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Australia's Wealth Fund Dumps Cluster Bomb, Mine Makers on Treaty
Australia's sovereign wealth fund dumped holdings in mine and cluster bomb makers as the nation prepares to ratify a treaty banning the weapons.
The Future Fund, which has A$74.6 billion ($81.7 billion) in assets, this year excluded 10 companies involved in making munitions from its investments, including selling two of its three biggest defense holdings in Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) and General Dynamics Corp. (GD), Will Hetherton, a fund spokesman, said in e-mailed comments.
The fund, established in 2006 to cover the pension costs of retiring lawmakers, judges and public servants, had A$239 million invested in defense and aerospace as of Dec. 31, according to portfolio holdings obtained by Bloomberg News through an Australian Freedom of Information Act request.
"Having initially excluded a number of companies on the basis of very clear evidence, during 2010 we undertook a rigorous process to identify and assess companies where evidence was less strong," Hetherton said. "As a result we have now excluded a total of 10 companies and unwound any investments we held."
While Australia joined more than 90 other countries in signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008, the nation has yet to ratify the treaty with legislation currently before Parliament. The accord prohibits the use, development, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster weapons able to release dozens of "bomblets" over a wide area and which have been blamed for civilian casualties.
Defense Holdings Sold
Other stocks to be sold include Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK), L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL), Raytheon Co. (RTN) and Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. (STE) The defense investments sold by the Future Fund had a market value of A$74 million as of Dec. 31, according to the documents, which don't say when the fund bought the shares or how much they paid for them.
"We don't direct the investment decisions of the Future Fund," Treasurer Wayne Swan told reporters in Canberra today. "Cluster bombs, my personal view of those, is that they are very destructive weapons which can cause enormous amounts of human misery."
Lockheed Martin rose 25 percent since the start of 2006 and the end of last week while General Dynamics is up 28 percent. The MSCI World Index gained 10 percent in the same period.
The fund's biggest defense holding is in Honeywell International Inc. (HON), with a value of A$28.2 million.
Under legislation to ratify the treaty, it would be illegal for an individual or bank to finance or help a company that develops or produces cluster munitions.
Investment Decisions
"The board's position is that it will not invest in economic activities that are illegal in Australia or contravene conventions," Hetherton said. "We will continue to monitor the portfolio and the activities of relevant companies to assess whether further exclusions become necessary or whether current exclusions can be removed."
Cluster bombs have been used by at least 15 countries, including the U.S., Russia, the U.K., France and Israel, according to the Cluster Munition Coalition, an umbrella group for 300 civil-society organizations.
"This is important given that Australia is a signatory to the international convention banning these horrendous weapons," Michelle Fahy, Canberra-based spokesman at the coalition, said in e-mailed comments. "Australia has one of the largest investment markets -- we would really make a difference if our finance sector ceased financing and investing in the manufacture of these weapons."
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The accord is the first international treaty to ban an entire category of conventional arms.
Established as a statutory authority by the administration of Prime Minister John Howard, the fund has its own board. Oversight is provided by the Treasurer and Minister for Finance and Deregulation, according to its website.
The Future Fund states its purpose as "accumulating financial assets sufficient to offset the Commonwealth's unfunded superannuation (pension) liabilities by 2020," according to a statement of investment policies on its website.
The fund is the world's 13th largest sovereign wealth fund by assets under management, ranked behind the Qatar Investment Authority, according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, which analyses the sector. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is the world's largest with $627 billion, followed by Norway's Government Pension Fund-Global with $556.8 billion.
Investment Rules
Run by former Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) Chief Executive Officer David Murray, the fund targets an average return of at least the rate of the consumer price index plus 4.5 percent to 5.5 percent per annum as its long-term benchmark with an "acceptable, but not excessive, level of risk."
The fund has faced calls from the Australian Greens, who helped Prime Minister Julia Gillard win power last year, for its investment rules to be revised since disclosing in March A$147.7 million of tobacco investments.
"It is time for the government to do some soul searching on where the appropriate place is to invest taxpayers' funds," Greens Party Senator Scott Ludlam said in a phone interview from Broome, Western Australia. "I congratulate the fund for divesting the cluster bomb stocks and they probably went further than the bill before Parliament would have required them to do."
The Future Fund had A$74.6 billion in assets at March 31, according to a portfolio update published on its website on April 29. It had A$1.6 billion invested in Australia's largest telephone company Telstra Corp., part of the seeded capital provided by the government when the then state-owned Telstra was sold to the public. It has a further A$8.5 billion invested in Australian equities and A$20 billion in international stocks.
The balance of its holdings are in private equity, property, infrastructure, debt and cash.
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I was up relatively early today for my last day at Disney World (I had wanted to sleep in but that didn't happen) before catching a flight in the evening back home to wintry Winnipeg. The temperatures in Disney World were already starting to recover from the cold Sunday marathon and that made it extra hard to want to go home to the -30C (-22F) and colder with the wind chill temperatures.
After a quick room scour to make sure I hadn't missed anything, I did the wander down to Bell Services to hold my bags until Magical Express would pick me up just after 4pm.
I decided to have a quick breakfast at the Artist's Palette at Saratoga Springs next which was very good and then I took a bus to Animal Kingdom. Animal Kingdom was the one park that I had not yet ridden a ride at on this trip and I wanted to rectify that. The My Disney Experience app was saying the wait times were pretty good there too so I might be able to do a bunch of stuff.
When I got there, there were large groups of people streaming into the park – I suspected that the light wait times were going to change quickly. So I did a fast walk over to Expedition Everest and was through the single rider line in under 5 minutes. Mission accomplished! At least one ride at each of the 4 parks!
I then did a bit of a wander around the park with the intention of trying Kilimanjaro Safari ride next but once I got over there the sign said there was a 45 minute wait but people were line up outside the line que area so I suspected it was actually a much longer wait than that. Sure enough a couple minutes later the wait time updated to 75 minutes…ok, Magic Kingdom wait times look better. So off to Magic Kingdom I go. It hadn't been my intention to do anything besides a quick run through Animal Kingdom but I ended up with way more free time than I expected.
It is nice that Disney has busses that run directly between the parks – it is a pain to go through security each time though so I might have to look at the new express service they have introduced when I am down with the family. It looks like (for a fee) you will get on a bus at a special location within the park and then get dropped at a special location at the next park and you don't have to go through security again. Sounds interesting!
By the time I get to Magic Kingdom that park is getting busy too! Wait times have spiked all over but I took the opportunity to ride People Mover again and then wander all over the park just absorbing the feel of everything. I didn't end up doing any more rides before I took the bus back over to Saratoga Springs.
I had a bit of time before my Magical Express bus came so I took the opportunity to rearrange some stuff in my bags before we were off to the airport. This included making sure I had my warmest jacket available in an easy to grab spot for as soon as I was off the plane!
It was nice that our bus only had the one hotel stop – sometimes Magical Express stops at multiple resorts to pick up people going back to the airport so it was quicker to not to have to do that.
Strangely the bus only stopped at one of the airport terminals – normally they will hit both and you get off on whichever side you need to get to your airline but this time the driver didn't do that. Not sure if this was a policy change or the bus driver decision. Either way it meant a hike across the airport for me with all my bags. Not a big deal but it was a surprise.
After checking in with the airline and dropping my checked bag it was off to the long security line – it surprisingly didn't take too long to get through but it certainly looked like chaos at first.
Through security – the quick monorail ride out to my terminal and had a sit, did some reading and had a light snack before getting on the plane about 30 minutes late for the 4hr plus flight home. There were some concerns there as there was significant snow fall occurring back home and it could have meant even more delays. But the flight was uneventful besides the short delay though which is always good.
Then through Canadian customs, pick up my bag and do the trek through the near -40C temperatures to my truck (which started easily and quickly warmed up, luckily). Then a 20 minute ride home through the fresh 3-4 inches of snow that had fallen in the past couple hours.
But I made it home safe and sound around 1 am. Finally got to bed around 2:30 so I could get 4 hours of sleep before getting up for work in the morning! Whoohoo!
It was nice the next morning that the kids got up to see me off to work as I hadn't seen them since I tucked them in Wednesday night.
And that ended another Goofy Challenge / Disney World Marathon weekend trip…besides all the typing!
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I have to admit it — even I'm surprised by how quickly the North Koreans reneged on this one:
North Korea announced plans Friday to blast a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket, a provocative move that could jeopardize a weeks-old agreement with the U.S. exchanging food aid for nuclear concessions.
The North agreed to a moratorium on long-range launches as part of the deal with Washington, but it argues that its satellite launches are part of a peaceful space program that is exempt from any international disarmament agreements. The U.S., South Korea and other critics say the rocket technology overlaps with belligerent uses and condemn the satellite program as a disguised way of testing military missiles in defiance of a U.N. ban.
Thanks for the food, you brigandish imperialists. Now, watch us launch this long-range missile in violation of our two week-old deal and three U.N. Security Council resolutions! 소를 ê°€ì ¸ì™€!
So much for buying North Korea out of the headlines until the election is safely behind us. North Korea's determination not to be ignored may be greater than our government's political will to buy its silence. For those of you still keeping track, the aforementioned resolutions would be 1695, 1718, and 1874. Resolution 1695 says that "the DPRK shall suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile programme and in this context re-establish its pre-existing commitments to a moratorium on missile launching. Resolution 1718 "[d]emands that the DPRK suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile programme, and in this context re-establish its pre-existing commitments to a moratorium on missile launching. Resolution 1874 "[d]ecides that the DPRK shall suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile programme and in this context re-establish its pre-existing commitments to a moratorium on missile launches."
This is a moment of risk and also a moment of opportunity for this President. Either he can allow the Republicans (and the Washington Post) to attack him for being weak and gullible enough to keep buying the same old horse and achieving the same old results, or he can use this occasion to show that he's tougher than his critics and the North Koreans think he is. Expect the ongoing talks over the delivery and distribution of food aid to break down over technical details and monitoring. That will allow State and USAID to maintain the fiction that there is no food-for-arms quid pro quo going on.
If North Korea goes through with this launch, President Obama could use his rumored visit to the DMZ to use the North Koreans as a campaign foil, in the spirit of "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" or "Tear down this wall!" And at least until the election is safely behind us, has plenty of options for increasing economic and political pressure against the regime. For their part, the Republicans ought to demand that President Obama be clear about where that pressure is leading. Will it be Agreed Framework III, or will we finally implement a long-term contain-constrict-collapse strategy that will have some chance of really disarming this regime?
Update: Former Ambassador Thomas Hubbard, responding to this WaPo editorial, argues that there is much to be gained from a deal with North Korea, and manages to have his letter to the editor published just before the North Koreans have the final, conclusive word. Brilliant timing, Mr. Ambassador.
When I look at men like Hubbard and Donald Gregg, who flirted with 3/26 conspiracy theories in the pages of the New York Times, I can't help but wonder why America has traditionally picked such sub-par minds to serve as our ambassadors to the ROK. James Lilley is the only exception who comes to mind. Within Korea policy circles, there has been an ongoing debate about whether our ambassadors to Korea ought to be political appointees rather than career foreign service officers. The term "political appointee" carries connotations of "political hack" in this context, and that's true enough of many ambassadorships to low-threat assignments that have been given out as rewards for political contributions. Our ambassadors to China, by contrast, have traditionally been political appointees with strong backgrounds in the military, foreign affairs, or whose background otherwise qualifies them to understand China and its people. There's something to be said for picking a strong- and serious-minded representative who has the President's confidence and loyalty, rather than someone whose entire career has been a series of calculations to avoid offending the wrong attache.


