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Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Basel Accords: "Tissue paper over a mountain range"
- zero weight for OECD government debt and all other government debt with less than one year maturity;
- 20 percent weight for debt of OECD banks;
- 50 percent weight for mortgage debt.
Young as I was, I had the confidence to express to my elders and betters that they were making a mistake treating a French bank - with unlimited state support - exactly the same as a Italian bank - where state support would be subject to greater political and currency risk. Given the massive differences in yield and liquidity, how could an Italian government bond be just as good as a US Treasury held as bank capital?
The enthusiasm of my colleagues did not convince me. I knew that by drawing these clumsy rules we were telling banks that they no longer had individual, direct responsibility for assessment of the creditworthiness of their assets or their bank counterparties. The banks could use the uniform weightings of Basel to justify bad judgement and lend to Italian banks just as if they were French. Worse, the zero weighting of all OECD government debt would make Italian bonds just as good as Gilts or Treasuries as capital assets, despite more volatile liquidity and the obvious credit risks. [Italian governments changed almost weekly back then.] If the bank regulators slapped a label of capital adequacy on a bank, they would keep on lending unto disaster.
"But no!", my colleagues declaimed, "We are making the world safe for capitalism. With level playing fields from here to West Germany, American and British banks can grow internationally in every market because competition will favour more efficient international banks." [At the time the Soviet Union was still a bar to capitalist extremism in Eastern Europe and we were all devoted to Chicago School free markets elsewhere.]
Basel Capital Accords did promote global competition, and so the concentration of global banking into a very few global banks by punishing smaller banks with higher capital requirements. And to that extent, the plan worked to favour Wall Street and the City. The plan also worked in favour of the Italians, who could issue copious government debt to capitalise their banks at the zero risk weighting and flog that debt to American, British and German banks who carried it at zero risk too.
But as the American, British and German banks were relieved of the onerous responsibility for due diligence, they took sillier and sillier risks. For example, they bought lots of Italian government bonds. They spread the emergent model of securitisation far past any productive reinvestment of capital to the point of wasting each nation's decades of accumulated wealth to finance excess consumption. They bought ratings from willing rating agencies to justify more and more leverage with less and less capital. They used derivatives to make their balance sheets and accounting impenetrable and misleading, and then got governments to adopt the same techniques in the public sector to support increasing government debt. And all the time the bias of Basel made them more and more powerful.
Basel II cemented big banks' control of both regulators and markets. They could use ratings to justify investments in structured products that seemed to have no economic rationale for either investors or intermediaries, but were magically profitable for everyone in theory. They could use internal models to book profits now and defer losses indefinitely, so ensuring wonderful bonus growth. Ah, glory days!
It is all starting to unravel now. Despite a commitment to Basel III - to be implemented far in the future - I doubt Basel II will last much longer. This week saw Portugese and Irish government bonds downrated to junk. Even the mighty US Treasury is on creditwatch for downrating given the rising risk of default.
Junk rating means risk. Recognition of an asset as capital implies that it can be priced in a liquid market when cash is required. When sovereign debt is junk rated and only good for collateral at the ECB or Fed, then it should not be eligible for bank capital. And so, zero weighting of these bonds as bank capital assets is no longer defensible. The banks holding Irish and Portugese debt as zero weighted for regulatory capital will have to supplement their capital at a time when bond markets are already dysfunctional and becoming downright illiquid for new issues. Huge maturity mismatch and refinancing overhangs were already threatening banks over the next few years, and now it will be much, much worse.
The ECB has ripped up its liquidity facilities rulebook this week to permit Portugese government debt to remain eligible as collateral despite the downgrades. That just tells the banks that there is no longer any rulebook that will not be ripped up as the occasion requires. And that inevitably includes Basel II and Basel III. The ECB has doubled down on moral hazard.
Watch the banks use the next crisis to ensure that no rules apply to them at all. Basel II will be suspended as regulators come under pressure to agree to continue to zero weight even junk bonds, despite high risks of sovereign defaults. You won't hear the Portugese, Irish, Italians or Spanish - or likely even the Germans - object to that when the time comes and the alternative is recognition of widespread capital deficits and bank failures.
But if the Basel II rulebook gets ripped up, that will also destroy the means by which the banks suborned regulators, central banks and governments to their service, chasing ever higher yields and ever bigger marketshare. I'm not sure what will come after that, but it probably won't have zero weight and certainly not zero risk.
Related posts:
More on the lunacy of the Basel Accords
Basel Faulty: Sovereign defaults and bank capital
19 comments:
- Knute Rife said...
The banks are now Humpty Dumpty, "When I set a risk rating, it is just what I choose it to be, neither more nor less." How deep does that rabbit hole go? We are now living the nightmare Jefferson feared and that Hamilton believed would not happen: the actual control of the political and social institutions by the financial.
- 13 July 2011 at 22:56
- Anonymous said...
If you were a shooter, you'd have completely missed the target off of a benchrest at 50m.
It is precisely the missrating of your 'as good as' Gilts & Treasuries that has lead to the burden of bad debt that we all face today.
What bank do you work for?
- 14 July 2011 at 02:23
- Anonymous said...
I take my hat off to you London Banker. One of the few sane and truly knowledgeable voices.
- 14 July 2011 at 07:46
- Fabrice_BM said...
Excellent analysis.
You belong to the few that truly the misconceptions of the global financial scheme.
Thanks for explaining this so clearly.
- 14 July 2011 at 11:05
- Richard said...
Excellent post, although I am far more optimistic about the resolution of our current financial predicament than you.
For example, I do not think that the US can adopt Basel II or III because the Dodd-Frank Act requires regulators to end their reliance on credit ratings. So much for risk-weightings.
So another solution will have to be found.
This solution may have come from the Institute for International Finance, a global lobbying organization representing the largest financial institutions, which is calling for effective regulation.
They defined effective regulation as combining the banks providing all the useful, relevant data with supervision that knows how to use this data to promote financial stability.
There exists a group of market participants that could provide this supervision. This group is the banks themselves along with credit and equity market analysts.
Anyone with an exposure to the banks, and this includes government regulators through deposit guarantees, has an incentive to analyze this data (or talk to other market participants who have the expertise to analyze this data) and adjust the price and amount of their exposure to reflect each bank's risk.
In short, the Institute for International Finance is calling for the restoration of market discipline.
My speculation on why they are pushing for a restoration of market discipline is bank management realizes that governments are in no condition to bailout the banks again and this is the only way they can protect themselves from what Jamie Dimon referred to as his "dumbest" competitor.
But, how can we get from where we are today with plenty of insolvent banks, to a financial system where there is market discipline?
By adopting current asset and liability-level disclosure.
As the IIF made clear, well run banks have nothing to hide and they will quickly make their current asset and liability level data available.
For banks that would rather not disclose this information because they are insolvent, national supervisors should stop praying for a miracle. Instead, they should take over the banks and resolve them.
- 14 July 2011 at 20:07
- scandia said...
@Anonymous re the perceived " misrating " I think you should read the post again. It was London Banker's " enthusiastic colleagues" who rated all equal to Gilts and Treasuries..
- 16 July 2011 at 00:36
- john said...
Looks like a big shakedown is imminent with the outsiders being given enough rope to hang themselves. fffing lunatics
- 16 July 2011 at 10:01
- Steve R. said...
Thank you for your help in illuminating our problems so that the can be exposed and understood and rectified ..
- 16 July 2011 at 21:38
- AllanW said...
Thanks for the clarity and sanity.
