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Construction has begun on a zero-energy building in Portland, Oregon, that will include 18 apartments and ground-floor retail space for offices, a restaurant or shops. Called Eco Flats, it is scheduled to be completed in March 2011. Solar panels will generate some energy on site, and there is no common entrance or central hallway, which cuts heating and cooling costs, and reduces materials used. "It's really a low-energy model," developer Jean-Pierre Veillet says. "We're trying to take basic technology and make a low-energy-consuming building." "The whole Williams corridor is incredible. It's the right demographic. It's one of the biggest bike-commuting (areas of Portland). The fact that they're riding their bikes to work makes me think they want to live in a low-energy environment. And it's still relatively affordable …." In fact, EcoFlats has no on-site vehicle parking except for bicycles.
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EcoFLATS, Net-Zero Apartment Living for Everyman
There is no lack of imagination in the sustainable development community in Portland, Oregon, but when Doug Shapiro and Jean-Pierre Veillet teamed up, a new type of 'everyman housing' was the result. In about a year the partners expect to have built a commercial mixed use development that includes a net-zero apartment building they can market to those who desire to reduce their personal carbon footprint.
Net-zero is used to describe the result in which a building's energy use is equal to the amount that is produced on site from renewable resources like solar or wind. Because the technology exists to create this perfect balance, many governments are aggressively making plans to impose net zero requirements within a generation. Investors are following this trend and, based on projects like this one, many will decide to invest in buildings with net-zero energy technology. And that is exactly the point. The ecoFLATS partners insist a driving force behind their motivation to build this development has always been the concept that it would provide both educational benefits and a prototype that would support similar projects.
If ecoFLATS becomes a solid comparable that will satisfy lenders, that is another large bonus for the community. Historically, when innovation in design meets the commercial lending world, it can get ugly. A lack of comparable properties to hand off to the lender's appraiser can regrettably cripple a cutting-edge building design. The U.S. Green Building Council and its affiliates are vigorously attempting to address this problem through education and certification, but cracking the appraisal barrier will take more than a rigorous effort. Reforms in the financial system are needed to establish credible standards to address value in sustainable design and require everyone – lenders, appraisers, engineers, designers, builders – to come to the table. In the interim, until these types of projects demonstrate they perform, the public demands these features or government takes the lead and requires achievable energy performance standards, building pioneers will continue to contend with the lending industry's knuckle-dragging.
So what in its design makes ecoFLATS so unique? On the surface the development seems to be a standard mixed-use project combining residential units on 3 upper levels with retail, commercial and a restaurant proposed for the ground floor. The 18 residential apartments are a mix of one and two-bedroom designs with a third of the units fully-ADA compliant. The building is neither in the luxury class nor in the government-subsidized affordable housing category, but anyone who has been to North Williams Avenue recently will tell you what it does have. The 'coolness' factor is written all over that neighborhood like an emerging field of daffodils in late February.
The proposed apartments range between 600 and 750 sq. ft. and utilize natural lighting and cross-ventilation to great advantage. The oh-my-gosh factor is that the complex has no vehicle parking but substitutes bike parking with the appropriate bicycle racks, storage and safety features. As this property sits on the Williams/Vancouver corridor, it has frequent bus service and is already a favored bicycle-commuter route. The residential units will also be completely off the general energy grid with the exception of what the building department may require for signing off on permits. To meet stated energy management goals, the self-supporting building will also depend upon and utilize the 'pride of tenancy' engagement the partners expect to generate. My inside thought was, wow, you are giving us an awful lot of credit, but as I love a passionate optimist as much as the next person, I asked the partners how they intended to organize this tenant cooperation.
Veillet: Our ability to afford what we have designed is still in question. The way our concept works is to think of the tenant population as a community. We feel if we place a monitor in the main entrance and circulation space that displays 'energy consumed versus energy created', we can establish goals the community will work together to achieve. We expect a reward for the tenants may be a drink in the Bar up the street or? We feel giving people a little more incentive to think about shutting off the lights or being more thoughtful with energy consumption will go a long way. We have been assured by Imagine Energy (IE) that this is very achievable with technologies they have already implemented.
Shapiro: Part of Net Zero is to maintain constant monitoring initiatives and justify any assumptions. It will remain critical that the tenants engage and participate for the building to meet its objectives, but we envision we'll attract the kind of tenants who will want to do this. These units are designed to be modest and efficient, to capture the attention of bike commuters, university students and transit users who desire a 'live small' lifestyle.
Veillet: The idea here is to create the next 100 year model for market rate apartments. Energy consumption in buildings needs to be addressed now, and the technology is here. We have to do this because we know that buildings consume more energy then anything else we come in contact with. We know it is in people to try and make a difference - they feverishly recycle their paper scraps – and knowing this we need to move those efforts into areas that have a greater impact. Our technologies for this building are not so high tech and can be constructed with standard construction procedures at standard construction costs. This is why it is a model for the next 100 years, because it is achievable by many, not just a few. That is the success of the design in its totality. It is balanced for the result we feel the environment and the people need.
Their promotional material describes the project as, "Striving for a Net Zero operation, ecoFLATS embodies the ethics of beauty, sustainability and contemporary design. The project is working with Energy Trust of Oregon on a high-performance design in pursuit of a Net Zero Standard." Self-generation of energy will be accomplished through the use of a roof top trellis containing a 3000 sq.ft. elevated solar panel installation which would provide energy and hot water for the building tenants. (ecoFLATS has been accepted into the Net Zero Pilot program and will be eligible to pursue a LEED rating, considered a green building coup.)
Whenever architects and builders design something that significantly changes the way we look at inner-city development and talk about the life cycle benefits improving net operating income (NOI), we should pay attention. The multiple synergies in the ecoFLATS design combine the use of volume and light to create desirable and inviting living spaces without excessive energy usage. Some of the construction and maintenance cost benefit will be realized through elimination of internal corridors - apartments are accessible from an exterior loggia – - and cross ventilation that replaces the need for air conditioning. Eliminating some of these features made it economically feasible to widen the units and provide 9′ ceilings, increasing their livability and appeal. Although an elevator will be installed, the design includes troughs on the sides of the stairways which allow bicycles to be easily 'rolled' up and down. That calming visual brought me back to my youth, my over-sized silver bike and that walk-up I lived in for six years. As the concern for those who cannot maneuver stairs has been addressed , we can rejoice in the assumption that the bicycle community – which embraces healthier living and better phyical fitness – will probably enjoy those stairs.
Both partners have developed sparkling individual resumes as driven sustainability activists. In addition to the ecoFLATS joint venture, Shapiro is the Managing VP of Construction with Hoyt Street Properties and also in pursuit of the first USGBC LEED Platinum neighborhood designation in the Pearl District in Portland, Oregon. Jean-Pierre Veillet is the driving force behind Siteworks, a design-build firm locally renowned for combining good design, quality craftsmanship and aesthetically pleasing sustainability features, all incorporated within very sound construction. His company will be the builder, giving the partners complete control over the building envelope. Although it is now rolling along, this first joint venture has required their complete devotion.
