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Jobs, jobs, jobs. That's what opinion polls say Americans want most – and what they most want their representatives in Washington to address. Yet in the seven weeks since President Obama put forward his American Jobs Act – which some independent analysts say would create more than 1 million jobs next year – Congress has not approved one piece of it.
Nor have lawmakers been able to advance any part of the Republican Jobs Through Growth Act counterproposal.
Expectations now are that Congress will pick and choose pieces of both plans that can win bipartisan appeal. Mr. Obama notes that many ideas in his plan have had such support in the past. But Congress has shown little appetite for compromise.
Mr. Obama, however, keeps pitching his job-creation ideas – though he's talking now as much to American voters, as he looks ahead to a reelection bid, as to Congress. He stood Wednesday in front of Washington, D.C.'s Key Bridge to tout the transportation piece of his jobs bill, saying it would make an immediate investment of $50 billion in national transportation infrastructure and a $10 billion investment for a bipartisan National Infrastructure Bank.
"Construction workers have been among the Americans hit hardest over the past few years. And that makes no sense when there's so much of America that needs rebuilding," Obama said. His plan would put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work rebuilding roads, bridges, airports, and transit systems, he said.
Nonpartisan economists, however, lack a clear consensus on whether so-called fiscal stimulus programs like Obama's can make a meaningful impact.
So, if Congress were actually to do something to try to help the 14 million Americans who are out of work – a number that goes higher if you count people too discouraged to seek a job – what parts of the various jobs bills should it undertake first?
Here's an analysis of the job-creation potential of Obama's plan, according to the generally pro-stimulus Moody's Analytics, and of a counterproposal from Republicans.
Temporary tax cuts = total job gains of 1.05 million
Obama would extend payroll-tax cuts for workers for another year and enlarge the scale of the cuts. Giving con-sumers more money to spend – an estimated $1,500 for a household earning $50,000, the White House says – would help spur private-sector job creation. The cost to the government in lost revenue next year, according to Moody's: $175 billion, with job gains as high as 750,000.
Obama would also cut for 2012 the payroll tax that employers pay, including a year-long total payroll-tax holiday for firms that expand their payrolls by hiring or boosting wages. The president also proposes a one-year extension of "100 percent expensing," an incentive for businesses to invest in new equipment now to get a full tax deduction upfront. Cost next year: $70 billion, with job gains as high as 300,000.
Proponents say the business tax cuts offer a new and direct incentive for firms to invest and hire. On the tax cut for employees, former White House economist Jared Bernstein says Congress should extend the current cut for at least another year. The alternative is to see US workers get a tax hike. "That would actively harm the economy," Mr. Bernstein says.
That argument carries enough weight that many policy analysts expect this provision to be extended.
Critics argue that broad tax cuts for consumers are one of the less efficient forms of fiscal stimulus because some of the money goes toward household savings, not immediate spending. On the business side, skeptics say employers don't typically hire because of tax breaks. At best, the tax incentive can spur firms to hire workers a little sooner than they otherwise might have.
Infrastructure spending = job gains of 400,000
The Obama plan would invest in traditional transportation infrastructure: repairing highways, airports, and transit systems. Another aim is to set up a National Infrastructure Bank, which would use federal loans alongside state or private-sector funds. And the White House would help pay for public school modernization across the nation. Total cost: more than $100 billion, with as much as half of that spending in 2012.
Fans of these ideas say infrastructure spending is effective stimulus and a useful long-term investment. Critics say money may be wasted as the government rushes ahead on projects. Both sides agree that, given the challenge of getting projects to a "shovel ready" state, the $100 billion wouldn't all flow into the economy in 2012. Less optimistic than Moody's, IHS Global Insight estimates that as little as one-fifth of the total would be spent next year.
Help for the unemployed = job gains of 275,000
Obama seeks to extend unemployment insurance, helping about 6 million job seekers who might otherwise lose benefits. As a parallel step, the president calls for reforms to job-search programs and pilot projects designed to prevent some future layoffs. Cost next year: $40 billion.
Many economists see extended jobless benefits as an efficient way to boost the economy because the unemployed spend virtually all the assistance money. Many also justify the idea on humanitarian grounds, given that the number of job seekers far surpasses the number of new jobs. Gregory Daco at IHS Global Insight says extending jobless benefits is one of the few Obama proposals (along with employee payroll-tax cuts) that is likely to pass the divided Congress.
Still, the move has its critics, including some who argue for a form of tough love toward the long-term jobless. By reducing the length of time they receive benefits, more jobless people would be prodded to find work again – thus reducing the risk that they will become less and less employable as the jobless period drags on.
Aid to states = job gains of 135,000
States deserve support targeted at preventing layoffs of teachers, police, and firefighters during tight budget times, Obama says. Cost next year: $20 billion.
Supporters say teacher layoffs are a problem that's poised to get worse in the coming year, as lean tax revenues squeeze state and local governments. Some opponents of this spending say it's not clear that there's a staffing crisis in public schools or fire departments. Rather, the program targets aid toward occupations relatively unscathed by the recession.
The Republican proposal
Key elements of the proposed Jobs Through Growth Act include reducing US budget deficits (through a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution), revenue-neutral income-tax reform, and regulatory easing – for example, repealing Obama's health-care and banking reforms and paving the way for more fossil-fuel development. As with Obama's proposals, economists have mixed views on the merits of these ideas.
The goals of getting the nation on sounder fiscal footing and streamlining the tax code are widely viewed as friendly to job growth.
"The type of stimulus we need is something that alters expectations. And to alter expectations, we need to have policies that are … viewed as permanent," says Michael Cosgrove, a forecaster who publishes the Econoclast newsletter in Dallas.
At the same time, large and sudden cuts in federal spending would hurt growth in the near term, he and other economists warn. A move to balance the federal budget in the next year, for example, "would quickly destroy millions of jobs while creating enormous economic and social upheaval," says a recent analysis by Macroeconomic Advisers, a forecasting firm in St. Louis and Washington.
Setting aside that idea as a political nonstarter, the firm sees the GOP plan as relatively neutral for US job creation next year. By contrast, it sees the Obama plan adding 1.3 million jobs, while incurring some $447 billion in new federal costs.
The Macroeconomic Advisers analysis notes, too, that the Obama proposal and the Republican plan are not mutually exclusive. Pursuing elements of both could help.
Still, many economists differ with both parties. In a recent Wall Street Journal survey, 44 percent of forecasters say Obama's jobs plan is too costly, while 20 percent say it's too small. And although economists widely favor the idea of fiscal stabilization for the long term, they are far from united around the Republican recipe for achieving that goal.


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In the new Ubuntu SDK there is an option to "Create application package" in "Build/Ubuntu Touch". Is there any tutoriel to explain how it works? It seems that it creats a "debian" folder with many things in it like the "control" and other basic files. The name of the maintainer seems to be taken direcly from the name of the user and its email address is created with the first word. How can I change all of this?
If I change in every files I can find in "debian", it doesn't work when I hit the "Create application package" again. Also since I am French and that my firstname has a "é", it creats an error in Ubuntu Software Center, which is very infortunate.
Where can I find some doc about this option in Ubuntu SDK? There is a lot for packaging doc for Ubuntu but none for Ubuntu Touch.
Thank you and sorry to ask something again but I am new in this kind of things and the tuto on the Ubuntu website (here) stops before the packaging. It might be a good thing to go from the begining to the end on it.

