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FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Syria Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ... 27, 28, 29 Next Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message GENO123Joined: 28 Jan 2010 Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:51 pm Post subject: Quote: Even if you only believe what the mainstream media feeds you, you are still woefully uninformed- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all WASHINGTON � A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers. And the CIA, my friend, aren't interested in charity, so even if your Libyan rebels are the ones raising hell, they (or whoever ultimately makes up the core of the Syrian 'rebels') are very much related to deals cut with the CIA/NATO/US. Quote: The clandestine intelligence-gathering effort is the most detailed known instance of the limited American support for the military campaign against the Syrian government Quote: The weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and some antitank weapons, are being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria�s Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the officials said. Quote: The C.I.A. officers have been in southern Turkey for several weeks, in part to help keep weapons out of the hands of fighters allied with Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups, one senior American official said. The Obama administration has said it is not providing arms to the rebels, but it has also acknowledged that Syria�s neighbors would do so. I think the last 10 or so years has shown that the the US doesn't control Turkey or Saudi Arabia and both have their own reasons for being involved in Syria I don't see how your post very much refutes what I said. That the main supporters of the Syrian rebels are Saudi Arabia , Turkey and the gulf states and that they are supporting the Syrian rebels for their own reasons. Back to top JuniorJoined: 18 Nov 2005Location: the eye Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:46 am Post subject: Consequences of the Fall of the Syrian Regime July 24, 2012 | 0900 GMT Stratfor By George Friedman We have entered the endgame in Syria. That doesn't mean that we have reached the end by any means, but it does mean that the precondition has been met for the fall of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. We have argued that so long as the military and security apparatus remain intact and effective, the regime could endure. Although they continue to function, neither appears intact any longer; their control of key areas such as Damascus and Aleppo is in doubt, and the reliability of their personnel, given defections, is no longer certain. We had thought that there was a reasonable chance of the al Assad regime surviving completely. That is no longer the case. At a certain point -- in our view, after the defection of a Syrian pilot June 21 and then the defection of the Tlass clan -- key members of the regime began to recalculate the probability of survival and their interests. The regime has not unraveled, but it is unraveling. The speculation over al Assad's whereabouts and heavy fighting in Damascus is simply part of the regime's problems. Rumors, whether true or not, create uncertainty that the regime cannot afford right now. The outcome is unclear. On the one hand, a new regime might emerge that could exercise control. On the other hand, Syria could collapse into a Lebanon situation in which it disintegrates into regions held by various factions, with no effective central government. The Russian and Chinese Strategy The geopolitical picture is somewhat clearer than the internal political picture. Whatever else happens, it is unlikely that al Assad will be able to return to unchallenged rule. The United States, France and other European countries have opposed his regime. Russia, China and Iran have supported it, each for different reasons. The Russians opposed the West's calls to intervene, which were grounded on human rights concerns, fearing that the proposed intervention was simply a subterfuge to extend Western power and that it would be used against them. The Chinese also supported the Syrians, in part for these same reasons. Both Moscow and Beijing hoped to avoid legitimizing Western pressure based on human rights considerations -- something they had each faced at one time or another. In addition, Russia and China wanted the United States in particular focused on the Middle East rather than on them. They would not have minded a military intervention that would have bogged down the United States, but the United States declined to give that to them. But the Russian and Chinese game was subtler than that. It focused on Iran. As we have argued, if the al Assad regime were to survive and were to be isolated from the West, it would be primarily dependent on Iran, its main patron. Iran had supplied trainers, special operations troops, supplies and money to sustain the regime. For Iran, the events in Syria represented a tremendous opportunity. Iran already held a powerful position in Iraq, not quite dominating it but heavily influencing it. If the al Assad regime survived and had Iranian support to thank for its survival, Syria would become even more dependent on Iran than was Iraq. This would shore up the Iranian position in Iraq, but more important, it would have created an Iranian sphere of influence stretching from western Afghanistan to Lebanon, where Hezbollah is an Iranian ally. The Russians and Chinese clearly understood that if this had happened, the United States would have had an intense interest in undermining the Iranian sphere of influence -- and would have had to devote massive resources to doing so. Russia and China benefitted greatly in the post-9/11 world, when the United States was obsessed with the Islamic world and had little interest or resources to devote to China and Russia. With the end of the Afghanistan war looming, this respite seemed likely to end. Underwriting Iranian hegemony over a region that would inevitably draw the United States' attention was a low-cost, high-return strategy. The Chinese primarily provided political cover, keeping the Russians from having to operate alone diplomatically. They devoted no resources to the Syrian conflict but did continue to oppose sanctions against Iran and provided trade opportunities for Iran. The Russians made a much larger commitment, providing material and political support to the al Assad regime. It seems the Russians began calculating the end for the regime some time ago. Russia continued to deliver ammunition and other supplies to Syria but pulled back on a delivery of helicopters. Several attempts to deliver the helicopters "failed" when British insurers of the ship pulled coverage. That was the reason the Russians gave for not delivering the helicopters, but obviously the Russians could have insured the ship themselves. They were backing off from supporting al Assad, their intelligence indicating trouble in Damascus. In the last few days the Russians have moved to the point where they had their ambassador to France suggest that the time had come for al Assad to leave -- then, of course, he denied having made the statement. A Strategic Blow to Iran As the Russians withdraw support, Iran is now left extremely exposed. There had been a sense of inevitability in Iran's rise in the region, particularly in the Arabian Peninsula. The decline of al Assad's regime is a strategic blow to the Iranians in two ways. First, the wide-reaching sphere of influence they were creating clearly won't happen now. Second, Iran will rapidly move from being an ascendant power to a power on the defensive. The place where this will become most apparent is in Iraq. For Iran, Iraq represents a fundamental national security interest. Having fought a bloody war with Iraq in the 1980s, the Iranians have an overriding interest in assuring that Iraq remains at least neutral and preferably pro-Iranian. While Iran was ascendant, Iraqi politicians felt that they had to be accommodating. However, in the same way that Syrian generals had to recalculate their positions, Iraqi politicians have to do the same. With sanctions -- whatever their effectiveness -- being imposed on Iran, and with Iran's position in Syria unraveling, the psychology in Iraq might change. This is particularly the case because of intensifying Turkish interest in Iraq. In recent days the Turks have announced plans for pipelines in Iraq to oil fields in the south and in the north. Turkish economic activity is intensifying. Turkey is the only regional power that can challenge Iran militarily. It uses that power against the Kurds in Iraq. But more to the point, if a country builds a pipeline, it must ensure access to it, either politically or militarily. Turkey does not want to militarily involve itself in Iraq, but it does want political influence to guarantee its interests. Thus, just as the Iranians are in retreat, the Turks have an interest in, if not supplanting them, certainly supplementing them. The pressure on Iran is now intense, and it will be interesting to see the political consequences. There was consensus on the Syrian strategy, but with failure of the strategy, that consensus dissolves. This will have an impact inside of Iran, possibly even more than the sanctions. Governments have trouble managing reversals. Other Consequences From the American point of view, al Assad's decline opens two opportunities. First, its