Estee Segal, (Portland Development Commission's Senior Project Manager) described by the partners as one of many key supporters, gave us her perspective along with a link to the PDC's loan program parameters.
Segal: The property on Williams was an under-utilized, blighted and contaminated site, but right on a commuter's corridor. The projects' anticipated rents were market for the neighborhood or even a little below. The building design had four stories, which used the site well, and the plans included bicycle, but not vehicle parking, which met our sustainability goals of reducing CO2 and vehicle usage. There was also a Phase II planned which we liked. The sustainability elements were all in there; it met our criteria and more.
I asked her if she had been concerned that ecoFLATS might be too cutting edge.
Segal: Actually, the project fits the neighborhood and can successfully build on The Hub, another exciting commercial venture developed by John Kellogg. United Bicycle Institute has moved there – they teach about bike building - and then there's the Queen Bee that makes products out of recycled materials and with all the other businesses, this is just a good mix. We think the area may be poised as the next Portland neighborhood to go through its own Renaissance, but it already has a unique identity linked to bicycling.
But in fact in spite of the support of the Portland Development Commission, the Energy Trust of Oregon, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Mayor Sam Adams and most importantly, the Williams Avenue neighborhood, the partners' timing could not have been worse. In March of 2009 Shapiro and Veillet gathered their passion, their designs and their financials and began to make the rounds for financing. Shapiro described the ten months they spent working on this as a 'rollercoaster ride', and Veillet agreed.
Editor: So you two approached this unique design project when even conventional financing was impossible to get. I would imagine you had to stick your necks out pretty far personally to get halfway there.
Shapiro and Veillet admitted they had been ready to stick their necks out but were surprised with how far out they would eventually go.
Veillet: Yes, our necks are out there, but people have risked a lot more for a lot less. For instance, all the people risking their lives over in Iraq and Afghanistan… all we have are material things on the line. And we are fortunate that our families have given us their complete support. They believe in this project and in us and we are working hard to ensure ecoFLATS gets built.
"This project seemed to have nine lives," Shapiro added. "It would die and then it would be resurrected and we'd start up all over again."
The financial markets for most of 2009 were in shambles and until late in the year, no commercial lender was willing to take on a mixed-use development so futuristic and daring it lacked commercial vehicle parking or common amenities like air conditioning. Imagining that tenants would be pro-active in reducing and monitoring energy usage was also a concept so alien, the future sustainability aspects were given no value by appraisers. Eventually the developer concessions included adding an elevator to serve the upper floors - this satisfied the ADA requirements – and accommodations to lower the number of apartments to 18 from the original 21 to accommodate changes in design. The final element of financing was completed on December 23, 2009. Now the partners are busy preparing the site for development and attempting to recycle and salvage whatever is possible from the demolition of the previous structure.
Certainly these partners have invested a year of their time to bring something unique to Portland, but I wanted to know one thing.
Editor: Why didn't you give up when the going got rough? Why did you want to do it?
Shapiro: We both felt passionately that we wanted to demonstrate that sustainable building could be constructed for about the same price as conventional construction. During the Cascadia Conference what I talked about was that promoting sustainability is about education. How else do we connect the dots without it?
Veillet: Our experience in this industry allows us the opportunity to create that educational opportunity and remain innovative. Developing these projects right now is more about creating models and prototypes that all end up part of the educational process that can be utilized by all developers with an interest to do the right thing. If these building practices are not being completely honed by us, the already convoluted process of development will remain too complicated to add green.
Shapiro: Our main hurdle was that our innovative sustainable design was not valued, and the only comparables the appraisers came up with were built in 1928. There just was nothing like this already standing, which was the point. Obviously it was possible to find a building that might have met the square footage criteria or the natural ventilation aspects, but these were not in any way comparable to what we were doing. Ultimately we made some adjustments on the small things, but we didn't alter our main design. Once this development is completed, it will be easier for the next comparable project.
Editor: Other than the financing aspect, what kind of neighborhood resistance did you encounter?
Shapiro: When we designed the project we wanted to ensure that it would socially interact well with the existing neighborhood. Other projects had upset people in the community and many of them were gun shy about us at first. Our project had a lot of benefits like not being built to the full height allowed, so it won't be an eyesore to the current residents and should fit in better. We tried to look at the commercial needs too. We talked to non-profits in the area and we asked what people needed and wanted.
Veillet: We felt that adding a restaurant was positive and an urban farm would be educational. Kids in the neighborhood will be included in something special in their neighborhood. An innovative place to work, witness and be aware of. We wanted to have something that would engage them and include rather than take advantage of and impose. Most of the neighborhood saw development as the 'death star' coming in and taking over. We didn't want to do that. We are with Yoda and Skywalker on this one.
When I think about people ahead of their time, names like Madame Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, and Martin Luther King and Steve Jobs come to mind, but in the Portland sustainability movement, Doug Shapiro and Jean-Pierre Veillet's ecoFLATS project may help them earn a similar moniker locally. At the very least, they are passionate visionaries who, if we listen, will eagerly teach the rest of us how to achieve our own net-zero standard.
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Precedents in Zero Energy Design
Works Partnership Architecture (Portland, Oregon, USA)
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The Chicago Tribune reports that Jennings' contract contained a clause that bumped his 2013 salary up by $1 million if he met certain incentives in 2012. Jennings achieved those benchmarks and now his 2013 salary is $4.25 million. The contract Jennings signed also included some de-escalators that could have reduced his base salary for 2013 by as much as $1.6 million.
In other words, Jennings agreed to a two-year deal that would pay him a lot in the second year if he played well in the first, and wouldn't pay him much in the second year if he didn't play well in the first.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government on Friday accused Wall Street's most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. sold mortgage investments without telling the buyers that the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail.
And fail they did. The securities cost investors close to $1 billion while helping Goldman client Paulson & Co. capitalize on the housing bust. The Goldman executive accused of shepherding the deal allegedly boasted about the "exotic trades" he created "without necessarily understanding all of the implications of those monstrosities!!!"
The civil charges filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission are the government's most significant legal action related to the mortgage meltdown that ignited the financial crisis and helped plunge the country into recession.
The news sent Goldman Sachs shares and the stock market reeling as the SEC said other financial deals related to the meltdown continue to be investigated. It was a blow to the reputation of a financial giant that had emerged relatively unscathed from the economic crisis.
Goldman Sachs denied the allegations. In a statement, it called the SEC's charges "completely unfounded in law and fact" and said it will contest them.
