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A Connoisseur's Revenge! (ソムリエ対決!イシズマイVSフタチマル!! A Connoisseur Showdown! Dwebble VS Dewott!!) is the 19th episode of Pokémon: Black & White.
After meeting Burgh and catching a Sewaddle, Ash and co. take a stop at a Poké Mart to stock up on supplies. There Ash learns more about Pokémon Connoisseurs and waits in line to get his compatibility tested. He is then pulled into a shop by a girl named Burgundy who says that all of his Pokémon are horrible just because they attacked her because they think Ash is a great Trainer even though she doesn't think so. Iris and Cilan find Ash and Burgundy, who apparently has an axe to grind with Cilan for beating her at the Striaton Gym. Who will win the rematch?
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As the heroes continue onward, they see a new Poké Mart, thinking it is recently opened, so go check it out. They enter the Mart and admire how big it is, thinking it has all Pokémon-related goods. Iris admires the accessories, while a woman offers her to buy a Dragon Gem for her Axew. Iris declines and goes to check other things, while Ash sees a line. Cilan explains to Ash they are waiting for a Connoisseur to check the bond between a trainer and Pokémon. He clarifies there are C, B, A and S-class Connoisseurs, with Cilan being rank A. Ash sees the Connoisseur is a girl. Cilan advises Ash to get more feedback, so he chooses to have a check-up with his Sewaddle, while Cilan goes to buy more food.
Ash goes in the line, but sees it is a long one. However, a girl offers him to go with her, her being a Connoisseur. She lets Ash into her room and introduces herself as Burgundy. Ash introduces himself and tells he is on a journey. Burgundy tells she already senses Pikachu is well taken care of, but Ash was wondering about an another Pokémon, sending Sewaddle. Burgundy analyzes Sewaddle and replies it is the worst partner. She thinks he'd be better off with a Sewaddle with Chlorophyll rather than Swarm ability. Ash wonders why, causing Burgundy to be insulted by that question. She tells that he should catch a different bug. Sewaddle is angry and uses String Shot on Burgundy, wrapping her head. Ash calls Sewaddle back and goes away. However, Burgundy stops him, wanting to check more Pokémon, as he wants to become a Pokémon Master.
Ash sends Snivy, though Burgundy sees Snivy has no taste nor style. She goes to taste Snivy, who uses Vine Whip, hitting her tongue. Ash sends Tepig, who smiles. Burgundy tells she cannot analyze a Pokémon that just sits and smiles, causing Tepig to use Ember on her. Oshawott comes out and tries to befriend Burgundy, who tells it is just childish and is a waste of her time. This causes Oshawott to soak Burgundy with Water Gun. Ash sends out Scraggy, so Burgundy thinks it smells like an old shoe. Scraggy headbutts Burgundy, who tells all of Ash's Pokémon are useless. Ash remembers she told Pikachu was unique. Burgundy tells he is not cute as in the books, causing Pikachu to electrocute her. Burgundy is displeased, telling Ash he should completely change his team. Ash knows she is wrong, though Burgundy tells he should, as he wants to earn Badges and win the League.
Cilan and Iris appear, as they were looking for Ash. Burgundy notices Cilan and screams. Cilan remembers Burgundy, as she challenged him in Striaton Gym. Burgundy knows Cilan insulted her and her Pokémon after losing to him in the Gym. Cilan does not remember he said such things, though Burgundy was motivated to become a Connoisseur. She came back at the Gym, but was told by Chili and Cress that Cilan was absent. She admits she tracked him for revenge. Cilan tells despite that, they can't have a Gym battle here. Burgundy has hopes after defeating Cilan to have her own Connoisseur shop, though is shocked after being told this is not her shop. Burgundy tells she is a C-class Connoisseur, though Cilan knows such class are assistants to higher ranks.