policy of no direct military intervention but unremitting political and, to a lesser extent, economic pressure appears to be working in this instance. More precisely, even if it had no effect, it will appear that it did, which will enhance the ability of the United States to influence events in other countries without actually having to intervene. Second, the current situation opens the door for a genuine balance of power in the region that does not require constant American intervention. One of the consequences of the events in Syria is that Turkey has had to reconsider its policy toward countries on its periphery. In the case of Iraq, Turkey has an interest in suppressing the Kurdistan Workers' Party militants who have taken refuge there and defending oil and other economic interests. Turkey's strategy is moving from avoiding all confrontations to avoiding major military commitments while pursuing its political interests. In the end, that means that Turkey will begin moving into a position of balancing Iran for its own interests in Iraq. This relieves the United States of the burden of containing Iran. We continue to regard the Iranian sphere of influence as a greater threat to American and regional interests than Iran's nuclear program. The decline of al Assad solves the major problem. It also increases the sense of vulnerability in Iran. Depending on how close they are to creating a deliverable nuclear weapon -- and our view is that they are not close -- the Iranians may feel it necessary to moderate their position. A major loser in this is Israel. Israel had maintained a clear understanding with the al Assad regime. If the al Assad regime restrained Hezbollah, Israel would have no objection to al Assad's dominating Lebanon. That agreement has frayed since the United States pushed al Assad's influence out of Lebanon in 2006. Nevertheless, the Israelis preferred al Assad to the Sunnis -- until it appeared that the Iranians would dominate Syria. But the possibility of either an Islamist regime in Damascus or, more likely, Lebanese-style instability cannot please the Israelis. They are already experiencing jihadist threats in Sinai. The idea of having similar problems in Syria, where the other side of the border is the Galilee rather than the Negev, must make them nervous. But perhaps the most important losers will be Russia and China. Russia, like Iran, has suffered a significant setback in its foreign policy that will have psychological consequences. The situation in Syria has halted the foreign-policy momentum the Russians had built up. But more important, the Russian and Chinese hope has been that the United States would continue to treat them as secondary issues while it focused on the Middle East. The decline of al Assad and the resulting dynamic in the region increases the possibility that the United States can disengage from the region. This is not something the Russians or Chinese want, but in the end, they did not have the power to create the outcome in Syria that they had wanted. The strategy of the dominant power is to encourage a balance of power that contains threats without requiring direct intervention. This was the British strategy, but it has not been one that the United States has managed well. After the jihadist wars, there is a maturation under way in U.S. strategy. That means allowing the intrinsic dynamic in the region to work, intervening only as the final recourse. The events in Syria appear to be simply about the survival of the al Assad regime. But they have far greater significance in terms of limiting Iranian power, creating a local balance of power and freeing the United States to focus on global issues, including Russia and China. http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/consequences-fall-syrian-regime Back to top ersatzreduxJoined: 15 Dec 2007Location: Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:59 am Post subject: This article provides a good detailed summary about what is really going on in Syria: http://www.voltairenet.org/Who-is-fighting-in-Syria Same old shit. Back to top TitusJoined: 19 May 2012 Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:39 pm Post subject: If this were happening in Jordan or Saudi the Free Syrian Army would be terrorists and Clinton would be flying around the world talking about the grave threat from terrorists to our friends. Truth is, as in Libya, the Syrian rebels are a hodge podge of religious nuts and useless pissed off young men. They're not looking for a constitutional convention where the rights of all are respected. They seek power. The process is useful if one were to want a war with Iran and a generally disorganized Middle East (less one). Back to top Ya-ta BoyJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: Established in 1994 Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:13 am Post subject: There was an interesting and well-written letter to the editor in the Korea Herald on Wednesday. Unfortunately, it had no point of view beyond 'what is happening is awful'. Even the worst bigots on this thread don't gloat about the blood-shed happening in Syria. It would be a more interesting thread if the pro-Assad people would just come out and say they support the West helping Assad reimpose his dictatorship. For those who support arming (or whatever) the rebels, it would help if they gave a direct statement of strategy and recommended policy initiatives. Back to top ersatzreduxJoined: 15 Dec 2007Location: Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:18 pm Post subject: Ya-ta Boy wrote: It would be a more interesting thread if the pro-Assad people would just come out and say they support the West helping Assad reimpose his dictatorship. For those who support arming (or whatever) the rebels, it would help if they gave a direct statement of strategy and recommended policy initiatives. I think you're kind of missing the point or being intentionally disingenous. The West has been funding, organizing, arming, and training the "rebels" from the very beginning, as well as flying in mercenaries from Libya, using state and "mainstream" media for black propaganda, and jamming Syrian communications so they cannot get their side out. If the west stopped supporting the "rebels" and especially if their proxies from Saudi Arabia and Qatar stopped paying them eight times the average Syrian salary to fight, this so-called revolution would grind to a halt. So maybe it would be more interesting if those who intentionally keep their heads in the sand would be more honest and present a case for why empowering islamist freaks, thugs for hire and Western stooges to destroy the Syrian state and enable a pogrom against Alawites and Christians- which is what we are doing now- is a good idea. That I would like to hear. (edited to replace "genocide" with pogrom- a bit more accurate) Back to top TitusJoined: 19 May 2012 Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:26 pm Post subject: The rebels are al-Qaeda . The United States has been on Team AQ since the late stages of the Iraq war. Back to top TitusJoined: 19 May 2012 Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:18 pm Post subject: http://www.trans-int.com/wordpress/index.php/2012/07/23/german-intelligence-90-al-qaeda-attacks-in-syria-in-last-six-months/ http://tinyurl.com/2ahan4p Back to top caniffJoined: 03 Feb 2004Location: All over the map Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:24 am Post subject: ersatzredux wrote: Ya-ta Boy wrote: It would be a more interesting thread if the pro-Assad people would just come out and say they support the West helping Assad reimpose his dictatorship. For those who support arming (or whatever) the rebels, it would help if they gave a direct statement of strategy and recommended policy initiatives. I think you're kind of missing the point or being intentionally disingenous. The West has been funding, organizing, arming, and training the "rebels" from the very beginning, as well as flying in mercenaries from Libya, using state and "mainstream" media for black propaganda, and jamming Syrian communications so they cannot get their side out. If the west stopped supporting the "rebels" and especially if their proxies from Saudi Arabia and Qatar stopped paying them eight times the average Syrian salary to fight, this so-called revolution would grind to a halt. So maybe it would be more interesting if those who intentionally keep their heads in the sand would be more honest and present a case for why empowering islamist freaks, thugs for hire and Western stooges to destroy the Syrian state and enable a pogrom against Alawites and Christians- which is what we are doing now- is a good idea. That I would like to hear. (edited to replace "genocide" with pogrom- a bit more accurate) Gotta go with the professor on this one - designed, packaged and now being delivered. Back to top SteelrailsJoined: 12 Mar 2009Location: Earth, Solar System Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 6:34 am Post subject: Who is fighting in Syria? People like this guy- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izzat_Ibrahim_al-Douri I've been following this guy ever since the "Deck of Cards" was released. Most of the guys looked like Corporals turned into Colonels. Then I saw this guy. "He might give us some trouble. Dude looks like a professional soldier." Turns out the ol instincts were right. You know, it kinda seems like he might suddenly become useful to "us". Against Assad, against Iran. Probably