The SEC said Paulson paid Goldman roughly $15 million in 2007 to devise an investment tied to mortgage-related securities that the hedge fund viewed as likely to decline in value. Separately, Paulson took out a form of insurance that allowed it to make a huge profit when those securities' value plunged.
The fraud allegations focus on how Goldman sold the securities.
Goldman told investors that a third party, ACA Management LLC, had selected the pools of subprime mortgages it used to create the securities. The securities are known as synthetic collateralized debt obligations.
The SEC alleges that Goldman misled investors by failing to disclose that Paulson & Co. also played a role in selecting the mortgage pools and stood to profit from their decline in value.
"Goldman wrongly permitted a client that was betting against the mortgage market to heavily influence which mortgage securities to include in an investment portfolio, while telling other investors that the securities were selected by an independent, objective third party," SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami said in a statement.
But Goldman said in a statement that it never mischaracterized Paulson's strategy in the transaction. It added that it wasn't obliged to "disclose the identities of a buyer to a seller and vice versa."
The charges name Goldman and one executive, Fabrice Tourre, who was a vice president in his late 20s when the alleged fraud was orchestrated in 2007. Tourre, the SEC said, boasted to a friend that he was able to put such deals together as the mortgage market was unraveling in early 2007.
In an e-mail to the friend, he described himself as "the fabulous Fab standing in the middle of all these complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades he created without necessarily understanding all of the implications of those monstrosities!!!"
Tourre, 31, has since been promoted to executive director of Goldman Sachs International in London. A call to a lawyer for Tourre, Pamela Chepiga at Allen & Overy LLP, wasn't returned.
Two European banks that bought the securities lost nearly $1 billion, the SEC said. The agency is seeking restitution and unspecified fines from Goldman Sachs and Tourre.
Asked why the SEC did not also pursue a case against Paulson, Khuzami said: "It was Goldman that made the representations to investors. Paulson did not."
Paulson & Co. is run by John Paulson, who reaped billions by betting against subprime mortgage securities. He is not related to former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, a former Goldman CEO.
John Paulson was among the first on Wall Street to bet heavily against subprime mortgages. His firm earned more than $15 billion in 2007, and he pocketed $3.7 billion. He has since earned billions more, largely by betting against bank stocks and then buying them back after their shares plunged.
In a statement, Paulson & Co. said: "As the SEC said at its press conference, Paulson is not the subject of this complaint, made no misrepresentations and is not the subject of any charges."
Goldman, founded more than 140 years ago, built a reputation as a trusted adviser to investment banking clients and for sending top executives into presidential Cabinet posts.
In recent years, it shifted toward taking more risks with its clients' money and its own. Goldman's trading allowed the firm to weather the financial crisis better than most other big banks. It earned a record $4.79 billion in the last quarter of 2009.
The complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan "undermines their brand," said Simon Johnson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Goldman critic. "It undermines their political clout. I don't think anybody really values being connected to Goldman at this point."
He continued: "There are many people who — until this morning — thought Goldman Sachs was well-run."
The SEC's enforcement chief said the agency is investigating a wide range of practices related to the crisis. The prospect of possible legal jeopardy for other major financial players roiled the stock market.
Goldman Sachs shares fell more than 12 percent Goldman and lost $14.2 billion in market capitalization. The Dow Jones industrial average finished down more than 125 points.
The SEC appears to be taking a particularly aggressive approach with Goldman. Typically, cases are resolved by firms agreeing to a settlement before the charges are made public, said John Coffee, a securities law professor at Columbia University.
"The SEC has changed its style," Coffee said. "They wanted to tell the world what they thought Goldman had done wrong."
The charges come as lawmakers seek to crack down on Wall Street practices that helped cause the financial crisis. Congress is considering tougher rules for complex investments like those involved in the alleged Goldman fraud.
President Barack Obama vowed Friday to veto a financial overhaul bill that doesn't regulate mortgage-backed securities and other so-called derivatives. Legislation in Congress would for the first time regulate derivatives, whose value depends on an underlying asset, such as mortgages or stocks. Senate Republicans oppose the bill.
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is "pleased that the SEC is departing from the lax enforcement of the Bush administration and is returning to the SEC's proper role of protecting investors in the marketplace," spokesman Steven Adamske said.
The biggest loser in the alleged fraud was ABN Amro, a major Dutch bank, and the Royal Bank of Scotland, which acquired major portions of it in 2007. The SEC said the Royal Bank of Scotland paid Goldman $841 million to unwind ABN transactions.
IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, a German commercial bank, lost nearly all its $150 million investment, the agency said. Most of the money the banks lost went to Paulson in a series of transactions between Goldman and the hedge fund, the SEC said.
IKB was an early casualty of the financial crisis. It issued a profit warning in 2007 saying it had been hurt by U.S. subprime mortgage investments. IKB was sold in 2008 to Dallas-based Lone Star Funds.
Ed Trissel, a spokesman for Lone Star Funds, declined to comment on the case.
The SEC charges come after Goldman Sachs denied last week it that bet against clients by selling them mortgage-backed securities while reducing its own exposure to them.
In an annual letter to shareholders, Goldman said it began reducing its exposure to the U.S. mortgage market in late 2006.
AP Business Writers Alan Zibel in Washington and Stevenson Jacobs in New York contributed to this report.
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LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska Title Co. has agreed to pay 24 workers a total of $92,782 in back wages following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. The investigation found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime and record-keeping provisions when residential and commercial real estate closers were found to be improperly classified as exempt from overtime requirements.
"Improperly classifying workers as being exempt from overtime is a common violation found in the real estate industry," said Michael Staebell, the division's district director in Des Moines, Iowa. "The criteria for exemption from overtime are very specific to ensure workers are properly compensated for all hours worked. Simply paying someone a salary does not automatically make them exempt. Other employers should take this as an opportunity to review their payroll practices to ensure that they are paying their employees in compliance."
The investigation determined that Nebraska Title Co. failed to pay nonexempt employees overtime compensation at time and one-half their regular rates of pay for hours worked beyond 40 in a week, as required by the FLSA. Instead, the firm wrongly considered real estate closers to be exempt from overtime requirements and paid them fixed salaries each week, without regard to the number of hours worked. The employees' job duties failed to meet the criteria for an exemption to apply. The company also failed to incorporate production bonuses into employees' regular rates of pay when calculating overtime rates. Record-keeping violations were also cited during the investigation when the employer failed to keep time records for the employees improperly classified as exempt.
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Newport will return to the Football League following a 25-year absence after two dramatic late goals gave them a 2-0 victory over Welsh rivals Wrexham at Wembley.
The Blue Square Bet Premier play-off final appeared destined for extra time until Christian Jolley latched on to a long pass and sent the ball past goalkeeper Chris Maxwell in the 86th minute. Substitute Aaron O'Connor then added a second in the fourth minute of injury time, his 21st goal of the campaign.