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With all due respect to Alanis Morissette, being ironic does not include a traffic jam when you're already late, nor a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break. No, ironic - by definition - is today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe W123 Diesel Drifter Wagon. The only question is — whether in a theater or not — should its price go down?
One of the neat features of yesterday's 1989 Merkur Scorpio was its large hatchback bodystyle, which could swallow bulky loads without breaking a sweat. Similarly, that car's condition and seemingly reasonable twelve hundred dollar price allowed it to carry home a generous 78% Nice Price win. Perhaps in this case what happens in Vegas won't necessarily stay in Vegas. That is unless something breaks. Which it will. Pretty much guaranteed.
I know what you've been thinking. You have been wondering when you're going to see another W123 wagon here on NPOCP? It's been a long, long time - weeks almost - and you want one nooooooooow! Well Veruca, un-bunch your panties and check out this bad ass 1984 300TD which is not only powered by that eternal flame of a five cylinder diesel - the om-nom-nom-able OM617 - but it also has been modded to be a weapon of ass-tire reduction.
Sporting welded spiders in its diff and not one but two turbos pumping up the torquey oil burner, this Benz is set up to drift. The ad makes the claim that the higher-flow fuel pump, embiggened injector pump, and larger delivery valves help the compound turbos feed the five to the tune of 200 ponies on race set up. Plugging in the stock valves apparently gets you 30MPG and a car that is claimed perfectly acceptable for daily driver duty. Hell, he even claims the A/C blows cold.
That plan may work out if your commute is pretty much nothing more than a straight line between point A and point B. That's because having a diff that's locked up tighter than that crazy aunt in your attic means going around corners will be a noisy affair.
Or maybe a smokey one. Who's to say you couldn't adapt your driving technique to this car's particular requirements, keeping your foot into it, belching equal quantities of diesel soot out the tailpipe and roostertailed smoldering bits of BF Goodrich onto the crosswalk occupants you just masterfully pirouetted around?
Whether the application of this dark grey over brown wagon's superpowers are for good or for evil will be up to the new owner, but regardless it'll look the part. The W123 has always been a looker, with classic lines and an open, airy greenhouse. This one takes advantage of all that glass as a canvas for stickers and event numbering. The hatch is equally plastered with affirmations of product endorsements, although that kind of thing doesn't doesn't seem to be of any benefit to me. BTW, does anybody else suddenly want to guzzle a can of Monster? And if you're worried about being the only drifter out there sporting a Benz grocery getter, rest assured, you're not
But back to our car. I'm guessing the five-spoke alloys come with the car, although other wheels appear in some of the ad's action shots. There's also a 4-inch exhaust with an inch greater tip that appears to be exiting through the hatch. I know, freakshow exhaust.
There's an adage that says go big or go home. If you happen to want to do both then this crazy-ass drifter might just be your cup of schnapps. Of course with a $5,000 asking price your attention may just drift elsewhere. Is that five grand for this sidewinder Benz something that keeps your attention? Or, does that make your dreams of a diesel drifter go up in smoke?
You decide!
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Topic Page: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
1862–1947, American educator, president of Columbia Univ. (1902–45), b. Elizabeth, N.J., grad. Columbia (B.A., 1882; Ph.D., 1884). Holding a Columbia fellowship, he studied at Paris and Berlin, specializing in philosophy. Beginning in 1885 he was made successively assistant, tutor, and adjunct professor of philosophy at Columbia. He became (1886) president of the Industrial Education Association, reshaped it into what is today Teachers College, Columbia, and was (1889–91) the institution's first president. He was intimately associated with John W. Burgess in the struggle to create a university organization and was largely responsible for the expansion of Columbia College into Columbia Univ. In 1890 he became professor of philosophy and education and dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and in 1901 acting president of Columbia. The next year he formally succeeded Seth Low as president. He instituted the Summer Session, University Extension (now the School of General Studies), the School of Journalism, the Medical Center, and other units that are an integral part of the present-day university.
An advocate of peace through education, Butler helped to establish the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of which he was a trustee and later president (1925–45). His efforts in behalf of disarmament and international peace won him international prestige, and he shared with Jane Addams the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. Prominent in national, state, and New York City politics, he remained a regular Republican party member despite differences with its platforms. Though a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, he refused to join the Progressive movement of 1912, and that year Butler received the Republican electoral votes for vice president after the death of Vice President James S. Sherman, the regularly nominated candidate. He later was the leading Republican advocate of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, urged economy in government, and supported local reform movements. He was (1928–41) president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His books include Education in the United States (1910), The International Mind (1913), The Meaning of Education (rev. ed. 1915), Scholarship and Service (1921), The Faith of a Liberal (1924), The Path to Peace (1930), Looking Forward (1932), Between Two Worlds (1934), and The World Today (1946).


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Press statement - SIHA network
15th January 2013
On 6th January, Rabha Elis Bandas Bilal was arrested and detained by plain clothed security personnel at the Wau Criminal Investigation section. This followed a statement that she made live on Radio Mariah regarding the demonstrations on 9th December 2012. She was later released on 11th January 2013. Rabha is a woman human rights defender and Director of Women Development Group (WDG).
The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa is relieved to hear about her release but is however concerned about the continued repression and arrest of activists and women human rights defenders advocating for freedom of expression. We strongly condemn such acts. Human rights defenders should be accorded the space and environment needed to carry out their work. Our mandate as a women human rights organisation is to raise the profile, and support women human rights defenders in the region.
The December 8th and 9th protests which saw a number of civilians killed were over the cabinet's decision to move the headquarters of Wau County to Bagari. The protests are also said to have been peaceful.
The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) is a network of civil society organizations from across the Horn of Africa, with its headquarters in Kampala, Uganda. SIHA builds capacity within women's organizations, and advocates for gender equality for men and women. Key focus areas include eliminating violence against women, economic justice and challenging legal systems that violate the rights of women or create an environment of impunity for violence against women.
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text: To quote Mr. Mom (a.k.a. The Complete Opposite of The Shining): "Keep that sense of humour! It's critical!" the-overlook-hotel: Late in the production of The Shining, as the crew filmed on the Lobby set, a small fire broke out on an adjacent sound stage. The fire quickly grew into an eleven-alarm inferno, and by morning, the sound stages containing some of The Shining's most massive sets: The Colorado Lounge, the Lobby, and the hotel's iconic hallways, were all but destroyed. The next morning Stanley Kubrick surveyed the damage, and photographer Murray Close captured this image of Kubrick laughing in the face of disaster – surrounded by twisted girders and the smoldering wreckage of his sets. May 5, 2012


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SF to LA bike tour
I like to do a trip on the last weekend of summer before the semester starts. Last year we slayed Mammoth on mountain bikes. This year logistically it worked out to bike tour from SF to LA. I rode this same trip solo a few years ago. Bike touring goes back to 2001. Love it. I think I'm over 10,000 total miles in these 10 (!!) years.
Obligatory pre-ride photo with Jeff. Notice what's missing: the sun.
The plan was ride fast and most of the day, camp and eat out. Mileage ended up as:
SF-Big Sur 150 miles
Big Sur-Lompac 170 miles
Lompac-Los Angeles 155 miles
Big Sur-Lompac 170 miles
Lompac-Los Angeles 155 miles
I will try every vegan cinnamon bun thing once, even if it's whole-wheat and doesn't have icing. This is at the Co-op in Santa Cruz on the way out of town where Water St hits Soquel. I always stop here.
The seatbag I borrowed had a built-in burrito pocket. Very thoughtful. This was the first night. We did the massive descent into Carmel, picked up burritos then raced darkness to the Big Sur campground.
Packing list (all fit in the seatbag and hydration pack)
Thermarest 3/4 mat
Mountain Hardware 35 degree sleeping bag
Mountain Hardware longsleeve wind-proof shirt thing
1 bib
1 jersey
1 vest
1 pair sleeves
1 pants
1 technical t-shirt
1 button-up short sleeve (I'm obsessed with it- prob should have mailed it)
2 pair socks
1 10-inch mini laptop (oops, should have mailed)
1 pair gloves (they were old as shit and I left them in a garbage can in Pismo beach)
1 toolbag with multi-tool, tube, levers, 2 CO2 cartridges
1 pump
1 hydration pack (to carry laptop)
1 coffee mug
1 spork
1 foldable plastic plate
Food I left with
1 lara bar
1 granola mix with brazil nuts, cranberries added
1 bag chocolate-covered espresso beans aka magic beans
20 scoops Maxodextrin- homemade Sustained Energy type stuff
2 bananas
I rode my 'race' bike which is a steel Seven. Shimano parts. Ksyrium rims. The ones with the red spoke, don't know what they're called. I think it weighs in at 18 pounds, which I was told is not light. Borrowed giant seatbag.
What a fun trip! Too many tiny stories to share. Jeff is an awesome touring partner! Who else will hang out drinking coffee till 930am when you have a 170-mile day ahead of you?
I'm aching for a long bike tour....