Burgundy still states Ash should change his team. Cilan claims Ash has a powerful bond with his Pokémon and tells Burgundy she shouldn't judge, based on a Pokémon's manners. Burgundy feels insulted and challenges Cilan to a battle, wanting to prove she is a better Connoisseur than Cilan is. Outside, Cilan and Burgundy face each other, though Iris thinks the battle is going to be a pain. Burgundy sends Dewott, while Cilan sends out Dwebble. Burgundy analyzes Dwebble, thinking Cilan was unwise to send a Rock-type against a Water-type Pokémon. Cilan replies she and Dewott will taste what they have to offer. Burgundy and Cilan tell each other the winner will prove the loser their own statements were correct. Burgundy also points out if she wins, Ash has to change his team. Cilan accepts this, shocking Ash, though Iris feels Cilan has a full-proof plan. Ash is still disappointed as he is dragged into this conflict.
Dewott starts with Water Gun, though Dwebble protects itself. Dewott uses Fury Cutter, though Dwebble protects itself. Though Iris and Ash see Dwebble is defending, Iris wonders what is Cilan planning. Dewott uses Water Pulse, hitting Dwebble. However, Dwebble is still ready to battle, as Cilan reveals its ability is Sturdy. Dwebble uses Shell Smash, followed with X-Scissor. Dewott uses Razor Shell, but gets defeated by Dwebble. Burgundy sees Cilan used a Pokémon with type disadvantage to teach her a lesson. Cilan replies a Connoisseur's job is to notice a Pokémon's unique skill and judge it based on those skills. Burgundy sends Sawsbuck, while Cilan calls Dwebble back and sends Pansage.
Cilan sees Burgundy has strength and courage, but needs to be refined. Sawsbuck starts with Horn Leech, though Pansage digs, avoiding the attack. Burgundy knows Cilan has a trick, who reveals what the trick is. Pansage emerges and digs again, dodging Sawsbuck's Jump Kick. Pansage comes out and uses Bullet Seed, hitting Sawsbuck. Cilan tells sometimes one needs to attack from front and back. Pansage comes out, so Sawsbuck uses Megahorn, who is defeated by Solar Beam. Burgundy calls Sawsbuck back, displeased she was defeated. Ash and Iris see Cilan is much stronger than they anticipated.
Later, Cilan admits to Burgundy she can be a good Connoisseur if she develops herself. Burgundy replies back she is tired of his lectures and goes to become a S-class Connoisseur. Cilan is glad to hear that, annoying Burgundy, who runs off. Cilan tells to Ash and Iris becoming a C-class Connoisseur is no small feat. Cilan is still pleased to see a spark in Burgundy, while Ash advises the same to Pikachu at Castelia City Gym.
- Professor Oak's Live Caster: Dwebble
- The "Who's That Pokémon?" is Dewott.
- After Ash had sent out Scraggy, he never called Scraggy back. Later on, Scraggy wasn't there with him.
- When Sawsbuck used Jump Kick and missed, it did not take recoil.
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Refer to Pokémon: Best Wishes!, Pokémon: Best Wishes! Season 2, Pokémon: Best Wishes! Season 2: Episode N, and Pokémon: Best Wishes! Season 2: Decolore Adventure for the order used by the original Japanese version.
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First Look: Paradise Lounge at Hilton Hawaiian Village
Zombie Punch and Scorpion Bowl at Paradise Lounge
I never thought I'd see another Scorpion Bowl in my life; I thought those dangerously potent cocktails in a bowl were behind me, along with college frat party days. (Incidentally, who knew Boston was Scorpion Bowl central?!)
Christina Maffei, responsible for the drink menu overhaul at Hilton Hawaiian Village, serves one of her signature mai tais
But what used to be a cheap and fun way to get drunk is now getting its due makeover, thanks to a resurgent interest in tiki bars. So when Paradise Lounge (and its adjoining restaurant, Bali Steak and Seafood) underwent a multi-million dollar renovation, it also revamped its cocktail menu to include a Scorpion Bowl, plus a Zombie Punch—big enough for three to four people to share.
Paradise Lounge and entrance to Bali Steak and Seafood
Here's a look at the new interior, taken at a recent media event to launch the new Paradise Lounge and Bali restaurant. The new space is open and inviting, with ocean views, communal tables and comfy benches. Definitely a more relaxed space than the nearby Tropics, where it sometimes feels like the entire resort, with its 3,000-plus guests, has emptied into the bar and restaurant around sunset.