why he's allegedly in Qatar and not dead. If that doesn't show how dirty our whole Mideast policy is, I don't know what does. Back to top Ya-ta BoyJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: Established in 1994 Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 4:25 am Post subject: Quote: If the west stopped supporting the "rebels" and especially if their proxies from Saudi Arabia and Qatar stopped paying them eight times the average Syrian salary to fight, this so-called revolution would grind to a halt. So maybe it would be more interesting if those who intentionally keep their heads in the sand would be more honest and present a case for why empowering islamist freaks, thugs for hire and Western stooges to destroy the Syrian state and enable a pogrom against Alawites and Christians- which is what we are doing now- is a good idea. That I would like to hear. Nope. Nah. Hunh-uh. You are arguing that for now and forever more, Syria must remain under the brutal control of a minority. It is perfectly clear that Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt all have made moves toward (I'm not saying they have arrived)...toward a government that better represents the people. Each is different, with different local conditions, but I don't see Syria as being fundamentally different from the others. The people are lunging toward a better system. They may succeed, or they may fail, but it is in our interest to promote the attempt for a more just system. I suppose....only suppose...that during the Cold War we had little choice but to support dictators of various stripes (I would argue that we didn't have to), but now there is not that ideological divide. From Morocco to Iran, this part of the world has been struggling to find a better political arrangement. My fear is that those who don't support democracy overseas won't continue to support it at home. Back to top Ya-ta BoyJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: Established in 1994 Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:07 am Post subject: The prime minister has bailed out and maybe taken two or three generals with him. Obama has increased the amount of aid being allowed in. Turkey is still in a quandary because 40 of its 68 generals are in prison. I don't know if Obama was right to send in more aid. I do know that I trust Obama more than Romney. He showed complete incompetence on his big international tour. No doubt all of you know the history of the '30's, the last time we had a major international economic crisis. The possibilities for this time around scare me. Back to top TitusJoined: 19 May 2012 Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:37 am Post subject: http://www.cfr.org/syria/al-qaedas-specter-syria/p28782 Quote: The Syrian rebels would be immeasurably weaker today without al-Qaeda in their ranks. By and large, Free Syrian Army (FSA) battalions are tired, divided, chaotic, and ineffective. Feeling abandoned by the West, rebel forces are increasingly demoralized as they square off with the Assad regime's superior weaponry and professional army. Al-Qaeda fighters, however, may help improve morale. The influx of jihadis brings discipline, religious fervor, battle experience from Iraq, funding from Sunni sympathizers in the Gulf, and most importantly, deadly results. In short, the FSA needs al-Qaeda now. CFR. Kristof and Gerson want America to go to war with one of Israel's pesky neighbors. http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_21274128/nicholas-d-kristof-obama-is-awol-syria-even http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ignoring-foreign-policy-wont-make-it-go-away/2012/08/09/6f522cc6-e19a-11e1-a25e-15067bb31849_story.html Note that who is portrayed as the enemy changes with Israeli strategic needs. AQ was a tool and not a serious force of opposition. Nobody in America cares about human rights in Syria. http://thepassionateattachment.com/2012/07/26/celebrating-imminent-fall-of-assads-pro-iranian-regime-pro-israel-neocon-compares-alawites-to-nazis/ Quote: Writing in Tablet, a daily online Jewish magazine, Foundation for Defense of Democracies fellow Lee Smith provocatively compares Syria�s increasingly imperiled Alawite minority to the most reviled group in modern history. In a piece revealingly entitled �Cause for Celebration in Syria,� the senior editor of the neoconservative Weekly Standard advises: Many have noted the increasing presence of Islamists in the armed opposition and are warning that the United States might need to intervene to protect the Alawites and other minorities, like Christians, from being targeted. For instance, former CIA analyst Bruce Riedel has written that �one of the priorities of the international community after Assad falls will be to protect the Alawite community and its allies from vengeance.� Some in the Obama Administration have echoed Riedel, speaking of a �positive democratic transition that is inclusive, that is tolerant, that creates a place for all Syrians.� But that�s not going to happen right now�not after the Alawites have slaughtered thousands of Sunnis. The White House did not move a finger to save them, so why should step in to protect those who hunted them? The idea that the Assad regime and its supporters warrant American protection simply because they are a minority group is not only strategically incoherent but immoral. During the course of four decades, the Assads have supported terrorist groups that targeted the United States and American allies in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, and the Gulf Arab states. The Assads have allied with virtually every anti-American power for 40 years, from the Soviet Union to Iran. Does anyone believe that in the aftermath of World War II it was the role of the United States to save the Nazis and their allies from the Red Army? Of course not. Political wisdom begins with being able to distinguish enemies from friends, even if those allies are only temporary. (emphasis added) In light of Smith�s invidious analogy, it�s worth recalling what Norman Finkelstein said to Yoav Shamir in Defamation, the Israeli filmmaker�s brilliant 2009 documentary on anti-Semitism: �The irony is that the Nazi Holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression,� Finkelstein tells Shamir. �Every time you want to launch a war of aggression, drag in the Nazi Holocaust.� With Tel Aviv having succeeded, in great part through the effective deployment of its American lobby, in inducing Washington and other lesser proxies � euphemistically known as the �international community� � to launch the latest war of aggression on its behalf against another Arab neighbour, Smith and his ilk will no doubt before long advocate a Nuremberg-style trial for the newest �Hitler� and his Nazi-like supporters. Meanwhile, they will not cease to remind us of the �existential threat� posed to the ever besieged �Jewish state� as the secular regime it worked so hard to topple is replaced by supposedly Israel-threatening �Islamist elements.� There is no end to this. The Israeli lobby in the United States is the single source of war propaganda on earth. Every other nation is fine with trade and sovereignty. Every single one. China is not attempting to start wars. Japan is not trying to start wars. The Irish Lobby is not trying to start wars. The Germanics are not trying to start wars. Argentina is not trying to start wars. Iran is not trying to start wars. Russia is not trying to start wars. It is Likud and the Israel lobby in the USA. Entirely. Any disaster visited on America and the world as a result of their war warmongering is 100% on their shoulders. We have got to talk sense into the Christian Zionists in America. Without them the Israeli lobby is isolated. How the hell to we argue with Christians who think god is a pro-Israeli warmonger? Back to top Ya-ta BoyJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: Established in 1994 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:15 am Post subject: What are the choices on offer? a) Help Assad stay in power. b) Totally ignore the situation. c) Aid what we hope are forces for progress. d) Aid anyone who comes along, hoping they are not extremists. Am I missing any choices? I vote for 'c', on the basis that for months the anti-Assad forces were non-violent and clearly a continuation of the Arab Spring. Bad news: Revolutions are messy multi-year affairs and many don't come out the way foreigners might hope. The best you can do is nudge things along in the direction you hope they take, and stand back, with fingers crossed. So far that is what we are doing. Back to top SteelrailsJoined: 12 Mar 2009Location: Earth, Solar System Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:58 am Post subject: Question here- If you were Assad, what would you do? 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We gave you the lowdown on how well Apple's new Magic Mouse works, told you about a Dutch teen that used port scanning to find vulnerable jailbroken iPhones, showed how less-than-honest iPhone developers claim to have developed others' apps, and how Apple may or may not be dropping support for Atom processors. If you missed any of that, here's a look at top Apple-related stories this week.
You win some, you lose some: a review of Apple's Magic Mouse: Apple attempts to reinvent the mouse with its new Magic Mouse. It offers multitouch gestures and brings a new dimension to scrolling, while dropping some useful features from its predecessor.