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Mom Seeks Police Help Finding Woman in Suspected Cancer Scam
(NEW YORK) -- A mother says she will ask police to find the woman who she believes scammed her dying son.
Thomas Doty, 20, of Washington state, died on Dec. 19 after a three-year battle with bone cancer -- but not before a woman apparently scammed him and his family into believing a check for $250,000 was on the way.
Family friend Jonathan Hillstrand, star of the show "Deadliest Catch," made a video asking for support for Doty. A woman claiming to be a nurse in Indiana soon promised $250,000 to send him to San Diego, pay for experimental cancer treatments, and help the family save their house after the expense of caring for their son.
"This huge yellow bouquet of flowers showed up, [with a note] saying, 'No more worries,'" Tiffany Doty, Thomas's mother, told ABC News. "She sent me a text and an email, and it all started, saying, 'I saw your story, and my heart breaks, and I'm going to pay for all this treatment.'"
Tiffany Doty says the woman scammed her family for weeks -- always coming up with an excuse and phony proof that she had already sent the money, including snapshots of bank statements -- as they planned and eventually took Thomas to San Diego, planning to receive treatments.
"She was always out of town or out of the country, so it was always difficult for her to get things done, and then we sent the wire info, and that didn't happen because she got one number wrong, and it became obvious after a couple weeks that this is not happening," Tiffany Doty said. "That's when my sister just called the local news here ... and that's when we got a huge outpouring from the public and that was enough to get him down there."
Thomas Doty flew to San Diego hoping to receive experimental treatments not covered by the family's insurance, Tiffany Doty said. She blames the woman for lost time in addition to false hopes.
"When we started him down there he was just in a little bit of back pain," Tiffany Doty says of preparing to take her son to San Diego. "By the time we got him down there he was on 300 milliliter of morphine a day."
All the while, Tiffany Doty said she told the woman to let her know if the money wouldn't come, or if the woman had changed her mind about wanting to send it. Tiffany Doty said she received messages purportedly from the woman's mother -- messages she now believes were sent by the woman herself.
"She's never been a nurse anywhere in the United States that we can find. There's a lot of things that we've looked at, a lot of emails we've sent," Tiffany Doty told ABC News. "Nothing checks out at all, except that she's shut down her Twitter account, and things like that."
While Thomas and his family waited for the money, his condition worsened.
"Between the time of getting [to San Diego] and the time she wasted, there was another tumor growing that started out the size of a grape, and when the eight weeks went by it was the size of an orange," Tiffany Doty said.
Her son, she says, was crushed when they realized the money would never come.
Now, Tiffany Doty will go to police.
"The last thing he wanted is for her to be found and not to be able to hurt anyone else, and so that is my mission," Tiffyany Doty told ABC.
Her mother, Thomas's grandmother, has contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Tiffany Doty said.
"She just called to ask questions about the laws, and would they go after her, would they investigate," she said. "They indicated that there's something there to pursue."
Tiffany Doty says she plans to file a report with the local police. She believes the woman gave a fake name, she said, and that her family was scammed by someone who has been doing the same thing to other people for a long time.
"We are going to file charges," Tiffany Doty said. "I'm sure there are cyberstalking laws, fraud. I personally am just wiped out. I am beyond wiped out, but my son wanted her found, and he is not a vindictive person."
Aside from finding justice, the Doty family is facing immediate financial struggles and is asking the public for help. Through their website, HealThomas.com, they are asking for donations to help them save their home. Both Tiffany and her husband are out of work, she told ABC.
"We were a normal family," Tiffany Doty said. "We had great jobs, and two years worth of savings, everything that you need. Our house is going to be auctioned on Jan. 11."
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Obama to Seek Limited U.S. Mortgage Role
President Would Boost Private Lenders and Ultimately Replace Fannie, Freddie
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will call for a continued but limited government role to backstop the U.S. mortgage market, as part of a strategy to ultimately replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a bigger private-sector presence, according to White House advisers.
In a speech Tuesday, Mr. Obama will begin making the case that a limited government guarantee is needed to preserve access to the long-term, fixed-rate loans that have become a staple of the U.S. housing market. But he also will call for ending the business...


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Hello all, I purchased a Touchstream Dvorak last August in order to help with my RSI. It was a rough transition at first, changing from a mechanical QWERTY keyboard to a Dvorak TS. After the transition, things were great until the beginning of March, when my TS died on me. I've e-mailed support, but apparently I got in during "the move", and haven't heard anything back from them. Only the right half of my keyboard works now.
Since I've switched back to a mechanical keyboard, I've noticed that the pain in my hands has increased. I'm very upset that my TS is broken, and it's not just a matter of convienience, it's a matter of pain and discomfort. I've considered buying another, but given the current prices, and the uncertainty surrounding FW right now, I don't think that's the best choice.
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The most recent NBA trend is shedding weight in the offseason. LeBron James put up a skinny Instagram picture, and Carmelo Anthony follow suit a week later. Dropping pounds is a smart idea because it can help prolong athletes' careers.
LeBron lost the weight by cutting carbs and working out a lot. He is super serious about it, even turning down a dessert on his vacation in Greece that the restaurant brought out to him for free.
Carmelo's trainer, Idan Ravin, explained to the New York Post how his client dropped all the weight this summer. While Ravin said there had not been a specific diet for Anthony, cutting carbs and eliminating empty calories had been key:
Making fundamentally sound choices, eating smart calories, not wasted calories. We go out to eat, he's making good choices.
And there's no juice cleanses or crash diets involved this time. Ravin said while that might cut weight quickly, it would not make long-term changes. As for his workouts, they have been intense. Ravin told the Post:
He's just tenacious with his training. He's working out very hard, ramped it up, being even more meticulous. He's been super diligent on his diet, extra cardio, rest. A lot of amazing people were hired [by the Knicks] and he's excited about it. It's another example of Melo trying to be super prepared.'
While Carmelo has slimmed down, Ravin said he was still not skinny, saying that it was more important for the basketball star to drop body fat and gain muscle: "It's weight loss along with other things. We're not talking about this being 'The Biggest Loser' contest. He dropped weight, yes. Is he skinny? No. He's a world-class athlete. He's very fit."
With two of the NBA's biggest stars being fitter than ever, we're definitely in for a good season.
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Q Caltrain's northbound trains are slowing down as they go into San Francisco. Something about a bridge being undermined. This is making trains typically three to five minutes late arriving in San Francisco. Lots of MUNI connections are tight, so lots of folks are missing their most preferred buses, which sets their day back 10 to 20 minutes. How long will this slowdown go on?
Tom Farrell
A At least through the end of the month. During a recent inspection of the Quint Street bridge — built in 1907 — engineers found new deteriorating conditions. As a result, during peak commute hours trains are slowing from 30 to 10 mph to minimize strain on the bridge. They are also single-tracking on the south side during off-peak hours.
Next year, Quint Street will be permanently closed to build an earth berm and remove the bridge.
Q I took Caltrain to the Giants home opener last month. Why is it that some train cars do not have air conditioning? This is not the first time this issue has arisen.
Loretta Thomas
A The Giants are hot and so are some fans. All of Caltrain's passenger cars have air conditioning, but sometimes the equipment does not work as it should. Part of the problem is age. Of its 118 passenger cars, 73, or 60 percent, were purchased 30 years ago.
In addition, Caltrain can't idle the cars because of noise impacts and has to shut them down when not in service. Then temperatures will rise just like in a parked car and it can take quite a bit of time to cool them down on a hot day.
Q Traffic in the area of Embarcadero Road and El Camino Real in Palo Alto is horrendous! Paly High School on one side and Town and Country Village on the other make for gridlock.
Can they at least make the right-hand lane from Embarcadero to El Camino for right turns only? I wrote to you about this four years ago and you responded, "I'll look into this." Are you still looking?
Shirley Douglas
Palo Alto
A You doubt me? Several things will be happening on Embarcadero between the Caltrain overpass and El Camino, and your right-turn-only lane could be one of them.
Whereas there are now three traffic signals along a short stretch of Embarcadero — at the driveway to Town and Country and Palo Alto High and a pedestrian crossing just down the road, they will be consolidated into one. Work could begin this fall.
In addition, next year Caltrans and the city will consider widening Embarcadero to the south to accommodate a double westbound left turn from Embarcadero onto south El Camino heading toward Page Mill Road, as well as your request.
Q If you take the Highway 101 north exit from south Interstate 880, it puts you at a stop sign on Old Bayshore. There needs to be a sign that directs folks to turn right to get to 101 north. There's a one in three chance that drivers will get it right. If they turn left or go straight, they are off into the hinterlands of a light industrial area. Any chance of a sign going up where 880 meets Bayshore?
Caroline Jumper
San Jose
A Your sign is on order.
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Barolo [4] is a small town in the Piedmont region of north west Italy. It is part of the larger Langhe wine growing region. It is world famous for the red wines made there from the nebbiolo grape.
Get in[edit]
Barolo is located south of Alba. While there is bus service from Alba or other nearby cities, you need a car to get to Barolo and get around the area effectively.
From Milan, take the A7 Autostrada toward Turin. Near Tortona, exit onto the A21 Autostrada toward Asti Est. Exit A21 at Asti Est and follow the signs to Alba. 146km.
From the Turin Sud entrance to the A6 Autostrada, take A6 in the direction of Asti. Exit onto the A33 Autostrada. Exit A33 at Cherasco onto SP 12. From SP12, make a left onto SP 3 in the direction of Barolo. Continue on SP3. 71km.
From Alba, follow the signs on SP3 south to Barolo. It is 15 km from Alba to Barolo.
There is a free car park on the left as you enter the town. You can park there and get to any of the sights in Barolo in a few minutes on foot. The streets are quite narrow, so parking in the car park is a good idea.
Get around[edit]
Barolo is easily walkable, although some of the streets are quite steep. You can walk the entire town in 30 minutes.
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Barolo is a world famous wine city. It is the namesake city for the "king of wines and the wine of kings." Barolo is a very scenic small town. The surrounding countryside is spectacular. There are some very panoramic views from the Castello Falletti. However, if you are not interested in wine, there is not much to see or do in Barolo. For the non-wine lover, it is probably not worth the drive up from Alba.
The most scenic spot in town is the Castello Falletti which is located in the center of town. The Castello Falletti contains a number of interesting sights, including a museum and an enoteca. The Castello was built in the 10th century for protection against marauding Huns. Parts of the original 10th century keep are still standing, although much of the original structure was destroyed by the Savoyards in 1544.
A number of the most famous Barolo crus (specific vineyards) are located just outside the town of Barolo. For example, the cru Cannubi is on the south facing hillside on your right just before you enter the town on the road from Alba.
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Taste wine. Taste more wine. Buy wine. There are several good wine shops in town, and a number of famous producers have tasting rooms in the town. Many of the wine shops in town stock aged Barolos from as far back as the 1980s. The owners of wine shops typically have bottles open for tasting, and may open a specific bottle for tasting on request.
One prominent producer with a tasting room in the town is Marchesi di Barolo, Via Alba 12, Tel. 0173/564400, Fax: 0173/564444.
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There in an enoteca in the basement of the Castello Falletti, the Enoteca Regionale del Barolo.. You can't miss the Castello Falletti - it's the castle at the top of the hill in town and it appears in almost every picture of the town. This enoteca has a lot of local wines from recent vintages and charges € 5 for tasting three wines and € 2 for one wine.
There are a number of other good wine shops in town, located near the Castello Falletti. Other shopping in Barolo is limited. This is not a shopping town, it's a wine town.
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By all means. There are a couple of small bars in town, but wine is the main attraction.
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Visit nearby wine towns:
Do some hiking in the surrounding countryside.


