your throat. I served the Asian shrimp wontons along with broccoli florets to keep the dish very simple. If you want to serve this soup as a main course, you could add egg noodles along with other greens such as bok choy.
We're finally back from Texas where we spent our spring break and everyone except me is starting to get sick. I made this soup for the meat eaters in the house, but a vegetarian wonton soup is just as easy to prepare.
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Vegetarian Wonton Soup Recipe
Wonton soup is made with dumplings and flavorful broth. It may look difficult, but the dish isn't as complicated as it seems. The key is to use thin, good quality wonton wraps. I've tried several brands and I've finally found the one with perfect thickness and consistency. All you need is a little practice at folding the dumplings. I will post a video soon demonstrating how to make wontons. Stay tuned!
I filled these wontons with fried jicama, tofu and shiitake mushrooms. I served the soup as a side dish. It's vegetarian, low in calories and delicious. Wontons are work, but they are rewarding.
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by Len Lear
Raffaele (Ralph) Tudisco of Mt. Airy, a graduate of Chestnut Hill College, has to be the nation's number one opera buff. He literally breathes, eats and sleeps opera. Every waking minute of every day (and probably every dream) is consumed by opera. Tudisco, who has traveled all over the world to buy music, has a collection of more than 700 vocal scores, 25,000 records, 5,000 CDs and countless books about opera. "The UPS guy and the mailman are my best friends," he said.
Ralph, 54, is the founder of the Amici Opera Company, which opens its 14th season on Saturday, Sept. 15, with an opera that almost no one in the U.S. has ever heard of (more on that later).
The opera will be the 106th different opera performed by Amici, and it will be Ralph's 157th different role, which is probably more than any other operatic performer in the U.S. if not the world. Ralph, who began singing opera 39 years ago, has performed 19 more roles than the legendary Placido Domingo, for example, even though Domingo is 19 years older. Ralph has performed in all 26 of Verdi's operas, and there is no record of any other singer, past or present, matching that accomplishment.
The 14th season opener will be "King Lear," by Antonio Cagnoni (1828 – 1896), who is almost completely unknown in the U.S., even among most opera buffs and even though he was very well known in his lifetime in Italy. Cagnoni wrote 20 operas, the last of which was "King Lear." (The greatest operatic composer of all, Giuseppe Verdi, worked on and off for years on an opera about King Lear, but he never finished it.)
Cagnoni did finish his "King Lear" in 1896, but tragically he died soon afterwards. As a result, it was not published until 1900 but quickly faded into oblivion, where it stayed for more than 100 years. In 2009 it was discovered by an Italian opera troupe, which proceeded to perform it on July 19, 2009, at the Festival della Valle d'Itria, a summer opera held in the southeastern Italian town of Martina Franca in the Apulia region.
The Festival was founded in 1975, and performances are given in July and August each summer on a specially constructed stage in an outdoor courtyard. Up until today, this was the one and only performance in the world of this 116-year-old opera based on Shakespeare's four-hour tragedy.
A CD recording was made of that one performance, and that CD was sent to Tudisco by an opera store owner in Vermont, from whom Ralph has been buying merchandise for 20 years. "I listened to it," said Ralph, "and I thought that the singers were not that great, but the music was very beautiful and very melodic. It's just a shame that Cagnoni never lived to see it performed."
Anxious to perform the opera for the first time ever in the U.S., Tudisco tried to find out where in the U.S. he could obtain the score of Cagnoni's "King Lear." (Even his sources in Italy did not have the score.) He discovered that only two places in the country had it — the libraries at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard University.
Ralph called the Harvard Library in June of this year and found out that they would charge him $300 to copy the score and send it to him. The Amici Opera Company could not afford the $300, but if Ralph (or a friend) went to Harvard in person, he would be allowed to copy the score on a library copying machine for a small fraction of the quoted price. (Although Amici does charge an admission fee to their operas of about $25, they usually just break even after paying rent to the church or other facility where they rehearse and perform, as well as the cost of publicity, mailings, etc. Ralph still does not own a computer, believe it or not.)
As a result, Ralph's friend, Steve Geraci, a mail carrier from Olney who comes to many of Amici's performances, traveled to Harvard as a favor the day after Ralph's phone call. Steve arrived at the Harvard Library just after it opened at 9 a.m. and copied page after page for five hours until just before 2 p.m., when the library closed its doors for the day. (It was a Saturday.) The cost for copying was $29, less than 10 percent of the price quoted on the phone.
