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PHOENIX (Wednesday, March 7, 2012) -- Attorney General Tom Horne today announced that Edward Anthony Purvis of Chandler, Arizona, has been sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court to five years in prison on one count of Illegal Control of an Enterprise stemming from a scheme to steal money from church members.
Between February of 2002 and March of 2007, Purvis convinced more than 40 individuals, most of whom attended Chandler Christian Church and Vineyard Church in Avondale, to give Nakami Chi Group Ministries International (N.C.G.M.I.) over $8 million in exchange for promises of investment returns of 2% per month. Purvis failed to disclose to investors that N.C.G.M.I. never generated a profit; was only able to continue operating as long as new investors poured money into its bank accounts; that the source of returns to investors was money coming in from new investors; and that Purvis used some of these monies for his own personal benefit and the benefit of others.
"Mr. Purvis stole millions of dollars from those who trusted in him," Horne said. "This crime is a sad reminder that people need to be extremely cautious with whom they trust their finances, and they should fully understand the investments they are making. Crimes like this are all-too-common and my office will continue to vigorously prosecute these cases."
Judge Bruce Cohen of the Maricopa County Superior Court further sentenced Purvis to a consecutive term of 7 years of supervised probation with special "white collar" terms of probation on one count of Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices. Purvis was ordered to pay restitution in excess of $3.8 million dollars.
White Collar terms of probation are reserved for those criminals that need an extra measure of oversight by the probation department due to the financial nature of the crime for which they have been convicted. Some of the terms include: not entering into any financial agreements without specific written approval of the probation department, not opening bank or credit accounts without permission of the probation department, no borrowing or lending of money without specific approval of probation department.
This case was investigated by the Securities Division of the Arizona Corporation Commission and was prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Michael Flynn of the Fraud and Special Prosecutions Section of the Criminal Division.


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Law School Admissions / Re: Northwestern alumni interview« on: October 09, 2008, 12:50:13 PM »
I've got an interview coming up in a week and a half. A suit is, of course, required, right? Its not a more casual affair?
I wore a nice skirt and button-down shirt for mine. I don't think my interviewer was in a suit either. This can vary depending on who/where your interview/er is, so it can't hurt to send an email to clarify.
Dude...you don't ask an interviewer what to wear. Just wear a suit. If you're overdressed, it's not a big deal. I would laugh if someone asked me what to wear.


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Europe's continuing debt problems combined with the apparent inability of congressional leaders to reach an agreement on ways to cut the US budget deficit are causing angst on Wall Street.
In a holiday-shortened week, many investors have decided the safest place for their money is someplace other than the stock market. Through the first half of trading, the widely watched Dow Jones Industrial Average is off 300 points, the largest drop since Nov. 9.
Although it is no surprise that the so-called "super committee" of legislative leaders cannot reach an agreement on cutting $1.2 trillion from the budget over 10 years, some investors say it shows that partisan gridlock is still alive and well.
[Editor's note: The original version of this story reported that the super committee would need to find $1.5 trillion from the budget over 10 years.]
"It sets the mood," says Mark Lamkin, CEO of Lamkin Wealth Management in Louisville, Ky. "The super committee is the grinch that stole the Christmas rally."
At the same time, European leaders are having difficulty reaching agreement on how to resolve their own debt problems. Germans are resisting the idea of some sort of pan-European issuance of bonds to replace those sold by individual countries. As a result, like the US, German policymakers are deadlocked.
Without some agreement, investors are focused on the weakest European countries.
"The concern continues to be about what to do about Italy and Greece," says Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist for S&P Capital IQ in New York. "But, France is also a concern – if France is downgraded it would be a blow because it would in essence weaken one of the two pillars of Europe holding up the rest of it."
However, some investors are already anticipating France's credit will be dropped from AAA to AA by the rating agencies.
"It's not a question of if but a question of when S&P downgrades France," says Anthony Valeri, market strategist for LPL Financial in Los Angeles. "In all reality back in August there was more cause to downgrade France than the US because its debt to GDP [ratio] is worse than [that of] the US."
Concern over the twin debt problems in the US and Europe is so strong that investors are even ignoring some signs the US economy is improving somewhat. On Monday, the National Association of Realtors reported existing home sales in October were up 1.4 percent – better than expected by Wall Street economists. However, home prices fell 4.7 percent year over year.
"The economic data was pretty good and it did not have any impact at all," says Mr. Valeri. "The market just ignored it."
If the super committee is unable to reach agreement by the end of Monday, the law provides for automatic cuts in the federal budget starting in January 2013. However, many on Wall Street doubt this will actually happen.
"Congress is the one that enacted the penalty, and they can absolve themselves of the penalty," says Mr. Stovall. "They still have 13-1/2 months to find a way out of this."
If Congress can't find a solution, the possible cuts are of concern to investors because they might imply slower growth in the US economy.
Across-the-board cuts starting in 2013 would reduce growth prospects, writes the brokerage house Canaccord in an analysis on Monday. The Vancouver-based firm expects the prospect of a steep cut in defense spending will spur Republicans to look for some kind of a deal while Democrats could be moved to act to prevent automatic cuts to Medicare.
