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October 03, 2013
In a recent interview with online arts and political magazine Guernica, George Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker, talks about his latest book, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, which was published earlier this year and was inspired, in part, by "the failure of Wall Street, the failure of Washington, [and] the bottoming out of the economy." Here's how Guernica describes the book:
As a work of history, the "unwinding" refers to a protracted process of ideological decay, moving from the relative assurances of the 1960s and 1970s that jobs awaited high school and college grads to a present culture that wantonly foists or withholds its rewards. Assembled as a series of profiles through history that span Silicon Valley, Washington, Wall Street, and the heartlands, the work covers the likes of Oprah, venture capital giants like Peter Thiel, and "ordinary" Americans like the Hartzells, a family staggering their way through the modern economy between bouts of near homelessness, unemployment, medical bills, and chronic demoralization.
In the interview, Packer cites several interesting things about the writing of Unwinding, and I want to point to two of them here.
The first has to do with how taboos and norms have changed in the past three to four decades (the time span Packer covers in his book) and how they affect the modern workplace. According to Packer:
In the 1970s a CEO would unthinkingly have an affair with his secretary and would crack an ethnic joke or use a racial slur. He would not lay off 20 percent of the workforce while the board gave him a big pay raise, because that violated a norm. It wasn't written anywhere, there was no law saying here's the limit to what the difference between what CEO and average worker pay can be, but it was kept relatively low because that kept the peace ... But now that's gone. The affair would get him in trouble; the racial slur would probably get him fired. But he's rewarded for trashing his workforce. It's considered a good move by Wall Street.
And, of course, the spread between what Mr. CEO makes on an annual basis versus the rest of his company's employees has widened from the width of a river to that of an ocean.
It should also be pointed out that I don't think Packer is exaggerating in the least. While we've certainly come a long way socially in a short time, and it's no doubt a sign of progress that ethnic jokes and slurs aren't tolerated as much as they were in the near past, it's also extremely troublesome that, today, putting people out of work is seen as a smart business move and CEOs (and other managers) are given strong pats on the back plus handsome salary hikes when they can trim even the slightest amount off the so-called bottom line. That is, shareholder interest has become king at the expense of job creation, the unemployment rate, and the creation of a strong middle class.
The second thing, which is not unrelated, is an answer of Packer's that comes near the close of the interview (note: Packer grew up in Silicon Valley and so knows the area well):
What I saw out there was Silicon Valley was dangerously close to a decadent stage where we're no longer solving important problems or discovering important things that will fundamentally change our lives for the better. It's like Wall Street and Washington: people go to cash out, divorced from their ostensible functions. Wall Street was supposed to provide credit to the economy. Washington was supposed to provide sensible legislation and representation, and Silicon Valley is supposed to create engineering products that change lives, and I don't see that happening in a very persuasive scale anymore. They're all mimicking each other in their decadence.
In other words, the so-called innovation of Silicon Valley = the greed of Wall Street = the self-interest of Washington. Which, at a glance, appears to be sadly true. Aren't the same MBA types who formerly donned suspenders and pinstripes and were treated to monstrous bonus checks and ridiculous perks like free rides anywhere and everywhere and dinners at Le Cirque now donning custom-made buttoned-downs and making craploads in stock options and being treated to ridiculous perks like massages at work and all the organic food-truck food they can ingest in under an hour? And how different, after all, is taking both sides in a suprime mortgage deal behind the back of one of your so-called clients from surreptitiously selling every last personal detail of one of your so-called users?
Of course, Packer isn't implying that all of Silicon Valley's advances in recent years are superfluous—far from it—but what Packer is pointing to, I believe, is that the same mentality that heads to Wall Street in order to cash in, and in order to cash in only, not for the love of capital markets, or for the good of society, is also heading to Silicon Valley in order to cash in, and to cash in only, and not doing so for the love of technology, or the good or advancement of society.
And so, while the greed and hubris of Wall Street should most definitely be continued to be brought to light in the hopes that someday, in addition to paying billions and billions in fines (like JPMorgan is slated to do in the coming days), someone in big banking will finally be put behind bars, we should not forget that many firms in Silicon Valley might not be all that dissimilar, at their cores, from those on Wall Street. Which is to say, in some cases, firms in the Valley are engaging in dubious dealings, are not providing much, if any social good to the community at large, are spending millions upon millions to lobby Washington for laws that will benefit them and them alone, and the mentality and drive of their employees are very similar to their counterparts on Wall Street.
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My morning and race were well planned today. With a 9:30 am start, I was able to sleep till 7ish, have a light breakfast, a large latte, organised a "musette", pump the tubulars and leave home around 8:15. It is a 15 min ride to the circuit so I chose a nice stretch of undulating road and spent 30 min going up and down. A few efforts, a little sweat and I was feeling ready for the race.
At Nundah, the Elite guys were going around. There was a break with three riders and a bunch "sitting up" 400 or 500 m back. That's something I think it can make bike racing a little boring sometimes. So, I got my number, spoke to a few people and got out of there, I wanted to stay warm as there was a cool SE wind cutting across the circuit. Bad news!