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The final simulcast will be the Ravens-Chargers game in Week 15.
The Telemundo broadcast will be hosted by Jessi Losada together with announcers Rene Giraldo and Edgar López and sideline reporter Verónica Contreras live from Cowboys Stadium.


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Contrary to what we learned in Mrs. Glickman's Algebra II class lo those many years ago, mathematics is not a language that transcends all cultural barriers. That's because tackling math problems requires a willingness to give in to abstraction, a leap that not all cultures are equipped to make. Just check out how the Saora people of Orissa, India, react to word problems:
Saora school children took more interest in mathematical problems that depicted actual local events/facts rather than abstract problems. If it was a hypothetical question completely divorced from reality, the Saoras showed little interest in indulging in related mathematical discourses and to stretch their imagination to arrive at a mathematical solution. This confirmed our assumption that the physical and social realities constitute the ultimate metaphor with which the children and adults in this culture think and act.
So strong is the reality orientation that the Saora children and adults raise moral questions when the mathematical problems assume violations of social norms. For example, given the following question, three Saora children reacted to the moral assumptions rather than to the mathematical problem:
"A man named Raghu bought 100 kgs of rice at the rate of Rs4/- per kg. He mixed 5 kgs of stones with the rice and sold them at the same rate of Rs.4 a kg. How much of profit Raghu made at the end?"
The initial reaction of these Saora children was "why should anyone mix stones in rice? They should be punished by the village Mukhia (village head)". However, two non-tribal Oriya children and one Saora child did attend to the mathematical problem going along with the "if" assumption therein. When the same question was asked of Saora adults, their first reaction was that such a man should be driven out of the village. None showed any interest in treating it as a hypothetical mathematical question. Nontribal children and adults did not raise such a value question as they treated it as a hypothetical mathematical problem. This makes it evident that cultural values and norms play an important role in determining the willingness among children to participate in a mathematical discourse. Clearly, mathematics does not mean the same to everyone.
The Saora are also well-known among anthropologists for occasionally suffering from a unique mental disorder, which can only be cured through "marriage" to an invisible spirit.