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I think Allie is interesting, because she is always happy and cheerful. She likes rules. She thinks rules make life easier. So she makes rules for everyday living.
It made me feel scared when she thought their new house looked like a haunted house. If I would have to move into a haunted house, I would be very scared of the ghosts that would be there.
Allie reminds me of myself because she didn't want to leave her old house and move to her new haunted house. I would not want to leave my house and move to a different house. She didn't want to leave her school either. I would not like going to a different school and leaving my friends.
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Pasko owns a perfect 4.00 GPA in biology as a sophomore. Classmate Roeck has a 3.92 in marketing.
In the six years of honoring these academic stars, the Bobcat women's cross country team has now put 17 on the list.
Fellow Bobcats Whitney Sweet (Roswell, Ga.) and Meghan Wetterhall (Atlanta) each earned Honorable Mention status.
The team is part of a season-long program recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of PBC student-athletes in the classroom as well as on the field. To be eligible for the All-Academic team, a student-athlete must 1) participate in at least half of his/her team's events and be either a starter or significant contributor; 2) achieved a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) and 3) completed at least one full academic year at his or her current institution. The Peach Belt Conference Sports Information Directors oversee and select the teams.
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I wish that I could say the same for my little corner of the universe. I seem to be becoming far too well acquainted with the Minor Injuries Clinic, not to mention Major Injuries affecting printers. And spending too much time failing to nurse said printer back to life.
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We are now possessed of inky hands, a Head Injury leaflet and a Chest Injury leaflet, both of which latter have a rather disturbing advertisement for what are commonly known as ambulance-chasing lawyers on the back page.
Sadly, our injuries were self-inflicted so I can only laugh bitterly (and then grimace with pain) at the thought of profiting from our jolly japes.
But perhaps you can profit from the warning to beware of garden tools, in fact, please don't venture outside at all, for the outdoors is a dangerous place.
And if your printer is out of its guarantee, then don't waste a morning haunting the forums of the tech-savvy - don't mess about, just kick the printer hard (or perhaps not, you may find yourself the grimacing possessor of a Leg Injury leaflet) and spend an hour or two locating a new printer which uses the same ink cartridges that you have just spent £50 on in a vain effort to heal the old one.
However, I digress. Having shown you some photos of a storm-thrashed quilt I now present the interior shots to comfort myself with the fact that some weeks are better than others.
In answer to some of your questions, the front was pieced from a Cabbages and Roses Athill range jelly roll and charm pack using a downloadable pattern from Sweet Jane called Market Square - a great pattern, easy to follow. The fabric has a wonderful, soft, antique air, and produced a vintage-effect quilt. The backing was also from the Athill range, with a pieced strip using the leftover charm squares, all bought from JB Quilting (I can highly recommend them - their service is so efficient, with next-day delivery if you order before lunchtime, and a huge range of fabrics). I hand quilted around the small centre squares and the pieced squares in a light greyish-blue. I don't think I have ever finished a quilt so quickly - I am quite astonished, but a looming deadline is obviously what I need to improve my work rate.
And thank you for all of your lovely comments - I know that I have been dreadfully remiss about responding, but I am breathing very deeply to avoid pneumonia, the Head Chef has a rearranged hairline, and I have a century-full of Admirals and a battleship steaming up behind me, so please do forgive me for my silence.
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EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Feb. 14, 2014) - Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd. (the "Corporation" or "Liquor Stores") (TSX:LIQ) announced today a cash dividend of $0.09 per common share for the month of February 2014. The dividend will be paid on March 14, 2014, to holders of record of the Corporation's common shares on February 28, 2014.
Liquor Stores expects to pay cash dividends on or about the 15th of each month to shareholders of record on the last business day of the preceding month.
The Corporation has a Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the "DRIP") which allows eligible shareholders of the Corporation to direct that their cash dividends be reinvested in additional common shares (the "Common Shares") of the Corporation. Common Shares issued pursuant to the DRIP are issued from treasury at a 3% discount from the market price. Shareholders who wish to participate in the DRIP should contact their broker, financial institution, or other nominee through which their Common Shares are held to provide appropriate enrolment instructions. A complete copy of the DRIP is available by following the "Dividend Reinvestment Plan" link on the Investors Relations section of the Corporation's website at www.liquorstoresna.ca. Shareholders should carefully read the complete text of the DRIP prior to making any decisions regarding their participation in the DRIP.
The Company currently operates 246 retail liquor stores in Alberta, British Columbia, Alaska and Kentucky. The Company's common shares and convertible subordinated debentures trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbols "LIQ" and "LIQ.DB.A", respectively.
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When two weapons linked to Fast and Furious were discovered at the murder scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the Obama Administration went into cover-up mode. They didn't want America to know that they had been sending thousands of AK-47s to violent Mexican drug cartels in order to "trace" the weapons to the cartel kingpins.
Of course, it was all a scam to blame gun dealers on the border for feeding drug cartel violence and restricting Americans' Second Amendment rights.