I raced in B1, a combination of categories forming a 40+ bunch. There was a good number of strong guys and a couple of teams. My club had its team but I wasn't part of it. At the moment, I prefer to race solo as all my main events this year will be contested without a team. Still, I always try to help or get help from a racing friend. Adam is a typical case, everytime he goes I try to go with him, and vice-versa.
The race was pretty interesting, there was a few of us trying to bring the speed up and even try an early break away but the bunch was pretty strong and had no problems bringing us back each time. In one of the atempts, Adam, two other guys and myself even managed to get a considerable gap. The windy condition wasn't helping much.
Half way trough the 45 min + 2 laps race we got the wistle for a prime sprint. I decided to wait for the attack that usually follows it. But nothing... So, up to the front and try to get rid of the sprinters was the next option. That didn't work either as they have team mates doing the work when needed.
2008 Bike Week Criterium, Nundah
My last atempt came in the last lap. I didn't feel particular fast but was hoping that some confusion would be created or the bunch would have a late reaction. Went from the first corner, got a gap, don't ask me by how much, got the speed to 49+ km/h through the Ss and last corner but slowly faded and watched the bunch coming around me with 250 or 300 m to go. The WHOLE bunch.
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Time: 47+ min; Dist: 33.5 km; Av. speed: 42.8 Km/h; Max. Speed: 51.4 km/h; Av. HR: 158 and Max. HR:171
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Cassill said Thursday he's been hired to drive for a team that purchased assets and last year's points from the now defunct Red Bull Racing team. Cassill will drive the No. 83 Toyota, he said, and the points Brian Vickers earned in that car last year guarantee Cassill a spot in the first five races of the season.
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California utility customers should receive an estimated $1.6 billion from energy wholesalers that manipulated markets at the outset of the state's 2000-2001 energy crisis, a federal energy regulator has recommended in a case launched by San Diego Gas & Electric.
The findings of an administrative law judge at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, won praise from state utilities officials Tuesday. The judge sided with the state and three investor-owned utilities in finding that more than a dozen electricity wholesalers artificially drove up energy prices, leading to supply shortages that caused rolling blackouts and forcing billions in overpayments.
If the damages are eventually paid, the refunds and interest would offset customers' future electric bills.
"The San Diego and California consumers are long overdue this rebate," said Robert Fellmeth, a professor of public interest law at the University of San Diego Law School who has written extensively on the state's energy crisis. "This is a lot of money. ... It's restitution."
The judge's recommendation, issued Friday, now goes before FERC. If the commission approves that decision, a court challenge by the energy wholesalers is likely.
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One of the targeted wholesalers is the Bonneville Power Administration, based in Portland, Ore. Spokesman Michael Hansen said the utility is disappointed with the judge's conclusion but would offer no other comment until it reviews the case further.
Other electricity wholesalers deemed liable in the judge's findings could not be reached immediately.
In general, the FERC staff has opposed payments to investor-owner utilities, arguing that they committed many of the same violations attributed to wholesalers during the energy crisis.
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In 2010, Sempra Energy and its former trading venture with the Royal Bank of Scotland paid out $400 million to settle allegations that Sempra's energy traders manipulated the market while its power-generation unit overcharged the state for electricity during the time period in question.
Sempra also had settled accusations brought by federal regulators for $7.3 million in 2003.
In the past decade, about 30 energy sellers have settled with the state for a combined $3 billion in refunds, according to the California Public Utilities Commission.
Another legal complaint, this one covering a later stage of the power crisis, is pending before a different administrative law judge.
The crisis subsided in summer 2001, only after the state had signed $43 billion in long-term power contracts at the height of price inflation and FERC had issued orders imposing a cap on the prices that sellers could charge. The 50 or so long-term deals stabilized prices, but also greatly increased utility bills.
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FERC initially rejected California's bid for damages from what the state claimed was an organized effort to artificially inflate electricity prices under California's newly deregulated energy market.
The state sued and won a reversal from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2006. Baten issued his recommendation after a trial last year that produced more than 10,000 pages of transcripts and nearly 1,000 exhibits.
"The tortuous factual background of the California energy crisis that underpins this proceeding is lengthy and complex," Baten noted in his decision.
He found that wholesalers artificially exported electricity from California and then sold it back into the state at inflated prices.
Based on Baten's formula for assessing damages, the providers would owe $1 billion in rebates plus $600 million in interest, according to the California Public Utilities Commission.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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July durable goods orders came in weaker than expected, but auto sales, another key economic indicator, remain strong this month.
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"August continues this summer's trend of healthy growth in retail sales as dealers work to sell down inventory in time to make room for 2013 models," said John Humphrey, J.D. Power senior vice president of global automotive operations, in a prepared statement. Incentives are down slightly from July, but deals are available due to model-year sell downs.
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|System: X360, PS3
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: SNK Playmore
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Ignition Ent. / SNK Playmore
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: July 24, 2009
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1-2 (Local), 2-6 (Online)
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Teen
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
There are only a handful of singular strikes and combos, and success in the game will rely on your ability to use the games critical counterattack system to unleash special attacks. To unleash a critical counterattack, you have to land a certain amount of hits (or take some damage) in order to fill up a damage gauge, and then unleash a strong counterattack to temporarily disable an enemy. You can then use your character's Super Special Move in the small window of time that the other player is disabled.