I'm looking forward to sampling the new menu in the revamped space; definitely a step up from the last place I had a Scorpion Bowl, in the Hong Kong, with its sticky tabletops and $1 teriyaki sticks.
Paradise Lounge at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, hiltonhawaiianvillage.com/dining/bars

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The death of Osama bin Laden left al-Qaeda without a figurehead, but Mokhtar Belmokhtar may have emerged as the man most likely to fill the void.WHEN Osama bin Laden was killed in May 2011, al-Qaeda lost not only an ideologue well-versed in Islamic philosophy, but also a figurehead and heroic figure who could unite the foot-soldiers of extremist Islam.
With the kidnapping and murder of more than 30 Western hostages at a gas facility in the Algerian town of In Amenas earlier this month, the man who ordered the attack – a one-eyed Algerian terrorist named Mokhtar Belmokhtar – may have emerged as the man most likely to fill that void.
A shadowy figure, Belmokhtar has been gathering supporters and prestige in the Sahara for almost two decades. In doing so he has pursued a well-worn al-Qaeda strategy that relies first on the notoriety earned through involvement in a series of violent attacks, and then on the mystery ensured by rarely appearing in public.
During that period he has earned sobriquets as varied as "'The Prince", "The Uncatchable", "Le Phantom", and even "Mr Marlboro". He is, according to Dr Jeremy Keenan, a leading Sahara expert at London's School of African and Oriental Studies, a major player in the Sahara's political scene, while already having become part of its mythology.
"There are plenty of people in the Sahara who even question whether he is alive, or even whether he ever existed – which is not surprising since his death has been reported in the Algerian media on at least six occasions!"
Belmokhtar was born a day's walk from Ghardaia, an oasis town in the northern reaches of the Algerian Sahara, in 1972. Just about every other detail about his life is disputed. For a start, Belmokhtar would later boast on jihadist forums that he travelled to Afghanistan as a 17-year-old in 1989 to fight with the mujahideen against the Russians. It was, however, almost certainly two years later that he made the journey to attend al-Qaeda training camps in Khalden and Jalalabad.
In one version of Belmokhtar's past, he claims that he was radicalised by the killing of Abdullah Azzam, a Jordanian-Pakistani scholar and one of the mentors of Osama bin Laden. Others who have met Belmokhtar suggest otherwise, that his visceral hatred of the Algerian state was motivated by a desire to avenge the death of his brother, killed in a shootout with a customs patrol.
His supporters like to claim that he lost his eye in battle fighting for Islam. More likely, it happened while the young Belmokhtar was mishandling explosives. Either way, just as Osama bin Laden's bullet scars and Taliban leader Mullah Omar's loss of an eye became essential parts of their legend, Belmokhtar's injury has become a battlefield badge of honour and very much a part of, and sometimes even a substitute for, his public persona.
Wherever the truth lies in all of these contested stories, Belmokhtar almost certainly returned to Algeria in 1993. The country was on the brink of catastrophe.
A landslide election victory by Islamist parties in December 1991 had been promptly annulled by Algeria's dysfunctional pro-Western government. A brutal civil war ensued, and a freshly trained and newly militant Belmokhtar slipped easily into the ranks of the feared Armed Islamic Group (GIA) whose stated mission was to overthrow the Algerian government and establish an Islamic state.
The GIA massacred entire villages, and Belmokhtar's ferocity and zeal won him the admiration of his commanders. He rose quickly through the organisation's ranks.
By the late 1990s, with the war largely over, Belmokhtar seized control over lucrative trans-Saharan smuggling routes, reportedly earning millions for trafficking cigarettes – hence the "Mr Marlboro" tag – weapons and drugs across the barely patrolled frontiers of the Sahara and Sahel.
But Belmokhtar also made a series of strategic steps that would transform him into one of the leading figures of extremist North African politics.