- 17 July 2011 at 13:19
- RebelEconomist said...
Nice turn of phrase LB! When I was introduced to capital adequacy as a novice central banker a year or two after you (not as a financial supervisor, so we may not know each other), my poorly informed impression was that the simplifications you describe were fair enough, because the self-preservation instincts of principal investors and the discretion allowed to financial supervisors would fine-tune risk management to prevent most disasters. Looking back with more experience, I underestimated the cynicism of both buy-side and sell-side agents, and the demanding but lazy nature of the principals. I doubt whether any capital adequacy or supervisory regime will suffice. What is needed is realistic accounting and rigorous bank resolution so that, in future, the principals pay attention (not to mention that using more of the principals' wealth in the clean-up would reduce the burden on the public).
- 17 July 2011 at 19:35
- global agenda credits said...
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- 18 July 2011 at 12:38
- Carter the Examiner said...
The fundamental problem that led to Basel II was that banks internally themselves did not properly price\reserve for the risk. Some markets, such as Italy, before Basel II, were characterized by binary decisionmaking (good or bad credit).
Risk based capital is not inherently flawed, in fact it is what each and every banker\investor ought to do of their own accord.
The problem is building the regulatory regime off of this. If banks do have the aforementioned incentive, then the role of the regulatory capital regime should be to control for errors in the classification within the regime - mostly credits assigned a risk charge that is too low (and hence allow the bank to operate at too high leverage).
And the way to do that is with a simple leverage ratio.
- 19 July 2011 at 03:09
- PeterJB said...
I am now of the firm intellectual belief, after years of reading Economic works of Economists and actively participating in Economists' Blogs, searching for the fundamentals behind today's socio-economic driver, that is the credit distribution system (CDS), that the state of 'Economics' as it is practised, is nothing but a totally fraudulent persuasion,and has been been for at least 300 years, or more, with its fundamentals rooted in the US demand for exogenous spoils through looting, by the continuity of war activities and diplomatic imposed national intimidation – fully, a priori, and necessarily supported by the largest and most sophisticated military force – that exists, which just cannot, incompetently and managerially, win a war –because, that is the intention and purpose of its own National 'economic practise'.
Where, the field of Economics has be captured, consensually captured by self-surrender and further, as such, devoted to being the apologists for the total corruption and deceptions of "Economic Theory (ies)" in practice.
All this, while the so called US Gold Standard was nought but a Central Bank fraud — as is now the whole Global Banking system.
The World has been conned and fooled! It is all illusion and created through time and education; delusion! Bernasean Propaganda or Public Relations.
All – "Economic Theory" and "Economics" is "store high in transit" – it is mere sophist opinion; nothing more and nothing less; but preferential opinion and nothing more than convenient opine and ignorance that allows it to be propaganda-ized through the whole public socio-economic spectrum of human action.
That is to say, the education demand (for Economic creditability) which, upon realization, in order to survive, must be immediately forgotten or at least discarded.
Economics is at best, a Profession of Prostitutes, without Ethics and or Morality!
The ruling socio-economic force is Banking — which controls by the establishment of Central Banks which projects its controls through franchised political power and centralizes returns via a mandatory and major "interest" on all productivity, ad infinitum, a priori. The Banking system is a parasite which is predatorial, a priori! Banking is the Giant Squid and feral fungi Candida; It is also a system that corrupted the political and bureaucratic and maintains control through its systemic reason of being aka nature and kind.
There is no "Economic Theory" per se, only control through stealth and deception taxation by inflation by its Central Banks mechanisms.
There is a need for Human Consciousness at the global breadth to evolve to the point of exposing this Economic Fraud of organized crime by political being and Policy on the human economy!
And it is... thankfully.
Sadly, you will not believe these words. But, if you did, humanity would be far less traumatized by the coming future consequences!
- 26 July 2011 at 12:50
- scandia said...
@ London Banker, Wish you would comment on current events as in where will the money come from to continue to protect the bondholdrs, the very system itself?
- 9 August 2011 at 13:14
- Hayes said...
Discovered a New>? version of RGEmonitor run by Roubini with open access. Lots of guest posts etc..
It is called EconoMonitor - A Roubini Global Economics Project
- 13 August 2011 at 13:25
- PeterJB said...
Is the Bank of England causing the riots through failed economic policy?
As the Bank of England considers unleashing a fresh round of QE, Dhaval Joshi, of BCA Research, argues the approach of creating electronic money pushes up share prices and profits without feeding through to wages.
"The evidence suggests that QE cash ends up overwhelmingly in profits, thereby exacerbating already extreme income inequality and the consequent social tensions that arise from it," Joshi says in a new report.
Isn't it about time that Economics be subjected to the scrutiny of scientific processes? Today's economics is merely "opinion" but politically biased "opinion" coloured by the expediencies of self-agenda.
"In order to help each other to cover up bad deeds, one forms a party." Confucius
- 14 August 2011 at 23:39
- scandia said...
The proposal of eurobonds sounds like another attempt to grade all countries in the eurozone equally as you pointed out in a previous posting.Is the eurobond another financial " product " to protect the bondholders? There doesn't appear to be enough protection money left?
- 16 August 2011 at 13:29
- Anonymous said...
Time for a new update. Thank you.
- 23 August 2011 at 21:58
- Anonymous said...
Managing risk - good.
Killing any assessment of risk - Ouch!
- 30 August 2011 at 21:29


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Beware of the Paypal
And then paypal froze the money in my account: "money withheld". 13 days after the transaction the money is finally back on my bank account and I think to myself: Avoid paypal, especially for large sums of money.
Of course Paypal loves to get an involuntary free two week credit from me and work my money without giving me anything back. And that they just freeze my money just shows you what kind of company paypal is.
If you, too, live in Europe and get into trouble with Paypal, don't hesitate but contact FIN-NET, the european bank complaint network:
The more people complain, the more paypal will have to behave itself.
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Fast PAL HD Video encoding in Sync with ffmpeg-svn from AVHCD to Mpeg4 under Linux
BR=3000 # kbit
[ -f "$OUT" ] && exit 1;
echo $1
# old ffmpeg versions (2008):
nice $FFM -r 50 -i "$1" -s 1280x540 -ilme mpeg4 -acodec copy -aspect 16:9 -b ${BR}k "$OUT"
# new ffmpeg versions (January 2009): -r 50 might still be necessary.
nice $FFM -i "$1" -s 1280x540 -flags ilme -flags ildct -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec copy -aspect 16:9 -b ${BR}k "$OUT"
The only problem is that the current ffmpeg checkout does not listen to the -r parameter. So you have to manually override the frames per second when playing the file, e.g. mplayer -fps 50. I use
mplayer -fps 50 -fs -af volnorm -vf pp=fd.
You need might need to adjust the path to ffmpeg in the script obviously, e.g. to $HOME/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.
Of course if you have a camera that records 29.97 frames per second you have to change the numbers accordingly. (-r 59.94)
If you've got several cores you may want to experiment with the -threads option and make sure you have compiled with --enable-pthreads, see below.
The great thing is that the video is encoded quickly - I get 23 fps on my celeron m530 notebook - and the video is perfectly in sync, and you only need ffmpeg, nothing else.
You should install a fresh ffmpeg from SVN:
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads && make && sudo make install.
Be careful where you put every ffmpeg parameter, as ffmpeg interprets them differently depending on the order you give them. E.g. ffmpeg -r 50 -i ... differs from ffmpeg -i ... -r 50.