There really isn't much depth to the fighting system, and outside of the Super Special move, there isn't very much to discover. However, if you like simple, strategy-based combat, then it fits the bill perfectly. The game's combat really focuses on your ability to read another player's actions and react rather than just mash buttons on top of your opponent, which is certainly refreshing.
As far as sound is concerned, this is another area where KOF XII excels. There are both English and Japanese voice tracks, and both of these are just dripping with personality. Since the KOF series has such flamboyant characters (like the effeminate Ash Crimson), it is really vital that the voice actors nail the characters without making them sounds cheesy. Fortunately, almost all the characters sound great here.
Overall, your experience with KOF XII will largely depend on how much you value online play in your fighters. If you are a regular on the BlazBlue and Street Fighter leaderboards, then the online experience that KOF XII has is definitely worth the price of the game. The strategic elements of the battle system and gorgeous graphics certainly make the game itself very fun and a pleasure to look at. Just having one single-player offline mode really hampers the overall experience if you aren't an online aficionado. Still, if you do like playing online, then this King can't be beat!
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The issue of bullying has plagued many school systems in the US. We have all read about issues of bullying causing students to take drastic measures to make the pain stop. Unfortunately, many of these drastic measures have resulted in suicide and/or murder. In 2010, a 15-year-old immigrant from Ireland took her own life because of excessive bullying. A New York ... Read More »
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The second installment of the Daily News' series on bullying covers six different kinds of bullying and how to recognize the signs that one is a victim of mistreatment. One of the most recognizable kinds of bullying is physical. There are many different types of negative physical interactions that may occur between young people. Although bullying often takes a mental ... Read More »
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) this week applauded a vote by U.S House of Representatives to approve a bill that would award grants to states to implement DNA collection for people arrested for felonies.
Originally introduced in 2010, the bill bears the name of Katie Sepich, a college student who was raped and murdered in 2003 in New Mexico. Her attacker was arrested several times over the next few years but was never linked to Sepich's murder because his DNA was not collected until 2006.
"Katie's law is an important step we can take that will save lives," Schiff said in a statement. "Every improvement that we make to our DNA system means more violent crimes solved and more violent felons taken off the street."
The legislation establishes a program to provide grants to states that implement DNA collection for people arrested for murder, sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary and aggravated assault.
While the bill does not authorize new funding for the DNA program, it uses funds created from an existing law to reduce a backlog and specifies that up to $10 million in each fiscal year from 2013 to 2015 may be used as grants for states under the proposed new law.
-- Mark Kellam, Times Community News
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Over a Barrel
It's eight o'clock on a fresh summer morning in Denver, and I'm at a podium before a hundred executives from regional energy companies. Having spent the last few years closely observing trends in the oil industry, I'm often asked to speak about the decline of global energy supplies, the way oil has corrupted U.S. foreign policy, and why the worldwide energy economy needs a radical transformation if we want to avoid catastrophic climate change. Yet while these themes play well to liberal audiences in Boulder and Berkeley, I worry my reception here will be much cooler. Most of these weather-beaten men (and a few women) spend their days squeezing hydrocarbons from the sand and stone beneath the Rockies; if my past observations of the energy industry are any guide, they voted for Bush, support the Iraq war, think climate change is a leftist hoax, and believe the main cause of America's energy crisis is that overzealous regulation keeps drillers like themselves from tapping the most promising reserves of oil and natural gas.
But as I finish my spiel and take questions, my initial assumptions vanish. When I suggest that the Iraq war might not have been motivated entirely by America's thirst for oil, many in the room openly smirk, as if I've just suggested that the world is flat. Likewise, few here seem to share the White House's Panglossian view that the United States is sitting atop some massive, but politically off-limits, reserve of natural gas. In fact, as much as these executives would love to sink their drills anywhere they want -- and as much as they detest environmentalists for stopping them -- no one here believes the volume of natural gas yet to be discovered in the Rockies, or anywhere else in America, would reverse the nation's decline of gas production or let the United States move to a cleaner, more secure "gas" economy. As one executive tells me, "even if all the off-limits land were opened for drilling, all the new gas we could bring on-line wouldn't be enough to replace all the production we're losing from older fields. We'd barely keep production flat."
For those who wonder where the world will be getting its energy a decade from now, confessions like these only confirm what many have feared for some time: namely, that the cheap, "easy" oil and natural gas that powered industrial growth for a century no longer exist in such easy abundance; and that we may have a lot less time than we thought to replace that system with something cleaner, more sustainable, and far less vulnerable to political upheaval.
The evidence is certainly piling up. Pollution levels from cars and power plants are on the rise. Climate change, another energy-related disaster, has begun impacting crop yields and water supplies and may soon provoke political strife. In fact, according to a Pentagon report last October, global warming could make key resources so scarce, and nations so desperate, that "disruption and conflict will be endemic" and "warfare would define human life."