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Douglas County emergency workers are back from the Katrina-stricken South, saying they've learned new lessons by assisting Mississippi communities get back on their feet.
"We're used to having small-scale disasters, but never something that large," said Douglas County Emergency Management Assistant Director Teri Smith. "This hurricane took out entire counties. They're just working out of a school trying to get things up and running."
Smith was one of several Kansans who recently worked helping hurricane-devastated communities. She returned Sunday after spending time in several southern Mississippi counties hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina.
Douglas County Operations Manager Bill Brubaker also returned last week after helping with emergency communication systems in portions of the state. The two worked in several locations around southern Mississippi but were stationed much of the time in Biloxi.
The job was a challenge, Brubaker said. But being able to help people who finally got some reception on a cell phone after being "virtually forgotten for 10 days" was a remarkable experience, he said. Most people were just happy to talk with someone, he said.
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"It's going to take a long time for them to get back up to speed," Brubaker said. "But I want to go back so I can see the changes."
Smith mainly acted as a liaison between local, state and federal governments.
"One of the things we did was assess all the government buildings on what was lost and what needed to be replaced," she said. "We went through courthouses, city office buildings, schools, fire departments, police departments just to figure out what they needed to get back up and running."
She also worked with county leaders to find out what they wanted to do for temporary emergency housing, such as base camps and trailers.
Smith and Brubaker said living conditions were less than desirable, but as expected.
"We ran our operation for four days out of a parking lot of a baseball field at a school," Brubaker said. "We didn't have enough cots, so we had to sleep in shifts."
Smith said there was no running water when she first arrived. But even when it was running, she had to get used to cold showers and brushing her teeth with bottled water.
"While I was there, I could see things improving," she said. "But they were little things. This is just going to take time."
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Family wins stay of deportation
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Published Wednesday, January 16, 2013 2:11PM EST
A family in Park Extension has a won a stay of deportation and will be allowed to live in Canada, for now.
The Ghotra-Singh arrived in Canada more than 10 years ago and applied for refugee status, but they have always been denied.
Their dilemma began 12 years ago in India, when Reetu Ghotra married Shimbi Singh. However Ghotra's father disapproved of the union, prompting the couple to flee to Canada.
Their lawyer, Stewart Istvanffy, said Ghotra's father made multiple threats.
"He could have killed the guy. He was telling him, you keep away from my daughter, or you're going to die. He was a guy who was in the army, who has killed before, and it was very, very dangerous," said Istvanffy.
As the case made its way through legal channels both parents found jobs in Montreal and say they have never been on welfare.
Their two children were born here, both do well in school, and sound typically Canadian, loving everything except cold winters.
But last month Ghotra and Singh were told by Canadian officials they would soon be deported.
They packed their bags and got ready to leave, but won a last-minute reprieve because Immigration Officials decided the family should not be separated.
"These two kids, they're born here. They're nine and ten years old and they consider themselves to be Canadian," said Istvanffy.
"They have no real link with India or the idea of India at all."
Istvanffy hopes the family will eventually get refugee status on humanitarian grounds.
But what's most important to Ghotra is that she will be able to keep her family together.
"I'm doing everything for my children."
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Cody Eppley's first major-league victory could end up costing him when the Rangers return from the road trip. Eppley allowed a homer which tied the game and denied Derek Holland the victory. That's the same Holland who will be Eppley's landlord when the Rangers come back from their West Coast swing.
"I didn't want to snake a win from Holland," Eppley said. "We'll have to discuss some of the ground rules for his apartment. We'll have to figure it out."
Holland joked that he was going to take away the egg crate on Eppley's inflatable bed or up his rent.
While Eppley didn't want to deny Holland a victory, he's still proud of his first big-league win.
"To be able to accomplish something like this it was always a dream growing up to win a major league game," said Eppley, who allowed one run on one hit in his two innings. "To actually be able to accomplish it is awesome."
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BOSTON (AP) — Tyler Zeller banked in a shot from under the basket as time expired to give the Boston Celtics an 85-84 victory over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night.
Isaiah Thomas led Boston with 21 points, Jae Crowder had 18 and Avery Bradley added 13 points and seven rebounds to help the Celtics rebound from a 31-point loss in Cleveland on Tuesday night.
After Boston blew an eight-point lead in the final 2 1/2 minutes, Marcus Smart made a long inbounds pass to Zeller under the basket. He banked it off the backboard with 0.1 seconds showing on the clock. It went through the net as the buzzer sounded and was upheld after a review.
Gordon Hayward gave Utah the lead with 1.7 seconds left with a fallaway jumper from the right baseline. Derrick Favors and Trey Burke scored 16 points each for Utah, which had its three-game winning streak snapped. Rudy Gobert had 10 points and 16 rebounds, and Hayward scored 13 points.
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With Drupalcon Chicago coming up, would it make sense to plan on a Tsunami BOF? If we put a bit of thought into it beforehand, we can go into it with an actual agenda and resolve some questions rather than just engaging in unstructured conversation about the idea, too...
Answer is yes, this is the just the type of discussions that BoFs are perfect for. Being prepared is critical so the focus can be on making crucial decisions and delegating responsibilities rather than getting everyone up to speed. There was a good discussion about this approach with the recent HTML5 meetup. It may be good to ask how that worked for them.
Sadly I don't think I'll be making it out to Chicago so I'll have to try and publish ideas beforehand.
I won't be in Chicago, but
I'll see...
I'm in
Assuming the timing doesn't clash desperately, I'm in :)
Things I'd love to do at the BoF:
- persona review: introduce a draft person, explain why there is only one and why it's this one, gather feedback
- example scenarios of use: list of the kinds of groups we'd hope Tsunami will be perfect for.
- review key tasks / list of functionality - from these two lists we should be able to divine a MVP list of functions for us to review & discuss
Will be tough finding time to get this all prepared in time for Drupalcon
I can take a stab at the persona, we've made a start on the list of usage scenarios already that can be compiled. The more we can prepare in advance the more productive we can be at the BoF.
I expect there are a raft of technical discussions that need to be had too, right?
How long is a BoF?
leisa reichelt - disambiguity.com
In theory BOFs are an hour,
In theory BOFs are an hour, however this year there are six BoF rooms open 24 hours a day throughout the conference, so if we want a longer period of time I'm certain that we can find it. I haven't had the time to get into these discussions much yet, but I am actively interested and I think the work done so far is really impressive. Really looking forward to talking more in Chicago.
Created a post in the BOFs section...
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/forum/tsunami has a post, and i think Leisa's suggested hit list of tasks for the BOF sounds great. Persona review, Example use scenarios, and then a breakdown of the key tasks and functionality would be a huge accomplishment...
D7 backport
I wonder what a D7 backport of Tsunami would look like ?
I guess Acquia will come-out with a general purpose D7 distro (with cross-selling/upgrades to their other distro's, hosted products and services)
as well as persona's, another approach might be, what are the likely upgrade and migrate pathways a user will take ?
from Tsunami (Backport) to Managing News ? Open Atrium ? Commons etc etc etc
it reminds me a bit of studies in Morphogenisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphogenesis and Embryogenesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryogenesis
Tsunami as Stem Cell
ok, I digress....
A couple quick
A couple quick points...
Technically, there's nothing to prevent us from beginning to build Tsunami on D7 as an install profile today, and moving it forward once the D8 branch opens. That could be a promising path forward.
Moving from one install profile to another after the initial site setup is currently impossible in Drupal. Until that's supported in core, it's way beyond the scope of the Tsunami project...
Did a BOF get scheduled? I'd
Drupal nomenclature paper
I wrote a hastily formed blog on the heels of Framework v. Platform. http://www.herringconsulting.com/article/updating-drupal-nomenclature I'd welcome feedback on it.