Enjoy fast and sync video transformation!
If it doesn't work for you, try out this script, which is the result of the long discussions below.
Comfortable Direct HD Video Encoding from AVCHD to Mpeg4
The script works badly on multi-core systems, but you can invoke it several times at once. It's originally a modified version of the script from this package, but I changed it so you can run it several times concurrently (with the same file names in different folders). I also added a check to prevent it from encoding files where the output files already exist. I recommend to run it on an entire directory
for i in *.m2ts; do echo encoding $i; hdencode $i; done
set BR=5000
set lavcopts="-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate="$BR":turbo:threads=1:autoaspect:ilme:ildct"
set lavf="-of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4"
set menco="-vf scale=1280:540:1 $lavf"
set fps="25" # "29.97"
set ending="mp4"
set delay="-delay +0.7"
#The scripts and instructions in this package are free to use and
#redistribute AT YOUR OWN RISK!! Standard disclaimers apply.
if ( $#argv == "0" ) then
echo usage: $0 filename.m2ts ...
set files=($*)
set path = ( . $path )
echo using:
which xporthdmv || exit
which ldecod || exit
which ffmpeg || exit
echo $0 Starting.
echo " "
foreach file ($files)
if ( ! -f $file ) then
echo file $file not found
rm -f ./bits0001.mpv ./bits0001.mpa
set filebase=`basename $file | sed s/\.m2ts// | sed s/\.MTS//`
set audiofile=/tmp/$filebase-$$".ac3"
set videofifo=/tmp/$filebase-$$".yuv"
set outputfile=$filebase"."$ending
if ( -f $outputfile ) then
echo file $outputfile already exists
if ( ! -f $audiofile ) then
echo xporthdmv -h $file 1 1 1
xporthdmv -h $file 1 1 1 && mv bits0001.mpa $audiofile
echo $audiofile already exists, not creating it.
mkfifo $videofifo
if ( ! -f $videofifo ) then
echo ldecod -i bits0001.mpv -o $videofifo
ldecod -i bits0001.mpv -o $videofifo &
#ldecod -i bits0001.mpv -o $videofifo
echo $videofifo already exists, not creating it.
if ( ! -f $outputfile ) then
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mencoder $videofifo -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=1440:h=1080 -aspect 16:9 -ofps $fps \
-ovc lavc -o $outputfile"-tmp" $lavcopts $menco
echo mencoder $outputfile"-tmp" -aspect 16:9 -ofps $fps \
-audiofile $audiofile \
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-o $outputfile
mencoder $outputfile"-tmp" -aspect 16:9 -ofps $fps \
-audiofile $audiofile $delay \
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echo $outputfile exists, not creating it.
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rm -f ./dataDec.txt ./log.dec bits0001.mpv $videofifo $audiofile $outputfile"-tmp"
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xfonts-base xterm xutils xauth icewm
Then you should be able to login with nxclient, if you set it to use the custom environment with a virtual desktop and to execute /usr/bin/icewm.
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Oggrecode Script
# (c) 2008 linux-tipps.blogspot.com
# published under the GNU GPL v 3.0
echo OggRecode v 0.01
ME=`basename $0`
if [ $# != 2 ]; then
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echo but you gave me $# parameter\(s\): \($ME $*\)
exit 1;
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# direct file handling here
exit 2;
if [ -e "$OUTDIR" ]; then
echo A file or directory with the name \"$OUTDIR\" already exists.
exit 3;
if [ ! -f "$1"/*.ogg ]; then
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ls "$1";
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exit 4
mkdir "$OUTDIR"
cd "$1"
for i in *.ogg; do
TO="`basename $i`"
cd ..
cd "$OUTDIR"
echo Recoding \"$i\" ...
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oggdec -Q -o - ../"$1"/"$i" | oggenc -q "$2" -o "$TO" -
echo ... finished recoding \"$i\".;
cd ..
echo Finished encoding
Fix for the Samsumg yepp YP-T6 mp3 player settings.dat battery problem
If you've got the Samsumg yepp YP-T6 mp3 player and you have the problem where after a while the settings.dat gets corrupted and the mp3 keeps telling out it's out of battery, then you probably just have one or more files that the mp3 has troubles with during playback.
In my case it was an ogg vorbis file and I think it was probably because the bitrate was too low at some point in the file. Try deleting the last file you heard before the problem occurs and then post your results in the comments.
If you know of a better fix, please let everyone know.
Helping Windows Users with UltraVNC Single Click and ssvnc from Linux
xtightvncviewer -listen 0 -encodings "hextile copyrect"
Replace the 0 with the display number, e.g. 0 for port 5500 or 400 for 5900. (port = 5500 + x) You need to have the package xtightvncviewer installed for this to work in Ubuntu. The color parameter does not work properly in this configuration.
Or give ssvnc a try. It works even with SCIII (uvnc Single Click via SSL), supports different color depths and much more!
And if you've got a current wine version, you might as well use the original ultravnc viewer. It works fine by now.
I usually use ssvn and the following script to start the vnc listener and quit it when finished.
$VNC -listen 487 -use64 & # 64 colors
read -p "Press enter when finished"
killall tightvncviewer vncviewer
Interesting KDE Feature Requests
- 60037: JJ: "duplex printing wizard" for simplex printer
- 86787: Merge & Split PDF documents
- 37838: first key eaten by screen lock
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- 87758: Supporting http 1.1 pipelining
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- 37067 Per-virtual-desktop containments*
- 91809 kpdf cant fill in formulars*
- 125952: calendar synchronization with Google Calendar (korganizer)
- 158556: Plasma Panel cannot be hidden*
- 104464: Different styles for KMenu*
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- 112027: adding smileys received from other people (kopete)
- 87600: limit download bandwidth (kget)
- 33839: add suspend / hibernate logout button (kdm)
(Wow I love the auto-save feature of Blogger. And Opera really still has issues in Linux.)
- 92238: New sound theme for KDE
- 64763: Support for UltraVNC file transfers
Open the webpage http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=x to find out more about the bug, x being the bug number.
So there's a lot of things you can do if you're interested in KDE development. Of course you should first contact the developers of the part you want to fix to make sure there's not already someone working on it etc.
Also check out the complete list.
* Update: A lot of this stuff has already been fixed! Wow... nice.
KDE's Most Popular Feature Requests
KDE's Most Popular Feature Requests are...
- Volume normalization for amaroK
- Support fingerprint reader login in kdm
- OSCAR filetransfer, direct connections, IM images, etc.
Somehow I doubt these bugs are very representative, though. And some of them are not up to date anymore. It is also disconcerting how many of these have existed for years without being fixed.
Kool Feature: Multiple Displays as Multiple Virtual Desktops
As most Linux Desktops already have Virtual Desktops, I've always wondered why multiple displays aren't mappable to a virtual desktop each. And it seems like wasn't the only one: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107302. Unfortunately noone seems to be at it even in times of KDE 4.1.
Also check out http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64268 to go along with it.
Mounting ssh filesystem via fstab entry
The fstab entry has to look like this
sshfs#user@server:/directory /localmount_directory fuse defaults,noauto 0 0
I use these options
Git Magic
If you ever run into trouble trying to do something that should be really easy with git but doesn't seem to be, if you want to learn git or think you already know everything important about it, and in many other cases, this article about git is a must read:
Unknown CMake command "kde4_add_ui_files"
Unknown CMake command "kde4_add_ui_files"
while trying to use cmake, it usually means that
find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)
is missing from the CMakeLists.txt file. Try adding it to the CMakeLists.txt file somewhere before kde4_add_ui_files is first called.