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text: There are many competing technologies behind fingerprint scanning and evaluation techniques, some which are rather weak and others which are quite strong. Forming opinions based on tests against a small subset of them is not exactly doing due dilligence. Watching things like tv's MythBusters defeat fingerprint sensors is interesting and entertaining, but when you know they're using several year old, out-dated technology for the sensors they evaluate, you might suspect that there's more to the story that they're telling you. Disclaimer: I work for a fingerprint sensor manufacturer. -----Original Message----- From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Robert Michel Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:41 PM To: community at lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: data encryption + Biometric security Salve Ben! First it sounds a very smart idea to have biometric security, but sorry, when I give you some sceptical feedback. On Thu, 01 Feb 2007, Ben Burdette wrote: > Here are a couple of items for the phone wish list: data encryption > and biometric security. Biometric "security" wasn't discussed by the OpenMoko community yet, I'm no crypto expert, but I'm not convinced that biometric worth the hardware... see: http://www.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren When somebody wants to play with biometric "security" the Neo1973 could be used for voiceanalysing - Print 7 random words to the screen and the user has to read them aloud ... > I'd like the phone to be a secure place for me to store passwords and > similar information. Are there plans to have some security features > like this, that would prevent someone from extracting secure data from > the phone if it was lost? A file could have an encrypted filesystem, acess is given only for a while and only while GPRS connection is on. If it is lost, use Internet or an asterisk server to unmount this file. > Having a fingerprint scanner would be more of a convenience feature so > I wouldn't have to enter a password whenever I want use the phone, or > alternatively when I want to access encrypted data. Sounds nice, but I have doubts that a fingerscanner is given real security. I will going to play with my (Debian) Crytoflex card, but not to make access more easy - to make it more secure. So when I have to lost both - my Neo and my Cryptotoken. projectblackdog.com costs 199US$+Chiping for me to expensive. But this is just my 2cents.... When somebody has such a finger scanner and likes to make it running with OpenMoko would be fine - but expect also some feedback that the fingerscanner concept is not so secure as it looks like: google "finger scanner site:www.schneier.com" Greetings, rob _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community at lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community