Yet the most alarming symptoms of an energy system on the verge of collapse are found in the oil markets. Today, even as global demand for oil, led by the economic boom in Asia, is rising far faster than anticipated, our ability to pump more oil is falling. Despite assurances from oil's two biggest players -- the House of Bush and the House of Saud -- that supplies are plentiful (and, as George W. Bush famously put it, that getting the oil is just a matter of "jawboning" "our friends in OPEC to open the spigots"), it's now clear that even the Saudis lack the physical capacity to bring enough oil to desperate consumers. As a result, oil markets are now so tight that even a minor disturbance -- accelerated fighting in Iraq, another bomb in Riyadh, more unrest in Venezuela or Nigeria -- could send prices soaring and crash the global economy into a recession. "The world really has run out of production capacity," a veteran oil analyst warned me in late August. "Iraq is producing less than a third of the oil that had been forecast, the Saudis are maxed out, and there is no place else to go. And America is still relying on an energy policy that hasn't changed significantly in 20 years."
Nor is it any longer a matter of simply drilling new wells or laying new pipe. Oil is finite, and eventually, global production must peak, much as happened to domestic supplies in the early 1970s. When it does, oil prices will leap, perhaps as high as $100 per barrel -- a disaster if we don't have a cost-effective alternative fuel or technology in place. When the peak is coming is impossible to predict with precision. Estimates range from the ultra-optimistic, which foresee a peak no sooner than 2035, to the pessimistic, which hold that the peak may have already occurred. In any case, the signs are clear that the easy oil is harder to find and what remains is increasingly difficult and expensive to extract. Already, Western oil companies are struggling to discover new supplies fast enough to replace the oil they are selling. (Royal/Dutch Shell was so concerned about how declining discovery rates would devastate its stock price that it inflated its reserves figures by 20 percent.)
Worse, according to a new study in the respected Petroleum Review, in the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Gabon, and 15 other oil-rich nations that now supply 30 percent of the world's daily crude, oil production -- that is, the number of barrels that are pumped each day -- is declining by 5 percent a year. That's double the rate of decline of even a year ago, and it has forced other oil producers to pump extra simply to keep global supplies steady. "Those producers still with expansion potential are having to work harder and harder just to make up for the accelerating losses of the large number that have clearly peaked and are now in continuous decline," writes Chris Skrebowski, editor of Petroleum Review and a former analyst with BP and the Saudi national oil company. "Though largely unrecognized, [depletion] may be contributing to the rise in oil prices."
If there is one positive sign, it's that the high prices seem to have finally broken through America's wall of energy denial. In fact, while energy experts like Skrebowski have been fretting about oil dependency and depleting reserves since the 1970s, today's energy anxiety is no longer coming simply from academia or the political margins. In recent months, energy problems have come under intense focus by the mainstream media, filling radio and TV talk shows and newsmagazines. Whereas official U.S. policy still blames OPEC for our oil woes, even right-of-center, pro-business outlets like Business Week, The Economist, and Fortune have acceded that the biggest risk for U.S. energy security isn't "foreign" producers or even environmentalists, but rather a decades-old domestic energy policy that remains focused almost entirely on finding new supplies while doing nothing to curb demand. "Much as we might like to, we can't blame it on OPEC," noted Fortune in August. "After all, Americans have been on a two-decade oil pig-out, gorging like oversized vacationers at a Vegas buffet."
What's more, while a powerful, ideologically driven minority -- led, sadly, by the Bush administration -- continues to insist that energy security is simply a question of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) or browbeating OPEC, outside the White House, and certainly outside the Beltway, there's a growing push to build a fundamentally new energy system. Thus, while the Bush administration dithered on climate change and the future of energy, individual states, like California and New York, enacted their own alternative energy policies and even sued utilities over carbon dioxide emissions. The corporate world, once a stalwart opponent of any policy reform, has become startlingly progressive. Toyota and Honda are busily rolling out hybrid cars. Agriculture and insurance firms warn of the future costs of oil-price swings and climate change. And energy companies like BP and Shell, eager to profit in the new energy order, are developing new fuels and technologies to help reduce oil use and emissions.
And if most U.S. consumers still share the administration's energy obliviousness (U.S. gasoline consumption continues to rise, despite high oil prices), some in Congress have become downright activist. Last year in the Senate, Republican John McCain and Democrat Joseph Lieberman came close to passing a climate policy far beyond anything the White House has countenanced. In fact, even some traditional oil-and-gas politicians appear to see the writing on the wall. For example, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska and still an ardent supporter of drilling for oil in ANWR, nonetheless concedes "this nation needs to do a far better job of energy conservation and needs to develop alternative energy technologies to wean us from fossil fuels."
Unfortunately, as encouraging as all this new energy awareness is, actually weaning the United States from fossil fuels is far easier said than done. To begin with, our current energy infrastructure -- the pipelines and refineries, the power plants and grids, the gasoline stations, and, of course, the cars, trucks, planes, and ships -- is a massive, sprawling asset that took more than a century to build and is worth some $1 trillion. Replacing that hydrocarbon monster with "clean" technologies and fuels before our current energy problems escalate into catastrophes will likely be the most complex and expensive challenge this country has ever faced.


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I wonder how Guts will react to learning that Griffith is now technically his child? Just thinking of how Epic the confrontation between the two will be is giving me goose bumps.
So Im thinking after re-reading this episode that it might be Griffith just playing pyschological warfare. I know its probably wrong and I hope it is.