Dutch hacker holds jailbroken iPhones "hostage" for �5: One Dutch hacker managed to find and hack into jailbroken iPhones, though it seems the hacker was more interested in a few euros than malicious ends. However, the incident is another reminder that users of jailbroken iPhones need to be more vigilant about security.
Developers stealing from developers: an App Store tale: In the high-stakes game of iPhone application development, your portfolio can mean the difference between landing a client and being overlooked. What happens when your peers decide they need to steal from your app portfolio in order to get ahead? Ars explores a dark side of App Store development.
blacksn0w unlocks 3.1.2; Apple looks to curtail jailbreaking: You can now jailbreak and unlock iPhone OS 3.1.2 with a mix of sn0w and ra1n—of the black variety. However, as Apple continues to beef up security of the iPhone OS platform, jailbreaking may become a thing of the past.
10.6.2 kills most Netbook love: Reports were coming in that one developer seed of Mac OS X 10.6.2 put a halt to Hackintosh users that are running the Mac OS on an Intel Atom processor. The good news is that later builds seem to have added Atom support back in.
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Iowa runners in NYC make best of canceled marathon
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Some Iowa runners made the trip to New York City despite the canceled New York Marathon.
It takes more than a year of preparation, a lot of time and money to run the course.
"It isn't easy to get into the New York Marathon," said Urbandale runner Carrie VanQuatham. "We felt that showing up to run and being part of that and celebrating the spirit and the excitement of the New York Marathon was the right thing to do."
However, on Friday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave in to mounting pressure and canceled the race.
"Half of the people were very angry that they were even considering having it in light of this, and then the other half who are here are now like, 'Well, now you're canceling it?'" VanQuatham said.
Though the record won't be official, the Iowa runners still plan to make the trip count.
"We're going to look up the historical route of the New York Marathon, and we decided we're going to run 26.2 miles," VanQuatham said.
While they're in New York, the runners plan to lend a hand to the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
"Having lived through the floods of Iowa, we recognize what a challenge that is," VanQuatham said. "I mean, people are definitely affected (in New York), and it isn't a good feeling, and people definitely need to support them."


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This week in The New York Times Magazine, Adam Davidson opens a hard-to-trace offshore company in Belize, which turns out to be a piece of cake:
"Setting up the company was a lot cheaper than I expected. A&P charged $900 for a basic Belizean incorporation and another $85 for a corporate seal to emboss legal documents. For $650 more, A&P offered to open a bank account to stash my fledgling operation's money in Singapore — a country, the Web site also noted, that 'cannot gather information on foreigners' bank accounts, bank-deposit interest and investment gains under domestic tax law.' And for another $690, it offered to assign a 'nominee' who would be listed as the official manager and owner of my business but would report to me under a secret power-of-attorney contract. Then an A&P associate asked me to fill out the incorporation information online, just so she wouldn't type in anything incorrectly. The whole thing took about 10 minutes."
Read the full column to find out what happened next, and why offshore companies are so popular — and so hard to monitor. And we'll have more soon on setting up our own offshore company.


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Atlantic Canadians are probably sick of hearing about how depressed and gloomy we all feel at this time of year. Or arguments that if we're not, then we should be, especially this week with the arrival of Blue Monday.
The third Monday of January is gaining increased traction as a milestone, as experts try to convince us it's the most miserable day on the calendar. After all, winter has taken firm hold, the festive season is over, holiday bills are pouring in, New Year's resolutions are getting tossed out, and colds and flu are taking an annoying toll on our health.
Those are good reasons to have a case of the blahs.
But Blue Monday could just be a clever marketing campaign to get us thinking about breaking away for a fun holiday in the sun.
Another theory offers a mathematical formula that combines economic, social and meteorological factors to pinpoint mid-January as a time to pull the bedcovers up a little higher and tighter.
But there are valid scientific and medical arguments that we shouldn't so easily dismiss.
So forget the advertising campaigns and formulas and pay attention to very real symptoms which might suggest that mental health risk factors are affecting our friends, family, co-workers or classmates.
Sure there are people who appreciate the changing seasons, with their variety and unique challenges, especially winter. There is so much to do and see in Atlantic Canada on beautiful winter days — skiing, skating, sliding and snowshoeing, hockey tournaments and winter carnivals.
Anyone who wakes up to the stillness of a fresh snowfall and is unable to fully enjoy Mother Nature's artistry is truly missing out — fences and poles decked out in tall, white hats, wires with marshmallow coating, buildings like gingerbread houses. The imperfections of man covered — if only temporarily — by the perfection of nature.
But the fact is, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a real condition where the lack of sunlight at this time of year can affect people's moods. Some are more vulnerable than others to depression that follows a seasonal pattern. Symptoms include sadness, fatigue, apathy and poor diet.
It's no coincidence that one of the most important events to draw attention to mental health issues takes place at this time of the year — Bell's Let's Talk Day on Jan. 31. The event raises millions of dollars in support of mental health issues and community programs, such as suicide prevention and intervention.
We need to recognize that not everyone among us will experience the epiphany that weatherman Phil Connors did in the closing scenes of "Groundhog Day": "… may we overlook the bleak aspects of this season and accept that winter is another cycle of nature's wonder."
But who knows — maybe there's room for optimism. Maybe, when Groundhog Day arrives in two weeks, we might hear a prediction of an early end to winter and we can say goodbye to those seasonal blues.
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Game of Thrones filming continues apace in Northern Ireland for the forseeable future. Things have been low key in the run up to and following the big Comic-Con Panel, new cast announcement, and the premiere date being set as March 31, 2013. However, we do have some news about filming from both yesterday and torday. First, it seems that they had set up campe in Ballynure for filming in Straid:
#GameOfThrones has set up camp in village of Ballynure. They're filming in nearby Straid.— Aaron Alexander (@aaronjalexander) July 16, 2012
And today? Tweets from multiple Northern Ireland-based reporters say that they witnessed filming at Shane's Castle, the location of the Hand's Tourney in season 1. Apparently, reporters may have had interviews with some cast members as well, although the mixture of extras and cast seen is rather curious, suggesting some quite different scenes were being planned, or perhaps some of the cast members were seen at the Paint Hall studio rather than out on location:
Wet but fab visit to Game Of Thrones set at Shane's Castle. Saw a scene from season 3 ep2. More in tomorrow's @News_Letter @NIscreen— Rebecca Black (@hackedoffhack) July 17, 2012
@LindaFStewart saw Jaime Lannister, Catelyn Stark and Brienne of Tarth tho :)— Rebecca Black (@hackedoffhack) July 17, 2012
On set at #Gameofthrones. I've just seen two men of the nights watch!!!! #anorak— Alison Fleming (@alifleming_utv) July 17, 2012
That last tweet from Alison Fleming follows with a statement that a full report will appear on UTV Live this evening, so something we'll be keeping an eye out for.
One last tidbit, from Rebecca Black of The News Letter, in answer to a query about how long they're filming in Northern Ireland:
@P_Knox01 until November, then off to Iceland for two weeks— Rebecca Black (@hackedoffhack) July 17, 2012
That's rather interesting. Are they really going to pack all of the material deep beyond the Wall into just two weeks, with filming in Northern Ireland covering most of the rest of the material beyond the Wall? Somehow, I had expected it would take a bit longer. Presumably they've lined up multiple directors to appear in that two week period to get scenes shot for their respective episodes. I'm guessing one of the two units, Wolf or Dragon, will be out there while the other continues to work in Northern Ireland.