Newport, managed by former Tottenham defender Justin Edinburgh, will now play npower League Two football next season for the first time since 1988, having narrowly avoided relegation from the top flight of non-league football last season.
Wrexham wasted several chances and tasted agonising defeat six weeks after their FA Trophy glory at the home of football. The success for Newport completes a remarkable season for Welsh football in which, added to Wrexham's Trophy celebrations, Swansea won the Capital One Cup and Cardiff were promoted to the Barclays Premier League.
The Dragons dominated the majority of the first half and enjoyed chances to open the scoring, Brett Ormerod missing the target on three separate occasions when he really should have done better.
But, having been second best for the first 40 minutes, Newport twice came close to breaking the deadlock in the closing minutes of the half through Jolley and Lee Minshull.
Ormerod was at the centre of the action again midway through the second period as he fired over from close range after player/manager Andy Morrell had seen his shot saved.
Johnny Hunt forced Lenny Pidgeley to parry his effort to safety in the 63rd minute but the clash remained finely poised heading into the closing stages.
That was until four minutes remaining when Jolley ran on to a long ball over the top and fired home to send the Newport supporters into raptures.
O'Connor then made the game safe deep into added time when he converted the rebound after Maxwell had saved his initial effort.


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Since 1977, the State Department has produced the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Congress mandated these reports to establish the facts to inform their decisions on foreign military and economic aid. Today, governments, intergovernmental organizations, scholars, journalists, activists, and others rely on these reports as an essential update on human rights conditions around the world.
The 2011 reports describe the citizen uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, in which people stood up and demanded their universal rights, dignity, greater economic opportunity, and participation in their countries' political future. In this turmoil, thousands were killed across Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria and many others were abused by security forces. The images of demonstrators who had seemingly lost all fear, risking their lives to oppose governments they deemed illegitimate, inspired us all.
Several countries took important steps toward improving their human rights records. In Burma, long isolated because of the government's poor treatment of its own people, the government took a number of bold steps to begin the long and difficult process of political reform and reconciliation. In Zambia, presidential, parliamentary, and local elections held in September were free, credible, and orderly. In Tunisia, citizens held transparent and credible elections for a Constituent Assembly, which in turn elected a former political prisoner as the country's interim president. Their country is now rewriting its constitution.
The reports also document negative developments in 2011. A number of countries became less free as a result of flawed elections; less democratic constitutional provisions; restrictions on the universal rights to freedom of expression, assembly, or association, including on the Internet; moves to censor or intimidate the media; or attempts to control or curtail the activities of nongovernmental groups. Other disturbing trends in 2011 include continued anti-Semitism and an uptick in discrimination against members of racial and ethnic minorities; people with disabilities; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) people.
This year, we made the human rights reports -- available at HumanRights.gov/reports and state.gov -- easier to read online. Readers can jump directly to topics of interest with a new table of contents, share reports on social media, and research topics across countries with the Build a Report tool.
For the first time, we have also added an executive summary at the top of each report. Our goal is to allow readers to gather information quickly across regions on the issues that most interest them and we hope readers will find these changes useful.
For more information on U.S. international human rights policy and activities, please visit HumanRights.gov and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Join Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Michael Posner for a live Facebook chat on Friday, May 25, at 10:00 a.m. EDT.Related Content: Remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton | Fact Sheet
Henry in the U.S.A. writes:
I followed the links and examined the US government's assessment of it's own human rights situation, which may be found here: 'http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/146379.pdf'
What a travesty! The report reiterates the US Constitutions commitments to concepts such as Due Process, without acknowledging that these concepts have now been abandoned in practice. I refer, for example, to the "indefinite detention" features of the National Defense Authorization Act, and President Obama's assertion of the authority to assassinate US citizens without any criminal proceedings, as in the al-Awlaki case.
Ziobo in Bulgaria writes:
I read some exempt from the report concerning my country. I was really pissed off and really need to leave my opinion, although I know that you will not like it, you will probably delete it, you are monitoring my IP, and you can even send your "men in black" or push my government to send our "men in black", to violate my imaginary human rights.
Anyway, here is my opinion, split on points:
1. Regarding the Gypsies, I assure you that 90% of them are good for nothing - killers, robbers, etc. This is not a problem of integration - we do not have any issue with the Turks, Arabs, Chinese. Gypsies were integrated for about 40 years (1945-1990), no result. I really won't allow a 200 year nation responsible for the "integration" of Indians (a note here, I do believe that Indians were far more worth and able to integrate), for the slavery, and for the nuclear attack over Japan, and recently exchanged again human blood for oil to enforce its opinion. You can have your opinion, this is fine, but this is not the absolute truth. If you like the Gypsies so much, please take them and integrate them in the USA. I will have lots of fun watching.
2. Media and corruption - Yes, I agree things are still bad, however again far better than on your side. We are not attacking innocent countries and presenting this in the media as an anti-terrorist war. I mean, we at least keep try to keep our sh*t inside our boundaries. And yes, we do not owe the rest of the world trillions of dollars.
Do not get me wrong, I have many American friends who share these thoughts and are hm, a bit ashamed.


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NormSoft needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 144 designs submitted by 43 freelance designers.
We're creating a brand-new security program, and we need your help creating an icon!
Our new software (not yet available) is targeted at regular iPhone users, so we want something that looks attractive, fun, and professional.
The brand "Mecrets" is a combination of "Me" and "Secrets".
This icon also needs to give the person using it a sense of security. We want to convey safety, security and trust. Additionally there will be a lot of cool leading edge features in the program as well, and it's going to be very visually appealing. So we want to convey that as well if possible.
- 512x512 (TIFF or PNG) or vector graphics (AI or PDF)
- Fill the whole square frame; no empty space
- Should look great at around 57x57
- Original
- Interesting
- No reflection or shiny effects added to the icon (we'll be applying some glass or gloss effects after-the-fact)
- No transparency (solid images only)
- Don't include "Mecrets" in the icon (it will be written below the icon).
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Vampy Bit Me — Babe of the Day
A cosplaying pro and all-around hottie, Vampy Bit Me is someone you should get to know. This babe is a cosplayer who routinely makes and models her own costumes based on famous video game, anime and sci-fi characters. If you've never seen her as Morrigan from 'Dark Stalkers,' then you need to Google that quick. Phew.
Become a fan of hers on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and her own personal website.


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Gotta love a good laugh after a long day.
Computer humour
Definately, you can't get much lower than that
It reminds me of this rather worrying picture I spotted on a website:
Heh.. yeah, that's how I feel about it, sometimes.
That's a good one
This is supposed to be an animated gif. Don't know why it's not animated. Peter is having trouble adjusting the blinds.
errrm. it's uploaded as a jpg
Odd.. could've swore I uploaded a gif. I'll check the file, when I get home. Thanks for the heads-up.