An example
kde4_add_ui_files(network_SRCS config.ui )
find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)
kde4_add_ui_files(network_SRCS config.ui )
See here for more information: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake:How_To_Build_KDE4_Software#Where_to_find_more_information .g
By the way, the same line helps for problems with "macro_optional_find_package" and most other KDE compilation problems.
Standby/Suspend to Ram with Dbus and HAL in KDE 4/GNOME/XFCE
I was trying to work out how to issue the standby command over dbus so that I can send my computer to standby with just a single click from a desktop icon. It turns out at least ksmserver can't receive such a command as there isn't even a type for it in kworkspace:
00049 enum ShutdownType {
00053 ShutdownTypeDefault = -1,
00057 ShutdownTypeNone = 0,
00061 ShutdownTypeReboot = 1,
00065 ShutdownTypeHalt = 2
00066 };
So the best I could come up with was this to shut down the system(If anyone has seen suspend anywhere in KDE dbus, please comment!):
dbus-send --session --dest=org.kde.ksmserver --type=method_call \
--print-reply /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout int32:-1 int32:2 int32:2
But then I found out you can use hal directly and finally I had my script working for immediate suspend:
dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal --type=method_call \
--print-reply /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer \ org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Suspend int32:0
This should work in any desktop environment. You can replace the 0 after "int32:" with the number of seconds to delay the Suspend. And you can also use it for hibernation:
dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal --type=method_call \
--print-reply /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer \ org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Hibernate
Now we can enjoy suspend with a single click. Just put it into a shell script and link that to your desktop.


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Price Range * Dinner over $30 (AUD)
From opening, Peak Lodge has become synonymous with a genuine, personalised and natural style of service, in a unique and stunningly beautiful location. The dedicated team are fully invested in the destination mountain experience and find nothing more rewarding than creating incredible memories for each and every guest in an environment of generous hospitality with a welcome-home feel.
The Peak Lodge dining experience is both sophisticated and earthly grounded, with some considered experimentation and with a dedication to sustainability.
Head Chef Doug Innes-Will learnt and honed his skills in many top restaurants, including Biota Dining, Rick Stein at Bannisters, Hungry Duck and Wharf Road. Doug's food philosophy is minimalist, with a strong emphasis on respect for produce, producer and environment.
His style is a reflection of these values blended with an appreciation of regional traditions and methods. Inspired by The Peak's beautiful and remote location, Doug and his team are curing, smoking and fermenting foods to create a menu that pays homage to the past but wins accolades in the present.
|Opening Hours
|All year
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Note: Information on listed products and services are provided by the operator and were correct at the time of publishing. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Please visit the operator's website for further information. All prices quoted are in Australian dollars (AUD).


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These cushions are just the right choice to coordinate with many frame finishes and designs and allow you to have the option to add a variety of throw pillows or lumbar pillows. These pads are designed to fit most mid-back wrought iron chairs in addition to a variety of other mid-back chairs. Made of outdoor fabric with poly foam contents for mildew and weather resistance, this item cleans easily with mild soap and water (no bleach).
- Fits most mid-back chairs
- Poly-fiber fill provides comfortable cushioning
- UV protected to prevent fading
- Cleans easily with mild soap and water; no bleach; air dry completely
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I have been lusting over Mary Quant make up for a long long time having read VOCE, MAQUIA and other Japanese beauty magazines that regularly feature the range. Mary Quant used to be a British brand but the cosmetics range is now Japanese produced and is thriving in Japan.
I have lots of memories when it comes to the range! I remember my mum owning a lipstick and triangular shaped blusher which was a hot, hot pink. Maybe I get my wacky taste in make up from her…
So a lovely friend/reader was going to pick up some colours for me from Japan, then I realised they do mail order from the London store to all over the world. AND – it's actually cheaper in the UK than buying from Japan, with a single eyeshadow retailing for £7 whereas they are about £9 if you convert the yen to stirling. Score!
At first I ordered 2 shades and then decided to wait until I was visiting London to buy more. Big mistake:
I hauled. Mind you this is my last big big haul of the year (cough cough). £200 lighter, I thought I'd share with you a general overview of the products I saw in store and of course individual product reviews will be coming up shortly and also some product shots.
The store is only a few minutes walk from the Sloane Square tube station. It's small but clean and functional. Mary Quant's eyeshadow and lip mix products are made for palettes. You can also put powder, blush and powder foundation into their palettes (or your own).
They are the traditional triangle shape. You can pick and mix them on the counter.
I had a chance to play around with most of the make up and saw that the nail polishes looked fun, the lipsticks looked a all quite wearable – nothing wacky.
They eyeshadows are nice and come in various textures (I will go into this further in my eyeshadow review) – but roughly they are metallic, twinkle, matte and pearl. Lip Mix is also spilt into various textures. There's a nice selection of lip and eye pencils, a eye gloss product which I bought and concealers.
The black palettes which you can buy to mix and match are gorgeous – well made, thick, pretty.
Prices vary. I found the prices quite fair for some things (£7 for small polish and eyeshadow), some items are dearer £16.50 for the mascara and the lipstick. It's a mixed bag really. The large palette was about £10.50 and the wide palette (the largest size which stores 12 eyeshadows or 6 blushers or a combo) is £12.50.
They don't allow photos in store. It's a pretty snotty thing and British Beauty Blogger wrote about it, and how they don't do PR either which is a totally missed opportunity.
Mr C took some shots whilst I was browsing and only managed a few before a SA scuttled over to say no photos. Lady – I just spent £200 in your store, and I can't take a few crappy photos to promote YOUR brand? So here are some shots:
The eyeshadow:
The lip stuff:
The lip and nail bar – very cute, the lips and nail match. Also the pencils and mascara (some shades) match BUT the London store does not have all the mascara colours in:
Mail Order prices are a bit of a rip off – I paid £3 for 1st class shipping for 1 eyeshadows and the post label said £1.32. Even with a padded envelope the price is inflated as the make up is so light – what's the extra for, a coffee on the way back from the Post Office?
So wait til you want to order more than 1 thing if you mail order!
Visiting the store is ideal of course although the Mary Quant site is brilliant – of course it is, it's Japanese – and the colours are so accurately displayed.
The first SA I had with short blonde hair was a diamond, the second blonde was dizzy and the Asian lady watched me like a hawk.


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Journalists who covered the 2014 "origins" debate between creationist Ken Ham and evolutionist Bill Nye were able to avail themselves of two ready-made narratives about American evangelicals. One underscored the tensions between traditional evangelical beliefs and those of a modern secular society. The other highlighted evangelicals' presence and participation in American public life. Of course, the Ham–Nye debate offered fuel for both storylines at once.
Among journalists and scholars, the keys to understanding and interpreting evangelicals have long been their distinct theological beliefs and their values-based activism. Even many self-proclaimed evangelicals use these benchmarks to explain ourselves to ourselves. This is why we elevate figures like Billy Graham, a paragon of evangelical belief, and (take your pick) James Dobson or Jim Wallis, who together represent the spectrum of evangelical social action, to typify our movement.
But historian Todd M. Brenneman wonders if the beating heart of evangelical identity lies elsewhere, perhaps most centrally along the aisles of the local LifeWay Christian Store. In Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press), Brenneman shifts the conversation away from beliefs and actions toward feelings. He shows how popular forms of evangelical expression traffic in familial and tender imagery: God as father, people as "little children," and nostalgic longings for home and the traditional middle-class nuclear family.