Finally, the first of the full reports has turned up, revealing various details from producer Frank Doelger, including 140 days of filming in Northern Ireland.


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In this adventure, it's Wendell who's in grave danger. It's not bad enough that his mom has an unhealthy obsession with health food, that Wendell is constantly worried about school (even though he is one of the smartest students). Now he's having nightmares about it all! Wendell and Danny will have to travel back to mythical Japan to enlist the aid of Great-Grandfather Dragonbreath and Suzi, reincarnated ninja queen. Luckily, Great-Grandfather has a portal to the dream world in his refrigerator and Danny is enthusiastically ready to travel into Wendell's dreams and track down the nightmares, not to mention the even more dangerous Dream Wasp.
I love the way Ursula Vernon can be so dang funny while still making her characters act exactly as real kids (or reptiles) would. Danny's gung-ho enthusiasm and Suzi's second thoughts, not to mention Wendell's resigned attitude (except for when he finds out about the Dream Wasp eggs and faints) all keep the characters recognizable, even as they adjust to new situations and characters.
Verdict: These aren't educational (despite the publisher putting out a teacher's guide) they're just fun! The perfect thing to hand to a reluctant reader, enthusiastic reader, or anyone having a bad day. It is imperative that you have the ENTIRE series. I have just decided I cannot, personally, live without them any longer and ordered the rest of the volumes I am missing for my personal collection.
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In the middle of the year 2000, after years of playing together in previous bands, Brian Lane, Jesse Lacey, and Garrett Tierney recruited guitarist, and soon to be friend Vincent Accardi and formed Brand New. After a year or so of "doing their time" and the obligatory, and seemingly endless runs of self booked shows and tours, the Long Island quartet finally recorded and released their first record, Your Favorite Weapon. As it set the course for the next decade of music the four youths were to embark on, the record also established what would become both a longtime musical partnership and friendship with local Producer/Engineer, Mike Sapone, who is sometimes referred to as a fifth member of the band.
As YFW went on to sell its 300,000 copies, the band delved into multiple U.S. tours, both headlining and supporting such bands as The Get Up Kids, Dashboard Confessional, and Finch. It was their friends in Finch who eventually took Brand New overseas to the United Kingdom in 2003 where the band played its first shows on foreign soil. In years to come the band would return many times, loyal to the following they had cultivated, headlining show after sellout show including Brixton Academy and Hammersmith Apollo as well as playing a short arena tour with Incubus. The four NY youths also received coveted festival slots at Reading/Leeds, Glastonbury, and Give It a Name.
In June 2003 Brand New released their beloved and best selling, Deja Entendu, which they recorded in North Carolina with producer Steven Haigler. Besides the familiar US headlining tours the band was now playing, they followed the album with two music videos for the singles "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" and "Sic Transit Gloria…," as well as television appearances on Fuse TV, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and MTV.
"It was on the Warped Tour that summer that we had really started to notice things growing," said singer Jesse Lacey. "We entered Canada on that tour playing to hundreds of people each show, and then I guess people had started to listen to the record, and then the videos started rotation, and by the time we got back to the US we were playing to thousands every day. It was exciting, and we were grateful to be able to watch something we had created take new shape right in front of our eyes like that."
Deja Entendu was later certified Gold and is touted by many of the band's fans as their favorite album from the Long Island foursome.
That was until 2006's The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me.
Brand New's third album and major label debut, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, was released in November 2006. The work on Devil and God was long and went through several iterations. The band worked on some early tracks with renowned mixer/producer Rich Costey (Mars Volta, Ash) in East Hampton in the dead of winter; found themselves in Mississippi with veteran producer Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, The Hives), and wound up finishing the recordings with old friend and producer Mike Sapone in the rural mountains of New England. Recruiting Jesse's cousin, Derrick Sherman, to join them on stage as a touring guitarist, more touring followed as Brand New teamed up with Dashboard Confessional and Thrice on separate North American tours, played Lollapalooza, and hit Australia and Europe with a mix of headline shows and festivals.
In late 2008 the band headed back into the studio to start work on their forthcoming album, Daisy, due for release September 22nd, 2009. This time the project started and finished in Mike Sapone's basement studio where the band slept, ate, and eventually eked out all the tracks for the record which was then mixed by Dave Sardy (Barkmarket, Cold War Kids, Oasis) in California. The band's schedule for the Spring/Summer of 2009 includes German festivals, a short UK tour, another Reading/Leeds appearance, and a startling return to the small clubs where it all began.
Brand New are aiming to release a new record by the end of the year, their first album in six years.
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MACAU, April 14 (Reuters) - Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson's reference to triad organised crime gangs in testimony in a lawsuit has hit a raw nerve in Macau, the Chinese boomtown that his Las Vegas Sands Corp helped transform from a gangland haven into a $38 billion gambling capital.
The lawsuit against Sands was brought by Hong Kong businessman Richard Suen, who is seeking $328 million he says he is owed for helping the U.S. firm obtain one of three coveted casino licenses in Macau, now the world's biggest gambling market with annual revenues more than six times Las Vegas's.
Adelson's comments about triads reverberated across Macau this week and prompted a former Sands partner, casino operator Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd, to post a regulatory filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange objecting to "certain inaccurate statements".
Sands and Galaxy jointly won a Macau casino license in 2002, but they failed to reach an operational agreement and split up. Adelson, 79, when asked in a Las Vegas court why the two firms could not work together, responded that Galaxy "had expressed their judgement they were going to do business with either reputed or triad people and we couldn't do that."
That comment, which drew little attention in Las Vegas, was front-page news in Macau because it suggested China had failed to clean up the violent gangs that dominated the gambling scene a decade ago. Triads involved in Macau's VIP gaming rooms were notorious for their heavy-handed methods of collecting on gambling debt. Macau's VIP segment, where wealthy Chinese wager millions, accounts for around 70 percent of total revenues.
A Galaxy spokesman said the company was seeking legal advice and could not comment further.
Interviews with seven Macau gaming executives, including four former Sands employees, revealed a sense of dismay that the trial, watched locally online and tracked closely in the daily papers, was drawing attention to a seedier side of Macau that China has sought to scrub. The city wants to position itself as a transparent and reputable tourist destination.
China cracked down on triads after it took formal control of the former Portuguese colony in 1999. Back then, mobsters like the infamous Wan "Broken Tooth" Kuok-koi gave Macau a name for violence as much as gambling.
Macau's casino revenue hit $38 billion last year, dwarfing Las Vegas's $6 billion. Unlike Vegas, where fun-seekers can dine, see showbiz legends and go nightclubbing without laying a dollar on the tables, Macau's visitors tend to focus intently on betting in its massive, packed gambling halls.
Macau, home to 500,000 people, is the only place in China where casino gambling is legal. Gaming accounts for 70 percent of its government revenues, which explains why the trial has received so much interest.
In China, court proceedings are normally closed, so the open access to the Sands hearing - and its allegations of Macau gang activity and backroom deals - makes for prime viewing.