Still have to check that one. Dangit.. I keep forgetting.
In the meantime, I hope everyone enjoys this one that I just saw.
Removed the pic.. guess what.. I did upload a .gif image.. and the site converted it to .jpg.
Is there a way to fix that?[/B]
I'll try it like this, then.. hang on..
Hmm.. well.. in the editor, it works.. let's see what happens when I ..
My favourite rubbish computer joke:
I like it.
Can't read the message... it goes a bit too fast... love the dance though
@Pullo; Really fun... I wonder what will happen if I try it myself :lol:
Let me know. I never got it to work for me
By blinking my eyes or waving my hand with fingers apart I managed to "strobe" it.
Best I can make out it's
"Didn't read a lol"
Well, I suspect that at least 70% of my siblings will look at me like if I were crazy... they will not even know what sudo is
I thought that it said something like that but I wasn't sure if it was didn't or did... Thanks
Just dissected it with GIMP


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PARIS (Reuters) - French start-up company Ynsect has identified a cheap, nourishing and locally sourced alternative to soybeans as a vital source of protein in animal feed. The clue is in its name.
Ynsect is not alone in looking to invertebrates to meet a jump in demand for meat and fish, and so for feed, in coming decades.
Black soldier flies, common housefly larvae, silkworms and yellow mealworms were named as among the most promising species for industrial feed output in a report last month by the FAO, the United Nations food agency.
"Given insects' natural role as food for a number of farmed livestock species, it is worth reconsidering their role as feed for specific poultry and fish species," the Food and Agriculture Organization's report said.
Jean-Gabriel Levon, co-founder of Ynsect, said new protein sources were essential in a market where costs are set to climb.
"Insects are an interesting source which can be bred locally," Levon said. "We are in the same situation as oil, with resources getting scarcer and more expensive."
According to the FAO, protein such as meat meal, fishmeal and soymeal make up 60 to 70 percent of the price of feed.
Soybean prices have more than doubled over the past decade due to soaring demand and fishmeal prices have also jumped.
The 2-year old company has been developing an insect-based meal that could make up 5-30 percent of feed products, Levon said.
Ynsect, which has around 10 rivals globally, is now raising funds to build the first European insect meal production unit by 2014-2015. One well-heated part of the plant would breed insects and the other would crush them into powder.
It aims to focus on using flies and beetles and Levon says a great advantage is that they can eat just about anything - for example human food leftovers such as potato peelings.
Once crushed, co-products such as shells can be used in the pharmaceutical sector, for cosmetics and wastewater treatments.
What is more, insect droppings make great fertilizer.
"Insects drink very little water. Their droppings are very dry. They're like sand and have all the qualities needed for a classic fertilizers," Levon said.
Stephane Radet, who heads France's animal feed industry lobby (SNIA) said he was cautious as the protein product would have to prove itself to feed makers and win public acceptance.
"For new material to enter the manufacturing chain, it has to meet four major criteria: safety, quality, competitiveness and acceptability in the food sector, processors and at the bottom of the chain, the consumer," Radet said.
While another pioneering company, South Africa's AgriProtein Technologies, is rearing house flies and using insect flour for cattle feed, this is not allowed in the European Union where the "mad cow" disease crisis of the late 1990s has led to caution over the use of processed animal proteins (PAPs).
PAPs, particularly when cattle were given bovine protein, were blamed for the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak.
The European Commission has approved the use of PAPs to feed fish from June 1, which includes insect meal. It may allow their use in pig and poultry feed from 2014, lifting a ban on animal by-products imposed during the BSE outbreak.
The EU imports about 70 percent of its protein-rich material for animal feed. According to European Feed Manufacturer's Federation Fefac, Europe's market for processed animal feed is worth around 45 billion euros ($60 billion) a year.
Ynsect aims to start with fish feed, where insect-based meal could replace increasingly scarce fishmeal and fishoil.
According to the FAO, fish farming is the fastest-growing animal food producing sector and will need to expand sustainably to keep up with increasing demand.
Trials on certain fish species showed that diets where up to 50 percent of fishmeal was replaced with grass hopper meal produced equally good results as fishmeal only, the FAO added.
A further step one day might be to rear insects for direct human consumption - the FAO said insects already feed more than 2 billion humans in Africa, Asia and South America.
But EU regulations do not allow this, more research is needed on issues such as allergies, and only a few daring restaurants in Europe are experimenting for curious clients.
"As for targetting the human food market, that is for some other time. Eating insects is a laugh, people may be curious, but as far as we are concerned that won't be happening for the time being," Levon said. ($1 = 0.7467 euros)
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The nodelay property affects Nagle's algorithm (the value of the TCP_NODELAY socket-level option on TCP/IP) for the given protocol. Nagle's algorithm is used to improve TCP performance on systems using slow connections such as wide-area networks (WANs).
When the algorithm is used, TCP tries to prevent several small chunks of data from being sent to the remote system (by bundling the data in larger packets). If the data written to the socket does not fill the required buffer size, the protocol delays sending the packet until either the buffer is filled or a specific delay time has elapsed. Once the buffer is full or the timeout has occurred, the packet is sent.
For most messaging applications, performance is best if there is no delay in the sending of packets (Nagle's algorithm is not enabled). This is because most interactions between client and broker are request/response interactions: the client sends a packet of data to the broker and waits for a response. For example, typical interactions include:
Creating a connection
Creating a producer or consumer
Sending a persistent message (the broker confirms receipt of the message)
Sending a client acknowledgment in an AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE or CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE session (the broker confirms processing of the acknowledgment)
For these interactions, most packets are smaller than the buffer size. This means that if Nagle's algorithm is used, the broker delays several milliseconds before sending a response to the consumer.
However, Nagle's algorithm may improve performance in situations where connections are slow and broker responses are not required. This would be the case where a client sends a nonpersistent message or where a client acknowledgment is not confirmed by the broker (DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE session).


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New York Jets Bench Mark Sanchez, Will Start Greg McElroy vs San Diego Chargers
NEW YORK (AP) - Rex Ryan has benched Mark Sanchez and will start third-string quarterback Greg McElroy in the New York Jets' game against the San Diego Chargers on Sunday.
Sanchez threw four interceptions Monday night and couldn't handle a low snap with the game on the line as the Jets were eliminated from playoff contention with a 14-10 loss at Tennessee.
Ryan said after the game that he wasn't ready to decide who would start against the Chargers, but chose McElroy over Sanchez and backup Tim Tebow after talking with his staff and others in the organization Tuesday.
McElroy, a seventh-round pick last year out of Alabama, helped lead the Jets to a 7-6 win over Arizona on Dec. 2 when Ryan pulled Sanchez from that game late in the third quarter.