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Who knew that the squalls left over from Hurricane Trayvon were heading north? During George Zimmerman's trial, Florida State Attorney Angela Corey allegedly — no, counselor, I didn't forget — neglected to turn over to defense lawyers a prosecution report on some myth-destroying photos found on Trayvon's cell (Trayvon apparently smoking pot, someone holding a handgun, video of two homeless men fighting). Constitution-wise, that's a no-no.
Ben Kruidbos, the info-dweeb who wrote the report, ratted out his boss' withholding of evidence, under oath and in front of TV cameras. He was duly canned, frog-marched out of the Fourth Judicial Circuit and deposited on the pavement.
Corey is herself familiar with this hallowed ritual, having been fired by her predecessor, Harry Shorstein, for being abusive and unprofessional toward interns. So too is her No. 2, Cheryl Peek, who in 1990 was accused of dismissing a grand jury panel and then immediately seating another in order to get an indictment. The Florida Supreme Court ruled that this wasn't jury tampering, but her boss, then-State Attorney Ed Austin, decided it was outrageous and dismissed her.
Kruidbos is now suing Corey et al. for $5 million. Thus it was that on Dec. 18, at 11 a.m. sharp, assorted attorneys and I assembled in the chambers of Judge Lawrence Haddock.
The electricity was palpable. Would Trayvon Nation storm the Palace of Justice? Would Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton parachute into the atrium? Would 10,000 whackazoid bloggers from Planet Zim leap to their keyboards and hack the secrets of all and sundry? We waited for a circus. We waited for chaos. We waited for the judge — 10 minutes, 20, 45.
"Omigod," I thought. "He knows this one's hot."
At last, after nearly an hour, His Honor emerged and, through steepled fingers, informed us that there was a conflict. He was a longtime friend of the Corey family and the recipient each year of a plate of stuffed grape leaves made by the state attorney's father. Therefore he was recusing himself. In less than a minute — poof — he was gone.
That impressed me. How often do you see a judge get himself off the political and legal hook with a plate of dolmades? The Zimmerman trial ruined legal and law enforcement careers from Sanford to Miami (two police chiefs fired, one state attorney humiliated and retired, two senior police officers busted back to rousting drunks on patrol). The judge definitely knows the Golden Rule of Government Service: When presented with a political hot potato, pass it on to someone who can take the heat.
Mos' deft, Your Honor.
So, will Jacksonville's two top prosecutors take a clue from the judge? Or will they ruin their careers, as have so many others, in the attempt to prosecute George Zimmerman?
Here's some unsolicited advice. Don't get tough over an ex-employee lawsuit and get hammered. All things Trayvon and Zimmerman are radioactive! You'd have a better chance nibbling plutonium on a cracker than getting through that minefield unscathed.
Please, please, do not pull a Paula Deen! Just think if, after Paula got sued by her ex-employee, she'd only duked the plaintiff a few hundred thou — chump change — she'd still be on the tube showing us how to batter-fry cream cheese in butter.
So pay off this mope. Half a mil, whatever. It's the taxpayers' money, for crying out loud. Non-disclosure agreement? Of course! A stipulation for Kruidbos to live for 10 years in Tierra del Fuego without phone or Internet? It's only fair.
It's only smart. The Florida Ethics Commission complaint over withholding evidence won't stay bottled up forever. Besides, the Zimmerman bloggers are onto you, and they can dig dirt, and spread it, faster than a mole.
The next time you see a Trayvon/Zimmerman-type case rolling down the pike, take a tip from the judge. Run like hell and don't stop until you cross the Georgia line. Otherwise you might join the other losers,
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WASHINGTON — For most Americans, Monday is national Holocaust Remembrance Day. For Charles Stein of Springfield, Va., who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria as a college student in 1938, that day is also Feb. 28. That day, in 1942, his parents were killed by the Nazis.
"Every Feb. 28, I light a candle," Stein said.
The rest of the year, he works as a volunteer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and, at age 93, still travels the country telling his dramatic story. That story not only involves frequent run-ins with Nazi occupiers in Austria, but also his journey to America, his entry into the Army shortly before the United States joined World War II and his role at Normandy on D-Day in 1944.
"It's been a good life," Stein said the other day as he relaxed at the Greenspring retirement community in Springfield. "But also a sad life. There isn't a day goes by that I don't think about my parents and the rest of my family. But considering that when I was 19 I didn't think I would make it to 20, and now I'm 93 and I'm still talking? Unbelievable."
Stein's memory is undimmed, his vision of watching Adolf Hitler ride down Vienna's Ringstrasse as the Germans marched into Austria as clear as it was in March 1938. His unspooling of the details of that dark time is the only way his implausible tale makes sense.
Stein's parents, Eugene and Cecilia Stein, were born in Romania. They settled in Austria after World War I but never bothered to obtain citizenship documents. In the fall of 1937, when Charles Stein was 17 and wanted to attend the University of Vienna to study medicine, he had no family papers to prove his Austrian residency. He would have to pay a far higher tuition.
"I thought I was an Austrian," he said, "but at this point I was stateless."
He applied for Austrian documents, but because of his parents' heritage, he was given an identification booklet that marked him as an "Auslander" — a foreigner. This turned out to be his lifeline around Nazi persecution and out of Austria.
After the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, Stein witnessed numerous episodes of Jews being harassed or humiliated or having their businesses seized. When confronted by storm troopers, he was able to produce his auslander identification and would be released.
"It's time to start packing," he told his parents after watching crowds with raised arms saluting Hitler. "We've got to get out of here."
But the impending horror wasn't clear to his parents. "In their minds, a family was settled," Stein said. "They were not going to move out. 'We'll see what happens,' they said."
Stein and his friends began visiting foreign embassies in hopes of getting visas. "They all told us where to go," he recalled. He said the U.S. Embassy was different, but people there explained that the boys needed a sponsor in America in order to immigrate.
When Stein returned home one day, his mother told him that two of his former classmates, now in brown Nazi uniforms, had come looking for him.
"I went into hiding," he said. "I didn't go home anymore."
Through friends, Stein heard that Luxembourg was granting students 14-day transit visas. Stein said that he ran all the way to the Luxembourgian Embassy and soon had a visa. He sent word to his parents to bring a gym bag of his clothes and meet him at the train station.
When he saw his parents, his mother had brought his gym bag and his violin, which he had played since he was 6. "I couldn't take that with me," he said. "But I couldn't argue with my mother. We were in tears anyway. So I said, 'OK, I'll take it.' "
The 18-year-old Stein boarded the train. He never saw his parents again.
In a scene straight out of the movies, Nazi soldiers boarded the train as it neared Luxembourg's border and demanded, "All Jews out!"
Stein said that he and a friend were the only two. They were taken to a separate car and interviewed. After telling a soldier that he intended to continue studying medicine, he was released. Two minutes later, he was out of Austria.
Stein supported himself as a musician. He maintained contact with his parents through postcards. But in 1939, his parents were removed from their Vienna home, and the postcards stopped.
Meanwhile, Stein made contact with a distant cousin of his mother in New York. He was granted a visa and, in December 1939, rode a cruise ship to America. He lived in the Bronx, worked in the textile business and filed notice of his intention to obtain U.S. citizenship.
In September 1941, Stein received a draft notice from the Army, and within weeks he was enlisted in the artillery. He received his U.S. citizenship in 1942. And in 1943, when the Army realized he spoke the enemy's language, he was sent to intelligence training. By early 1944, Stein was working in Europe as an interrogator of German prisoners.
On June 6, 1944, Stein's intelligence team sat on a boat off the coast as Allied infantry landed in Normandy, France. By that afternoon, he had made the shore. He soon was doing field interrogations.
"I was up with the infantry," Stein said. "I squeezed [the prisoners] for everything they knew. The only ones who resisted were the young officers."
By 1945, Stein was with the 9th Infantry Division in Bavaria and asked for permission to go to Vienna to search for his parents. But he was told Vienna was under Russian control. Permission denied.
The following year, after the war's end, Stein connected with a Jewish organization that had tried to track Jewish prisoners. He learned that his parents had been deported to Lodz, Poland, in October 1941. "They do not appear on any survivor lists," a letter informed Stein.
Stein stayed in the Army, translating documents for the Nuremberg war crimes commission and then doing a stint in Korea during the Korean War. He met his wife, Barbara, an Air Force member from Iowa, at a base in Japan in 1953. They were married in 1954 and had three sons and seven grandchildren, all of whom live in Northern Virginia.
The Steins moved to Vienna, Va., in 1963, and Stein joined the State Department in 1965. He retired in 1978. His wife passed away in 2003.
In the summer of 1993, Stein read that the Holocaust Museum was looking for volunteers. He has worked in visitor services ever since and is at the donations desk every Friday.
In 1995, Stein made an appointment with the museum's archivist. He asked whether the museum had any information about the Lodz ghetto. He learned that investigators had recently recovered German records from the Polish army. Stein was given five large volumes to pore through.
In there, a son discovered the fate of his parents. In January 1942, Austrians in Lodz were being selected for "work" and placed in large windowless vans. Stein learned that his parents were placed in such a van and taken to the Chelmno extermination camp, where they were gassed on Feb. 28, 1942. The Holocaust Museum states that Chelmno was the first stationary facility where poison gas was used for mass murder of Jews.
"My mother was 48, my father was 58," Stein said. "Now I know what to do every Feb. 28."


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Congress' inability to agree on matters of import isn't exactly a new phenomenon, but the Colonial Players' current production of the musical "1776" reminds us that fiery debate has been a part of our nation from the outset.
Sherman Edwards' 1969 Tony Award winner for best musical, with book by Peter Stone, chronicles the vote for independence by the Continental Congress in the summer of 1776.
Director Beth Terranova says the musical reveals "the enormity of the task our founding fathers set out for themselves."
Facing the considerable task of selecting 27 singing actors to bring alive America's founders, Terranova chose a cast with the ability to rise to the challenge.
Songs in "1776" help define its characters. For example, "For God's Sake, John, Sit Down" refers to Massachusetts delegate John Adams, so dedicated to independence that he derides his colleagues for not resolving issues fast enough. They, in turn, describe Adams as "obnoxious and disliked" — a description he accepts.
Adams is played by Jeff Sprague, who portrays an advocate who is intent on getting the job done and also fully reliant on the support of his wife, Abigail. Sprague delivers admiring and romantic duets in "Till Then" and "Yours, Yours, Yours" with the independent Abigail, played by Sandra Rardon. Their exchanges are charming, with both players reflecting the characters' genuine affection for each other.
Ray Flynt plays Benjamin Franklin, making familiar witticisms sparkle. Flynt communicates Franklin's wisdom in persuading Adams to compromise and suggesting that the more affable Richard Henry Lee, not the abrasive Adams, propose independence.
Perfectly cast as Lee is Nathan Bowen, who lends charm and delightful animation to "The Lees of Old Virginia," a highlight of the show.
Eric Hufford plays the contemplative Thomas Jefferson, who is persuaded to write the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson crunches several early drafts in frustration and pines for his wife, Martha. Musically, Hufford does not fare so well, having a single, forgettable song about the birth of the eagle, the new nation's symbol. Somehow, the line "chirp, chirp of eaglet" seems a bit unworthy of esteemed statesmen.
Martha Jefferson is portrayed with charm by Kaelynn Miller, who displays vocal and dance skills in "He Plays the Violin," reflecting her love and admiration for her husband.
Adams' adversary, John Dickinson of Pennsylvania, is played by Timothy Sayles, who conveys Dickinson's disdain of independence and affirms his own conservatism in "Cool, Cool Considerate Men."
Danny Brooks lends substance to his portrayal of John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress. New York delegate Lewis Morris, who "abstains courteously" until he learns the fate of his soldier son, is well played by Tom Bethards.
Jim Ferguson plays Delaware representative Caesar Rodney, a patriot whose illness forces him to leave Congress until he returns to cast the deciding vote for independence. As Edward Rutledge of South Carolina, Ron Giddings provides high drama in his passionate anthem "Molasses to Rum," noting the hypocrisy of New Englanders' opposition to slavery while they profit by running ships in the slave trade. Another highlight is Joshua Rifle as the courier, who tenderly sings of a dying young man whose mother searches for his body in "Momma, Look Sharp."
Bringing this historical drama to life on stage requires the major efforts of several talented volunteer teams. The Players' production benefits from the musical direction of Theresa Riffle and Amanda Cimiglia's choreographic artistry.
Producer Wes Bedsworth, who also serves as sound and video designer, is deserving of praise, and set and floor designer and head carpenter Dick Whaley displays his usual mastery.
Designing and constructing costumes of historic authenticity for 27 cast members requires the talents of 12 seamstresses and assistants, led by costume designer Andrea Elward. Beverly van Joolen serves as wig designer, and credit is also due for other volunteers contributing to the overall excellence of this production.
The Colonial Players' production of "1776" continues Thursdays to Sundays through April 20 at 108 East St. in Annapolis. Tickets are available at thecolonialplayers.org, or through the box office at 410-268-7373.