But what if this time it wasn't thousands of AK-47s, but tens of thousands of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and shoulder-fired missiles? What if the Obama administration wasn't supplying weapons to Mexican drug cartels, but Islamic extremists? And what if four Americans were murdered using these weapons?
History has repeated itself, as it always seems to do in the case of Barack Obama.
It has been reported that the arms used to murder the Americans at the Benghazi consulate and CIA safe house were supplied by Barack Hussein Obama. That the group responsible for the attack—Ansar al-Sharia—got the weapons from their sister organization, al-Qaeda, which received the weapons directly from Barack Obama as part of his "democratic moment" in toppling Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
If Obama would have let on that he knew the Islamic group Ansar al-Sharia was responsible for the attack of the Benghazi consulate, he would have risked America finding out he supplied the weapons. If he would have sent help to protect our brave men, some low-grade soldier might have picked up an RPG left behind and found Barack Obama's fingerprints all over it; and the whole house of cards would have come tumbling down.
That is why there was the idiotic story of a "protest turned violent" from an obscure anti-Muslim YouTube video. That is why Obama refused to send help. That is why Obama had to blame "bad intelligence" for the story. That is why David Petraeus had to be purged from the CIA for refusing to play "pin the tail on the YouTube video." And that is why the so-called "investigation" that Obama is conducting on the Benghazi attack will never be completed.
In legalese, we'd call this accessory before the fact. Barack Obama supplied the weapons that were used to kill Americans.
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For some reason, I have seen a number of great blog posts on community management over the last 2 weeks and have added them to my Twitter stream. Maybe people are finally starting to realize that community management is an integral part of social media and customer experience?
To make it easier for me to find these resources in the future, I am consolidating all of my recent community management tweets into a blog post.
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Japan Earthquake
Since nobody has put up any maps showing where Osaki City is in regards to where the recent earthquake hit, I made my own. I hope you can see Osaki. It's got a red square by it. It's not Osaka, which is what Google asks if I mean every time I try to search for it. Osaki is a newly created city established in 2006 by combining several smaller cities into one administrative district.
Osaki City is where my ex-wife Yuka's family lives. Their town used to be called Kashimadai. They are all safe. But her brother and his wife and two kids have been sleeping in their car. I'm not clear on exactly why. I don't think their building collapsed. But they might be concerned about going back inside until it's all checked out.
If you look on the map you can see that they were very close to the epicenter of the earthquake. Since they were pretty far inland, the tsunamis did not reach them. But I'm sure a lot of stuff got damaged in the area. I have not seen any photos at all from Osaki City, which is good news. If there was anything dramatic there I'm sure the news guys would've gotten a picture of it.
My friend Norman England lives in Tokyo in the Shimokitazawa district. He wrote a very clear piece about his experiences in Tokyo during the earthquake. Norman's been in Japan a long time and I respect his perspective. He's not full of dreamy nonsense about "the Japanese character" and all that stuff.
A whole big bunch of weirdness has cropped up since the earthquake. Lots of people have posted this list of supposed comments from Facebook users in various places. It's purported to be a bunch of people posting that the Japanese deserved what they got as some kind of karmic retribution for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I thought it looked a little suspicious. So I looked up 3 or 4 of the more unique names in Facebook and none of them came up. I'm calling this one a hoax. Do people think this is funny? I don't get it.
Some of my friends are into so-called "alternative news sources." I find I have even less faith in "alternative news sources" than I do in the mainstream ones. I really don't trust the mainstream news 100%. I doubt that we're being told the whole truth about those atomic reactors, for example. But I also doubt the shrill screams I hear from the "alternative news sources" who seem to have even less access to legitimate information than the mainstream news. My friend Ren in Tokyo posted an article titled Why I Am Not Worried About Japan's Nuclear Reactors by a guy who seems to know what he's talking about. I hope he's right. He seems more sensible than most of what I've heard elsewhere.
A Japanese guy on my Facebook page posted some stuff about Jews leaving the World Trade Center before the attacks there and wondered if anyone had heard anything about Jews leaving Japan. The things people believe are often unbelievable to me.
I lived in Japan for eleven years. Earthquakes are like a form of weather over there. I also lived in California where people worry about earthquakes. But in my five years in Los Angeles I never felt a single one. Whereas in Tokyo you'd get them every couple of months, it seemed. They were usually just little ones. Some you'd barely even notice. Others would shake your stuff around a bit. I never experienced one that even knocked anything over. But you get used to them.
I worked for a company whose stock in trade was making simulated natural disasters as a form of children's entertainment. Check out this example:
The fake tsunami begins at about 0:43 into this clip from Ultraman Leo made in 1974. The earthquake/tsunami footage from episode one of this series was so good it was used as stock footage in other programs of ours for almost ten years. Some of it looks a lot like the real stuff we're seeing on the news lately.
These TV shows were a way for people to cope with the constant fear of this kind of disaster. Everyone who lives in Japan knows that it is a disaster prone country. You just hope for the best and prepare as well as you can. I had all my bookshelves anchored to the wall when I lived there and a stock of food and water under the sink where I thought it might be sheltered if the house collapsed. You were always aware that things were pretty precarious.