"Everyone is watching this," said a casino executive in Macau who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter. "Adelson's comments have so many underlying meanings that are embarrassing. Talking about triads, whether it is true or not, implies the government didn't do a good job at cleaning up Macau."
Some casino sources expressed surprise that Adelson would draw negative attention to a city that helped turn Sands into a $46 billion company. Sands owns four of Macau's 35 casinos - more than any other U.S. firm - and its Macau operations generated about 60 percent of the company's total 2012 casino revenues of $9 billion.
"Why is he killing the goose that gave him the gold?" a casino executive asked.
Several executives questioned why Sands did not settle the lawsuit to prevent unflattering details from reaching the public domain. Former Sands executive William Widner said he had lost confidence in Adelson because of the Suen trial.
"This trial was injurious to relations in China; it should have never been in a courtroom like this," Widner said in court on Wednesday.
This is the first of three legal battles that are casting an uncomfortable spotlight on how Macau awarded lucrative gambling licenses in 2002, a source of controversy because little was publically revealed about how the winners were selected.
The lawsuits show behind-the-scenes jockeying and close connections between business and government as 21 bidders were whittled down to three - the Sands-Galaxy partnership, Macau kingpin Stanley Ho, and Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn's Wynn Resorts Ltd.
After Galaxy and Sands split, Macau awarded a sub-concession license to Sands for no charge, which was controversial because Wynn and Ho's SJM were able to sell their sub-concessions to Melco Crown and MGM Resorts for $900 million and $200 million respectively.
A Sands spokesman declined to discuss any specifics regarding the concession license process.
Some Macau residents welcomed the closer scrutiny that came with the lawsuits.
"The Macau people want to hear more about these cases, find out how the license process worked," said Jose Coutinho, a directly elected member of Macau's legislative assembly who is known for promoting democratic reforms. "The government should set up an independent panel to find out what happened when the licenses were awarded."
The Macau government did not respond to email and telephone requests for comment.
But the Macau Business Daily, the city's main English-language daily, said the city's reputation was at risk.
"Things can be said in U.S. courts - and then reported by the media using the rule of court privilege there - that if repeated outside the tribunal or in other jurisdictions might be considered inflammatory or even defamatory," it wrote in an editorial published on Thursday. (Editing by Emily Kaiser and Daniel Magnowski)


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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Nick Wiggins scored 12 points and fueled a 16-0 run in the second half with three 3-pointers as No. 20 Wichita State completed a regular-season sweep of Bradley with a 73-39 victory Saturday night.
Jake White added 11 points for the Shockers (19-2, 8-1 Missouri Valley Conference), who won their 19th consecutive home game and ensured themselves of starting the second half of their conference schedule in sole possession of the MVC lead.
Cleanthony Early and Malcolm Armstead each added 10 points for Wichita State.
Walt Lemon Jr. led Bradley (12-9, 4-5) with 14 points.
WSU defeated Bradley for the seventh consecutive time, adding to its longest winning streak in series history. The Shockers led 39-30 with 15:20 remaining, but Early and Wiggins launched the game-breaking run as Bradley went more than 6 minutes without a field goal while Wichita State extended its advantage to 59-32.
After a sluggish start, Wichita State shot 51 percent from the field (26 of 51) and limited Bradley to 32 percent.
The Shockers took their first double-digit lead at 34-23 on Tekele Cotton's basket with 19:03 remaining. It took another 5 minutes for Wichita State to begin pulling away.
After Early made two free throws, Wiggins converted Armstead's steal into a fast-break dunk for a 43-30 lead. Wiggins sandwiched two 3-pointers around Anthony's layup, and Carl Hall scored off a Bradley turnover to stretch WSU's lead to 53-32 with 11:29 to play.
Wichita State also finished the first half on a 10-2 run to build a 32-23 lead.
Demetric Williams provided the big spark during WSU's run. He made two free throws with 14 seconds remaining, then stole the ball from Jake Eastman and converted it into a driving layup just before time expired.
The Shockers, who defeated Bradley 69-63 on the road earlier this month, struggled to gain the upper hand for most of the opening half. Neither team led by more than four points in the first 18 minutes. WSU, which made just five of its first 15 shots, reached 50 percent by halftime by making seven of its last nine.
Lemon, Bradley's leading scorer, kept the Braves close in the first half with 10 points, including two 3-pointers. The Braves made just two field goals over the last 8:34 of the first half and were outrebounded 20-12 before the break.


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Rafik Hariri's taking up, once again, the reigns of the Lebanese government appears to be having it first positive economic effects. According to Riad Salameh, the governor of the country's central bank, pressure on the Lebanese pound eased over the past week and this trend is expected to continue.
Speaking at a three-day conference organized by the Union of the Arab Banks, Salameh said that the central bank had not found it necessary to intervene on the interbank market during the first week of Hariri's second term in office.
The central bank allows the pound to fluctuate within a 1,501-1,514 Lebanese pounds to the dollar band, and over the past year has used a good portion of its foreign-exchange reserves to defend the local currency. Salameh did not say how much was spent so far this year, but the figure is believed to be in excess of $600 million.
The Central Bank does not release figures for its net foreign-exchange reserves, with which it intervenes in the currency markets. Gross foreign-currency reserves, including the deposits of commercial banks with the central bank, dropped to $6.3 billion in mid-October from $7.6 billion at the end of 1999, reported the Daily Star.
During his address, Salameh ruled out any imminent drop in the interest rate on the Lebanese pound. Before that could take place, he said, it would be necessary to see how the government implements its economic and financial program. – (Albawaba-MEBG)
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Saudi Basic Industries Corp. broke ground April 6 on a long-planned, $100 million tech center in China, and also announced that its Sabic Innovative Plastics unit is boosting production for Lexan polycarbonate resins and films in Shanghai and Nansha, China.
Sabic will build the 645,000-square-foot technology center in Kangqiao, east of Shanghai. It will house some 400 employees, who will relocate to the facility when it opens in 2013.
In addition to commercial and corporate staff, the center will be home to a research and development team of more than 200 scientists and engineers focusing on advanced engineering plastics materials. The facility also will feature a China automotive innovation hub to drive next-generation materials development for that fast-growing sector.
Sabic essentially began planning for a new center since it acquired GE Plastics for $11.6 billion in 2007. The Saudi conglomerate has been leasing space within General Electric Corp.'s large Shanghai technical and applications development center since that deal, but recognized the need to build its own such facility in China.
Sabic Chairman Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Thenayan Al-Saud, who also is chairman of the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, said at the recent groundbreaking ceremony: "Material sustainability is key to the creation of new applications across industries. With the new technology center, Sabic brings to China its global expertise and experience in petrochemical research and production helping enterprises create new possibilities in the design of products for local and global markets."
The firm said the center will be built in line with Leadership in Energy and Environment Design gold certification standards, to achieve water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.
Meanwhile, Sabic IP announced April 18 that it will add dedicated compounding production lines of its Lexan PC resin at its Shanghai plant this year. It said that capacity increase "will ensure ample, reliable supplies of Lexan resins and Lexan specialty copolymers to help drive Asian customer growth." The addition comes on the heels of a similar Lexan compounding expansion in Nansha in late 2010. Sabic IP does not disclose production capacity.
Sabic IP also plans to boost capacity for Lexan optical-quality PC and textured film products in Asia in 2012-14, after starting up a new extrusion line in a Class 1,000 clean room at Nansha in the first quarter of 2011. The capacity will address accelerating market demand for high-end film in consumer electronics, automotive and security segments.