Brenneman draws compelling links between the worlds of religious consumer goods—from Christian CDs, DVDs, and books to toys, home decor, and devotional art—and ...1


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Military, Training
By Tim McAdams | February 1, 2007
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ACCORDING TO THE NTSB, ON July 11, 2000, the pilot of a Robinson Helicopter R22B said he was flying northeast about 10-20 mph at about 230 ft agl when the helicopter began to rotate to the right and seemed as if it was inverted.
He applied full left pedal and lowered the collective. After about three rotations, he heard a horn, which he believed was a low rotor-rpm warning. Initial inputs did not correct the loss of control.
As the helicopter descended toward trees, he applied full left cyclic, followed by full forward cyclic, then full right cyclic. The helicopter seemed slightly more controllable and was no longer inverted. However, it was still corkscrewing to the right. It impacted a swampy area and the fuselage, tail boom, and tail rotor were damaged. The pilot sustained serious injury. The passenger was not injured.
Examination of the wreckage by an FAA inspector did not reveal any pre-impact mechanical malfunctions. Reported winds at an airport about 7 mi from the accident site were from 300 deg at 15 kt, gusting to 21.
The NTSB determined the probable cause as the pilot-in-command's improper in-flight decision to maneuver at a low airspeed with a left quartering tailwind, which resulted in a loss of tail-rotor effectiveness.
Just over a year later, the pilot of a Bell Helicopter 206B JetRanger and his passenger were not so lucky. They were fatally injured when their helicopter collided with Alpha taxiway abeam Runway 15 Right at Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
The helicopter approached a construction site on the airport in an out-of-ground-effect (OGE) hover taxi, with a quartering left tailwind. The helicopter turned right, and slowed to a stationary hover at about 250 ft with a direct tailwind. Once in a hover, it made a right, rapid, 180-deg pedal turn around the mast, stopped momentarily, then initiated another, rapid pedal turn to the right. The helicopter turned at a faster rate than the initial turn and continued into a spinning, vertical descent to the ground. The FAA's examination of the helicopter found no mechanical anomalies.
Again, the NTSB determined the probable cause was the pilot's improper decision to maneuver in an environment conducive to a loss of tail-rotor effectiveness and his inadequate recovery from the resulting unanticipated right yaw.
According to FAA Advisory Circular AC90-95, any maneuver which requires the pilot to operate in a high-power, low-airspeed environment with a left crosswind or tailwind creates an environment where unanticipated right yaw may occur. It also advises of greater susceptibility for loss of tail-rotor effectiveness in right turns and states the phenomena may occur in varying degrees in all single main-rotor helicopters at airspeeds less than 30 kt.
Bell's Operations Safety Notice OSN 206-83-10, regarding loss of tail-rotor effectiveness in the 206B and similar airframes, describes the phenomenon as an unanticipated right yaw. It contains the following warnings when maneuvering between a hover and 30 mph:
"Be aware that a tail wind will reduce relative wind speed if a downwind translation occurs. If loss of translational lift occurs, it can result in a high power demand and an additional anti-torque requirement. Be alert during hover (especially OGE) and high-power-demand situations. Be alert during hover in winds of about 8-12 kt (especially OGE), since there are no strong indications to the pilot [of] the possibility of a reduction of translational lift... Be aware that if a considerable amount of left pedal is being maintained, that a sufficient amount of left pedal may not be available to counteract an unanticipated right yaw."
Included in this notice is a chart that depicts relative-wind directions referencing the fuselage where an unanticipated right yaw can occur. More information is also available in Bell's Rotorbreeze magazine.
One reason these pilots may have placed themselves and their passengers in jeopardy despite the abundance of warnings and information regarding loss of tail-rotor effectiveness is inexperience. The pilot of the R22B held a private pilot's license and did not provide any further information to the NTSB or FAA. The Bell 206B pilot was commercially rated, but had less than 500 hr of helicopter flight experience, and 87.2 hr of experience in that model.
Both of these flights were performing aerial photography, the nature of which requires maneuvering at low altitudes and slow speeds. Add to that the distraction of trying to work with a photographer to line up the desired shot and the mission becomes very demanding. Any pilot flying a photographer needs to insure that he understands the aerodynamics and limitations of maneuvering at slow speeds.
Flight instructors should take note because students often misunderstand loss of tail-rotor effectiveness. More emphasis should be placed on this subject and instructors must ensure students fully understand the dangers of loss of tail-rotor effectiveness. Failure to do so can be deadly.
Tim McAdams has more than 9,000 total flight hours, with 7,000 in helicopters. A helicopter CFI and a fixed- and rotor-wing ATP, he flies a single-pilot IFR Agusta 109E for CareFlite in Dallas. You can reach him at email@example.com.


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Create the version column in the primary table.
Give the version column a numeric data type.
Provide appropriate update triggers on the version column.
These triggers must increment the version column on each update of the specified row.
Specify the version column.
This is specified in the check-version-of-accessed-instances subelement of the consistency element in the sun-cmp-mappings.xml file. See consistency in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide.
Map the CMP bean to an existing schema.
Automatic schema generation is not supported for beans with version column consistency checking. Instead, work with your database administrator to create the schema and add the required triggers.


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My First Observation
Rather would like to call it My First Night SKY gazing
Forgetting my new pair of binocs was not something willed upon but New Year 2012 was approaching and as the hump-jump was everywhere, the sky was absolutely something to be forgotten about.
Do, you think the sky can be just something taken for granted and not taken care about? Obviously, for the half of my life I had never taken any interest with the sky, nor does the mass of dumbed down populace.
So why this sudden rush to understand the sky now??
The sky has been always there, neither it is so "enchanting" nor "magnetic" but our eyes are so riveted to our laptop screens or our TV sets that we have almost no time to care for what's happening above us. Or, to just even ponder about a sky so beautiful with all its mysteries there waiting to be explored upon.
The creation of the heavens and the earth is indeed greater than the creation of mankind; yet, most of mankind knows not.
(Quran 40:57)
At 12:00 a.m midnight, around the world as it is, the festivities started with the fire works show.
In Mauritius, at the peak of the Signal Mountain this fireworks time-lapse was taken.
Unbelievingly, by one in the morning of January 2012, everything quietened up. The night was still. No stirring up of even the leaves on trees around.
I am still thinking why did I go out that night rather than sleep?
So, my first observation did happen on 01/01/2012. How do I remember this? I think reading a review somewhere I came upon the advice that if you are entering this amateur astronomy hobby, ever if you are observing even for a few minutes , just record the observations. It would help you a lot.
Personally, while reviewing at my log notes in my personal diary, I looked foolish of what I had logged as my first observations, but it was so interesting that an amateur as me brought in my own astronomy definitions on my first time to the already defined observable universe.
Nevertheless, the first observation remains the best and the most memorable.
Perhaps this is why I am so much in love with Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. These three prominent stars inthe central regions of the constellation of Orion align to form the 'belt' of the Hunter.
And surprisingly the whole world is also. Take any beginner's guide to the sky, they would talk only Orion,Orion, Orion. I didn't know about Orion or its belt, but perhaps this was a sign from The Creator that this is where you should start your journey to the universe. There is so much I have learned about these three that I am baffled and there is still more to come.
The actual observation
Standing towards the west, I saw this magnificently in front of me.
What I actually wrote as observational notes?
Night gazing: The axe
Naked eye: Concentrated dots
Binocs: Small dots.