I understand why the Americans were unable to make a decent Godzilla movie. They didn't understand what Godzilla movies are really about. Godzilla is not an animal. He is the embodiment of natural and man-made disasters. This is why weapons are ineffective against him, the same way as you can't fight an earthquake or tsunami.
I spent a lot of time in Miyagi Prefecture, where the worst of this occurred. I can recognize some of the places I liked to go in Sendai in some of the videos and photos I've seen. I've been to some of the seaside areas that were devastated by tidal waves. It's pretty shocking to see that.
I guess as a Buddhist writer I'm supposed to post some thoughtful meditation on the fragility of life like this one from Shambhala Sun Space. But I'm not that kind of person. So this is what you get.
Life is fragile. You and I are living lives just as precarious as those people who got swept away into the ocean last week. We just fool ourselves into believing otherwise.
But that's not a reason to live in fear. Life is a terminal disease. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi said that life is like going out on a boat that heads off into the sea and then begins to sink. Yet somehow he managed to find a kind of joy and beauty in that. In fact, it is the precariousness of life that makes beauty and joy possible.
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Posted: May 07 2012 at 11:10pm
by Colin Fairbrother
Lesser Pool Covers or Wheels are shown in the following table to overwhelmingly reduce your chances of winning a prize. Using the classic Pick 6, Pool 49 Lotto game (the principle is applicable to any Lotto game) the reduction can be as much as 65% in the reasonably short term, say, 1,000 plays.
Basically the extent of repetition of paying sub-set combinations in the set played such as CombThrees, CombFours and even CombFives along with how much of the Pool is used and good coverage will determine how well a play set structure will perform.
Meaning of Guarantee
The guarantee of the prize when playing a set of Lotto numbers which is a Cover or Wheel with guarantee is only applicable to the Pool of numbers used in that particular Cover or Wheel for the lowest set of lines. For the 6/49 Lotto game the record minimum set of lines with no ifs or buts is 163 for a CombThree prize. Prefixing a guarantee for a lesser Pool Cover or Wheel with a highly improbable 'if' does not make it more likely! If you play a 7 line Full Wheel or all the possible combinations of 6 from a Pool of 7 in a 6/49 Lotto game then, sure, if the 6 main integers drawn are in the 7 integers you have used in your Pool of 7 then you win or share first prize - but the likelihood of this happening is the same as playing any other 7 lines. The principle applies to the sub-prizes and because generally a Cover or Wheel for the minimum set of lines is distorted compared to random selections which are in accord with the odds your chances of success are diminished as the table below makes abundantly clear.
A 3if6 guarantee for a 6/49 Lotto game means that for all the 13,983,816 combinations of six integers at least one CombThree in each combination is in the 163 line set played. While it is possible to have 163 x 20 = 3260 CombThrees the 163 line set actually has only 3007 distinct CombThrees with 142 repeated twice, 11 three times, 18 four times, 5 five times and 3 six times.
Little mathematical ability is needed to work out that if a pool of 12 is used then the possible number of CombThrees is 220 (ie 12c3) but after 4 lines repeats are unavoidable and a minimum number of 15 lines is needed to get them all in. When this 15 line set is applied to a 6/49 Lotto game the coverage of the CombThrees is only 14.8% as shown in the table below. Using the first 15 lines from my 365 line set which uses the full Pool of 49 integers, no repeat CombThrees and coverage progressively calculated to next best play, a coverage some 50% more of 23.5% is obtained.
Generally, the choice between using the Full Pool or a Lesser Pool for a given Lotto game boils down to wanting overall a better percentage return or yield which is the universal method of measuring ones chances of success in a game of chance. Would you prefer 17 CombThree and 1 CombFour wins over 2 years playing 10 lines once a week in a 6/49 Lotto game or 12 CombThrees and 1 CombFour wins as is the case for a reduced Pool of 10 which has a GUARANTEE OF A COMBTHREE PRIZE FOR THE POOL OF 10 BUT NOT FOR THE POOL OF 49. I prefer the better percentage return or yield of 22.6% compared to 20.6% with more wins more often.
It is easily seen that using the full Pool for a 6/49 game gives better results than the Covers or Wheels where the Pool used is less than 49. While the guarantee does apply to the lesser Pool IT DOES NOT APPLY to the full Pool of 49 and usually because of the repetition of CombThrees, CombFours and even CombFives gives significantly less coverage and consequent yield.
Worth noting is the fact that since the full pool calculations have been done with no duplicate CombThrees then they are all optimized for 3if3 ie each added line covers the maximum 20 CombThrees in a line for the 18,424 possible CombThrees.
Comparing the 3if6 calculations for a given number of lines then the higher the 3if6 figure is the higher the likelihod of more wins more often and the higher the Yield figure the more likely you are to get the expected return over a reasonable number of draw participations. Most constructions will return the expected yield over a thousand or so draws but why wait 20 years when you can get that same return in 2 years?
One can also see that to win 1st prize in a 6/49 Lotto game ie 6if6 then whatever the method used to construct the set no difference is made to the likelihood of winning the jackpot as the only requirement is not to repeat a line.