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An In-Depth Analysis Of Trading Gold Relative To US Real Interest Rates
At the start of 2012 we publicly proposed two pair trades for 2012.
Nine months later and with huge changes in the market having occurred, we are revisiting our recommendation for the GLD/TIP compression pair trade, which has performed well over this period.
Our argument for this trade at the time was as follows:
"Historically US real interest rates have an inverse relationship with gold prices, a relationship which we have written about frequently. The basic premise is that when monetary policy becomes more accommodative, US real interest rates decline and gold prices rise due to the ease in monetary policy."
Our explanation for the inverse relationship between gold and U.S. real rates is as follows:
When US monetary policy is looser, real rates fall and therefore investors buy gold for a number of reasons.
Firstly, lower real rates could imply higher inflationary expectations in the future therefore gold is bought as a hedge against this possible inflation.
Secondly, lower real returns in Treasuries drives investors into risk assets in search of a higher return. This also sends gold higher but it also sends most commodities, risk currencies and equities higher too.
Thirdly, lower real returns on Treasuries reduce demand of US dollars, causing the dollar to fall and therefore the gold price to rise in US dollars.
Finally, looser monetary policy implies that the economic situation is not as rosy as many would like to believe, so if the Federal Reserve acts by loosening monetary policy and driving down real interest rates then that sends a message that the economy is in a bad place therefore investors buy gold as a safe haven asset. There are probably many more reasons for this relationship, but we have just tried to cover the main ones.
For further reading on this topic please see our previous articles on the subject:
• The Key Relationship Between U.S. Real Rates and Gold Prices
• Decline in U.S. Real Rates to Send Gold Past 1800
• What Future U.S. Monetary Policy Means for Gold
These are all useful in reinforcing the dynamics of the relationship between real rates and gold.
Back in January when we originally proposed the GLD/TIP trade, the chart looked like this:
Note: TIP is the plot of treasury prices. Prices move inversely to interest rates, TIP higher = real rates lower. Therefore although it appears that real rates are rising, TIP is a price, not an interest rate.
At that time, real rates implied a GLD price of around $180 (Gold at $1850). Before the end of February our convergence hypothesis was validated as GLD rallied to around $172 with TIPs relatively unchanged from their level in early January.
In March the gap widened considerably with gold declining and TIPs rising.
At the time we had no open gold positions as we were well aware of the downside potential. We haven't been wrong about gold's direction all year.
In July the two moved furthest apart with TIP stubbornly high at 119.5 (real rates low) and GLD relatively very low at around 150.
Incidentally, at this point we opened two long gold positions that have since turned nice profits. These trades can be viewed here and here.
Had we of actioned this pair trade in January, we would have used leverage to amplify our return. Our justification being this was a very safe position; as our further analysis proves.
At the time we recommended the trade, it was with a longer term focus, ie 6-12 months.
The GLD/TIP pair trades performance is plotted below. 5x leverage is the orange line.
Had we placed this trade in January with 5x leverage, we would have earned 44% in around 50 days. At this point we would have closed the trade with a good gain pocketed. So although the negative returns from May through August look bad, we would not have held the trade this long. Our preference is to take profits relatively early on. As the saying goes, no one ever lost money selling at a profit. And the whole point of the trade was to profit off TIP/GLD convergence - which is exactly what happened in February, why would we have held the trade beyond that.
To analyse this performance, we must look at it on a risk adjusted basis. What we mean by risk adjusted is this:
Image trader 1 makes 100% on a trade, and trader 2 makes 15% on a different trade. Although on the face of it trader 1 is the better performer risk is not factored in when analysing their return.
If trader 1 made 100% on a coin toss you wouldn't applaud his performance – he got lucky and risked a lot. His coin flip "trade" was a poor decision in which chance did the work.
If trader 2 returned 15% on an arbitrage (risk-less) trade, you would be very impressed because the return he generated far outweighed the risk he took.
This is at the core of what we do. We look for high return trades with the lowest possible risk. If balance is in our favour, we place the trade. You would assume that with our rate of success we are very good at picking great risk vs return imbalances. We look to take chance right out of the equation.
The Sharpe ratio is a good measure of risk adjusted returns. Anything greater than 1 is considered good, and implies the return achieved outweighed the risk taken on.
The Sharpe ratio of this GLD/TIP pair trade is 1.44, which is very good, implying we recommended a trade with a very good risk return balance.
If one had of timed the trade perfectly, buying in at the biggest point of divergence in July, the leveraged return would be 58.6% in around 100 days.
With gold's recent upswing on the back of QE3, the gap between real rates and gold is closing. With gold set to rally even further thanks to QE3 we believe the gap will close further if not desist altogether. If the gap is to close, the implied gold price is at least $1900 (GLD @ 185). Something we do believe will occur eventually, but timing remains uncertain. The leveraged return if this occurs, since January, would be 70.14%.
If the gap does close completely the outright profit on this trade since January would be 14.02% or with leverage, 70.14%.
If one had of timed the trade perfectly, buying in at the biggest point of divergence in July, the leveraged return would be 58.6% in around 100 days.
Looking forward we are very excited about the current prospects in the commodities and precious metals markets. With a fresh round of indefinite money printing just announced in the US we think gold is set to rally strongly soon. Gold may well challenge its all-time highs achieved last year and we are so confident that if the next $200 move in 2012 isn't up, we will refund the cost of the subscription to those who sign-up during this limited offer period. This offer is for a very limited time only so get on board now!
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Has the result of alpha-complementation ever happened via mutation through evolutionary time, and been preserved in modern day organisms?
In other words, has a functional gene product ever been split or terminated by mutation, exhibit alpha-complementation, and has since been preserved as a quaternary protein? This could be found out by comparison of proteins in closely-related species, but don't know of any specific examples. Has such a thing ever happened?


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5 Wrong Rumors About Kaley Cuoco
November 15th, 2018
Kaley Cuoco was born in California on November 30, 1985. Though a successful child tennis player, she embarked on an acting career in the mid-1990s.
Her first major role came in 2002 when she was cast as one of the leads on the TV series, "8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter," with John Ritter playing her father. The show continued on after his death, before being canceled in 2005. She subsequently joined "Charmed" for one season, and then was cast as the female lead on the hit CBS series "The Big Bang Theory," which would become one of the most successful television shows. The hit comedy series took Cuoco's fame to a new level, as well as her wealth, as she eventually became one of the highest-paid stars on TV. Throughout her career, Cuoco has also taken on some big screen movie roles, with her largest to date being "The Wedding Ringer," which was released in early 2015.
On the personal front, Cuoco and her "Big Bang Theory" co-star Johnny Galecki dated for two years after meeting on the series, and have remained close colleagues and friends even after their romance ended in 2009. Cuoco became engaged to Josh Resnik in 2011, but they split the following year. In 2013, she began seeing tennis player Ryan Sweeting, who proposed after three months of dating. They went on to wed on New Year's Eve, and have expressed interest in starting a family together. In 2014, Cuoco combatted negative attention when she was one of a number of Hollywood stars to have her personal nude photos hacked, stolen, and leaked online. She also shot down rumors of a nose job, and found herself embroiled in a controversy over statements she made in an interview regarding feminism.
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Rhubarb Pinwheel Dumplings
This recipe's rich, buttery biscuit dough, covered with chopped rhubarb and rolled like a jelly roll, is heavenly baked in sheer pink cinnamon sauce.
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Bake: 35 min.
Makes12 servings
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/2 cups water
- 1/3 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Few drops red food coloring, optional
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2-1/2 tablespoons cold butter
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 2 cups finely chopped fresh or frozen rhubarb
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Whipped cream, optional
- In a small saucepan, combine sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt. Gradually mix in water; add butter. Bring to a boil over high heat and cook for 1 minute. Remove from heat; add vanilla. If desired, add enough food coloring to turn the mixture a deep pink. Let cool. For dumplings, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Cut in butter until mixture resembles small peas. Add milk and mix quickly but do not overmix. Shape dough into a ball. On a floured surface, roll dough to a 12-in. x 10-in. rectangle. Spread dough with butter and arrange rhubarb on top. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon over all. Roll up, jelly-roll style, starting at a long end. Cut into 12 slices. Arrange, cut side up, in a greased 3-qt. baking dish. Pour sauce over dumplings. Bake at 350° for 35 minutes or until dumplings are puffy and golden brown. Serve warm with cream if desired.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 309 calories, 10g fat (6g saturated fat), 26mg cholesterol, 266mg sodium, 53g carbohydrate (36g sugars, 1g fiber), 3g protein.
Originally published as Rhubarb Pinwheel Dumplings in Grandma's Great Desserts Cookbook