The Amici Opera Company began rehearsals of "King Lear" on Aug. 20. "Everyone in the cast loves the music," said Ralph, a baritone who will be performing the title role. "It is so beautiful. It's just a shame that out of Cagnoni's 20 operas, only two have ever been recorded."
The best compliment Ralph ever received was from an 80-year-old woman in Upper Dublin after a performance of "The Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart. She said, "You are the best Figaro I have ever seen, and I have seen Robert Merrill, Frank Guarrera, John Charles Thomas and Carlo Morelli all do it in person."
"King Lear" will be performed Saturday, Sept. 15, and Friday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m. both times, at the Holmesburg United Methodist Church, 8118 Frankford Ave. (at Welsh Road) in Northeast Philly. There are two adjacent parking lots, and the church is wheelchair-accessible. Tickets are $25 at the door; $22 for seniors and advance purchases; $15 for students and $10 for children 12 and under. For more information, call 215-224-0257.


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by Paula M. Riley
Teenagers, Inc. promised that this year's "A Taste of Chestnut Hill" would offer a new venue and a new celebration for an old fundraiser. Attendees at last Sunday's event found that was just what they got.
"Everything about the new location was perfect – it was warm and friendly," said long time attendee Janine Mazzarelli. "The big windows and votive candles in popcorn centerpieces created a great atmosphere and the Guatemalan blankets as décor were perfect for this group of kids who have done so much locally and for Guatemala."
Teenagers, Inc. members butlered hors d'oeuvres and desserts that were donated by area restaurants and businesses. A buffet included various appetizers and sandwiches that were more than satisfying.
Thai Ku provided edame, fried vegetable dumplings and their very popular crispy chicken wontons. Paul Roller from Flying Fish was generous with his donations of crudité platters and pigs-in-a-blanket. He also opened up his restaurant so Teens could get buckets of ice needed at the event.
CinCin's spring rolls, chicken cheesesteak sliders from Campbell's and fabulous wings from Chestnut 7, Tavern on the Hill and Darcy's kept the crowd satisfied. The endless dessert table featured mint chocolate pieces from Heirloom and four trays of apple cobbler from Mica as well as fancy cupcakes from Night Kitchen and homemade chocolate chip cookies.
Teenagers, Inc. members and young adult board members handled every aspect of the event. Food pick-ups were coordinated by Colin Koch, all drinks and food were served by teens and Brennan O'Donnell and Carlos Diaz acted as emcees, sharing their experiences with Teens, Inc.
"Seeing how happy people are in Guatemala, even though they have so little has taught me a lot" said Garappo, referring to the service trip Teens, Inc sponsors each year to Antigua, Gautemala. His enthusiasm, as well as that of all participating teens, is what made the fundraiser special.
"A Taste of Chestnut Hill" is Teenagers, Inc. largest fundraiser. Known as Teens, Inc. this non-profit group fosters a community spirit among area teens and provides opportunities for them to socialize in a safe environment. The organization relies upon the community's generosity to offer many social, service, tutoring and leadership opportunities for youth in seventh through twelfth grades. Currently members represent 15 different schools in the area.
"This event works because of the teens' commitment to helping that day and integrating fun and organizational skills along with various ethnicity and faith as they step beyond their bubble and help make this great," said Marianne Dwyer, Director of Teens, Inc.
She applauded the many restaurants that donate and the businesses that give raffle donations. Learn more at www.teensincphilly.org or Facebook.


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On first down, Seattle passed 33% of the time today (7 out of 21 attempts).
On second down, Seattle passed a whopping 74% of the time (14 out of 19 attempts), including both of Seattle's passing touchdowns.
The run-run-pass combination occurred exactly twice in the entire game.
I'm not exactly fully pleased with the play-calling - I think they tried too many short passes early in an attempt to open up the deep ball, and I'm tired of the endless empty backfield on 3rd and short. But I find it hard to take calls for Bevell's head seriously when his critics aren't even remembering what plays were called correctly.


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, HONG KONG, Nov 26 -An individual car parking space has sold for HK$1.3 million (Sh14.4million) in Hong Kong, reports said on Monday, as investors seek new ways of making money amid sky-high property prices.
Buyers have turned to parking lots to make quick gains after the government imposed a series of measures last month to try to cool the Chinese city's overheated housing market.
But the soaring price of a car park space is raising concern that money flowing into the city could further inflate the red-hot property market, the South China Morning Post reported.