Im sure it is too, well hope it is. Just I suppose you should never say never, I mean Griffith cant be that much of a asshole...............or can he?
Well I agree. Im just speculating if its possible for Griffith to be more of a asshole than he already is............I mean posing as there kid just to make it worse for them?
Well, if you're implying that Griffith and the Moonlight Child alternate between hosting the body, we don't know that for sure yet. It's just a theory supported by a silhouette of Zodd's horn.
What I wanna know is how did Griffith use Guts child as a host when the child only appeared at night (he basically only had a Astral form)
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What do you think about?
Actually... Well what I thought was- you know that disfigured baby that kept appearing around Casca? I though that maybe that child was some sort of form of him.
That's a delicate matter. He's not mindlessly cruel, yet he's on the bad guys' side and there is little to no doubt in the story about where he stands. It really depends on what you call "all evil" basically. Anyway it has been discussed to death in other threads in the past, so if you like the topic don't hesitate to search for old posts on the matter.
If anything, Guts is going to be even more pissed because Griffith has, more or less, ruined his kid.
"Pissed" doesn't exactly sum up the complexity of the situation.
What will Casca's perspective be on the issue? Fight Griffith, or pursue some unknown, maybe even unachievable way of saving their kid? We all know how attached she is to the child and Casca is almost guaranteed to further complicate the matter.
Guts has been insensitive with him because of the context. It's likely that they'd both feel quite bad knowing what happened to him when Femto was incarnated, and if he was the Moonlight Boy and that killing Griffith would end his life as well, I'm pretty sure both parents would be horribly torn by the situation.
I don't know, as you said yourself, Guts has been "insensitive" towards the deformed little demon/boy.
But yeah, he hasn't had any reason to feel it was his "child" and has only really had pretty negative or obscure, uh, associations with it. It seems to disgust him more than it stirs any sort of paternal instinct in him you know? He hasn't seen it in action protecting Casca, and maybe he still remembers what Skullknight said about how as long as it still exists it would bring him grief
I'm also under the impression that he assumes the demon fetus is a seperate being from the moonlight child they found on the beach
Elf King or evil fetus, "moonlight boy" may change shape in scenes to come so that may draw a bit more light on the subject.


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Let $G$ be a compact lie group and $H$ a closed subgroup and hence think of $G/H$ as a homogeneous space.
Then how are the Killing fields on $G/H$ the projection of the right-invariant vector fields on $G$?
In the same vein I would like to know why the following construction works:
If one looks at the tangent vectors at identity on $G$ which are "transverse" to $H$ and then exponentiate it down and flow along it and project it down to $G/H$ then on $G/H$ you would be flowing along the integral curves of the vielbeins on $G/H$.
This gives a computation approach to writing down the vielbeins on $G/H$.
I am thinking of $G/H$ to have the metric induced on it by the bi-invariant metric on $G$.


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Formula's The One brake is a top performer, offering enough stopping power for a World Cup downhiller along with great lever feel at an incredibly light weight.
Well, for 2012 the Italian company have gone one better – the new RO, first seen in prototype form at this year's Sea Otter Classic and launched at this autumn's trade shows, uses oval rather than round pistons to boost braking surface area without increasing calliper size. The result is even more pad pressure than The One – Formula reckon the new brake has 18 percent more power.
The RO is marginally heavier – Formula claim 361g with a 160mm rotor, versus 336g for The One; our samples weigh 280g front and 292g rear, without rotors but with all hardware, including rotor bolts. This is partly down to the larger pistons but the new brake also gains a tool-free reach adjuster (this has also been added to The One for 2012) and pad contact adjustment dial.
Elsewhere, it carries over the previous flagship's best features, including its one-piece calliper and super-light flip-flop lever with split bar clamp. As you'd expect, pricing is higher than The One, at £249 ($380) per end, not including rotors, compared to £229 (US$290).
We'll be putting the new brake through its paces over the next couple of months – look out for a review in Mountain Biking UK and on BikeRadar soon. Formula brakes are available in the UK via Silverfish.
The pistons are lightly ovalised but it's hard to spot unless you get up close


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Adrian Peterson's Vikings Jersey Among League's Top Sellers
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson's #28 Vikings jersey is the fourth-best selling jersey in the NFL. AP trails only Russell Wilson of Seattle, Denver's Peyton Manning and San Francisco QB Colin Kaepernick on the list.
Of the top ten, eight are quarterbacks and only one defensive player (Watt) made the list.
1. Colin Kaepernick, San Francisco 49ers
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3. Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks
4. Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings
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Blizzard announced that they would drop rating requirements on PvP. Instead, there is a point "threshold" for the best gear and weapons:
Gear will be available in four tiers:Blizzard is not dropping rating entirely. It will still be used to matchmake, and will govern the maximum amount of points you can earn each week.