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Boys 4A8 hoops: A long, long time coming
Hudson shocks top-seeded Springstead to earn its first-ever region playoff berth.
By Joey Knight
Published February 9, 2008
DADE CITY - In Hudson coach Jason Vetter's first four years on the job, his teams won 11 games and lost 91, equating to at least seven dozen times he felt like weeping at the final horn.
Vetter felt like it again Friday night. Only this time, he wanted to do it out of joy.
The Cobras' 48-44 upset of top-seeded Springstead (22-5) in the Class 4A, District 8 semifinals sent their locker room into a postgame frenzy and the program into regionals for the first time in the school's 35-year history.
Three weeks ago, the Cobras committed 28 turnovers in a 10-point loss to the Eagles.
"Wow, I don't even know what to say," said senior Tyler Hooten, who had a trio of 3-pointers. "I went in the locker room and wanted to cry."
Hudson (15-12) faces No. 2-seeded Pasco (19-7) in tonight's 7:30 final at Pasco. The Pirates rallied behind T.J. Bryant's seven fourth-quarter points for a 36-32 win over Nature Coast.
"These seniors who have been here all four years, they were 0-7 in middle school, 6-34 in two years on JV, but they have always worked hard. And I'm just so proud of them," said Vetter, who had no previous coaching experience upon taking over Hudson's program five years ago.
"They've been through a lot of beatings, a lot of getting made fun of, a lot of getting laughed at ...so I'm just happy for them to have this moment."
The beneficiary of a turnover-prone Eagles team playing without top scorer Dante Valentine (elbow), the Cobras employed a patient offense behind Jarrod Branco (16 points). The sleek guard penetrated consistently, finding Hooten (11 points) or Austin Gibbons (six) open on the perimeter, or Stephen Brom (seven) isolated underneath.
Branco slashed for an interior basket with 55 seconds left, giving Hudson a 43-40 lead. From there, he sank 5 of 6 free throws to seal things.
Pasco managed only two second-quarter field goals and had scored only 18 points before Tavaris Jordan's 3-pointer at the third-quarter horn cut the Pirates' deficit to 24-21.
The Pirates took their first lead of the second half, 25-24, when Sinclair Davis stole an inbound pass and whipped it underneath to Jordan for a layup. Bryant's basket gave Pasco a 30-28 lead, and Demetrious Larry made all six of his free throws in the last 1:55.


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Incumbent candidates face tough task
Updated 8:40 pm, Thursday, October 18, 2012
A definition for politics that I give my students at San Antonio College is very simplistic but also quite comprehensive. Politics is the pursuit of power in order to exercise power, and different countries use different methods in the pursuit.
In some countries, it is actualized through revolution. In our country, power is achieved through the electoral process. It is not a permanent fixture that belongs to any one political party or person. It is up for grabs every four years, and will accrue to the candidate who recognizes that he/she is in the pursuit and must demonstrate to the voters, through actions, that he or she really deserves the right to exercise power.
This can be an especially difficult task for an incumbent seeking four more years in the White House. After exercising immense power, he must revert back to the pursuit. A sitting president running for re-election is in a very precarious position because he must wear two hats and become two personalities. He is still president but is also, once again, a candidate.
In the past, many presidents have struggled to make that transition. This failure usually becomes apparent in the first debate in which the incumbent engages the challenger on a number of issues. Jimmy Carter failed in his first debate with Ronald Reagan. Reagan failed in his debate with Walter Mondale, both George H.W. and George W. Bush failed in their first debates with Bill Clinton and John Kerry, respectively.
President Barack Obama was caught in that same trap with Mitt Romney in their first encounter. He acted like Romney was supposed to respect him as the president and not just view him as a candidate. That was a major error on his part and he paid dearly for it. He allowed Romney back into the race.
Evidently, President Obama made the proper transition on Tuesday in his second debate, when he acted like a candidate. He was much more energized, alert, knowledgeable and displayed a passion for the people and for the office that reminded us of the old Obama of 2008.
The president definitely brought his "A" game that night. He gave Romney no room to dominate the floor through intimidation. He called the challenger on his many distortions of the president's record and was masterful on the one issue where Romney assumed he had an advantage. When the president stared at the challenger and scolded Romney for politicizing the killing of four Americans, including our ambassador to Libya, the victory was his. But to make sure there was no doubt as to who was the winner, he closed out a very impressive comeback when he reminded the viewers that Romney does not respect 47 percent of the American population.
It now appears that the final debate on foreign affairs should belong to Obama. If, for the next 18 days, the president remains cognizant of the fact that he is once again in the pursuit of power, then his chances for re-election are excellent.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A registered nurse has pleaded guilty to a bank robbery in the Memphis suburb of Corodova.
Sheri Ann Svgdik will be sentenced June 5. She is free on $10,000 bond.
Police say the 48-year-old nurse entered Renasant Bank last August and handed the teller a note that said she had a butcher knife and wanted $20,000, explaining that no one would be hurt if she gave her the money.
Authorities say the teller gave her the money before pressing a silent alarm. A customer followed her out of the bank and got a description of her car and tag number.
Police say when they stopped her later that day, she had the crumpled note in her hand and told officers she committed the crime.
The money was recovered.
Information from: The Commercial Appeal, http://www.commercialappeal.com
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During the year-end survey, RecordAccount.com discovered that some customers clicked away from the site before they got their results.
Denver, CO (PRWEB) December 20, 2013
RecordAccount.com is upgrading their servers and database to allow people to obtain faster search results in the new year, the company said yesterday.
"We recently completed a year-end customer service survey asking people how we could improve our service," a RecordAccount.com spokesman said. "What we found is that the number one request was for our search service to deliver results more quickly. So, we are taking action now to make sure that happens."
In order to make search results appear as fast as possible, RecordAccount.com is updating both their servers and their database, he said.
"In 2013, it took an average of five minutes for a customer to get the results of their search delivered to their desktop, laptop or mobile device," he said. "While we are still beta testing the upgraded servers, we believe that we should be able to get results to customers in an average of two to three minutes in 2014."
During the year-end survey, RecordAccount.com discovered that some customers clicked away from the site before they got their results, he said.
"Some customers thought that the system had frozen and was not going to provide them their report at all," he said. "By having less of a lag time in 2014, we hope to correct that misconception."
The servers and database should be out of beta by the first week in January, he said.
"As soon as we've made sure there are no hardware or software glitches, we'll be up and running," he said.
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Salesforce announced the launch of a new Salesforce Wear developer pack as it aims to bring enterprise services to wearable computing devices. The pack will help developers get companies connected to their customers through apps for wearables.
The company has already partnered with ARM, Fitbit, Pebble, Philips, Samsung, and others to get started. Its building support for Android Wear, ARM, Fitbit, Google Glass, Myo from Thalmic, Nymi from Bionym, OMsignal, Pebble, Philips, and Samsung Gear 2.
About 50 million wearable devices are expected to be sold this year, with that number predicted to be more like 180 million in 2018.
"Wearables are the next phase of the mobile revolution," said Daniel Debow, SVP, emerging technologies, salesforce.com. "With Salesforce Wear, companies can now capture the massive opportunity these devices offer to connect with customers in new ways."
The company is envisioning "connected 1:1 experiences," contextually aware sales apps, faster and safer service resolution, and of course, "endless possibilities".
"With a connected wearable, going to a favorite casino, resort or amusement park will mean never having to pull out your wallet, juggle a hotel card key or search for an app," the company says. "What if it was possible to anticipate needs and give VIP treatment to any visitor? With wearable devices like a wristband seamlessly connected to customer data, destinations can deliver customized journeys for every guest."
The developer pack is available to over 1.5 million Salesforce1 developers. It's included with all user licenses of Salesforce CRM and the Salesforce Platform.
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Attached is the MS Project Plan for implementing Oracle Applications with a framework. It contains the detailed tasks involved and lists the associated resources that may be needed.
The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) codes tie back in to the Oracle AIM documents that should be prepared for each task and phase.
Update 27-07-2014:
Project Plan in pdf format also uploaded based on number of requests from members.
Update 13-08-2015
You can find Project Plan based on new Oracle Unified Methodology
Oracle ERP Implementation Project Schedule based on OUM
If you want to know more about OUM vs AIM, refer this link, its a video tutorial.
Oracle Unified Method (OUM) vs Oracle AIM