As the increase in the Yield or Percentage Return is only around the 2 to 4 Percent compared to Random Selections it is only the finicky few, like myself, that bother to deliberately maximize the chances of a better return with the lower prizes and under no dellusions about the chances of winning first prize.
Comment is kept deliberately to a minimim to keep this an accurate reference table. Articles exposing the con-artists that promote these lesser pool Covers or Wheels will refer back to the following table.
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Something that the boys really love to do is, make their own pizza. I must admit, I really enjoy it myself. Just don't tell them ok? They think I do it for them only. Because we all have such different likes, it makes pizza night cheaper and there is a lot less arguing. I am not a vegetable eater. The kids are so, I don't want that stuff on my pizza.
If I don't have the time to go out and buy, sort and plate all of the ingredients for them, I will pick up some of the ready to go pizza kits. Yesterday was one of those nights. Since they have karate at 4:30, dinner is often something quick and simple. Sometimes it's pizza, sometimes its soup and sammies. There just isn't enough time to get them from school, get home work done and eat dinner before they leave. They isually grab a snack after school and then we eat after karate. the usual 5:00 dinners are pushed to 6. read the rest of this entry »


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I caught a lot of flack from my Republican friends for my post blaming the FY2009 deficit on Bush instead of Obama. Well, I must be a glutton for punishment because I can't resist jumping (albeit reluctantly) to Obama's defense again. I'm venting my spleen for two reason. First, FoxNews.com posted a story headlined "Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents" and noted that:
President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents – spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history. In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion …That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush's term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama's.
This story was featured on the Drudge Report, so it has received a lot of attention. Second, Bush's former Senior Adviser wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal eviscerating Obama for big budget deficits. Given Bush's track record, this took considerable chutzpah, but what really nauseated me was this passage:
When Mr. Obama was sworn into office the federal deficit for this year stood at $422 billion. At the end of October, it stood at $1.42 trillion.
I'm a big fan of criticizing Obama's profligacy, but it is inaccurate and/or dishonest to blame him for Bush's mistakes. At the risk of repeating my earlier post, the 2009 fiscal year began on October 1, 2008, and the vast majority of the spending for that year was the result of Bush Administration policies. Yes, Obama did add to the waste with the so-called stimulus, the omnibus appropriation, the CHIP bill, and the cash-for-clunkers nonsense, but as the chart illustrates, these boondoggles only amounted to just a tiny percentage of the FY2009 total – about $140 billion out of a $3.5 trillion budget.
There are some subjective aspects to this estimate, to be sure. Supplemental defense spending could boost Obama's share by another $25 billion, but Bush surely would have asked for at least that much extra spending, so I didn't count that money but individual readers can adjust the number if they wish. Also, Obama used some bailout money for the car companies, but I did not count that as a net increase in spending since the bailout funds were approved under Bush and I strongly suspect the previous Administration also would have funneled money to GM and Chrysler. In any event, I did not give Obama credit for the substantial amount of TARP funds that were repaid after January 20, so the net effect of all the judgment calls certainly is not to Bush's disadvantage.
Let's use an analogy. Obama's FY2009 performance is like a relief pitcher who enters a game in the fourth inning trailing 19-0 and allows another run to score. The extra run is nothing to cheer about, of course, but fans should be far more angry with the starting pitcher. That having been said, Obama since that point has been serving up meatballs to the special interests in Washington, so his earned run average may actually wind up being worse than his predecessor's. He promised change, but it appears that Obama wants to be Bush on steroids.


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Financial services: Commission proposes EU framework for managers of alternative investment funds
The European Commission has proposed a Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM). The proposed Directive is an important part of the European Commission's response to the financial crisis, as set out in the Communication on Driving European Recovery. It aims to create a comprehensive and effective regulatory and supervisory framework for AIFM in the European Union. AIFM, which include the managers of hedge funds and private equity funds, managed around €2 trillion in assets at the end of 2008. This is the first attempt in any jurisdiction to create a comprehensive framework for the direct regulation and supervision in the alternative fund industry. The proposal now passes to the European Parliament and Council for consideration.
Internal Market and Services Commissioner Charlie McCreevy said: "Alternative investement fund managers have become important participants in the European financial system and their activities have had a significant impact on the markets and companies in which they invest. There is now a global consensus – as expressed by the G20 leaders – over the need for closer regulatory engagement with this sector. In particular, it is essential that regulators have the information and tools necessary to conduct effective macro-prudential oversight. The crisis has also underscored the importance of robust risk and liquidity management systems and the need for reliable investor information as the basis for effective due diligence. I look forward to working with the European Parliament and Council to secure the adoption of this important piece of legislation."
The proposed Directive will require all AIFM within scope to be authorised and to be subject to harmonised regulatory standards on an ongoing basis. It will also enhance the transparency of the activities of AIFM and the funds they manage towards investors and public authorities. This will enable Member States to improve the macro-prudential oversight of the sector and to take coordinated action as necessary to ensure the proper functioning of financial markets. The proposal will help to overcome gaps and inconsistencies in existing regulatory frameworks at national level and will provide a secure basis for the development of the internal market.