Tycoon Li Ka-shing's flagship Cheung Kong Holdings made HK$600 million ($77 million) over the weekend after it sold 514 car park slots, according to the Post and The Standard newspapers.
Some of the slots, priced between HK$980,000 and HK$1.3 million and located in the New Territories bordering mainland China, were quickly resold for profits of up to HK$300,000 each, the reports said.
Cheung Kong could not immediately confirm the sales when contacted.
The parking lots reportedly can be rented out at HK$3,800 to HK$4,700 a month, fetching a yield of about four percent and attracting investors after housing market sentiment was dented by the cooling measures.
"It's natural as people don't want their money to stay idle in the bank," Wong Leung-sing, research head of estate agency Centaline, told AFP.
"(The measures) force people to turn to speculation in the car park market," he said, adding that current average car park prices were near the peak levels seen in 1997.
The government last month announced a series of measures including raising the special stamp duties for properties re-sold within the first three years of purchase, to try to rein in home prices.
Authorities said the price of small and medium-sized apartments surged 20 percent in the first nine months of the year.


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270g caster sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 eggs
270 plain flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
Pinch of salt
225g sour cream
50g unsalted butter
4 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
The cake looks beautiful! I'm intrigued by the butter glaze, it looks delicious:)
Oh it looks delicious and the butter glaze is different from a sugary drizzle.
Looks lovely, that's a really nice tin! I am feeling autumn coming along too. Plum and oatmeal cake is my favourite autumn bake!
I completely agree with all the points you've made in this post, particularly the one about pairing cake with a big mug of tea. Tea and cake is a match made in heaven and this one looks wonderful, not to mention the tin =)
It looks so goo, I could almost taste it when I looked at the cut slice. I have to say although I did all my housework, I am looking around at the devastation of my living room. Books, cars, cuddly toys. *Sigh* No relaxing for me yet!
Looks wonderful. I agree with you about the mornings recently, very autumnal and blustery. This cake look delicious, great texture and lovely shape
Looks great! I love sour cream and butter milk cakes. I've also found hints of autumn both mornings and evenings. Nights has got darker. Perfect time to enjoy cuppa with cake.
This cake look awesome, I really love your mold!!
I love your bundt tin and your cake looks gorgeous x
I really want this tin...and a butter glaze? hello!
This cake looks absolutely delish and the sour cream would give it a lovely tangy lightness.
I know what you mean about the Autumn smell. I smelled it at the end of July when we were camping! It's actualy one of my favourite smells, along with the smell of proper tomatoes - and the smell of cake baking of course!
Very geometrically aesthetically pleasing CC - plus that glaze sounds ah-may-zing!
Butter glaze? YUM! Perfect cake to ease us into autumn.
Love the butter glaze topping on this delicious cake! LOVELY! ;)
I always admire bundt tins and then realise it's a huge amount of cake for two to get through.....
Your bundt cake is making me envious!
What a beautiful cake! I love sour cream bundt cakes but have never tried it with a butter glaze which sounds delicious.
I don't think I've ever tried a butter glaze on a cake before - sounds good though and makes a change from glace icing.
What a gorgeous cake! I adore buttery cakes so I will have to give this a go.
Wow, what an amazing bundt tin! I also love adding sour cream to cake, it gives it the best texture! Looks delish
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Al fresco with saignée
2009 Peter Lauer Ayler Kupp Riesling Senior Faß 6
Beautiful wine. Like rainwater with floral essence and stone pit fruits. Gentle, balanced, and composed. The Lauer wines jumped out at me the first time I ever tried the MWM portfolio and every bottle I've had since falls completely in line. Although I preferred the liveliness of the 2008 version, this wine is fantastic. Drink your own body weight fantastic.
2009 Reinhard & Beate Knebel Winninger Brückstück Riesling Feinherb
In comparison to the Lauer, this is a bit bigger and more fruit driven. I don't want to give the impression that this was indelicate or imprecise in any way, it's just in comparison to the ethereal Lauer. This showed more stone notes to balance the deeper fruit tones.
N.V. Equipo Navazos Jerez-Xérès-Sherry La Bota de Fino "Macharnudo Alto" Nº 18
So I'm working through some sherry these days in an attempt to get my head around it before heading to Spain in March. This is my second La Bota and it is an excellent Fino. Full of almond skin and minerals with the autolytic esters. I'm not sure that I like this more than the El Maestro Sierra Fino. It was hard to really concentrate on it with all the hubbub. I'll try another bottle on a more quiet evening with a bottle of the Maestro Sierra for comparison.