01:00 – 03:00 am
I also drew the dots in a diary.
What makes me foolish looking now is that I called the Orion belt as the axe's blade and the Orion Nebulae as the axe's handle.
Hey, if the Greeks can make out Gods out of stars why can't I make my own Axe?
So, I have already fallen in love with the sky, what are you waiting to raise your eyes to the beautiful night sky?


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Re: 50 x 50 ==> 2500 (pic heavy)
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how well did the ones I printed for you fit?slawton wrote:For those curious about the Romulan D7 decals and whether they will fit on the 1/2500 TOS Cadet Series kits, I recently received an email from Jim Botaitis from JBOT Decals:jkb-1 wrote:I just tried again, and I can get it in the cart, but with a red "X" to the left of it, and when I try to check out it returns with a letter of apology for being behind on stock.slawton wrote:
I would get the JBOT ones, but it lists 1/2200-1/2500, so I envisioned they were made for the encounter set. Has anyone tried these on the 1/2500 D7s? Not selling?? They were on the list and could be added to the cart.
(I'd be willing to "take one for the team" to find the size of this decal -- I was going to order it to try to "make it fit" on a non-Klingon Romulans ship. When I had an Encounters kit, I scaled the D-7 as 1/2000 by placing the aft hull part over Jeffries's comparison drawing on the cover of The Star Trek Sketchbook where the 200 foot mak is 1.2 inches long. By similar measurements I put the Johnny Lightning D-7 at either 1/2200 or 1/2300, (I forget) and I think the R2 kit is the same size.)
My site will be up and running in January. You are welcome to place your order then, using the shopping cart.
Those decals should fit, yes.


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Louisiana Statehood Anniversary (1912-2012)
Among the historical records of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate at the Center for Legislative Archives are many documents that illustrate the important role Congress plays in the creation of states. For Louisiana the road to statehood was relatively short; it became a state less than 10 years after being acquired from the French Government under provisions of the Louisiana Purchase. Louisiana celebrates its bicentennial in 2012—here is a selection of congressional records that document Louisiana's journey to become the 18th state in the Union.
A Convention between the United States of America and the French Republic, April 20, 1803
Governor William C. C. Claiborne's Address to the Citizens of Louisiana, December 20, 1803
President Thomas Jefferson's message to Congress regarding the Louisiana Purchase, January 16, 1804
President Thomas Jefferson's nomination of William C.C. Claiborne to be the Governor of the Territory of Orleans, November 30, 1804
Credentials of territorial delegate Julien de Lallande Poydras, March 15, 1809
The Constitution of the State of Louisiana, January 22, 1812
H.R. 88, An act for the admission of the State of Louisiana into the Union, as passed by the House on March 20, 1812
Joint Credentials for the State of Louisiana's First Senators, September 3, 1812
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NanoElectronic MOdeling: NEMO
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This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational science and engineering.
Novel nanoelectronic devices such as quantum dots, nanowires, and ultra-scaled quantum wells are expected to significantly enhance existing nanoelectronic technologies. The behavior of carriers and their interaction with their environment need to be fundamentally explained at a quantum mechanical level. Modeling efforts that are targeted to enhance the theoretical understanding of these devices are underway worldwide. Most of these device level descriptions utilize an effective mass approach. However, the concepts of device and material meet at the nanometer scale. The new device is really a new material and vice versa. A representation of the constituent materials at the atomic resolution is needed to quantitatively model devices with a countable number of atoms. While atomistic representations are novel to device physicists, the concept of finite devices that are not infinitely periodic is novel in the semiconductor materials modeling community.
This presentation provides a two-fold overview of lessons-learned: 1) 1-D high bias transport simulations that matched and predicted experimental data in resonant tunneling diodes (NEMO 1D), and 2) 3-D multimillion atom simulations that electronic structure in disordered Si/SiGe quantum wells (NEMO 3D). NEMO 1D has been recently shown to scale to 23,000 processors and NEMO 3D to 8,192 on ORNL Jaguar. The two code concepts are now being combined towards peta-scale computing.
To truly have impact on the research, experimental, and educational efforts of the community, relevant tools must be put into the hands of experimentalists and educators. NEMO 3-D offers the opportunity to engage both educators and advanced researchers, utilizing a single code. An educational version of NEMO 3-D has been released on the nanoHUB and user-friendly versions that enable large-scale parallel executions are under development. Over 567 users ran over 4,300 simulations using the educational NEMO 3-D version embodied in the nanoHUB quantum dot lab in the past 12 months. Over 26,100 users interacted with the nanoHUB in the 12 months leading to September. 2007. Over 5,900 users have launched over 226,000 simulations in that time frame.
Gerhard Klimeck is the Technical Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering since Dec. 2003. He was the Technical Group Supervisor of the High Performance Computing Group and continues to hold his Principal member position at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on a part time faculty basis. His research interest is in the modeling of nanoelectronic devices, parallel cluster computing, and genetic algorithms. Gerhard led the development of the Nanoelectronic Modeling tool (NEMO 3-D) for multimillion atom simulations which has demonstrated parallel scaling to 8,192 CPUs. Previously he was a member of technical staff at the Central Research Lab of Texas Instruments where he served as manager and principal architect of the Nanoelectronic Modeling (NEMO 1-D) program, which has demonstrated to scale to 23,000 CPUs. Dr. Klimeck received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Purdue University and his German electrical engineering degree (summa cum laude) in 1990 from Ruhr-University Bochum. Dr. Klimeck's work is documented in over 170 peer-reviewed publications and over 290 conference presentations. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of APS, HKN and TBP.
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Post-2003 blackout rules lead to millions in fines
Regulators have imposed millions of dollars in civil penalties against energy companies that risk the dependability of the U.S. electrical grid since new rules following the 2003 Northeast blackout made such fines possible, including a record $25 million fine for a power failure in Florida.
The 2008 Florida blackout was small in comparison with the Aug. 14 event 10 years ago that swept eight states and parts of Canada. The big blackout interrupted phone service, cut lights and air conditioning, impeded power plants, hospitals and prisons, and disrupted transportation from Michigan to New England.
Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. wasn't penalized for its role in the event, which cascaded from the outage of transmission lines in Ohio.
"There were no mandatory standards, so there would have been nothing to fine them for," said Craig Cano, a spokesman for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The nonprofit North American Electric Reliability Corp. since has been transformed from a voluntary industry group to a government-sanctioned overseer of new reliability requirements developed in the wake of the 2003 blackout. Its recommended penalties are brought before the federal regulatory commission for approval.
Under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the commission was given statutory authority over grid reliability and the hammer of potential civil penalties, fines that cannot be passed on to customers. The new law increased the regulatory commission's civil penalty authority from $11,000 a day to $1 million a day.
In 2010, Florida Power & Light was fined $25 million for the outage in that state, which left as many as 3 million people without power for part of a day in 2008, the largest single fine to date for reliability violations. The culprit was a short circuit at a Miami-area substation.
An Associated Press review of the regulatory commission's annual reports and online penalty database found reliability-related penalties imposed under the new standards totaled more than $33 million since oversight began in 2007. All were levied since 2010.
Besides fines, companies have been required to fix violations of the reliability standards, which touch on dozens of issues ranging from cybersecurity and power load to equipment storage and proper documentation.
Utility leaders and regional operators say the changes help ensure reliable power service.