In 2002, he is reported to have hosted an emissary of Osama bin Laden as al-Qaeda's leadership sought to establish a post-9/11 foothold far from the under-siege Afghanistan and Somalia. Whether or not such meetings ever took place, their mere possibility marked out Belmokhtar as a significant player in militant circles.
A year later, Belmokhtar engineered the spectacular kidnapping of 32 European tourists in the Sahara. Their release months later in Mali came only after the alleged payment of a €5 million ransom by the German government. In the same year, the United Nations formally added his name to the list of al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists.
In his private life, Belmokhtar understood the need to build alliances beyond the political sphere: his four wives come from some of the leading Arab and Tuareg families in northern Mali. And he understood the defining power of symbolism – he named his eldest son Osama.
By the age of just 31, Belmokhtar had become one of the most powerful men in the Sahara. He was also soon to become the Sahara's most wanted man.
Aside from the 2002 kidnapping, Belmokhtar was sentenced in absentia by an Algerian court to life imprisonment in 2004 for forming terrorist groups, robbery, detention, and the use of illegal weapons. Such was his fame already that his reported presence in Algeria was sufficient to cause the cancellation of the 2004 Paris-Dakar Rally.
Three years later, he was given another sentence, this time 20 years, again in absentia, for kidnapping, weapons trafficking and more terrorist-related crimes. A death penalty followed in 2008 for the murder of 13 customs officers who dared to challenge his smuggling empire, with a further death penalty in 2012 for terrorism.
In the midst of all this infamy, Algerian extremist groups came together to form Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in 2006. Not surprisingly, Belmokhtar was welcomed into the fold, his reputation as a battle-hardened fighter, leader of men and wealthy benefactor for Islamist causes preceding him.
He was placed in charge of his own brigade and soon excelled in the hostage-taking that has made AQIM the wealthiest of all al-Qaeda groups – by some estimates, AQIM has earned $65 million from hostage-taking alone since 2008.
It was during his time as a senior AQIM commander that he oversaw the 2008 kidnapping in Niger of Canadian diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Guay. The two men were released after almost four months, and they remain among very few Westerners to have personal experience of Belmokhtar.
"He was very businesslike," Fowler said recently. "Professional" is another word Fowler used to describe him. Where other figures among Fowler's captors "would give you great proselytising speeches, pumping vitriol against all things Western, Belmokhtar simply dealt with the issue of the moment and that was it".
"The French press call him 'The Untouchable'," Fowler said. "And a lot of people have been trying to lay their hands on him for a long time. Clearly he's a survivor. He's a wily guy."
In another interview with the New York Times, Fowler went further: "He's a fairly slight, very serious, very confident-looking guy who moves with quiet authority. He's clearly been in the business of being a terrorist and surviving for a long time. I was always impressed by the quiet authority he exhibited."
But not everyone was impressed by Belmokhtar's growing authority. For almost a decade, Belmokhtar shared an uneasy partnership with the nominal leader or emir of AQIM, Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud (also known as Abdelmalek Droukdel). As Belmokhtar's international reputation grew, so too did Wadoud's suspicions of his deputy's designs on the top job.
In late 2012, Wadoud announced that Belmokhtar had been relieved of his duties. No reason was given. Nor can it be confirmed whether Belmokhtar jumped or was pushed. Either way, Belmokhtar quickly took advantage of loose membership structures within AQIM to form a new organisation known variously as the Masked Brigade or Those Who Sign With Blood Brigade.
There is little doubt that the immediate trigger for the In Amenas attack was the French assault on Islamist positions in Mali. Speaking with the Mauritanian news agency from his Malian stronghold of Gao, Belmokhtar confirmed that he planned to uphold "the clearly expressed choice" of the people of northern Mali "to apply Islamic sharia law".
He also warned that any country attacking Mali's north "would be considered as an oppressor and aggressor who is attacking a Muslim people". And he pointed out that Algeria had declared war on the Islamists by allowing French planes to use Algerian airspace.
But the attack was also Belmokhtar's statement of intent, a bid to place his new organisation clearly on the militant map and to remind potential recruits across North Africa that Belmokhtar himself remained a force to be reckoned with despite his departure from AQIM.