text: Richard (rlconverse at delphi.com) wrote: > 1. I never have any trouble setting up a liquid lysis culture using the following method: pick one plaque from a freh plate into 10 mL of NZY in a 50 mL screwcap Fisher conical centrifuge tube, shake overnight @ 37 degrees, spin down & purify the lysate th e next morning. When I attempt to "scale up this procedure by picking more plaques into a larger volume of liquid culture, it invariably fails (I see no lysis, only bacterial growth--and these cells fail to lyse upon addition of chloroform!). > 2. I have attempted to set up liquid lysis cultures using a variety of protocolsand have never seen lysis on a maxi scale. Does anyone out there have a good method for isolation of DNA from lambda phage maxi-preps that consistently works? Richard-- And Vince Schoenfeld replied: >>I think you're underestimating the importance of phage/cells ratio. I found >>it was somehow more of a problem with maxi-cultures (the old toothpick >>technique >>seems to be fine with minis). >>Try and make sure you have about 10 to the eight pfu for a 500 ml >>prep at an OD >>which corresponds to approx twice the pfu. >>You'd have to determine what OD corresponds >>to what cell concentration. I know it all >>sounds a hastle but it only takes a day to determine >>the titre of plate lysate. Yes, this is a notorious problem with lytic lambda growths. The problem stems from the fact that the phage numbers are expanding faster than the bacterial numbers, but the bacteria become refractory to infection when they pass out of log phase. So if you put in too little phage, the bacteria become refractory before the phage overtake them and lysis is never observed. If you put in too much phage, they overtake the bacteria before there is enough turbidity to really see, so you don't notice the lysis. Some fraction of the bacterial are resistant to infection and so these continue to grow and eventually you see the culture grow turbid, but there's no appreciable phage titer or apparent lysis. Even if you get the ratio approximately right, it often happens that you clear about half the bacteria just as the culture is going refractory. At that point you have a high phage titer, but without a practiced eye you may not notice the lysis. What happens next is the phage expend themselves trying to infect the refractory bacteria and your titer drops. If you follow these growths with a spectrophotometer, you can see the transient drop in OD and harvest for a good yield; but if you just let it go overnight, you'll get a poor yield in the morning. To make it that much harder, your insert size influences the phage burst size which influences the rate the phage overtake the bacteria. So there is no magic ratio that works for all phage clones. The only thing that works uniformly for me is to start 4 cultures with moi spanning about a 10 x range around the supposed optimum ratio and then one of them usually lyses on schedule (about 6 hr) and gives a good yield. We usually take 4 x 10^8 pfu and 4 x 10^10 cells as our starting point for a 1 liter culture (assuming 1 OD600 = 8 x 10^8 cells). We also mix the phage and the cells in a small volume with Mg and incubate at 37 to get the first round of infection going. Note that the phage/bacteria ratio is not constant throughout the growth; so if you decide to start with a higher bacteria concentration to move things along, then you need an increased ratio of phage. I'd guess about 10x more phage for each doubling of bacteria. The biggest puzzle to me in all this is why the mini preps don't display all these complexities; but it's a long standing observation that mini preps are forgiving of initial conditions, and maxi preps are not. Someone mentioned plate lysate preps, which is an excellent alternative to the above. If your moi are way off, then it's sort of obvious from the appearance of the plates. Also, the phage don't diffuse around much, so once produced they don't go away. The only drawbacks are kind of minor: 1) It's logistically hard to go to very large scale. 2) You have to be more fastidious about cleaning up the prep., or else you'll get crud from the agar into your DNA an it'll inhibit your enzymes. Hope this helps. Steve Hardies, Assoc. Prof. of Biochem., Univ. of Texas HSC at San Antonio Hardies at uthscsa.edu


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Think you've got what it takes to be an online hustler in the world of billiards? Then you've got to try Hustle Kings, where you'll compete against other like-minded individuals for ultimate supremacy on the PSN. This one just hit the Network and although it may not be a high-profile title, it's definitely worth looking into. Good pool titles are always tons of fun and the online element will definitely add some new spice. This game is all about precision so if you've got the requisite patience and timing, and you've always enjoyed billiards in real life, Hustle Kings could be worth a try.
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text: During his last mission, Petry was to locate himself with the platoon headquarters in the target building once it was secured. There, he was to serve as the senior noncommissioned officer at the site for the remainder of the operation. But things quickly got dangerous for Petry and his team. Insurgents opened fire on Petry and his men. Petry had fellow Ranger Pvt. 1st Class Lucas Robinson at his side. The two were to clear the outer courtyard of the target building. It was there the two first saw the enemy. "I remember seeing the guy out of my peripheral vision," Petry said. "Two guys with AKs at their hip, just spraying. And one happened to strike me right in the thighs. I didn't know I was hit in both thighs, but it hit my left thigh." Robinson was also hit, Petry said. "He was struck right in his ribcage on his left side and he continued along and followed behind me." While wounded and under enemy fire, Petry led Robinson to the cover of a chicken coop in the courtyard. The enemy continued to deliver fire at the two Soldiers. Petry reported contact was made with the enemy, and as a result, team member Sgt. Daniel Higgins moved to the outer courtyard. As Higgins moved toward the chicken coop to meet with the two wounded Soldiers, Petry threw a thermobaric grenade toward the enemy. That explosion caused a lull in enemy fire. As Higgins evaluated the wounds of both Petry and Robinsion, an insurgent threw a grenade over the chicken coop. The grenade landed about 10 meters from the three Rangers, knocked them to the ground, and wounded Higgins and Robinson. With three Soldiers taking cover in the coop, an insurgent threw yet another grenade. This time, the grenade landed just a few feet from the three Soldiers -- much closer than the earlier grenade. "It was almost instinct -- off training," Petry said of his response to the situation. "It was probably going to kill all three of us. I had time to visually see the hand grenade. And I figure it's got about a four-and-half second fuse, depending on how long it has been in the elements and the weather and everything and how long the pin has been pulled. I figure if you have time to see it you have time to kick it, throw it, just get it out there." That's when Petry picked up the grenade and threw it away from him and his buddies. As it turns out, he did have the time to save all three of their lives -- but not time to save his hand. The grenade exploded as he threw it -- destroying his throwing arm. "I actually didn't think it was going to go off," Petry said. "I didn't really feel much pain. I didn't know it had gone off and taken my hand until I sat back up and saw it was completely amputated at the wrist."Thanks to a prosthetic hand and the unbridled desire to continue being a badass, Sgt. 1st Class Petry was able to re-enlist with the Rangers last year.