"I don't think I'd want to characterize it as `the industry's become more responsible,' because the industry has always taken seriously its responsibility associated with reliability," said Joe Gardner, a vice president for the Midcontinent Independent System Operator. "I do think that we've been able to evolve our processes and systems over the last 10 years in a manner that has enhanced reliability."
Requiring and revising standards, and creating a documented enforcement process that allows utilities and operators to learn from one another's mistakes, is an effective way to help improve the reliability of the grid, said Jim Fama, vice president of energy delivery for Edison Electric Institute, an association of shareholder-owned power companies.
"All of that helps to strengthen the system," Fama said.
Some within the industry have felt regulations have gone too far, said Ashley Brown, executive director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, which analyzes power industry policy issues.
"There's some controversy about it because the rules are incredibly detailed _ things like having the FBI's phone number posted on your wall," he said. "There are some who feel that's problematic, because it acts as a disincentive."
Perhaps for that reason, revisions are common.
Last year, the federal regulatory commission agreed to a new monitoring approach at the Reliability Corp. _ dubbed "find, fix, track and report" _ for violations of reliability standards that are considered relatively low-risk, such as paperwork errors. The idea was to allow the nonprofit to target the biggest risks and the most egregious violations.
Some credit the stricter national standards and more extensive operator training with helping to prevent grid-wide outages during Superstorm Sandy, which knocked out power to millions along the East Coast and blacked out parts of New York City in October 2012 when seawater poured into low-lying substations.
"Could there be a bigger storm, a more unexpected event? It's possible, but again unlikely," said Rick Gonzalez, senior vice president and chief operating officer of the New York Independent System Operator, a regional transmission organization.
"Something like what happened in 2003 was a combination of human events and system failures _ monitoring failures," Gonzalez said. "And there's been a lot of regulation to mitigate the impacts of something like computer system failures and other operating system improvements."
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Kantele Franko in Columbus and Michael Hill in Albany, N.Y., and AP Energy Writer Jonathan Fahey in New York.


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Policy Update- Flawed But Redeemable: ASEAN'S Record on Freedom of Religion or Belief
Throughout 2017, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has promoted its 50th year of existence, marked on August 8. The regional bloc comprising 10 countries has grown and integrated in ways hardly dreamed of five decades ago. But to this day, ASEAN lacks cohesion on human rights issues and, in particular, has a flawed record protecting freedom of religion or belief, both as a collective regional bloc and as individual Member States. The good news is that ASEAN possesses both the raw materials and the incentive to turn its record around.


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Catherine Zeta-Jones renames hospital
Hollywood actress CATHERINE ZETA-JONES returned to her native Wales on Friday (09Nov12) to rename a children's hospital.
The Mask of Zorro star officially unveiled the Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales in the capital city of Cardiff, which is about an hour away from her hometown of Swansea.
She says, "I can truly express my delight in the recognition that has been given to our charity and more importantly to all of our supporters that have given so generously. I feel that they share in this celebration having more than played a full part to make this hospital a reality. This new name is recognition for every moment of hard work, every penny that has been donated."
Zeta-Jones is a patron of The Noah's Ark Appeal, and launched the hospital in 2006 after helping to raise funds for the building.


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Open source software has a long history in lower-level network software so it's not surprising there is a healthy range of free tools available for network and systems management.
Often with commercial support available, open source network management tools offer an easy way to gain more visibility into the workings of disparate systems and software.
In this edition of 5 open source things to watch, we take a look at network management projects that will allow IT managers to take control of the shop without selling the farm.
OpenNMS is a network management application written in Java. It claims to be the world's first enterprise network management developed under an open source model. The project was registered on SourceForge on July 2000.
Designed to scale to thousands of notes from one installation, OpenNMS can automatically discover network services and has an API for integration with bug tracking systems.
While commercial development and support services are available through opennms.com, the project makes a point about not having a proprietary "enterprise" version.
OpenNMS is cross platform and a mobile client for Apple's iOS is available.
URL: http://www.opennms.org/Licence: GPL
Zenoss Core is the open source network management product backed by Zenoss Inc. It manages the configuration, health, performance of networks, servers and applications in one system.
Zenoss has an integrated CMDB and it is controlled by a Web-based GUI. Custom devices like temperature sensors can also be monitored.
In addition to the standard uptime and performance monitoring features, Zenoss supports monitoring templates dubbed "ZenPacks".
URL: http://zenoss.orgLicence: GPL
NetXMS is more of an independent open source network management project that has client and server apps for Linux, Unix and Windows. Its main developer is Raden Solutions, a Latvian IT company.
In addition to the standard network monitoring features, NetXMS has business impact analysis tools.
The NetXMS interface is a "fat" client and there is also a Web interface.
Both free and paid support is available for NetXMS.
URL: http://www.netxms.org/Licence: GPL
Nagios is one of the most popular open source network management tools and is widely deployed among Linux users. It began life as "NetSaint" before being renamed Nagios.
The central application is called Nagios Core, with additional functionality available through Nagios Plugins, Frontends and Config Tools.
Regarding the third-party applications and plug-ins for Nagios, there is the Nagios Exchange portal that categorises extensions across various genres.
Both community and commercial support is available for Nagios.
URL: http://www.nagios.org/Licence: GPL
Hyperic is an open source network management suite that targets itself as being suitable for Web application and virtual machine management.
The commercial Hyperic was acquired by SpringSource, which was then acquired by VMWare.
Hyperic features automatic discovery and records some 50,000 metrics across 75 application stacks.
An Enterprise edition is available for Hyperic which includes more features than the open source edition and commercial support.
URL: http://www.hyperic.com/Licence: GPL
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Richard Edelson, MD
Aaron B. and Marguerite Lerner Professor of Dermatology; Chair and Professor, Department of Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine
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Dermatology: Medical Dermatology: Transimmunization; Yale Dermatology Associates
Yale Cancer Center: Cancer Immunology | Hematology Program
Office of Cooperative Research
Richard Edelson holds a B.A. from Hamilton College in New York and an M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine. Before coming to Yale in 1986, he was head of the Immunobiology Group in Columbia University's Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate director of that institution's General Clinical Research Center.
While on the Yale faculty, he has served continuously as chairman of the department of dermatology and, at various times, as director of the cancer center, deputy dean for clinical affairs, director of the Cancer Center's Lymphoma Research Program, and a member of both the Yale-New Haven Hospital Board of Trustees and Yale Medicine Board of Governors. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, and an honorary member of several international medical associations.
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|Yale University (1970)
|Senior Resident
|Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital
|Massachusetts General Hospital
|University of Chicago
|National Institute of Health
|Board Certification
|AB of Dermatology, Dermatology (1977)
Honors & Recognition
Connecticut Magazine Top Docs 2016Connecticut Magazine (2016)
Connecticut Magazine Top Docs 2015Connecticut Magazine (2015)
Cancer Immunization China (2008)
Dr. Richard Edelson is working with colleagues at Shanghai University to develop selective immunization against immunogenic cancers.
Immunization Against Immunogenic Cancers Israel (2008)
International Health Yale School of Medicine work in selective immunization against immunogenic cancers
Immunization Against Immunogenic Cancers United Kingdom (2008)
Professor Edelson conducts collaborative work with colleagues from King's College, London, on selective immunization against immunogenic cancers.
Immunogenic Cancers Switzerland (2008)
International Health Yale School of Medicine work in selective immunization against immunogenic cancers.
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Professor Edelson conducts collaborative work with French researchers at the Hospital St. Louis in France on selective immunization against immunogenic cancers.