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div { font-size:small; }Investors are awaiting a flood of earnings reports early next week, including from Peoria-based Caterpillar.
S&P 500 pushes further into record territory
(AP) — Strong earnings from big U.S. companies helped push the Standard & Poor's 500 index further into record territory Friday.
General Electric, Morgan Stanley and Google all rose after reporting higher earnings than financial analysts were expecting. Google topped $1,000 a share for the first time. Investors were also encouraged by a rebound in Chinese economic growth in the latest quarter.
"We've moved from the dysfunction of Washington to the reality of the global economy, and it looks pretty good," said Ron Florance, deputy chief investment officer at Wells Fargo Private Bank.
Two days after Congress voted to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and reopen the government, the S&P 500 rose five points, or a third of a percent, to 1,738, at midday Eastern Daylight Time. It closed at a record Thursday.
The Dow Jones industrial average slipped six points to 15,365. The Nasdaq composite was up 30 points, or 0.8 percent, at 3,893.
The Chinese government reported that the world's second-largest economy grew by 7.8 percent in the three months ending in September.
General Electric rose 80 cents, or 3 percent, to $25.48. That is the highest level since the start of the financial crisis in September 2008, when some investors doubted the company could survive intact. After backing out costs from shedding its media and banking operations, the industrial products maker earned 40 cents per share in the third quarter versus the 35 cents per share that analysts expected.
Morgan Stanley rose 74 cents, to $29.66, a gain of 2.5 percent. The investment bank reported that its earnings nearly doubled on strong results in stock sales and trading, beating analysts' estimates. Morgan Stanley is up 55 percent this year, the most among major banks and nearly twice the gain of the next-best performing bank stock, Citigroup.
Google soared $113, or 13 percent, to $1,002. It reported a 36 percent jump in earnings after the stock market closed Thursday. An erosion in Google's ad pricing was more than offset by a big increase in the frequency of clicks on Google's ads.
Seven of the 10 industries in the S&P 500 rose, led by information technology companies, up 1.3 percent.
Chipotle Mexican Grill jumped $60, or 14 percent, to $499, the biggest gain in the S&P 500. The company reported that its third-quarter earnings rose 15 percent on higher traffic to its 1,500 restaurants.
Investors are awaiting a flood of earnings reports early next week, including McDonalds on Monday and Boeing and Caterpillar on Wednesday and Ford on Thursday.
Earnings for S&P 500 companies in the July-September period are expected to have grown 3.3 percent from a year earlier, according to data from S&P Capital IQ. That's slower than the growth of 4.9 percent in the second quarter and 5.2 percent in the first quarter.


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2013: Appeared in and started 19 games … scored five goals and notched one assist for 11 points … second on the team in goals and third in points … scored the game-winning goals against Simmons (9/02), Worcester State (9/03) and Mount Holyoke (10/05) … was MIT's lone goal scorer in the 1-1 double overtime game against Roger Williams (9/17).
2012: Played 19 games and started four … recorded three goals and one assist for seven points … helped to set up the game-winning goal against Clark (9/22) … scored the game-winning goal in the 2-1 decision over Wheaton (10/16).
2011: Played in 18 games … only goal of the season came against Husson (10/25).
2010: Played in 19 games … posted three goals and three assists for nine points … scored twice against Southern Maine (9/11).
Off the Field at MIT: Majoring in chemical engineering with concentrations in archaeology and archaeological science … had an internship with Packaging Corporation of America in Counce, Tenn., a pulp and paper company, working with process engineers where she ran chemical tests and made complex spreadsheets … conducted a UROP in the Jensen Group, a chemical engineering lab focused on microreactors, where she worked on optimizing two-phase slug flow in microtubing … researched with the Hatton Research Group that worked in the chemical engineering lab focusing on energy … Burton-Conner social chair and Burton 2 floor chair … captain of Relay for Life team (2011) … MIT women's rugby club recruitment chair and spring break tour chair … volunteer at the Boston Marathon three years in a row.
High School: A 2010 graduate of Florence High School … five-year starter and captain senior season … three-time team MVP … three-time all-area selection … also played basketball … National Hispanic Recognition Scholar … National Honor Society … Spanish National Honor Society … Mu Alpha Theta … finished first in technical problem solving at Science Olympiad.
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You make lemonade. When life gives you very ripe bananas, you make banana bread. 🙂 Or, at least I do. I admit that I buy bananas and let them get over-ripe on purpose so I can make banana bread. 🙂 I have many banana bread recipes, some that I have shared here, some that I haven't had a chance to share here yet. There is my traditional Banana Nut Bread, which I remember eating as a child. Then, there is the new, updated, Chocolate Chip Banana Bread. You can play around with that recipe and add pumpkin, that is yummy too. Then, there is the Cadillac of banana breads and this would be that one. This bread is everything you always wanted in a banana bread and more. All the bells & whistles. It R.O.C.K.S. I got this recipe from my sister long before I had to go gluten-free and have since transformed it to suit my GF needs. It wasn't hard, I just subbed Pamela's Pancake & Baking Mix for the all-purpose flour. If you use any other flour mix without guar or xanthan gum, remember to add it in ~ 1 tsp. per cup of flour mix. The original recipes comes from Southern Living. That right there, folks, speaks and says this is one serious banana bread. So, without further ado, I give you:
Orange-Pecan-Topped Cream Cheese-Banana-Nut Bread
***(You can also try as muffins – yummer!)
Prep: 15 min., Bake: 1 hr., Cool: 40 min. Warm bread is yummy, but to get perfect slices, let bread cool 30 minutes, and cut with a serrated or electric knife.
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour (I used Pamela's Baking & Pancake Mix)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (1 1/4 pounds unpeeled bananas, about 4 medium)
1 cup chopped pecans, toasted (I didn't toast, too lazy today)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup coarsely chopped, toasted pecans (again, no toasty b/c I was lazy)
1 cup powdered sugar
3 tablespoons fresh orange juice
Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; gradually add to butter mixture, beating at low speed just until blended. Stir in bananas, pecans, and vanilla. Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured 8- x 4-inch loafpans. Sprinkle pecans evenly over batter in pans.
Bake at 350° for 1 hour or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean and sides pull away from pan, shielding with aluminum foil last 15 minutes to prevent browning, if necessary. Cool bread in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Stir together powdered sugar and orange juice until blended. Drizzle evenly over warm bread, and cool 30 minutes on wire racks.
Yield: Makes 2 loaves
Southern Living, JANUARY 2005
Now, the nuts add extra weight on top, so when you are making this GF, you may not want to sprinkle on as many as I did b/c it makes the bread sink more in the middle. GF quick breads will tend to sink anyway and adding that weight just makes it do so even more.
A before baking shot:
Filed under: Family, Gluten-Free, Gluten-Free Recipes | Tagged: orange pecan topped cream cheese banana nut bread gluten free | 2 Comments »


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Court Says You Can Copyright Numerical Ratings
from the this-seems-troubling deptThe US, thankfully, still hasn't allowed copyright on databases. There's been a push over the years to allow such a database right, but this is problematic for a variety of reasons -- mainly that it's effectively a way to allow the copyrighting of facts, so long as you put a few of them together. But a bigger issue is that there's empirical evidence that the ability to copyright a database doesn't create more databases or actually help businesses. It does the opposite. It limits business -- exactly the opposite of copyright's stated purpose. If we actually had an empirically driven copyright system, there wouldn't be database rights, because the evidence that they do more harm than good is quite clear. Anyone actually pushing for a database right is either ignorant of the evidence or is hoping to profit off such a right by limiting the market.