The In Amenas attack had less to do with events in Mali, leading Sahara expert Wolfram Lacher told Britain's Channel Four last week, and "more to do with Belmokhtar setting up his own group and needing seed capital".
There is a third possible explanation – that Belmokhtar has designs on, at the very least, a senior leadership position within the wider al-Qaeda hierarchy. He may even wish to become the organisation's new figurehead.
Like bin Laden in Afghanistan, Belmokhtar operates within a vast realm largely devoid of central government authority. As his public exposure has grown, he has demonstrated a learned awareness of the need for fiery rhetoric: he has warned that the Sahara and Sahel are threatened by "the Crusader Western nations, especially France" and that these enemies would be fought "in their homes", and "experience the heat of wounds" in their own countries.
He also understands that a mass killing of Westerners guarantees him the headlines needed to secure credibility within extremist ranks. And he calculated correctly that the West's response – British Prime Minister David Cameron warned that Belmokhtar and his men posed a "large and existential threat" to the West – would propel him overnight from being a significant but largely limited regional player to earning the infamy that saw him labelled the world's most wanted man.
With the French soldiers rapidly regaining territory in Mali and Algeria and eager to exact revenge for Belmokhtar's strike at the heart of its oil-and-gas economy, Belmokhtar is clearly playing a dangerous game.
French, British and American forces have reportedly deployed in an attempt to track him down. If they succeed, if indeed he has over-reached, he could find himself as little more than a footnote to history.
And yet, for all the sophistication of Western military hardware and firepower, the Sahara is a vast place and Belmokhtar knows it far better than his pursuers. Just as Osama bin Laden did in Afghanistan, Belmokhtar may believe that he can disappear into the desert and allow his elusiveness to become a part of his myth, regardless of whether he carries out further attacks. If that does happen, it would be a role for which Belmokhtar has spent a lifetime preparing.
Anthony Ham is a Melbourne journalist who has written extensively about North African politics.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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I haven't written about the potential job because my constant obsessing over it is absolutely exhausting. If I was offered it tomorrow, I don't know what I would do.
Simple as that.
I doubt, however, that this will be an issue.
Not only have I not gotten a return call (did he tell me that he'd call me LAST MONDAY? Oh yes, he did), but the job posting was just resent to the alumni job email list that I originally got it from.
I'd say that I didn't get the job.
Have some balls and fucking call me. Pussy.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Posted by A at 12:50 PM
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- Plantation said...
Hi. I suggest you call them. Tell them you have not heard from them as expected so you wanted to follow up. It won't hurt. Trust me.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) Tony Parker had 17 points and seven assists, and the San Antonio Spurs never trailed in a 114-92 victory over the Houston Rockets on Friday night.
The Spurs had six players score in double figures while matching their season high with 33 assists.
Tiago Splitter scored 15 points and Gary Neal, Manu Ginobili, Patty Mills and Tim Duncan each added 12. Duncan also had a game-high 12 rebounds.
James Harden had 29 points, and Patrick Patterson and Toney Douglas each scored 10 to lead Houston.
It was Harden's first game in San Antonio since helping the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Spurs last season in the Western Conference finals. The fans certainly remembered Harden, who was booed heartily during pregame introductions and every time he shot a free throw.
It was clear early that Harden wouldn't help the Rockets to a similar result against the Spurs.
Parker keyed a quick start, scoring eight points and picking up two assists as San Antonio took a 10-point lead in the first 5 minutes.
Jeremy Lin had difficulty keeping up with Parker, who raced by him for three layups in scoring eight of the Spurs' first 10 points. Parker also made a pair of free throws during the run after being fouled by Lin on a layup attempt.
Lin finished with four points, four assists and two turnovers.
Harden kept the Rockets in contention early, scoring 13 points in the first quarter after being shut out in the opening 4 minutes. His 3-pointer pulled Houston to 14-13, but the Rockets never tied it.
Harden fueled another rally in the second half, scoring nine points to help Houston pull to 66-58 with 7:27 left in the third quarter. The Spurs responded with a 15-0 run, holding the Rockets scoreless for 4 minutes to essentially seal the game.