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Mexico: Baja Season 2, Episode 9 - Travels to the Edge
Both an ocean oasis and isolated desert, the northern part of the narrow Baja peninsula is home to a surprising variety of plant and animal life. In episode nine, after a voyage on the Sea of Cortez in search of migrating gray whales, Art Wolfe ventures inland through the unforgiving Catavina desert and discovers a photographer's playground of light and magical landscapes.
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11 Rules for Creating Value in the #SocialEra
BY NILOFER MERCHANT | The era of social technologies provides seemingly endless opportunity, both for individuals and organizations. But it's also the subject of seemingly endless hype. Yes, social tools allow us to do things entirely differently—but how do you really capitalize on that?
In 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era, the newest in Harvard Business Review's line of digital books (HBR Singles), social strategist and insightful blogger Nilofer Merchant argues that "social" is much more than "media." Smart companies are letting social become the backbone of their business models, increasing their speed and flexibility by pursuing openness and fluidity. These organizations don't operate like the powerful "800-pound gorillas" of yesteryear—but instead act more like a herd of 800 gazelles, moving together across a savannah, outrunning the competition.
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The Industrial Era and the Information Age are over and their governing rule are passé. Leading in the Social Era requires a rethink and reimagination of what can be. Read 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era to be ready to meet the challenges of this new age and thrive.


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An Alcatel-Lucent Windows Phone running what appears to be version 7.5 of Microsoft's operating system has been spotted in the wild. According to a report over at Hi-Tech.Mail.ru, the device will be loaded with Windows Phone 7.8 and be available by the end of 2012. Alcatel will have likely chosen to support Windows Phone 7.8 to keep costs down on hardware and to sell less advanced hardware in bulk.
The device, likely to be branded under the One Touch umbrella, is expected to be priced at around 7990 rubles (approx. £160 / $256), and specifications are reported to be in with a single-core Qualcomm MSM7227A chip - 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM and 4 GB of internal memory. A 4" display, 1500mAh battery, and a 5MP camera (with VGA FFC) are also included. Dimensions come in at 124.2 x 64.2 x 10.75 mm.
Nokia will also be looking to continue to tackle the low-end market, which the company has done so in the past with positive results, particularly on Windows Phone with the Lumia 610. It'll be interesting to see where the Finnish manufacturer goes next to carry on the low-end trend. But it's always good to see more manufacturers supporting Windows Phone.
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brain tissue homogenization with sample buffer?? - (Jun/19/2012 )
Hi, I am trying to run a Western to detect a protein about 70kD in size.
We have tried traditional homogenization buffer (RIPA + protease inhibitors, ect.) or modified version of the buffers to homogenize the sample, but when we ran the gel, we didn't see the band on the target area but many many other bands in other places.
Then, our technician homogenized our sample directly with sample buffer (LDS Sample buffer from invitorgen) without any inhibitors and have a very nice band at the target size without any other unspecific band.
She said she heard some people homogenize the sample directly in the sample buffer, but I have never heard of that.
However, since she had a really nice band on the target size (no back ground what so ever.. very clean band), I am wondering if this method is also acceptable for the standard Western.
Dose anyone heard of it?
I am also wondering not adding protease inhibitor is OK for the sample's integrity.
I'll appricate for any suggestions or inputs.
the sample buffer should denature the proteases and phosphatases as well as the other proteins present in the homogenate. homogenizing samples in the sample buffer is done when the homogenate is not going to be used for anything else.
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GENEVA (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday sought to justify the use of Russian troops streaming into neighboring Ukraine's Crimea region as a necessary protection for his country's citizens living there. He also urged Kiev to comply with a deal that opposing Ukrainian sides had reached on Feb. 21 but Moscow did not sign.
The use of Russian troops is necessary "until the normalization of the political situation" in Ukraine, Lavrov said at an opening of a monthlong session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
"We are talking here about protection of our citizens and compatriots, about protection of the most fundamental of the human rights — the right to live and nothing more," Lavrov said.
Ukraine has accused Russia of a military invasion and has called on the Kremlin to withdraw its troops. Lavrov dismissed the criticism and said that "information is coming in about preparations for new provocations that are being committed, including against the Russian Black Sea fleet," which is based in Crimea, a strategic peninsula now effectively under Russian control.
"Those who are trying to interpret the situation as a sort of aggression and threatening us with sanctions and boycotts, these are the same partners who have been consistently and vigorously encouraging the political powers close to them to declare ultimatums and renounce dialogue," Lavrov said. "We call upon them to show a responsibility and to set aside geopolitical calculations and put the interests of the Ukrainian people above all."
Lavrov urged Ukraine to return to the Feb. 21 agreement signed by pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych aimed at ending his country's three-month political crisis. Yanukovych fled his country after signing the deal with the opposition and foreign ministers of France, German and Poland to hold early elections this fall and surrender much of his powers.
A Russian envoy who was part of those talks did not sign the agreement, and a key Russian lawmaker criticized it, but since Yanukovych's departure Moscow has insisted on its implementation as one of their key demands.
Lavrov said Yanukovych respected the agreement, but the opposition "did nothing."
"The illegal arms have not been relinquished. The government buildings and streets of Kiev have not been completely freed. Radicals maintain control of cities," Lavrov said. "Instead of a promised national unity government a 'government of the victors' has been created."
Before meeting with Lavrov, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he would emphasize ways for Russia to defuse the crisis. Ban also has been discussing proposed ideas to do this, which include the creation of a "contact group" on Ukraine under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which is chaired by Swiss President and Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter.
"I have repeatedly emphasized that it is critical to ensure full respect for — and the preservation of — Ukraine's independence, unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity," Ban said. "It is now of utmost importance to restore calm, to de-escalate tensions immediately through a dialogue."


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Friday, February 29, 2008
A Publisher I Recently Discovered
Some other authors published by Spence include J. Bud....ski (can't spell it correctly), Michael S. Rose, and Jennifer Roback Morse. Spence publishes books that cover topics such as politics, sex, and philosophy. In other words, things that Civis wants to talk about on his blog.
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- February 29, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Looks like some good stuff there. I'm surprised their fare isn't too neo-con for you.
- February 29, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Some of it is. I could care less about the Horowitz books, for example.
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Jared Veldheer always was easy to spot in a crowd, at 6-foot-8, 325 pounds, even among his peers on the field in an NFL game. And that was before the Raiders left offensive tackle embarked upon a new workout regime and altered his diet this offseason.
Veldheer since has added five pounds and considerable muscle tone, something he shared on a Twitter picture earlier this year.
"It's funny how that picture kind of exploded," Veldheer said by phone as he prepared for the start of the Raiders' offseason workout program in Alameda.
The picture shows Veldheer, 25, posing in a gym right after he finished lifting dumbbells. His bulging biceps prompted many to liken Veldheer to The Incredible Hulk.
Veldheer said he is surprised by how much attention he received for that picture. Ultimately, he wants to be recognized for his play as the blindside tackle for the Raiders.
To that end, Veldheer always seeks ways to improve his strength, mobility, speed and blocking technique. This offseason, that meant following strength coach Mark Ehnis' advice in the weight room and at the dining table.
"I feel a huge energy boost," Veldheer said. "That's gotten me ready quicker for the next workout. I'm just feeling good and I've been hitting some of the best weights that I've hit here, pretty much in my life. … I'm excited to get to use it all on the field."
All the while, Veldheer was careful not to get so muscle-bound that it cut down on the mobility and flexibility he needs to succeed on the football field.
"That can happen if you're not working on the right stuff, for sure, but I've been working on a lot of good stuff, a lot of mobility work and proper technique within the lifting," Veldheer said. "I feel like I'm more mobile than I've been. I'm able to move lower. I feel like I'm at my quickest, too."
Veldheer has started every game the past two seasons and 43 of 48 in his three NFL seasons.
At times, he has played on a level commensurate with the game's top left tackles. Yet, he's never satisfied.
It's a common sight to see Veldheer working on his technique and working out long after his teammates have exited the practice field.
"He's the steady-Eddie guy," Raiders coach Dennis Allen said of Veldheer last season. "You don't really notice him and then, all of a sudden, you look up and you say, 'Hey, he's had a pretty nice day.' "
It won't be hard to miss Veldheer this season judging by the recent picture.
"It (reflects) the work that I've put in," Veldheer said. "It's nice when people can respect that. At the end of the day, it's not about the picture. It's about trying to get better and getting stronger, faster and working on the drills I need to get better on the football field."