So it was of great concern to me when I saw a blog post from a lawyer suggesting that the US courts may be effectively allowing a database right on rating data. Beyond the troubling nature of the case, the lawyer who wrote that post also claimed that database holders might finally be "getting the protection they so desperately deserve, and need." Neither of those points is true. Database creators neither deserve nor need protection -- and the evidence on that is quite clear. The database industry in the US has been thriving without such protections, while places in Europe that do have such a right have seen significantly limited growth in those industries, with the data being a lot more expensive and a lot less useful. There is simply no compelling reason why such protectionism is needed unless one wants to simply ignore all empirical evidence.
Then, as you dig into the details of the actual case, you begin to realize what a poorly reasoned and dangerous decision this is, effectively allowing copyright to be expanded to data itself. Eric Goldman does a masterful job detailing the many, many, many problems with this decision. His description of the basics of the case make it clear how ridiculous the outcome is:
A Colorado judge has reached the remarkable conclusion that a hospital publicizing its star ratings and other recognition from a third party rating service in its marketing material might be committing copyright and trademark infringement. This is a little like saying that it could be copyright and trademark infringement for a law school to include its US News rankings in its marketing material or for a book publisher to issue a press release announcing its ranking on the New York Times bestseller list. CRAZY.Goldman goes on to break down exactly where and how the judge went wrong on every single aspect of the ruling, touching on copyright, trademark and breach of contract. You should read his whole discussion, but here's the excerpt on copyright:
Goldman also explains why such a dreadful ruling, which seems to go against common sense and the law in nearly every way, may set a terrible precedent and get used in other cases:
Let me start with a basic proposition. A single numerical value can never be copyrighted. Ever. I don't care what formula produced the value; I don't care how many digits the number has; I don't care what explanatory text is used to describe the value. I know cases occasionally have reached the absurd result that individual numerical values can be copyrighted, including one of my least favorite copyright cases of all time, the CDN v. Kapes Ninth Circuit case. They are wrong wrong WRONG.
Courts can reach this erroneous conclusion by treating a numerical output as a "compilation" of underlying data values. If you squint, you can almost see how this makes sense. The publisher chooses the underlying values to include, uses editorial judgment to build the algorithm crunching those values, and sometimes layers subjective judgments on top of the algorithm's output. However attractive this logic is, I think fundamentally misreads the copyright statute's definition of "compile." Under the copyright act, a compilation must represent a "collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged." When a single number distills but obscures the underlying numerical values, the single number cannot reflect a selection, coordination or arrangement of the underlying numbers. Thus, according to my argument, numerical values cannot be compiled unless the reader can see those underlying values directly.
In this case, the judge gets led astray by contemplating the idea/expression dichotomy as a spectrum with "discoveries" on one end and "expression" on the other. Because the ratings aren't discoveries, the court concludes they should qualify as expression. But the court's dichotomy is fatally incomplete. Instead, the inquiry is whether a single numerical value can represent an original work of authorship because it expresses an idea. A single numerical value cannot express an idea any more than a single word ever could.
Even if one reaches the incredible conclusion that a single numerical value is an original work of authorship, then surely it is preempted from copyright coverage by the merger doctrine, which says that if there are a limited number of ways to express a fact or idea, then the idea and expression merge into a single uncopyrightable whole. It seems like the star ratings in a 1-3-5 star rating system would, by definition, be subject to merger. Sorry to state the obvious, but how many ways are there to express that someone is rated one star??? Nevertheless, this court distorts the merger doctrine by saying the idea being expressed here is the rankings of healthcare providers. This is too high a level of conceptual generality. If every judge used this level of abstraction, the merger doctrine always would be a null set.
If other courts follow this judge's "logic," the potential for mischief from cases like this is enormous. Think of every reputational system that spits out a numerical assessment of the subjects it evaluates. Now, assume each and every one of those numbers is copyrighted. Individual eBay feedback scores? Individual FICO scores? Individual Billboard rankings of songs and albums? All possibly copyrighted and requiring the initial publisher's consent to republish. Add in potential trademark claims, and the crazy-o-meter goes off the charts.Ugh. This is a bad and dangerous ruling all around. And as you can see from our original link to the case, there are some other lawyers who think it's exactly on track. That's a bad, bad sign. Hopefully this ruling doesn't stand for very long.
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His portable lab, which goes everywhere Panthers players do, is a trunk about three feet high and two feet wide -- with wheels.
That helps because it's heavy.
Andy O'Brien, the team's strength and conditioning coach, keeps everything inside the trunk he needs to make his super shakes -- different types of proteins, carbohydrates, amino acids, vitamins and herbal supplements in abundant supply.
When he's done mixing, usually with water and/or Gatorade -- the latter adds electrolytes and improves the taste -- players have funky-colored concoctions to drink, usually after games and practices.
For some Panthers, such as wingers David Booth, Radek Dvorak, Ville Peltonen and defenseman Karlis Skrastins, the shakes are customized to suit their needs.
The ingredients and amounts are determined by a heaping teaspoon of hair from the back of their head that has been sent to Trace Elements, a lab in Addison, Texas, to be burned and analyzed. Nutrients inside a strand of hair are indicative of what's inside muscle tissue.
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All of this science is used to combat muscle fatigue and prevent injuries on the ice and to accelerate recovery, especially important at this point of the season, with just five regular-season games left starting tonight against the Thrashers.
"At the end of the season, you need energy, your body kind of goes into overtime," Dvorak said. "This kind of thing helps you to realize that."
Dvorak's shakes have been supplemented with extra magnesium, and since the veteran has found his muscles feel better on the ice, he recovers faster after games and sleeps better at night.
Skrastins' hair sample showed 300 times the normal level of uranium, O'Brien said. His brother's sample -- anyone can send theirs in -- showed the same.
"It's not enough for him to notice symptoms," O'Brien said, "but it's enough for it to affect his athletic performance at a really, really high level."
O'Brien said the high level of uranium is probably attributed to Skrastins growing up in Latvia, some 300 miles from the 1986 nuclear explosion at Chernobyl, in what is now Ukraine. Heavy doses of zinc and iron for six months lowered Skrastins' uranium level considerably.
"It gives you some answers about what your body needs," Skrastins said.
Added Booth: "That's something I thought I didn't need. I was, like, 'I take a multivitamin. I should be all set.' But [the results] came back and I was shocked I was actually deficient in a lot of things."
The customized shakes don't have much impact on an athlete at a recreational level, O'Brien said, but it makes a difference at the NHL level.
Former Panthers forward Gary Roberts, who retired this season at 42 years old, said he played as long as he did because of his emphasis on nutrition. Roberts was sending in his hair samples to the Texas lab before he joined the Panthers four seasons ago.
"Between 20 and 30 you can get away with not eating and training exactly right," he said. "But after you get over 30, if you're not going extra off the ice, you're not going to have a chance at longevity in the National Hockey League."
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