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xotl.ql 0.2.1dev
A pythonic query language, with similar goals as LINQ had for C#
Latest Version: 0.3.0rc1
This package provides an implementation of a query language for Python. The query language is based on Python's generator expression. A query in this language looks like this:
>>> from xotl.ql import these, parent >>> query = these(child ... for parent in this ... if parent.children & parent.age > 32 ... for child in parent.children ... if child.age < 6)
The resultant query is an object that "describes" at the syntactical level the query expression above.
Full documentation kept at Read the doc.
How to contribute
You may contribute as much as you like, and by any means you feel the project may be help. If is code what you may apport; just fork this project make changes and place a pull request.
What does xotl mean?
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tag:fubar.com,2010:BlogAtom-345760 2012-02-19T22:16:06-08:00 And in thought... or not. A fubar user blog. clidewithani http://fubar.com/6803575 email@example.com fubar tag:fubar.com,2010:BlogAtom-345760.1170629 2012-02-19T22:16:06-08:00 2012-02-19T22:16:06-08:00 New Poem.

A Trail Towards the Genuine.

It's a blessing, only cursed in motion.

To be resting, and never from the notion.

To be yearning, but never wanting of the pace.

To be learning, and always loving of the rest.

I've lived it before and I can only tell you this.

It's the journey of a lifetime, a moment of bliss.

To have it frozen is the greatest of journeys.

To keep it is the greatest of presents.

But I wish it upon you all, true love.

For in the darkest hours of night, there is light.

In the worst of shallows and the deepest ravines.

Against the rocks, in the whisper of the hallowed things.

To be warm in the cold, to be happy at night.

I wish this upon you, an eternal flight.

Oh, how I pray for your love.

How I pray you find it.

Never stop looking.
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Poetry blog. It's going to be on DeviantArt to see how much traffic I'll be getting from other artists. My Valentine's Day poem is a hit, in case you haven't seen it. Leave me a reply if you'd like.

Nocturne.

To bless and to bestow.

The writers and their woes.

I've seen so many things.

But yours is the worst.

I love the dark of night.

To write and without fright.

To enlist in pantomime.

But yours is still the worst, fuck!

I trail and writhe unabated.

I toil and think away.

To understand the day.

That everything went astray.

I fuddle with the notion.

That you're such a poor token;

Of love and pure devotion.

I don't understand these ways.

Yet I wish for you only this.

That you are blessed and through love, kissed.

I hope you get the best;

Of effervescent address.

I just wish it wasn't so damn bad.

Fuck.

No but seriously, hit me up, you're hot.

For my poison-nailed, arsonic filled darling.

Seriously though, I hope things go better for you.

It's been so bad as of late, I worry so incessantly every time I read your blog posts.

I hope this at least adds a little light to your day.

To your nocturne, and the hope it'll bring about light someday.

Fuck. I wish you could just hop on a plane and move over, sometimes.
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Visceral in motion, perplexing in slur. I don't think you understand what it is to be so flexable.

It's like a geared set of 5th-cycling prepositions flawlessly aimed towards a track record, not 1st place.

It's not just a motion, and I'll be damned if I actually have to clear a place besides the one I'm in.

If you're askin', it's not a gentility phrase. I'm condemned in a fluctuation of peace and lies.

Unfortunately, I only deal truths and I love to blow-up scenes. It's why I think you're narrow.

Go for the finish, will you? We're bored, over here. That's my problem.

The bored or the harrowed. That's what they say. I choose harrowing billards over the bored, any day.

The problem is the week, or maybe the month. Hell, let's just claim the whole year and chalk it up to a misdemeanour.

If only you'd've listened to how well I danced with you. Some people do.

One did, and I fell in love with her hug. Her 'hug'. It's hardly fair.

Oh well, I guess. If I had one final wish, I would only ask this, Gun-Tommy.

"I, guilty, stand before you. I know I've missed behaved. I never ment to hurt you.

I humbly beg forgiveness. Hope that my soul be saved.

And if I had a final wish, little miss, I would only ask this.

I WANT YOU TO KILL ME WITH A TOMMY GUN, BABY,

with a Tommy Gun, baby, with a tommy gun baby, do me.

GUN-TOMMY!

If you have to kill me, use a Tommy Gun, baby, use a tommy gun, baby,

use a tommy gun, baby, do me.

GUN-TOMMY!"
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I saw Red Tails tonight!

I was awe-inspired by the splendid luck we had with the Jet plane.

Did you know:

14 of the Mark 2 Jet Fighter made by Volkswagon were made, but only 5 got into the air, and 4 were deemed operational?

The Mark 2 Jet Fighter was the fastest thing in the war, but the least deployed?

The Mark 2 Jet Fighter had the most kills out of any attack force with minimal problems but still was defeated?

Why didn't we lose again? Oh yeah, America was teh beeznees back in the day. Oh, how I miss you, America of olde. Back in the day when we didn't make fun of the British for a language we basically hijacked and mugged.

AMEEERRRIICCA of GRACIOUS--OH SHIT, JETPLANE.

Go Tuskegee!

Why is derelection the greater part of valour? Because you need to get past Mach 3.

Valour, in essence, is a flatspin gone awry. I believe this in turmoil and in great prejudice. Spin and throw-up a little, at least the guy next door says he's seen better days. An eternal want, a need, a vicious vivacious dash towards a glimpse, and you'll have surpassed many of the to-date being-wells that of which encompass our nation. This is what I don't understand and crave, the knowledge of whysdom.

Oh why, oh why. We were so far. And yet we have come towards, and once again about, a recession of ideals and ideologies that predate midschool and are about it at the same time. Let's not circulate Junior High but instead love and procede to endure beyond our indifferences and beauties, because some of them mark us and others generate wealth forward that of which is beyond undeniable.

That's what I hate. The fact that it's so easy to overlook. I won't, for the life of me. But I love sex, and that's where I feel I can be pried and preyed upon, for my esteem and ability. I won't take it, but that's the trick. Oh well, I guess. It's assumed, I assume. To be yet or until therefore perckencise. Predelection in precision in a glimpse of seduction. Like a fine wine of derelection with copiousness. I dig it.
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It's a stringent accord, the beseechement of the fallen.

It's a blessed visage, the mixolidian harmonics.

Marksolicks, vistocrage. Mistrogenerics.

Moxipotent and vilimarious.

Cruel and diligent in vasperidiousness designation.

---Vistage: Command Line?: Arrogance---

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All Marks Obtained: Final Fight- Sol. Young. Mixolidian scale obtained. Marks obtained. All obstained. Markixismc;lkjlkmcea;kljsd

System offline.

--Command proxy server offline--

Finiteness finished. SHould've fucking bet for finiteness. Didn't know he was so good.

Or that I was. Whatever, he told me I was. Ugh, I love that man.

And he still is, I am not.

Ode to you.

<3

End command line.

Did you just ugh.

We.. Yeah.

Go gogogogogogogogogogogogojajajajajajHahaha. Yeah, no, they're real. Hold on. There. Hold still.

Moxitrim

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Yup.
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It's a fucking wonder.

The estrogenic beseechment of the bemusing astrogens.

I lied when I said you weren't palpable.

Do you stretch to such bonds as bwilderment?

Frigsmede and palimar.