San Antonio outrebounded Houston 50-37 and outscored the Rockets 60-38 in the paint.
NOTES: Neal set a career high with his eighth start of the season. . Spurs swingman Stephen Jackson (broken right pinkie) and F Kawhi Leonard (left knee) both sat out with injuries. . Duncan had the 742nd double-double of his career. . Houston has lost 10 straight road games against Southwest Division opponents since a 91-89 victory at New Orleans on Feb. 27, 2011. ... Houston's Chandler Parsons went 0 for 4 from 3-point range, snapping his streak of making at least one 3 at 23 games in a row.


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First issue of International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science is out
I first wrote about this journal in March 2009 and finally it is here, the International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science. The official launch of the paper version was during Madrid Fusion 2012, but last week the electronic version became available. All 10 articles, nearly 80 pages in total, are available for free download. At the moment I'm not sure if IJGFS will remain an open source journal, but let's hope so! I see no point in listing all the contributions here, just head over to the table of contents and start reading!


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Product is made of excellent ouality materials. Was easy to install,though I did have to rig up a spacer to keep the tube from rubbing near the exit point,otherwise took less then 20 min. to have it in and running.


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Every year, oil tankers move about two billion metric tons of oil globally. From 1970 through 2010 a total of 5.71 million metric tonnes was lost to the environment as a result of tanker incidents, little more than a statistical blip averaged over time.
While the volume of seaborne oil trade has grown steadily over those years, which suggests increased risk, the frequency of spills has, in fact, dropped significantly.
If and when Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline begins to operate at full capacity and more oil tankers ply the waters off the coast of British Columbia, the probability of a major oil spill is estimated at one in 2,800 years.
The response of first nations that oppose the project is: "We'll be here in 2,800 years too."
The message is clear. No risk is an acceptable risk.
Is this a tenable position? We do not live in a risk-free world. There would be no human progress without risk, no wealth creation, no innovation, no medical breakthroughs, no athletic achievements — nothing to advance our well-being, freedom and prosperity.
American economist Frank Knight defined risk as a situation where outcomes are unknown but are governed by the logic of probability. In other words, risk can be quantified and, as such, can be managed, mitigated and insured. Uncertainty, on the other hand, confronts us with "unknown unknowns" that cannot be analyzed in this way.
Too often, risk is seen as having only negative connotations; that any outcome will carry catastrophic consequences. In finance, however, risk is associated with variability, such that the greater the risk, the higher the return.
Risk that includes upside as well as downside is what drives entrepreneurs to start businesses. They know the odds: Half of business start-ups fail within the first five years, and only 29 per cent are still alive after 10 years. But the rewards of success, which are enthusiastically spelled out in every business plan, make taking that risk worthwhile. Medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas was among the first to recognize that the capitalist who takes the risk "rightly receives the gain coming thence."
As start-ups mature, they grow, invest and create jobs and in so doing, generate economic growth while providing incomes for families and tax revenue for governments.
In the absence of risk, there would be no Facebook, Google, Microsoft or Apple — or, for that matter, TD Canada Trust, Teck Resources or Telus.
In equities markets, investors use fundamental and technical analysis to weigh the risk of purchasing a stock. The adventurous may opt for speculative issues that offer superior growth potential; more conservative investors may choose blue chips that promise regular dividends and stability. Prudent speculation is key to free economies because it ensures liquidity. Economic vitality is enhanced when buyers and sellers can manage risk by quickly entering or exiting the market.
Too often, risk is misunderstood and some seek the impossible goal of reducing it to zero. They implore governments to regulate, or even ban, activities that they deem "too risky", whether it's bodychecking in hockey, chlorine in drinking water, new road construction, oil and gas drilling, military interventions, hydroelectric projects or pioneering medical treatments, to name a few.
But regulation carries the risk of stifling innovation, reducing economic growth and inviting unintended consequences. Regulations can induce the phenomenon of moral hazard, elucidated in 1975 by economist Sam Peltzman at the University of Chicago who noted a law requiring seatbelt use led to an increase in speeding. "The greater protection," he wrote, "had reduced the price of risky driving?...?by reducing the consequences you could expect if you got into an accident."