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In the EU, investment funds can be broadly categorised as UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) and non-UCITS (or non-harmonised) funds. The former are those that comply with the harmonised rules laid down in the UCITS Directive (85/611/EEC) and are authorised for sale to the retail market. For the purposes of the proposed Directive, Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) are defined as all funds that are not harmonised under the UCITS Directive.
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Last night I finished reading The Cuckoo's Calling by "Robert Galbraith" (J. K. Rowling). I absolutely loved it! It's very un-Harry Potter, so I definitely don't recommend it if you are only reading it for the author. I've read The Casual Vacancy a few times now, and I seem to be the only person who really loved it Haha oh well!
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Right now I'm reading a few books, the most recent being The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. I was home last weekend and I was looking through my bookshelf for something to bring back to school with me. I found a book that I had apparently gotten for my birthday in 2006 (someone wrote a nice little message for me on the inside). I guess I never got around to reading it. When I was reading it last night, I found a receipt I had used as a bookmark dated from 2007. :P It's pretty interesting so far... I'm only about 20 pages in, but it seems like it'll be a pretty quick read. I like the author's style. He's very descriptive. Great writing.
I'm also reading The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll. It's about the Higgs boson particle. Oh, ya know, just some casual light reading.
February 19th, 2014 02:03 PM #7
I'm currently reading:
Sophie's Choice - more explicit than I expected but the writing is pretty good. Finally got to the interesting part and past all the yammering about the writer.
Foundation (Asimov) - creative idea but more political than I find appealing. Also, the major "hook" of psychohistory I find rather weak and unsupportable. Good writing and a good concept though.
Anne's House of Dreams - happy fluffy reading.Top Names: Benedict Calvin & Noelle Geneva
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Inspired Borders for your Scrapbook Pages
Fun borders not only add a touch of whimsy to your scrapbook page, they also help move your eye around the page, and create unity. They can be a great way to use up extra supplies and scraps, and they also help give a page a certain feel. Here are two different borders you can try on your scrapbook pages.
Art by Kate O'Brien from the February 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
Kate created a fun border using the circle remnants found when emptying her hole punch. The idea for her circle border arose unexpectedly. She explains, "I emptied my hole punch while working on a mini book and loved the way the circles looked as they splashed across the paper."
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Mou Saha's page scores big with this fun backyard scene. Along with a title that has been inked to look like dirt, she also adds the look of grass with a unique border. Spray ink adds the perfect touch and looks just like grass stains!
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1. Tear paper into strips.
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When Park Geun-hye last lived in the presidential Blue House more than 30 years ago, she was a young, stand-in first lady, serving after the assassination of her mother and before the killing of her dictator father.
After defeating Moon Jae-in in elections Wednesday, she will return to her childhood home as the first female president of a country where women continue to face widespread sexism, huge income gaps with men doing the same work and few opportunities to rise to the top in business, politics and other fields.
Her presidency will shatter the bias that women are less capable of thriving in male-oriented South Korean politics, said Lim Woo-youn, a researcher at the Chungcheongnam-do Women's Policy Development Institute in central South Korea.
Her biggest challenge after she takes office in February, however, may be the still-fresh divisions that linger from the 18 years that her father, President Park Chung-hee, ruled South Korea.
Many, including the older conservative voters who form her political base, see Park Chung-hee as a hero, the man whose strong hand guided the country from the devastation of the Korean War to an economic force that lifted millions from crushing poverty. His critics remember the brutal way he dealt with opponents to his unchecked rule, the claims of torture, execution and vote rigging.
"There's still a sentiment that rejects Park Geun-hye" because of her father's brutality, said Lee Cheol-hee, a political analyst and head of Dumon Political Strategy Institute, a think tank. Park must appear sincere when she tries to "heal the past" as president, Lee said. She needs to convince people that she's sympathetic to the pain caused by her father's rule.
Park, a legislator since 1998, laid out a fairly moderate platform in her campaign to replace unpopular President Lee Myung-bak, a member of her conservative party.
The 60-year-old has vowed to reach out to North Korea and ease the current government's hard line, fight widespread government corruption, strengthen social welfare, help small companies, close growing gaps between rich and poor, ease heavy household debt and curb the power of big corporations so powerful they threaten to eclipse national laws.
But despite her history-making win and her efforts to forge her own path, many see in her only the embodiment of her father, who grabbed power in a 1961 coup and ruled with ruthless efficiency until his spy chief shot him dead at a 1979 drinking party.
Critics have long seized on what they see as Park's queen-like aura in an attempt to link her with her father. Park herself points to the embodiment of female imperial rule, Elizabeth I of England, as her role model.
"We have known Park Geun-hye as an imperial candidate, and no one can argue with her decisions," said Yoon Yeo-joon, a key member of the camp of her liberal opponent, Moon Jae-in.
Much of Park's public persona has been built on her close association with her father's rule. She has created an image as a selfless daughter of Korea, never married, who served first her father as his first lady and then the people as a female lawmaker in South Korea's tough political world.
Her website describes a young Park losing sleep in the Blue House and praying for rain during a devastating drought. Even her choice of college major — electronic engineering, which the website describes as "rare for women" — is put down to self-sacrifice, an effort to help the country increase exports by concentrating on developing electronic industries.