- Dreadful Gladiator's gear will be crafted. (5.2)
- Malevolent Gladiator's gear, including weapons, will be purchased with Honor Points. (5.2)
- New tier of PvP items: Tyrannical Gladiator's gear will be purchased with Conquest Points. (5.2)
- Tyrannical Gladiator's gear can be purchased for Honor after 27,000 Conquest Points are earned for the season. (5.3)
- Elite Tyrannical Gladiator's gear can only be purchased with Conquest Points after 27,000 Conquest Points have been earned for the season. (5.2)
- Conquest Point weapons can only be purchased after 7,250 Conquest Points have been earned for the season. (5.2)
This is an excellent change, in my view. It encourages everyone to cap out on Conquest Points each week. Good teams will still earn gear faster, but all teams have the possibility of getting the best gear. It's unlikely that a poor team will be able earn very much Elite Tyrannical gear, but it's better than having it out of reach forever.
However, the caps on Conquest will prevent people from playing 24/7, like in the High Warlord system. There's also a catch-up mechanism that increases the caps as the season goes on for people who haven't earned a lot of Conquest (either because they have lower ratings, or because they were not playing.)
It's interesting how the pendulum swings. In the old High Warlord system, the problem was that people played too much, and that weaker players were completely shut out by time requirements. In the second iteration, where your rating determined how many points you earned, the problem was that people played too little, and that weaker players were completely shut out by the skill requirements. The third iteration pushed people to play more with conquest caps, but rating requirements still locked people out of gear progression.
This new system tries to split the difference, pushing people to play for a medium amount, while leaving weaker players with an upgrade path all the way to the best gear. I think this looks like a solid system, so kudos to the Blizzard PvP team.


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The is a super-charged Aquamax, standard in commercial pool cleaners. Only a few years after Aqua Products, Inc. introduced the first robotic cleaner that could micro-filter a pool, it began to build the largest fleet of commercial cleaners, now up to ten (10) models. The Aquamax is the industry standard, and this is an Aquamax with almost twice the filtering power.
The Aquamax Bi-Turbo is amazingly fast! On-board computer directs the functions of brush, vacuum and filtration automatically. Climbs wall every 7 cleaning passes. 120 ft cord for Olympic sized pools.
Dual Filter Motors drive nearly 10,000 gallons per hour through the easy to clean internal filter bag. Turbo motors cover 7,500 sq. ft in one hour. This can eliminate the need to leave the unit in the pool overnight to clean the pool. Useful for quick clean ups.
AquaMax Bi-Turbo commercial pool cleaners will become fast friends of any pool operator. Aqua Products, Inc. has a full line of cleaners for commercial pools and swimming pool cleaners for Olympic sized pools.


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Re-AdmissionPage address: http://www.mnsu.edu/international/readmission.html
The RETURNING TO MSU form is intended to assist those international students who began studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato and interrupted their program of study by either
a) departing the United States for at least one term, OR
b) transferring out to another SEVIS approved college/university and then wishing to return to MSU.
You have already been admitted by MSU; therefore this form is to confirm your ability to return for your program of study. Please complete the form and follow the instructions provided.
Students returning after Academic Suspension will not be issued a New Initial Attendance I-20's for the summer study. This is because Full-time study would be required and the intensive short-term nature of summer classes are difficult for any student, especially those with previous academic difficulties. Additionally, there is little Academic Support available over the summer to assist a student coming off suspension. We strive to assist you in finding academic success, and returning for the Fall or Spring will maximize that opportunity.


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Us is another thrilling exploration of the past and oppression this country is still too afraid to bring up. Peele wants us to talk, and…
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Nemes' suggestive, impressionistic approach takes some getting used to, but Sunset is worth the extra effort.
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An article celebrating the historic Chicago mayoral runoff between two African-American women, Toni Preckwinkle and Lori Lightfoot.
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Far-Flung Correspondent Gerardo Valero reflects on one of his favorite movies, The Poseidon Adventure.
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Based on those unavoidable TV ads for "Jack the Giant Slayer" featuring CGI-looking giants clomping around and throwing windmills while a hipster-quipster Jack romances a generic-looking princess, I wasn't exactly dreading the screening, but I can't say I had it circled on my calendar, either.
I'm pleased to report, however, "Jack the Giant Slayer" is a rousing, original and thoroughly entertaining adventure. Director Bryan Singer, a first-rate cast and a stellar team of screenwriters, set designers and special-effects wizards have dusted off an old and (let's face it) never particularly compelling fairy tale and have given us a great-looking thrill ride in which we actually care about a number of characters.
There's even room for just the hint of empathy for the giants. It's not easy being a giant. In fact, I have a few questions about the Giant Way of Life, but we'll get to that later.
"Jack the Giant Slayer" begins with the reading of a legend in two very different homes on the same night. Young Jack, a farm boy about 8 years old, has read the story so many times, the pages on his book have nearly worn away — yet he begs his kindly, widowed father to tell him the tale just one more time.
Meanwhile, behind the walls of the castle Cloister, a princess in waiting eagerly absorbs the same story, read to her by her mother, who, like Jack's dad, isn't going to make it past the opening credits of this story.
Cut to 10 years later. Jack has grown up to become Nicholas Hoult, a handsome and almost boringly noble young man now living with his bitter old uncle after the plague took Dad.
Eleanor Tomlinson is Princess Isabelle, who of course is adventurous and romantic and incorrigible, and REALLY wishes she didn't have to marry the gross, old and obviously duplicitous Roderick (the great Stanley Tucci, hamming it up just shy of a mustache twirl).