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USN-2027-1: SPICE vulnerability
12 November 2013
spice vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 13.10
- Ubuntu 13.04
SPICE could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Software Description
- spice - SPICE protocol client and server library
Tomas Jamrisko discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled long passwords in SPICE tickets. An attacker could use this issue to cause the SPICE server to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 13.10
- libspice-server1 - 0.12.4-0nocelt1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 13.04
- libspice-server1 - 0.12.2-0nocelt2expubuntu1.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart applications using the SPICE protocol, such as QEMU, to make all the necessary changes.


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Oh, I know all about creating and implementing test plans --I worked in software QA for five years-- and I've a nose for finding bugs, so that's not a problem. It's the lack of time I can devote to a (non-work) project that prevents me from assisting in a beta.
So while everybody else was checking out the MoP and Diablo III betas (although D3 isn't really a beta, since it's a bit late in the cycle for it to be called that), I took advantage of what time I had and tried out The Old Republic instead.
This past weekend was one of the TOR 'free weekends' for people who haven't tried the game out yet. In anticipation of me wanting to at least get my toe in the water, I'd downloaded the game a couple of weeks ago, so it was a small matter of getting up and running with TOR.*
For me, there were two really big concerns about the game, and none of them had anything to do with gameplay. The most important of the two was that I barely met the minimum requirements to play the game on my family PC. The graphics card was better, but the motherboard/CPU/RAM was right at the minimum. I'd 'played' games before in that situation, and most games at the minimum requirements were barely better than worthless; I'd much rather DL a movie trailer on a dialup line than play a game with the bare minimum requirements. The second, and it was kind of unique to my situation, was that if my kids found out I was testing out the game over the weekend, I'd be deluged by requests for them to play too. It's one thing for them to pay LOTRO for free using my account, since I turned off guild/kinship and group/fellowship invites, but everything I'd heard about TOR pointed toward grouping up as more of a requirement than some other MMOs. Besides, given the 'romance' aspect of TOR, I knew that I'd have to police their activity, and I didn't really feel like dealing with that.
When I made the decision to try TOR out this past weekend, I did so knowing I'd play the game only when the kids were asleep, and that it was entirely possible that the game was unplayable for my machine. I'd have preferred a better set of circumstances, but you have to roll with what you're dealt.
I logged in, started up TOR, and.... had to adjust the graphics settings.
I tweaked several settings down to low, and managed to get a relatively smooth movement experience. The graphics itself seemed to be okay, but I knew I wasn't getting even an average experience. Hell, when 4.0.1 dropped on WoW I had to turn off a lot of the 'gee-whiz' water settings, because otherwise my PC would be spending all of its time rendering water while I'm over on, say, Darkshore.**
In WoW, when I used to hang around Dal in Wrath my PC's framerate would drop to the teens on a regular basis. Org/Stormwind during Cata is better, but the low 20s still ain't that great. When I made it to the first space station in TOR, I expected things to get busier. They did, and I could tell my framerate dropped by comparison. However, there were fewer toons wandering around than were ever in Dal --more NPCs, but fewer real toons-- but what I saw didn't give me a lot of hope that if I hit a very active zone that my PC could cope.
As for the romance, I didn't exactly progress along anything resembling that in my online time to say how that will shake out, but I'd say that if your kid can't handle real romance very well, I doubt they'd handle an in-game one any better. Then again, maybe the "not everyone is who they seem" isn't a bad lesson to learn, either.***
None of this is news to someone who has played TOR the past few months.
("In other stories, Deathwing has returned to Azeroth! Film at eleven!")
And if you haven't noticed, some WoW (or ex-WoW) bloggers have left for TOR, grown dissatisfied, and left. All of this, naturally, has fueled the WoW vs. TOR flame war simmering out there.
That said, I think there needs to be some perspective here. Should we expect a new MMO to have as much to do as one that has been around and expanded upon for seven years? Or, perhaps, TOR's focus isn't on luring existing WoW gamers, but bringing in new gamers into MMOs?
What's the startup cost for someone brand new to WoW these days? Let's say someone comes in, plays the free L1-20 on WoW, and decides to subscribe. For that person to get up to speed on Cata, they have to plunk down $20 for Vanilla + BC, $30 for Wrath, and $40 for Cata = $90 (not counting discounts via, say, Amazon). With MoP, that price will go up by another $50 or so to $140 (again, before discounts). That's a hefty cost for one game, especially if you want to play a Goblin or Worgen.
For TOR, by comparison, the cost is $60 (before discounts). Sure, you get less, but you've paid less too. You're not getting a game that has been either in development or in production for almost a decade, but something new. The polish and variety of gaming experience will always favor the older title, because it has been around longer.
As for the quests, the feel is somewhere between WoW's BC and Wrath questlines. TOR has one main quest chain running through a zone, with a lot of side quests along the way. For everyone whom I've seen who complains about the linearity of quests in TOR, I have to ask whether they've actually done the quests in post Cata Old World. I coined the 'quests-on-rails' term for Cata, not TOR; if there was ever proof that there's too much of a good thing, it's that. The news that WoW is returning more to a pre-Cata model for MoP is a good thing, in my opinion.
WoW will always win out on the "things to do at max level" argument, because WoW has been tinkered with for so long. The only way TOR would hope to match that reality would be to hire an army of developers and have them slave away as quickly as they can, and no software company in their right mind will do that for a title that hasn't even proven itself.
Where WoW suffers the most is from a continuity standpoint. A new MMO such as TOR doesn't have the baggage of a base game + three expansions worth of quests, so continuity isn't going to be a problem. But to a new gamer, WoW's environment --while vast-- tells a chaotic story. The timeline jumps around so much that a new gamer will get lost trying to understand the plotline. Once a new gamer gets the whole idea of what is going on in the Old World, they're whisked back in time to Outland and then Northrend. And MoP isn't going to do anything to fix the continuity issues, either.
Add to this the design decision by Blizzard to have significant events take place not in-game but in books, and the story gets even more chaotic.
For long time WoW players, this isn't an issue at all. Really, anyone who began playing in the Wrath days or earlier remembers the original questline progression, and they're on the current timeline without a problem. But new players didn't have that experience, so they'll be lost.**** By comparision, TOR (or even LOTRO) with their single timeline continuity won't have these problems.
One final item of note: is it so much to have an MMO where the word 'hero' isn't thrown around so much?
I thought I'd escaped that word once I started playing TOR, but even there it follows your toon around like a bad penny. In WoW, "Heroes!" is used so often that I've taken to calling it the Azerothian equivalent of "Hey you!"
I could have used more of the "....then my son is dead to me" sort of quest endings than the almost-sappy "Oh, you're a hero!", because if you're going to plumb some morally grey areas, you might as well have morally grey responses.