What's more, estimates of the cost of compliance for federal, provincial and local regulations stood at $85.7 billion in 1994 and have certainly climbed since then (there are no reliable up-to-date figures available). The cost of tax compliance and administration alone ranges from $18.9 billion to $30.8 billion (Compliance and Administrative Costs of Taxation in Canada, Francois Vaillancourt and Jason Clemens, 2007).
Spending billions on regulation intended to limit often minor risks diverts resources from productive wealth-generating, job-creating activities, which actually increases the risk of poverty, the leader in estimated loss of life expectancy (at 3,500 days, it's higher than smoking and heart disease). It can be argued, then, that introducing regulations that reduce job creation increases poverty, which raises the risk of death.
"People will not take entrepreneurial or speculative risks if their endeavours are not protected from arbitrary interference, if they are not guaranteed stable ownership of the capital put at risk, or if the bulk of the proceeds are sequestered from them," wrote Samuel Gregg, an author who marries moral philosophy with political economy and is research director at the Action Institute in Grand Rapids, Mich.
As of September 2011, the capital cost of major projects under construction in British Columbia was $67.6 billion, including retail, office and condo building, mine expansions, highway improvements, school upgrades and resort development. Including proposed projects boosts the cost to $121 billion.
There's more to come if the B.C. government realizes its goal of opening eight new mines by 2015 and building a liquefied natural gas plant near Kitimat. If it proceeds, there will be substantial economic spinoffs from the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project between the Alberta oilsands and Kitimat.
None of these projects is without risk. There is no such thing as risk-free. British Columbians who fear to embrace risk will scare themselves into economic stagnation. Risk is not just a four-letter word; it is the catalyst for every human endeavour. It is the essential ingredient of progress.


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11:30 a.m.: Patty Chang & David Kelley, Flotsam Jetsam
Patty Chang (1972, San Leandro, CA) lives and works in Boston, MA. Chang works primarily with performance and video. She has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the New Museum, NY, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museet Moderna, Stockholm, Sweden; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Fri-Art Centre d'Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland. She is a 2014 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.
David Kelley's work is a hybrid of experimental documentary and ethnographic practices that make use of imaginary, choreographic and performative strategies. His work has been shown in galleries throughout the world. Recently, he has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, White Box in Portland Oregon, and Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles. Other recent exhibitions include The Bank in Shanghai, New Art Center, the de Cordova Biennial in Boston, BAK in Utrecht, MAAP space in Brisbane Australia, and the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok. A 2010 -11 resident at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Kelley received a Master of Fine Art from University of California, Irvine. He is currently based in Boston, Massachusetts and is Associate Professor in the Roski School of Art and Design at USC.
Noon: Kate Dollenmayer
Kate Dollenmayer is a filmmaker and the Audiovisual Archivist at the Wende Museum in Culver City, which collects and preserves art, artifacts, archives, films, and personal histories from Cold War–era Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union relating to the period 1945–1991. Her illuminated lecture COLD WORM (time, auto-corrected) was performed at the Velaslavasy Panorama earlier this year.
12:30 p.m.: C.S. Giscombe
C. S. Giscombe's poetry books are Prairie Style, Giscome Road, Here, etc.; his book of linked essays (concerning Canada, race, and family) is Into and Out of Dislocation. Ohio Railroads (a poem in essay form) was published in 2014 and Border Towns (essays on poetry, color, nature, television, etc.) will appear in 2016. His recognitions include the 2010 Stephen Henderson Award, an American Book Award (for Prairie Style) and the Carl Sandburg Prize (for Giscome Road). Projects underway include a prose book titled Railroad Sense (having to do with trains and other forms of public transportation) and a poetry book titled Negro Mountain. C. S. Giscombe teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is curator of the Mixed Blood readings, talks, and publication series. He is a long-distance cyclist.