It takes a long while — truth to be told, a few scenes past the point of perfect timing — before we get to the magic beans and the stalk that shoots to the sky and the mysterious land above Earth populated entirely by giants. But once we get there, game on.
Especially when seen in close-up, the giants are pretty awesome. They're a grotesque bunch of louts, picking their noses and passing gas and making pigs in a blanket, which are literally pigs. In blankets.
As usual, the 3-D is mostly about 2.5-D, though we do get a few battle scenes where you want to duck. But over all, the special effects are impressive. It really looks like those little men are battling those giant-ass giants, who are led by a two-headed general, with the invaluable Bill Nighy buried somewhere in there playing the general.
There's no way you can have a fair fight between giants and people, so there's a convenient device to level the playing field; a magic crown, forged from ingredients including but not limited to the heart of a long-ago vanquished giant. He who wears the crown has complete command over the giants, and it's the evil Roderick's plan to whip out the crown at just the right moment and lead the giants to a conquest of Cloister and all the kingdoms of Earth.
(You'd think Roderick would have been pleased with the deal he already had: marrying the hot young princess, commanding the kingdom and living a cushy live, but there you have it.)
"Jack the Giant Slayer" is filled with neat touches, from the casting of Ewan McGregor as Elmont, a knight in shining armor who's supposed to be the hero of the story and is indeed A hero, but not THE hero, to an epilogue that's just flat-out cool. The PG-13 violence, including a close-up of an eyeball popping out of a giant's face, means the action is a little too intense for very young children. But for everyone else, including cynical grown-up critics who didn't think they'd ever give a Fee, a Fi, a Fo or a Fum about this movie, it's a terrific adventure.
Oh, right: the giants. They live in this world between Earth and heaven, and if you're willing to overlook the scary rock formations and the isolation, it seems like a pretty sweet deal. Lush greenery, room for a giant to roam around, plenty to eat if you can curb your appetite for humans.
What I want to know is, where are the lady giants and the teenage giants and the baby giants? If there are no women, how do these guys not die off? They're not immortal, because several get killed during this movie.
It would have been kind of neat to meet the wife of a two-headed giant general, just to see what her deal is and how she spends her days. Maybe someday.
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How Can I Motivate My Child to Lose Weight?
I`m looking for a chart on the normal weight ranges for children. Specifically, an 11 year old girl who stands about 5 feet tall (give or take 2 inches) should weigh how much? If you could point me in the direction of a chart, that would be helpful. Also, do you have any advice on how to motivate same girl to lose weight, i.e. eating less and exercising more. She loves to eat and dislikes most exercise. We`re concerned that she`ll grow up to be obese.
According to data from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, an eleven year old girl who is in the 50th percentile should average about 57 inches in height or 3 inches less than 5 feet, and weigh on an average about 81 pounds. Do consider that these are only averages and do not forget to take into consideration whether or not her parents are average. If parents are tall or short, then she might have a tendency to be more like them. The important factor is that she is growing at an even rate and is well proportioned and healthy. Another way to chart height and weight is on her visits to the doctor. Ask for a height and weight percentile chart for girls age 2 to 18 years. Motivating anyone, including young girls to lose weight and exercise more, needs to come from her own internal motivation for the most part. With such a societal emphasis on being thin, caution needs to be included in providing direction. Around age 11, her peers will become an important part of her life, although parents still do play a part in role modeling healthy behaviors. If her peers are active in sports, such as soccer, then she will probably have an interest. Without over emphasizing eating, role model and explain good eating habits to her at meal time. Offer snacks of fruits and vegetable sticks. Offer low fat yogurt in place of ice cream. Your question will be referred to our expert in Diet and Nutrition for addition information. Please check that expert area in another day or two. From the Diet and Nutrition Section: Ross Laboratories developed a commonly used height and weight growth chart that is commonly used in many physician's office to assess growth. Your doctor can share a copy of these charts with you. Early adolescence is an important time for developing likes and dislikes, especially with regard to activity levels and food preferences Encourage your daughter to become engaged in some sort of physical activity. A fun filled family activity, such as bike riding, may send a very positive message about the value and importance of exercise. Perhaps you can explore options with your daughter that she might enjoy such as joining a team, hiking with Girl Scouts, going to the local YMCA, or simply playing backyard games with friends and neighbors. A major deterrrent of physical activity is television watching. I would suggest limiting your daughter to no more than 1 or 2 hours a day of this very sedentary activity. Is your daughter a healthy eater? This may be a good time for the entire family to develop healthy eating habits. Try fruits and veggies as snacks. Experiment with meatless dishes. Explore new recipes for fruits and vegetables. Good Luck in your efforts
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what is her name? does she have more vids?
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Tht was embarrassing! If I had a dick I could have done a better job!
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Lol Wtf cytheria wasnt even in it
This ass is huge I want to put my dick also in her ass
I wish the guys would just shut the fuck up
def a sex slave prob cut her finger tip off for trying to escape
i like bitches! i also let my wife get fucked and i watch her being such a slut...
She's hot. Lot's of nice cocks. I'd like to include my 7 inch cock in there. I love cum.
She would get it
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Aussie girl here, i am up for this!