1998 Mugneret-Gibourg Ruchottes-Chambertin
Whoa. This was totally outlandish. The nose stank of candied rhubarb. I've never smelled anything quite so singular. There were a lot fo other Gevrey type things going on including that sort of animal mineral quality that I associate with Gevrey wines. There was some leather, woodsmoke, spice, and cherry, but the rhubarb thing was so dominate it was crazy. This is texturally getting to a much better place than my last bottle in early 2009. Wow, I wonder where this is headed?
2001 Forey Echezeaux
This was a controversial bottle. There was a burnt rubber and gunpowder presence that overshadowed the nose that I associate with reduction, but that Cory and Will insisted was Brett. In any event, I was interested to see if the oak that Forey wines have when young would still show. It did. There were some brambly Echezeaux notes in there, but the reduction made it hard to get too. Oh well.
1998 Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Now this has a diaper thing that I associate with Brett. On the downslope, I guess. Some faded grenachy fruit. Doesn't peak much interest. Who cares, right?
2000 Antichi Vigneti di Cantalupo Ghemme Collis Breclemae
Didn't get much of a read on this. More delicate than the Pora. with a granitic note to the fruit. Some earthier elements coming out. Nice texture.
2001 Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco Riserva Pora
Leathery with dried cherries and earthy richness. There was a brothiness to the wine that had a distinct savory quality.
2003 Baudry Chinon Les Grézeaux
Well, fuck me. In the midst of so many more important wines, leave it to a Baudry Grézeaux to come in and make you wonder why you bother with anything else. Pristine notes of black and red fruits buttressed by the inimitable stone and dark earth notes of Grézeaux. A mouth of fruit and gravel with a tangy snap. Showing really, really well. A different version than the 2002 from a week ago, but no less compelling.
2005 Edmond Vatan Sancerre Clos la Néore
Great showing. Rich, but not over the top. Nice to know Cory was suitably impressed by his run in wi9th this wine. I've said it many times, Vatan transcends grape and is a sui generis expression of Chavignol.
There were some other wines, but I cannot for the life of me remember them. More importantly, there was a lot of great food and conversation shared with great friends. Everyone should do this kind of thing more often. I mean, this is the whole point, right?
6 comments:
- John said...
Pique. Otherwise, nice notes. That Baudry is lovely despite the 2003 ripeness.
Best, John
- October 20, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Iuli said...
I'm not sure I understand Vatan. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy his wines immensely; but...
Three weeks ago while making wine in the fingers lakes my buddy and I popped an '02 Neore. It was impressively young, but dominated by leesy 'autolytic' aromas. I'm not sure I see the terroir in this wine.
Help me understand...
- October 20, 2010 at 6:19 PM
- Salil said...
Love that 09 Lauer Senior. Got the Kern on deck for this weekend.
Also, is Baudry capable of making any wine that's less than stellar?
- October 22, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- the vlm said...
Baudry, Breton, and Foucault all made lovely 2003s.
The 2002 Vatan is god wine. I find them to have a strange creamed corn/limestone chalk thing that is totally distinctive. Not autolytic to me.
Matthieu Baudry is making wines as reliably excellent as anyone on the planet. If his terroir was in Chambolle, they'd be a fortune. Be thankful that most idiots ignore Chinon.
- October 22, 2010 at 10:29 AM
- Creative Anarchy said...
I've had bad luck with Forey's wines, as they always seem very "rustic" to me. And not in a particularly good way at that, more along the lines of inferior vineyard work and indifferent winemaking.
- October 22, 2010 at 1:20 PM
- slaton said...
I've heard from winemakers that creamed corn or tinned fruit aromas when found are often in whites raised in stainless (reductive environment), but then later experienced some oxidation due to normal bottle aging. So in a sense it's the oxidation of reductive compounds giving rise to these aromas.
I've really come to hate wines that smell like this. Not my bag at all.
- November 24, 2010 at 3:58 PM


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The Autism Program at Yale is an interdisciplinary group of clinicians and scholars dedicated to providing comprehensive clinical services to children with autism spectrum disorders and their families. Here, Pamela Ventola, PhD, is evaluating a child's ability to nonverbally communicate. In assessing children with autism, specialists often "tempt" children to communicate by, for example, blowing bubbles and stopping, to see if they can get the child to indicate with gestures and sounds that s/he wants more.
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