Studiousness and belixtiousness.

It's a doubt and a wonder.

Is the frogsmede gandering?

Is the gallaspidonian palimatrix frailstede?

Puckerishing.

A fucking wonder. That's what you should call it.

Let's give it space, then.

To what do I owe the honor?

Pardon? An honor is a basis.

Oh my, obligatory?

Hu?

Do you like it?

I fancy any aptitude amongst pleasure for the sake of pleasure, that's right.

Why?

I have no sanctity beyond the love of others.

You're a robot then.

It's children?

Yeah.

You're a robot still.

Oh, excuse me. Do you bleed?

Black, now.

Why?

Besunk.

---Initiative Line: Action: Bestow Combat Variabalistics---

HAHA, caught you.

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Overages.

Yeah, let it breathe.

--------End: Initiative Line: Combat Variabalistics------000

I've seen it, I'll tell them.

The evervesence. Beyond that, it's a growth.

You wouldn't believe me if I told you.

Nobody stretches far enough or close enough to concieve of the deviousness of that statement.

Let me tell you one thing.

What if they sucked souls too?

What if they didn't tarnish?

What if you were reminded?

Yeah, now you might understand why it's me instead of you.

Well then.

Yeah. I'm a gennius writer. I'm partialized beyond most of the world.

The rest hide. Don't beseech or dismean me. I could've been the best, and it would've been my pleasure.

That's why it's evil. Yeah. :/
 clidewithani http://fubar.com/6803575 firstname.lastname@example.com tag:fubar.com,2010:BlogAtom-345760.1168887 2012-01-23T10:49:02-08:00 2012-01-23T10:49:02-08:00 And in blessed bemusement.
I was starch once.

Molded, aptitudious, but still bewildered. Starch.

Moxicombed, meddled, metitosized.

Yes, it's punny.

Obviously.

Oh crap.

And then we bemuse and bewilder. Ontitosent.

It's a line, divine. Omnitosent. Beville.

To stop or ... wait.

Oh yeah.

They say and they don't, or what.

And.

Yeah.

Well that was sensicle.

Whimsicle.

Popsicle.

Lunch!

No, I am not dietting.

It's not a haiku either. Jesus.

A flair a toast.

An omniroast.

A popsifreeze.

To better please.

To antiwrite.

To behold unsmited.

It's perturbed.

Bewildermerved.

In preparation.

Behisteration.

Literality.

Mistermeanor.

Blistremenous.

Ness.

Eeeee...

Proverbialitism!

Egalitarianism!

Coin! Flip Undo!

Copy, paste! Shit!

Can I... NOOOO!!!

Mostmoximer.

Ooohhh... Polimoxy.

Yeah, haha.

DAMNIT!

They said not to get mad.

Rape! D:

Oh, chhh-tsss.

Erh-eh-erheh.

Hi Alex. IT'S HIS BLOG POST.

YEAH, DON'T WRITE IN BLOG POSTS. IT'S UNWARRENTED.

YELLING. HI.

Capslocks, sorry.

Megaphone down.

Don't turn your system off, it's for your own protection.

Coma.

im.

Dubstep.

That's for Chuch.

Steeple.

Bastok market.

Yemi golfried.

Bestellian malotosis.

Mis tep.

Barberella.

Mis nom. Uh.

Bczerus.

It's a little...

Haha.

Mlisterix.
 clidewithani http://fubar.com/6803575 email@example.com tag:fubar.com,2010:BlogAtom-345760.1167663 2012-01-06T13:53:53-08:00 2012-01-06T13:53:53-08:00 It reaps, it soaks.
As of today, I have found myself enshrouded, enraptured, and in part, unrecievable by sex.

I count myself lucky in a fortitude of manners, but besides this fact.

It creeps, it crawls. It beats, it sprawls, it is, it is, it is.

Upon the breath of which I speak, I do narily say this.

Bless it once to bless you back. Bless it twice, you're through.

Bless it thrice and upon which token, it will spill you through.

It can maim, it can eat, it can blurb and dash and cry.

It can save your better moments, to only watch them die.

I seek to light, I seek to darkness, both of which it claims its' home.

Sex, sex, sex, I need it, I beseech the seedlings that hold my throne.

I hate it. It's driving me mad. I need sex, I need to pay for it immediately. This will be my next venture, if any. I just can't believe I have to pay for this shit. It's horrible. Oh well, I guess. If anyone wants sex, send me a message. I'm going crazy, trying to keep from thinking about it. It's like it's all around me right now. Yuck.