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The microwaves industry is constantly changing, and so are the ways engineers stay on top of its newest developments. New media have taken many forms, and the industry (manufacturers, in particular) has done a good job evolving to help provide you with the critical information you need.
Recently, we reached out to our readers and asked you to vote for your favorite online tools and resources that make your job easier and help you succeed. We received a large volume of responses to our survey this spring, and after tallying the results, we proudly present the final list:
The Best Of Microwaves & RF 2013
During this year's IMS show in Seattle, WA, Microwaves & RF presented the first annual Best Of Microwaves Industry Awards, honoring this year's deserving winners and audience favorites, and gave out its first annual Living Legend Award. Here is the entire list of winners:
Best Website
Analog Devices (www.analog.com) – In support of its diverse product lines, Analog Devices has a strong website with great industry resources like technical papers and video, which users can search by technology or market. The site also offers great online tools like ADIsimADC, ADIsimDAC, and ADIsimPLL.
Tektronix (www.tek.com) – Tektronix offers a great deal of valuable, in-depth technical information on its website combined with ease of use, clearly defined categories and subcategories, and fast loading times. Site visitors can quickly find the information they are seeking.
Best Supplier Social Media
Agilent Technologies (www.agilent.com) – Agilent has both great scope of reach and frequent postings, leveraging multiple Twitter accounts, a Facebook account, YouTube page, Pinterest, Googleplus and, of course, an active LinkedIn presence. The firm consistently provides a good mix of company news and human-interest information.
National Instruments (www.ni.com) – National Instruments takes a multifaceted approach to social media with a Facebook page, company Twitter and LinkedIn efforts, and YouTube channel. Separate Twitter accounts are dedicated specifically to NIGlobal and LabView. The company also has a Flickr photo page and keeps its audience informed through RSS feeds, blogs, and a discussion board hosted on its website.
Best Supplier Industry Blog
Marki Microwave (www.markimicrowave.com) – Marki Microwave's straightforward blog reaches industry professionals at a variety of levels and provides value to all of them. It covers a range of topics and regularly cycles through technical topics, serving as a reliable resource to the industry.
AWR Corp. (www.awrcorp.com) – Sherry Hess, AWR's VP of Marketing, has raised her voice in the industry by sharing both personal insights and technical expertise. She has consistently shared her knowledge with this marketplace while keeping her blog upbeat and interesting. Over the years she has been blogging, she has maintained an informative voice and delivered consistent quality for those interested in AWR's software products and in computer-aided-design software in general.
Best Online Educational Tools
Agilent Technologies (www.agilent.com) – Offering a veritable classroom in a computer, Agilent's technical resources cover topics ranging from emerging communications standards to the latest in radar and more. These resources are created at a fast pace, making the sheer volume of their technical library immense. A discussion forum, webcasts, and other resources round out these tools.
National Instruments (www.ni.com) – From software tools to webcasts and videos, National Instruments' dynamic team regularly creates and produces a variety of tools that help its customers leverage LabView and the company's other measurement-based products. Their focus is on engaging users to learn more about their instruments, their software, and their company—and they do so in a variety of ways while sharing technical knowledge and providing education.
Best Customer/Technical Service
Maury Microwave (www.maurymw.com) – As a custom solutions provider, Maury Microwave works hand-in-hand with its customers to develop unique solutions. The firm maintains its customers' needs as first priority and will blend its own offerings and various products from the industry to create an optimum solution. In doing so, it helps its customers get the most out of their test equipment.
Communications & Power Industries, Microwave Power Products (CPI, www.cpii.com) – Part of CPI's mission statement is to be a good citizen in the world, and it continues that attitude with its customer service. The firm has an impressive team of representatives who are available all hours of the day. In addition, it is known for maintaining sometimes hard-to-find spare parts like klystrons. The firm can supply a current or out-of-production high-power device to a customer within 24 to 48 hrs.
Best Training and Education
AWR Corp. (www.awrcorp.com) – From in-person events to online webinars, videos, and white papers, AWR Corp. quickly helps educate its customers on any software enhancement. Many free software downloads are available for the firm's products, allowing potential customers to get a feel for the software and its capabilities. With much effort dedicated to its university program, AWR also supports university learning, nurturing the next generation of engineers.
Richardson RFPD (www.richardsonrfpd.com) – Offering design-level and manufacturing expertise over a variety of areas, Richardson is a large distributor with impressive resources that works hand-in-hand with its customers to bring them a small-company, close-to-the-customer feel. In addition to its engineering team, the firm offers white papers, tutorials, videos and handy tools like calculators and converters. For those trying to learn more about a design, it's possible to try out their design kits/evaluation boards, check out block diagrams, and more.
Best Technical/Application Videos
NXP Semiconductors (www.nxp.com) – Leveraging its YouTube channels, NXP regularly posts high-quality videos that educate viewers on emerging technology areas, new industry capabilities, and product introductions. Technical training also is provided, making this YouTube channel a great all-around resource for engineers.
Freescale Semiconductor (www.freescale.com) – Balancing the sharing of knowledge with education about Freescale and its capabilities, this company is heavily invested in communicating with its audience via video. Its high-quality media features in-person interviews, graphic-based presentations, and more to introduce new product capabilities, provide a behind-the-scenes view into company innovations, and offer insight into growing application areas like the connected car.
Best Custom Solutions
API Technologies, Inc. (www.apitech.com) – From components through systems, API Technologies has the expertise to engineer a variety of solutions—allowing them to efficiently design a selection of compact integrated microwave assemblies. In doing so, its team draws upon expertise ranging from DC through millimeter-wave frequencies. Among the unusual innovations of this technology-agnostic firm is a glass microwave integrated circuit (GMIC).
Microwave Engineering Corp. (www.microwaveeng.com) – With expertise in passive and active components from 100 MHz to 100 GHz, Microwave Engineering Corp. covers both coaxial and waveguide technologies. With this flexible approach, they leverage a customer-friendly approach to provide services ranging from R&D to manufacturing.
Living Legend
Blake Peterson (retired, Agilent Technologies) – In the field of spectrum analysis, Blake Peterson is a well-known educator, mentor, and technical writer. He is the author of renowned Application Note 150, "Spectrum Analysis Basics." Shortly before his discharge from the US Navy in November 1956, Blake accepted a job offer from Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). He spent his first year in production, followed by a stint as a technical writer, where he authored the first-ever HP schematics using transistors in place of vacuum tubes. He soon realized that his specialty was technical support.
In 1964, Blake was instrumental in the release of the 8553A spectrum analyzer—the product that marked the beginning of modern spectrum analysis. When personal computers became available, Blake saw the opportunity for training and wrote over 50 animated programs. Still in use today, these programs illustrate the basics of spectrum analysis, network analysis, radar, and digital communications. For the first time, engineers could see a dynamic representation of rotating vectors and the resulting summation as a time-domain waveform—a task that had previously required a manual calculation with pencil and paper. Although Blake retired from Agilent in 2001, he continues to help train new employees on a voluntary basis and recently assisted in updating Application Note 150, Spectrum Analysis Basics. He also is the creator of "Blake Peterson University (BPU)," a required training series for all college hires at Agilent.