I had to cum back and watch this again. I just saw a girl at a local diner that looks just like her. Now I going to ask her if this is her. If so, I am gonna fuck her silly tonight, even if I have to pay for it. But once I whip out my prize, I bet she pays me.
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that was so nice of her to make these guys so happy.of course all the guys made her very happy.she sucked all the guys hard dicks one at a time and she was rewarded with each and every guys hot creamy cum right in her mouth.so hot
I like how Borat does the running commentary.
id love to be fuck like that
I love petite~
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i want kate as my pet
elle est super mimi ...
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tthat sexy bitch knows how to pick the bloke with the thickest load. No water thin cum for our dogstar Kate.long may she keep on dogging !
I wish those guys would stfu, they are so irritating with the bad English and annoying accents. Clearly amateur male performers but she is hot enough to make up for it.
I like chics who will suck a total strangers.... I wish she would cum to Dallas. Lol
Kate's missin a finger
she sucks dicks off too fucking slow
shut the fuck up borat and keep fucking
fuck her or I will
very hot
She's a pro who has starred in other videos, and I'm sure she's getting paid for this but I love the idea of her dogging and getting shagged by random men. Czech woman will do anything for cash and I love to fuck the shit out of sluts like her. I'm not surprised that some of the guys had trouble staying hard and had to keep slapping their dicks with Borat there and his "perfect, perfect", I would have punched his lights out.
I know her!
Chick is hot,but wish that guy WOULD SHUT UP!!
i have never laughed so much, i came for a wank!!!!
wanna any woman sex like this i m always ready...
she s cute !! and the end is the beginning of her other video
these guys sound like borat.
I don't have a wife!!! Whoever you are find another name to use........... 12:47 what a great load for a fit chick to swallow
My wife did this same thing last week!
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can you believe it? a porn channel but they moderate comments? how weird is that?
Very hard to stay turned on while laughing at the running commentry with the word peeerrrfect repeated over and over!!! Should definately be watched with the sound turned off to be turned on lol.
wish that was my wife I was watching- this girl is gorgeous &hot.
The guys sound like Borat, high 5 !
they've said "PERFECT" a million times
You can also see her having sex with the male strippers with some other chicks. They are pretty hot.
She's in another vid called Shy Girl Fucked By Old Man. It's a normal porno in a studio, not like this nice seedy dogging video.
lol that's so funny! That guy HAS to be Borat! XD
something quite exploitative about this
wat is with her finger
Are you satisfied? PERFECT!
She makes me cum everytime I watch her suck dick. I want her to suck mine too! Cross If this is your daughter, she sure is good looking and I'd love to see her mother.
I heard my daughter had made this but couldnt bring myself to watching it..
Why are they slapping their cocks?!
I love this chick
Why is she missing the top of her finger?
She's rather attractive and has a very nice looking and juicy cunt but she shouldn't be giving it away, there are plenty of men who would be happy to pay her for a fuck
she has no ringfinger!!
They sound like the Roman from GTA IV. :D
Nice shaved pussy and hot mouth, i'd fuck her ass.
Complete Eastern European human smuggling victim - sad. At least in USA women, generally, are in it for the money.
This is the intro to "Kate goes Dogging. Outdoor Public Orgy Action "
mellow.... kate is beautiful
That was totally Borat!!
this one isn't as good as the first dogging one I seen with this chick.
MMM i'd love to marry this girl and have lots of babies with her. I would let her participate in these types of gangbangs all the time just so I could lick up the results.
oh i'dlove to suck many guys at one time...
tez tak chce!!!
Their continous "YYYEEESSSS, SUCK IT!" when she's already sucking it is just annoying, especially in this horrible accent.
This shit made me laugh hard, the guys sound like their from borat :)
hate the patronising way the camera man is talking to her!! i think she is a bit slow. they are so making a laugh outta her
shes stunning!!! would love to play!!
Not many vids... her "name" is Kate
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A conversation with Michelle Cotrelle-Williams on episode #46 of the 10-minute Teacher Show
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Today Michelle Cotrelle-Williams @WakeHistory applies Brene Brown's research on vulnerability to make her classroom a safer place. Motivate yourself to be more authentic with your students as we talk about vulnerability, shame, and guilt in the classroom.
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Michelle Cottrell-Williams @WakeHistory has taught in the Social Studies Department at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA since 2006. Her favorite classes to teach are Sociology and ESOL World History II. Michelle is the Social Studies Department Chair, co-Instructional Lead Teacher, and was named Teacher of the Year in 2017. She strives to model vulnerability and empathy so that her students leave her classroom each day a little braver than the day before.
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I consider Frank O'Donnell to be the funniest person by far in Rhode Island. I laugh just having a conversation with him. And he has me in stitches when he is on stage at Twin River. So when he writes and co-directs a new play "all the way in Woonsocket," I'm eager to take the 20-mile trip.
O'Donnell's humor is all over the hysterically funny "Ant'ny Claus: A Dysfunctional Family Christmas," which played through Dec. 11 at Theatre Works (the old Masonic Hall building) at 142 Clinton St. in downtown Woonsocket.
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There are some funny references to "A Christmas Carol" ("This ain't Trinity, folks"), a few shots at North Providence, a bunch of cute kids and a few risqué but not offensive jokes.
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