Her "dreams of living a normal life" were crushed on Aug. 15, 1974, she says, when a Korean resident of Japan, claiming orders from North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, shot and killed her mother in a botched assassination attempt against her father. At 22, she rushed home from Paris, where she was studying, and for the next five years stood by her father's side as acting first lady.
Violence came again in 1979 when her father was murdered. Park was said to have thought first of Korea: "Is the frontline well?" were her first words when learning of the shooting, according to her website, recognition that instability in Seoul could mean trouble on the Koreas' tense border.
She was a major figure in conservative politics in 2006 when a convicted criminal slashed her face as she was shaking hands with voters, opening up a gash that needed 60 stitches during surgery.
Park lost narrowly in the 2007 presidential primaries to Lee.
Her father was a staunch anti-communist, but Park has shown a willingness to work with North Korea. She met privately with former leader Kim Jong Il during a visit to Pyongyang in 2002 and has vowed to ease Lee's hard-line policy to Pyongyang.
That might be difficult, however, with a belligerent Pyongyang fresh off the surprising success of a rocket launch that the South, the United States and others say was a cover for testing long-range missile technology. North Korea's state media has repeatedly said that her presidential ambitions are an attempt to bring back her father's dictatorship.
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Berklee on the Road Heads to the Dominican Republic
Berklee a new Berklee on the Road (BOR) workshop to be held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from January 7-12, 2014. Launching the program at a press conference in Santo Domingo at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, Berklee senior vice president for academic affairs, Larry Simpson, was joined by internationally renowned and multi-award winning singer-songwriter and Berklee alumnus/honorary doctorate recipient Juan Luis Guerra; Dominican Republic minister of culture, José Antonio Rodríguez; his chief of staff, Carlos Salcedo; and director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, Maria Irene Blanco.
"We are proud to present Berklee on the Road, another global initiative to further extend Berklee, our methods of teaching and the value of a contemporary music education across the world," explained Simpson. "We are privileged to welcome such distinguished guests as Juan Luis Guerra, José Antonio Rodríguez, the Dominican Republic's minister of culture, and Maria Irene Blanco, the director of the National Conservatory of Music, who have been instrumental in bringing the program to the Dominican Republic. We hope the workshop will serve to both hone the skills and make well-rounded artists of this country's most talented musicians, inspiring them to follow their passion through further education and the pursuit of professional careers on the international stage."
Berklee on the Road forms part of the college's international strategy to make contemporary music education and the Berklee approach to teaching both accessible and affordable worldwide. In addition to the Dominican Republic, BOR programs will be held this year in Umbria, Italy Bogotá, Columbia, São Paulo, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles, and Mexico City, presenting the college's first program in Spanish: Berklee Latino.
Guerra, who hails from Dominican Republic and whose jazz, pop and merengue music has earned him 12 Latin Grammys, two Grammys, 10 Billboard Awards, and four Latin Billboard Awards, had this to say about the new program: "I am extremely proud to be part of the first Berklee on the Road program in the Dominican Republic. My family and musical roots are here and I know there is much musical talent in our country, so for Berklee to recognize this and dedicate time and resources to help our musicians further develop their talents is a huge honor, as well as a prime opportunity for them. This initiative demonstrates the commitment of the ministry of culture in developing music within the Dominican Republic and the value of Berklee as the world's leading institution for contemporary music education."
"Berklee in Santo Domingo 2014 is a priority for the Ministry of Culture. I'm very excited that it will become a reality. We are going to host a team of amazing Berklee faculty in our Conservatory. The fact that this team will be in the Dominican Republic for 6 days sharing the Berklee method and their skills with Dominican students, makes me extremely happy" said José Antonio Rodríguez, Minister of Culture from The Dominican Republic. "I am certain that these 6 days of classes and activities will be very influential on the musical education of the participating students. Don't be surprised if you see me in a classroom as a student, taking part in these lessons."
The Santo Domingo workshop will include six days of intensive study with lectures and classes including harmony and chord scales for contemporary music performance, improvisation, comping, and writing; instrumental technique tailored to techniques specific to each musician's instrument; as well a series of master classes from Berklee faculty and guest artists in composition, arranging, and songwriting. There will also be ensembles, evening jam sessions, and a concert to mark the end of the workshop.
The program is free and open to the most talented musicians in the Dominican Republic who are over the age of 15 and have been playing an instrument or singing for at least six months. More information about the program can be found here.
Applications must be submitted, together with supporting materials demonstrating musical experience and talents, via the online form by November 15. Accepted musicians will be announced on December 2.
In addition to this workshop, an annual full scholarship to attend Berklee is available for one exceptionally talented musician born in, or of descent from, the Dominican Republic. Sponsored by Michel Camilo, Dominican-born and globally acclaimed Grammy, Latin Grammy, and Emmy award-winning jazz pianist and composer. Between 2008 and 2013, Berklee has offered 31 undergraduate scholarships to applicants from the Dominican Republic, representing in the year 2013 more than 75 percent of tuition for these students.