Immunogenic Cancers Germany (2008)
Professor Casten conducted collaborative work with researchers at the University of Munich on selective immunization against immunogenic cancers


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Last November, Jessica Alba was doing ads for Microsoft's Windows Phone.
Looks like she wasn't that into the Windows Phone, because she was photographed using an iPhone at New York's Fashion Week.
A Microsoft spokesperson reached tells us her contract expired in May, and that she still uses her Lumia phone from time to time.
This isn't great PR for Windows Phone since she's shifted to iPhone seemingly as soon as she could.
Alba isn't the only person that's been caught cheating like this. BlackBerry celebrity spox, Alicia Keys, was busted for using an iPhone, too.
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Inter are on the verge of the shock signing of former Valencia and Aston Villa striker John Carew on a free transfer until the end of the season.
The Nerazzurri are in the market for a new striker because of Diego Milito's injury, and were previously linked with the retired Ruud van Nistelrooy as well Mido and Emile Mpenza.
Nevertheless, they have now turned their attention to the 33-year-old Carew, who will undergo a medical over the next 48 hours.
Talking to reporters, the former Norway international said he was ready to play, adding: "This is a great opportunity for me.
"I feel in form. In these last months I have trained a lot."
Carew has been without a club ever since he left West Ham in the summer of 2012, but his agent Per Flod has stressed that his client is ready to return to match action.
"Inter are an interesting club for him because they are one of the biggest teams in the world. Someone with John's physique would be ready to play again within a week," Flod told the Associated Press.
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Thunderbolt residents, you might want to hang on to all your torn-apart gift wrapping.
And don't be too hasty to toss out the cardboard boxes that held Christmas gifts, the empty champagne bottles and the cans of cranberry sauce.
The town of Thunderbolt is starting curbside recycling and plans to have its first pickup in January. Town officials awarded a new sanitation contract to Waste Pro, which has begun delivering the 18-gallon containers that will take paper, glass, food cans and plastics - no sorting or separation required. Waste Pro has also promised that if residents have more recyclables than will fit in the container, the overflow can be put in a clear plastic bag that sanitation workers also will take.
For Walter Magnuson and Sandy Branam, it's a payoff that took two years to earn. On Election Day in November 2008, Magnuson stood outside Town Hall to collect signatures supporting recycling.
"The response was overwhelming," he said. "I got over 400 signatures. With a town population of just over 3,000, that's a pretty statistically valid response rate."
Branam, too, lent encouragement and rallied neighbors. Mayor Anna Maria Thomas had been working with Chatham County officials. She wanted recycling, but didn't want it to cost Thunderbolt residents any money.
The solution came late this year. The town of Thunderbolt opted against renewing its contract with CH2M HILL OMI for public works and then chose to bid out its dry trash pickup in a separate contract. The net effect from that and other budget changes is that residents will see their sanitation bills lowered by $3 a month, to $20.60.
"It's a win-win," said Linton Smith, town administrator. "They get a small amount from the recyclables. That helps offset the cost of doing it."
The initial start-up will not include commercial recycling or individual containers in apartment complexes or condos. It also means Magnuson, an apartment resident, won't get to participate in a program he helped start.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – 19 May, 2017 – Money Talks: HOW YOUR MONEY HABITS ARE AFFECTING YOUR RELATIONSHIPS AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. Financial strategies and fun are rarely used in the same sentence but that is not the case with financial thought leaders Angela Matthews and Brielle Kotton.
The two are teaming up to host a wealth summit in beautiful Los Angeles, California to take attendees on a step-by-step journey through every conversion point in building wealth. For those who think that money habits don't affect relationships and quality of life, these millennial entrepreneurs urge you to think again.
Time Magazine reports that 1 in 3 Americans have no savings and Go Banking Ratings shares that more than half of Americans will retire broke. These striking statistics serve as the driving force behind both Angela and Brielle's commitment to creating solutions to wealth building.
"It's so rare to find events where people can get together and have a candid conversation about wealth accumulation and have it be fun and exciting! We're everyday people who work hard and want the best in life for our families and children. plan today we can build a better financial tomorrow, and what better way to do it with a group of mentors showing you the way?" – Angela Matthews, Investment Trainer
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Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced on April 23 that the National Park Service will invest $750 million for the nation's parks to stimulate the economy through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Nearly 800 park projects will receive funds that will be used for construction, deferred maintenance, energy efficient equipment replacement, trails, abandoned mine lands and road maintenance. The park projects meet the Recovery Act's rigorous criteria and were chosen because they will generate the largest number of jobs in the shortest period of time, with lasting value for the American people.
A portion of the National Park Service's stimulus funds will be used to fund restoration projects on the National Mall, which has a $400 million maintenance backlog. Congress stripped $200 million for the repair of the National Mall from the final stimulus package. Included in the restoration efforts is $30 million for the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, which is often filled with stagnant water. With $7.3 million the National Park Service wants to restore the District of Columbia War Memorial to a bandstand. Several million will be used for the Jefferson Memorial seawall, which has been sinking into the tidal basin for years. Secretary Salazar sees these funds as a down payment on the challenges the National Mall faces.
On April 14th, an ASLA Design Blue Ribbon panel announced it findings and recommendations for the National Mall, which included addressing imperative repairs of the Tidal Basin seawall, replacement of the Capitol Reflecting Pool, redesign of Union Square, and revitalization of severely compacted lawn areas. A full copy of the findings report as well as executive summary and video clips of the panelists' working session and interviews can be found at www.asla.org/nationalmall. The panel, which met on March 19 and 20, 2009, in Washington, D.C., included leading landscape architects, architects, and planners.
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Great Article Mike,
I truly believe the best approach is for designers to create their own unique style of visual as well as functional design aesthetics which attract clients that want that same feel attached to their own brand. I certainly get that impression from your work. I can spot a Mike Kus designed website in a second.


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Vodafone Hutchison Australia will close or rebrand Crazy John's retail stores across Australia as part of a new single-brand strategy, a Vodafone spokeswoman said today.
The change is effective 20 February, she said. After that, Vodafone will continue to support Crazy John's customers through its own store, website and telephone number, she said.
"Some of our Crazy John's locations will close, while others will be transformed into Vodafone branded stores over the coming months," the spokeswoman said.
Vodafone will try to limit job cuts, she said. The number-three telco announced 500 redundancies in late October.
Vodafone is "committed to ensuring a smooth transition for our customers and will do our best to redeploy as many Crazy John's retail employees as possible to work in one of our many Vodafone stores.
"It wasn't an easy decision to make but it is necessary to remain competitive and to ensure we focus our investment where our customers and people will benefit most."
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I haven't read the entire article, but are you saying thta you are going to have your kids participate in jack and jill?
Quote from: Learned Hand on August 02, 2006, 07:50:55 AMWhy not?To each his own. Since some of ya'll might have participated in these types of programs, I won't say anything about it, other than my kids won't be doing it.
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The Disney Films
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In the fourth edition of his successful book The Disney Films, author Leonard maltin updates his classic tribute to the genius of the man who brought Mickey Mouse, Snow White, Dumbo, Davy Crockett, Cruella DeVil and Mary Poppins to movie and television screens all over the world. After examining Walt Disneys career from his early days as an entrepreneurial commercial artist up to his triumphant years as the head of an entertainment kingdom, The Disney Films presents a fascinating overview of every Disney film, both animated and live-action. Included are plot summaries, production credits, and insightful critical commentaries, as well as interviews with notable Disney staff members.
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