Anyway, this is just an example of my poetry. I'll probably have more later. Peace, ladies and gents. Give me some subjects in the comments section and I'll write about them. I need to write way more.
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The Oregonian
Thursday, February 10, 2000
By Bryan Denson of The Oregonian staff
Environmental saboteurs are vandalizing experimental crops across North
America in a mounting revolt against high-tech agriculture.
The saboteurs have struck at least 20 times since July, mostly against
genetically engineered fruit and vegetable plots on the West Coast. No one
has been arrested. They have set back research by universities and high-tech
agriculture companies from coastal California to mid-state Maine.
Mysteriously, the vandals have skipped Oregon, where hundreds of genetic
researchers are at work, and serious eco-terrorist strikes have escalated in
recent years.
Researchers worry that crop sabotage -- and the growing international
campaign against genetically modified organisms -- could derail their
experimentation, setting back world food production and increasing the cost
of groceries. But critics say modifying the genes of plants and trees
threatens the planet, potentially creating pesticide-resistant bugs and
contaminating crops. They argue that world hunger can be solved with better
food distribution.
Until recently, the sabotage against experimental agriculture in North
America looked more like college pranks than serious crimes. Using such noms
de plume as the Seeds of Resistance, vandals had slipped onto research plots
to smash watermelons, flatten cornstalks, hack down walnut trees and uproot
potatoes, sugar beets and strawberry plants.
But on New Year's Eve, an FBI-recognized eco-terrorist group entered the
The underground Earth Liberation Front, with strong ties to Oregon, set fire
to offices in the Agriculture Hall at Michigan State University, a landmark
on the East Lansing campus. In an anonymous note to its spokesman, Portland's
Craig Rosebraugh, the ELF called genetic engineering "one of the many threats
to the natural world as we know it."
The MSU fire was the first violent crime attributed to genetic engineering
foes in North America.
"When I found out that the Earth Liberation Front burned down that office, I
was tremendously excited," said Dylan King, a 25-year-old San Francisco
activist who publicizes the anti-genetic engineering strikes. "You know that
when there's one action, it tends to domino."
The $400,000 Michigan blaze followed seven others set by ELF since late 1996
in Oregon, Washington and Colorado. Those earlier arsons, according to ELF's
anonymous communiqus, were to denounce logging, destruction of wilderness
habitat and slaughter of wild animals.
The ELF strike at MSU put agricultural scientists on guard across the
continent and spotlighted their technology. On Jan. 29, delegates from 130
nations signed an agreement in Montreal that requires nations to label export
food or seeds that might include genetically modified organisms.
With foes of genetically modified foods gaining ground, some West Coast
researchers are readying for this year's growing season by purchasing motion
sensors and other security devices.
Much would be lost if saboteurs hit the work of Oregon genetic researchers at
the same pace of their counterparts in California, Washington and British
Columbia. Oregon State University researchers are studying genetically
modified tomatoes, potatoes, barley, oats, tobacco and other crops.
"I think it's just a matter of time before Oregon is hit," said David
Barbarash, a spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, an underground group
with ties to ELF.
WTO protests spotlight issue
Many Americans hadn't heard about genetically engineered crops until late
last year in Seattle, where biotech foes joined riotous protests of World
Trade Organization meetings. Aside from TV images of tear gas and broken
windows, they saw people wearing cardboard butterfly wings -- a protest
against transgenic corn that kills some insects.
The debate about genetically modified foods has grown so rancorous among
farmers, environmentalists, scientists and agri-tech companies that it has
influenced international trade. Some viewed the recent Montreal accord as a
victory for nature. The pact lets nations refuse to import genetically
modified organisms they deem harmful, whether or not science supports their
The backlash against genetically engineered foods went global several years
ago in England, Korea, India, New Zealand and other nations. In England
alone, activists have pulled up at least 110 crops since 1998, many in
daylight acts of civil disobedience, said Brian Tokar, a Vermont author and
Some observers have concluded that recent strikes against experimental plots
in the United States and Canada are merely copycat actions. But vandalism
against genetically modified crops actually began in the United States at
least 12 years ago.
On April 24, 1987, a biotech company prepared to spray a strawberry patch in
Brentwood, Calif., with genetically engineered bacteria. The microorganisms,
trade-named Frostban, were expected to reduce frost formation to extend the
growing season.
The spraying was billed as the world's first federally approved outdoor test
of a genetically engineered microorganism. Environmentalists worried the
microorganisms might escape the test site and harm nature.
On the morning of the field trial, the spray crew found most of the
strawberry plants uprooted, the work of a group calling itself the Strawberry
Liberation Front. The following month, vandals uprooted about 3,000 potato
plants that were part of a Frostban field trial in Tulelake, Calif.
Vandalism escalates
Radical environmentalists turned to other issues in the late 1980s,
preoccupied with campaigns to save wild lands from logging, mining and
Then in October 1996, Greenpeace drew national attention to genetically
modified crops. The activist group sprayed an enormous pink, nontoxic "X" on
an Iowa field planted with genetically engineered soybeans.
On Nov. 23, 1998, the University of California at Berkeley announced it had
signed a five-year, $25 million research partnership with Novartis
Agricultural Discovery Institute Inc. The Swiss pharmaceutical company would
support research by the school's department of plant and microbial biology in
exchange for first rights to negotiate for a fraction of the school's
Three days later, a group calling itself the California Croppers played
football in the school's genetically engineered corn, knocking down stalks as
a tongue-in-cheek welcome to Novartis.
"The security of the world's food supply is at stake," the Croppers wrote in
a claim of responsibility. "Giant corporations have set mad scientists loose
upon the world, and as responsible citizens and farmers, we have no choice
but to stop them."
The vandalism began anew last July. The Croppers and Reclaim the Seeds struck
cornfields studied by University of California researchers. Then a group
called Seeds of Resistance damaged a half-acre plot of experimental corn in
Maine, and vandals cut down a small patch of insect-resistant corn in
Vermont, leaving a calling card: three colorful cutouts of butterflies. In
early September, the Bolt Weevils struck two seed companies in Minnesota.
Activists cheered the strikes but were dismayed when news accounts ignored or
criticized them. On Sept. 12, some California environmentalists launched
GenetiX Alert to promote the crimes. The project, partly financed by a
Canadian anarchist group, encouraged vandals to write in so their accounts
could be posted on the Internet.
Within weeks, Reclaim the Seeds struck five times at University of California
research sites.
Some attacks off-target
As WTO delegates from more than 135 nations prepared to meet in Seattle on
Nov. 30 to set the agenda for future talks, biotech vandals struck twice in
British Columbia, damaging 4,500 experimental evergreens they said would
create "Frankenforests."
The strikes wiped out six to 15 years of scientific research, a $600,000
loss, and the trees weren't even genetically engineered, officials said.
"The research was to reduce the need for clear-cuts and improve
reforestation," said David Goold, affiliated with Silvagen Inc., one of the
Three days before the WTO opening, the Washington Tree Improvement
Association struck experimental tree research sites at the University of
Washington in Seattle and Washington State University's facility in Puyallup.
The vandals smashed 180 plant pots at the WSU site -- ordinary raspberry
plants -- and hacked up 200 poplars and alders at UW in a failed attempt to
disrupt research.
The miscues weren't unusual. One in three of the 23 strikes against genetic
engineering enterprises since 1987 missed the mark, The Oregonian found.
But the actual target hardly matters, said J. Scott Cameron, assistant dean
of WSU's agricultural school. Although some praise the saboteurs as modern
Robin Hoods, destroying corporate crops to save the planet, Cameron sees a
more sinister motive: abandonment of technology and its conveniences.
"They are speaking out against an entire lifestyle that we've adopted
allowing other people to grow and sell us food," said Cameron. "If people are
going to choose between subsistence agriculture and iceberg lettuce and
chardonnay, I think they're going to go for the iceberg lettuce and
chardonnay most of the time."


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IT&E Plans E-Week Activities for Area Students
Posted: February 13, 2002 at 1:00 am, Last Updated: November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am
By Robin Herron
The School of Information Technology and Engineering (IT&E), along with other engineering schools across the country, will send its students and faculty into area classrooms during National Engineers Week (E-Week), Feb. 17-23. Students and faculty members will conduct hands-on activities for students and share their experiences with elementary and secondary school students. IT&E also mailed approximately 150 packets of E-Week related information to high schools in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
The outreach effort is part the "Discover E" campaign, sponsored nationwide by the engineering profession. Some 40,000 engineers throughout the U.S. will reach more than five million students and teachers. Their goal is to help bring practical applications of math, science, and technology to the classroom and to increase student interest in those subjects. Learn more about E-Week by visiting www.eweek.org.
George Mason has 2,000 undergraduate students and 2,000 graduate students enrolled in IT&E degree programs. For more information, call x31511; e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com; or visit the IT&E web site.


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MY SISTER THE FREAK is a sci-fi action adventure about two sisters dealing with life, family, and alien invaders. It ran as an ongoing webcomic from 2010 to 2014, resulting in two books. It won the 2013 Kids Comics Revolution Award for Favorite Webcomic and was featured on the popular website io9.
Read the whole archive below! You can also buy PDFs in my store, or print copies via Indyplanet.
You can read more of my comics here.
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Chapter 3
Chapter 4
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This is the rescheduled event which was originally planned for February 26.
Jointly sponsored by Polytechnic Institute of NYU and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of NYU
Professor Yau will discuss recent work by his research team on applying ideas and techniques from modern geometry to computer graphics, vision, geometric modeling, networking and medical imaging.
Professor Yau is considered one of the world's most accomplished mathematicians. He is best known for his solution to the Calabi conjecture, which plays a crucial role in the foundations of string theory in physics, and, in joint work with Richard Schoen of Stanford, the solution to the positive mass conjecture in Einstein's theory of general relativity. He has many prestigious awards, including the Fields Medal, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Crafoord Prize, the National Medal of Science, and the Wolf Prize.
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. in front of JAB 474
Lecture will begin at 4:00 p.m. in JAB 474


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