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Vector Porsche
I have drawn this car in plasma. I used a photo reference to trace the shapes. The colors were chosen manually by me to match the reference as good as possible. In the close-ups you can see how simple the shapes actually are.
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Pixel preview
Plasma is now able to display a real-time pixel preview, which shows how the image will look like when it is rasterized or printed,depending on the DPI settings.
Custom fonts
It is now possible to create custom fonts. For the font below, I first imported a Verdana TTF and modified the characters so that they are extruded and shaded in grey tones. The result was saved as plasma font which can be used by the text tool to write arbitrary texts, as seen in the image below.
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Here is a quick test of plasma's extrusion and deformation tools. I first created a simple writing using the Trebuchet font. Then I converted it to editable plasma shapes which I then extruded and painted. Finally, I used a deformation feature to create the distorted look. The shadow was created using blurred versions of the characters.
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My name is Kendall Beene-Crowder, and I am a yoga instructor at Savannah Power Yoga.
When I discovered yoga in the mid-1990s, I had long been a devoted distance runner. At the time, my running friends thought yoga was crazy, while most of my yoga teachers shunned running's wear and tear on the joints and spine. However, I quickly noticed that adding yoga to my routine not only increased my flexibility and shortened my recovery time, it also bolstered my mental stamina for long and lonely runs. I still run happily and relatively injury-free, thanks to a regular yoga practice.
The following sequence should be performed following a warm-up. This could mean simply practicing the sequence right after your run, or beginning with a different warm-up such as traditional yoga Sun Salutations.
1) Standing forward fold or Uttanasana
Benefits: Stretches the hamstrings and releases tension in the spine.
• Begin standing with feet hip width apart and toes pointing directly in front of you, hands on hips.
• Breathe in, lengthen your spine, and look up. As you exhale, bend your knees and fold forward at the hips with a long flat back until you can bring your hands to the floor, your calves, or your ankles.
• Keep the knees bent at least slightly, more if your hamstrings are extremely tight. Allow the spine to cascade down toward the ground with a heavy, relaxed head.
• Hold 5-10 breaths.
2) Crescent Lunge or Anjeneyasana
Benefits: Stretches the hip flexors and quadriceps muscles of the back leg while strengthening the gluteal muscles on the front leg, all while improving balance.
• From standing forward fold, simply release your hands to the ground and step the right leg straight back to a lunge.
• Your front knee should be directly above your front ankle, shin perpendicular to the ground. Your back leg is strong and active, with all ten toes pointing straight forward and the back heel off the ground.
• Lift your hands from the floor, lift your torso and reach your arms up to the sky. Stretch your tailbone toward the ground as you press your back leg toward the sky to deepen the hip flexor stretch.
• Hold for 5-10 breaths and change sides.
3) Boat Pose or Navasana
This pose is a core strengthener that stabilizes the runner's gait and impact of foot strike.
• Begin seated with your knees bent, hands gently holding the backs of your thighs.
• Shift your weight into your sitz bones, lifting your feet off the mat, hip width apart or gently touching.
• Keeping the collarbones broad and the shoulder blades hugging in toward the spine, bring your shins parallel to the floor.
• You can keep your hands on your thighs if your low back needs extra support. If not, slowly release the hands from the legs and stretch your arms forward on either side of your legs, without losing the lift in your upper chest.
• Hold for five breaths. Rest for a breath or two and repeat up to five times.
Kendall Beene-Crowder, RYT-200, Certified Yoga Teacher, Certified Prenatal Yoga Teacher. She can be reached at email@example.com or 912-414-9186.


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The UN declared 2011 the International Year of Forests, and to mark the occasion, Conservation International created this list of the ten most vulnerable forest hotspots globally.
CI defines these as forests that have lost more than 90% of their original habitat and which harbor at least 1,500 plant species that are found nowhere else in the world. Top of the list? The Indo-Burma wetlands, in southern Asia.
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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
June 17, 2018
1. The Outsider
Stephen King
A detective investigates a seemingly wholesome member of the community when an 11-year-old boy's body is found.
2. Shelter in Place
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Survivors of a mass shooting outside a mall in Portland, Me., develop different coping mechanisms and face a new menace.
3. The Gray Ghost
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Sam and Remi Fargo search for a Rolls-Royce prototype that has vanished for a second time.
4. The Death of Mrs. Westaway
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A tarot card reader mistakenly receives an inheritance letter and attends the funeral of the deceased.
5. To the Moon and Back
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A man whose mother died in the Oklahoma City bombing seeks to reconnect with a woman also affected by the tragedy.
6. The 17th Suspect
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The latest installment in the Women's Murder Club series.
7. The Fallen
David Baldacci
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The daughter of a Chicago power broker and the son of a Southern peach farmer decide to wed.
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A magazine columnist meets an array of Hollywood professionals when a producer turns a story about her grandmother into a TV series.
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13. The Woman in the Window
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A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.
14. The Great Alone
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A former prisoner of war moves his family to Alaska.
15. Warlight
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In Britain after World War II, a pair of teenage siblings are taken under the tutelage of a mysterious man.
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A version of this list appears in the June 17, 2018 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending June 2, 2018.
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