*Well, sort of. The 'free weekend' download required me to re-download the game again, but in this case I suspect it inserted a file that gave me a temp license and then just rubber-stamped the rest of my installation. It was more than I expected, but in the end much less painful than if I'd have tried to DL the thing over the weekend.
**I did the same thing when I tried out Rift, too, so maybe that was why I was kind of non-plussed about the game's graphics.
***Also, unlike Age of Conan, it doesn't seem like there's any nudity in the game, so at least that isn't an issue for kids.
****Or, potentially, they won't care, having bought into the belief that the game only really starts at max level.
EtA: Corrected a few English errors. My English teachers would not be amused....
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by Wesley Ratko
In a split vote at its March 28 meeting, the CHCA board of directors approved the transfer of $23,000 from the coffers of the Chestnut Hill Local to fill a deficit in the community association's budget for fiscal year 2014. The current fiscal year ended March 31.
The transfer of funds from the Local, however, would only take place if proposed fundraising efforts fail.
CHCA treasurer Tony Reilly presented the Budget and Finance Committee report to the board, along with its recommendation to use money from the Local to close the budget gap.
The primary cause for the shortfall was the end of a six-year pledge from an anonymous donor. Reilly said other circumstances, primarily a decrease in membership, also accounted for the shortfall.
Reilly explained that the community association's bylaws require that a balanced budget be passed every year. To achieve this, the committee investigated cutting CHCA expenses, finding new donors and stepping up fundraising efforts. But while helpful, those actions will not be sufficient to balance the budget, according to the committee
"We're pretty much a membership organization," Reilly said. "That's our revenue."
He added that the community association would need to bring in 767 new members this year to balance its budget.
Without enough additional revenue, the Budget and Finance committee considered how it defines the term "balanced budget" and whether that definition could be expanded to allow other monies to be considered revenue.
"Fundraising comes first," Reilly said, but added that it was a mistake to see the Local as a separate entity. "We are the publisher, we are the same organization."
Board member Richard Snowden warned that a single balanced budget wasn't enough. He said that if the community association doesn't establish its financial sustainability, other sources of revenue – like new members, new donors, and participants in fundraising activities – will dry up.
"We have an incentive to fund raise," he said, "and there is not enough of a credibility trend line to foster new donors."
Board member and former board president Walter Sullivan said there was no doubt the CHCA could take revenue from the Local, but asked whether "that was the prudent way to go."
"We're not taking the money," said Nick Yzzi. "We're only going to use it."
He added that the CHCA is the parent organization, and the Local is the subsidiary, and that it was within the rights of the community association to do this.
Board member Miguel Casteñeda agreed, saying that the budget Reilly presented was responsible.
Board member Jean Wedgewood praised Reilly for his hard work and told the board that he and committee had "explored all possibilities."
"This is a Band-Aid for one year," she said. "We own the Local – we're not talking about taking any money from the Local – and we hope to pay it back."
A minority of board members had deeper reservations about using Local revenue to close the budget gap.
Board member Stephanie Chomentowski congratulated Reilly and the Budget and Finance Committee on its report, saying it complied with the requirement in the bylaws that the committee produce a balanced budget.
"You guys did exactly what you were supposed to do," said Chomentowski, "but there is no requirement in the bylaws that the board pass a balanced budget." Given that, she suggested using a portion of the $80,000 the CHCA has in its own savings to close the gap in lieu of using funds from the Local.
Many balked at that suggestion, including Casteñeda, who said raiding the savings would be irresponsible. Chomentowski's plan to use the savings was voted down.
Board member Mike Chomentowski also disagreed, saying that taking funds from the Local was irresponsible and "ruthless mismanagement."
"When the Local was on its knees, we gave them some tough love," Chomentowski said. He reminded the board that the CHCA did not use any of its own money to help get the Local back on its feet.
Sullivan contested that, saying, "the Local would never have been allowed to fail." He added that whether or not the gap is closed using Local funds makes no difference, as there are several options at the the committee's disposal.
Reilly said repeatedly that using funds from the Local was a "one-time thing," but it didn't change the minds of those opposed who voted against the budget measure.


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Every day brings James Franco news; some days just bring more than others.
Even by his standards, the hyphenate has been busy this week — penning a meta short story, casting a meta movie, helping the next generation create the next wave of (meta?) shorts.
First, Franco has enlisted his brother Dave to star in "The Disaster Artist," his film about "The Room," the cult sensation by unlikely auteur Tommy Wiseau that has been called the greatest bad movie ever made.
Dave Franco will play actor Greg Sestero, whose book "The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room" (cowritten by Tom Bissell) provides the basis for the movie. (It's rare, outside Franco meta land and maybe "Think Like A Man," for the author of a book on which a movie is based to appear in said movie.)
The book chronicles Sestero's experiences making Wiseau's self-distributed 2003 drama, which has attracted a fervid following over the years in spite — and because — of its amateurish qualities. (James Franco previously explored the making of a cult film, of a very different kind, via "Interior. Leather Bar," about the controversial 1980 movie "Cruising.)
As befits such a hall-of-mirrors-like project, the news emerged during a late-night Los Angeles screening of "The Room," where Wiseau was participating in an audience Q&A. At one point, Dave Franco stood up and asked, "Tommy, how do you feel about me playing Greg Sestero in the movie?"
The crowd cheered, and Wiseau said, "That's what I say: It's a good choice!"
The elder Franco, who is directing, producing and starring in "Disaster Artist," also posted a photo of his brother and Wiseau on his Instagram account, accompanied by the caption, "Davy Franco and Tommy Weiseau!!!!! 'The Disaster Artist' Coming Soon!!!!"
Franco, it turns out, was just getting started. News from the wizardly one continued with an online screenwriting class Franco began offering Tuesday via the site Skillshare.
For $25 bucks you can take the class and learn how to pen shorts from Franco and producing partner Vince Jolivette; if you write one of the better scripts (according to online peer voting) Franco will offer some personalized feedback.
"There's part of me that also thinks of my younger self, who wasn't in those film programs, because I really get excited by the idea of being able to share some of our experiences and lessons," Franco says in a trailer promoting the program, adding he's "as equipped" as anyone.
And speaking of those experiences, Franco is going back down a meta rabbit hole with a new story in the fiction issue of Vice magazine. He's written a yarn — maybe fiction, maybe not — called "Bungalow 89," which features the character "Lindsay Lohan" and has the first-person narrator visiting her at the Chateau Marmont (site of some past LiLo exploits). Once there, he reads her Salinger stories and listens to her musings, while generally having, what else, a literary interaction or three.
As it's a James Franco story, James Franco interrupts the story to ask, Franco-ishly, if readers believe this really happened to James Franco.
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Prospects Weekly: Private capital flows to developing countries eased in October
|Private capital flows to developing countries eased in October, but remain close to their highest level in more than a year, led by robust bond issuance by emerging market sovereigns and firms. Business sentiment has strengthened in some countries, including the US and several emerging markets, but remains weak in general amid US "fiscal cliff" and Euro Area risks. In the US, new discoveries and innovations have pushed down domestic prices of natural gas, creating arbitrage opportunities between domestic and international markets.
|Private capital flows to developing countries remain high, despite easing in October. Gross international capital flows to developing countries equaled $49 billion in October, the second highest inflow over the past 15 months, but down from the record $71bn of inflows during September. Euro Area debt turmoil in May caused capital flows to slow, but stabilization of financial market tensions and high-income monetary policy prompted the recent uptick in flows. Bond issuance was particularly strong at $32 billion in October, with 44% of the total destined for the financial sector. Notable issues included a $2 billion bond sale by Russia's Sberbank, a $1.5 billion offering of 10-year sovereign bonds by Chile, and a $500 million sale by Bolivia (its first in nearly a century). New equity issuance and bank lending (especially to Emerging Europe and Latin America) moderated, partly because low bond yields made bonds a more attractive option for some borrowers.
|Business sentiment indicators have strengthened in several countries, but remain weak in general amid risks to the global economy. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Indexes (PMIs) for October suggest a strengthening of activity in the US as labor and housing markets continue to improve. PMIs also gained ground and suggest expansion in Brazil, Indonesia, India, Russia, and Turkey. In China, however, both the official and Markit PMI are below or close to the no-growth 50 threshold despite recent accelerations in industrial activity. Similarly, the manufacturing PMI for both core and periphery Euro Area countries points strongly toward further contraction, despite a stabilization and even small gains in industrial activity during recent months. Business pessimism may be reflecting market worries that the U.S. fiscal cliff or Euro Area tensions could flare up dampening demand and prospects—a view seemingly supported by weak sales of capital goods.
|The wide gap between U.S. natural gas prices and European natural gas and crude oil prices suggests downside risks on oil prices. The post-2005 increase in crude oil prices induced innovation in both natural gas and oil extraction technologies such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. A 28 percent increase in U.S. natural gas production between 2005 and 2011 has depressed domestic prices. Low prices have induced electrical and petro-chemical producers to substitute natural gas for coal, but a similar shift by the transportation industry has yet to take place, in part due to the absence of distribution networks and safety concerns. So far, export licensing requirements have prevented U.S. producers from selling into world markets where natural gas prices are much higher. U.S. natural gas costs only 29 and 20 percent as much as European and Japanese gas. Should licenses become more readily available, the arrival of US gas on international markets could exert significant downward pressures on international prices of both natural gas and crude oil.
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Those of you who simply can't wait for Benny 16's latest pearls of wisdom on AIDS in Africa and Angels and Demons will be delighted to learn that his Holy Big-Hattedness is now available direct to the Jesus Phone and iPod Touch.
Yup, breaking Catholic news comes to you courtesy of the H2Onews app, delivering video, audio and text content courtesy of the Vatican Television Centre and Vatican Radio.
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Lewis Holtby has showed a tremendous amount of promise for his new club Tottenham Hotspur last season.
He unexpectedly arrived at the North London side a transfer window early, as key midfielder Sandro was sidelined through injury.
Ever since Holtby came to Spurs he has put combative displays and has been an asset to the team.
Holtby has featured mainly in the Europa League matches in which Tottenham reached the quarter-final stage, and has had a gigantic impact on games.
He provides energy, skill and some great passes, but after watching him start for Spurs in the Europa League, he seems to lose a lot of his energy at half time or just after.
His impact on games is incredible, but he seems to almost so fatigued that it stops him from delivering high-level performances after the half way point.
Next season I would love to see him really come through and have an impact on the game for the full 90 minutes.
So, will he be a Premier League superstar next season?
He's only 22, and still has a great deal of room for improvement, and he's just finished captaining the German U21 squad.
Not bad at all, so surely this will see him become a fantastic midfielder next season.
Given another year of experience and practice on the training ground and he'll be top class, just the sort of player Tottenham will need in their team because of what he brings to the game.
Holtby is certainly one to watch next season. So to all the Premier League fans out there - I'd recommend to keep your eyes peeled as we could have an emerging star on our hands.
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Parker helps Spurs beat Rockets in overtime
SAN ANTONIO — Tony Parker hit four free throws late in overtime to help the San Antonio Spurs beat the Houston Rockets 101-95 on Wednesday night.
Parker scored 28 points on 12-of-22 shooting to lead the Spurs. Tim Duncan had 17 points and 11 rebounds, and Kawhi Leonard added 11 points.
Kyle Lowry scored 22 points for Houston, and Luis Scola had 20. Kevin Martin added 18, and Patrick Patterson had 10 points and seven rebounds.
After Parker's free throws gave San Antonio a 98-95 lead with 22 seconds left, Chandler Parsons and Kyle Lowry missed point-blank shots. The Spurs (7-4) hit three of four free throws — one by Leonard and two by Parker — to hold off the Rockets (3-7).
San Antonio is 7-0 at home. The last time the Spurs won seven straight at home to start the season was when they went 13-0 to begin the 2007-08 season.
Danny Green missed a layup with 0.9 seconds left in regulation that could have won the game for the Spurs. Scola drove around Duncan for a layup with 5.8 seconds left on the previous possession to it.
The Spurs played without backup point guard T.J. Ford. He will be out four to six weeks because of a torn left hamstring. Ford was injured Tuesday night in a loss at Milwaukee. San Antonio is already without top scorer Manu Ginobili for several more weeks because of a fractured fifth metacarpal.
Gary Neal had moved into the starting lineup to take Ginobili's spot, but with Ford out, Neal returned to the bench to assume backup point guard duties. Leonard started for the Spurs.
The Spurs hit 41 of 96 shots, and Houston was 42 of 92. The Rockets hit only three of 21 3-pointers.
After starting the fourth quarter with a basket take a 74-68 lead, the Spurs went 4:28 without scoring. Parker's jumper with 6:46 left ended the drought
The teams then traded baskets before Duncan found Leonard for a layup with 3:02 left to put the Spurs up 84-83. On the next possession, Duncan hit a turnaround bank shot over Scola.
Before the game, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich criticized his team's defensive effort, and during the first half, the Spurs did little to make him change his mind.
Notes: San Antonio recalled first-round pick Cory Joseph, a point guard the team selected in the first round of the June draft, from the Development League. The Spurs also added Malcolm Thomas, a 6-foot-9 rookie forward. Thomas, who teamed with Spurs rookie Leonard at San Diego State, had been playing for Los Angeles in the D-League. "He's an athletic young man who has a lot of energy, has some good skills, so we'll take a look at him," Popovich said. Neither rookie played against Houston. ... With a free throw with 4:54 in the game, Duncan moved past Larry Bird for 27th place on the scoring list. Duncan has 21,888 points.


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