1 p.m.: Harmony Holiday, Improvising the Mingus School
Harmony Holiday is a poet, dancer, and archivist, mythscientist and the author of Negro League Baseball (Fence, 2011), Go Find Your Father / A Famous Blues (Ricochet, 2014), and Hollywood Forever (forthcoming from Fence, fall 2015). She was the winner of a 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and she curates the Afrosonics archive, a collection of rare and out-of print LPs and soundbites featuring poetry and poetics from throughout the African Diaspora, both analog at Columbia University's music library and digitally as a Tumblr. Her record label, Mythscience Records, devoted to making titles from the archive available to the public by way of reissues in both vinyl and digital formats, is forthcoming, starting with the reissue of Amiri Baraka's Black Spirits: New Voices in African American Literature LP.
1:30 p.m.: LA Fog
LA Fog is an experimental music group composed of woodwinds and strings. LA Fog is Kelly Coats, Kathleen Kim, Giles Miller and Jonathan Silberman. All four members of LA Fog compose music for the group to play, and the compositions include structures for improvisation along with traditional and non-traditional scores.
2:30 p.m.: Asher Hartman, Da Real Izzard Gizzard, performed by Paul Outlaw
Asher Hartman is an interdisciplinary artist whose work at the junction of performance and theater focuses on the understanding of the self in relation to Western histories and ideologies.
Paul Outlaw is a performing arts multi-hyphenate who has lived and worked in Los Angeles since the turn of the millennium. Recent collaborators include performance artist Mariel Carranza and the experimental hip-hop trio clipping. For more on Paul, please visit outlawplay.com
3 p.m.: Ariana Reines
Ariana Reines is the author of MERCURY (2011), COEUR DE LION (2007), & THE COW (2006), all from Fence, the Obie-Winning play TELEPHONE (2009), & the translator of Preliminary Notes for a Theory of the Young-Girl by TIQQUN & The Little Black Book of Griselidis Real by Jean-Luc Hennig, from Semiotext(e). Her performances include MORTAL KOMBAT (2014) at the Whitney, LORNA (2013) at the Martin E. Segal Theatre, & THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD (2013) at Stuart Shave Modern Art in London. An essay collection from Semiotext(e) & A SAND BOOK, new poems, will be out in 2018. She astrologizes via lazyeyehaver.com & lives in Queens.
3:30 p.m.: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (forthcoming, Wave Books April 2017), Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012), gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), and co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press / Belladonna Books 2009). Julian is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the country band The Western Skyline (www.thewesternskyline.org). Currently in Queens, NY, Julian also sometimes lives in California.
4 p.m.: Peter Bo Rappmund, Tectonics
Peter Bo Rappmund is a Dallas-based interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates environments by way of experiments in the perception of time. He has shown at a variety of venues, including: MoMA; Centro Cultural São Paulo; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; National Maritime Museum, London; Musée d'ethnographie, Neuchâtel; California Academy of Sciences; and the New York, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Ann Arbor, CPH:DOX, Jeonju, Viennale, and Locarno International Film Festivals. PBR teaches at the University of Texas, Arlington.
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"The feeling was that they [the emails] must exist somewhere," [a former Trump aide said], "because once something is digital, it's never truly gone."... "There was never a thought of who might have them," the aide said. "Nobody at the campaign was trying to find them."...York asked "three veteran Republican operatives." You should go read all that. I'll just quote what was said by Barry Bennett ("who ran Ben Carson's 2016 campaign and also served briefly as an adviser to the Trump effort)":
Would it have been appropriate for the Trump campaign to try to find the emails?... What if an intelligence operative from a friendly country got them and offered them? And what about an unfriendly country? Would there be a scale, from standard oppo research on one end to treason on the other, depending on how the emails were acquired?
"If someone I didn't know reached out and said, 'I have them,' I would have immediately called the [Trump campaign] committee and said this person says he has them... I wouldn't want to touch them. But I would very much want them out there in the public. It is still hard for me to believe that copies of them aren't out there somewhere... Even during the Carson campaign I didn't meet with anyone I didn't know... How do you know you're not being set up? I had people come to me and say they had dirt on [Ted] Cruz. I passed. Information can only be as trusted as the source that gives it to you. You can get easily burned with bad info or even looking like you want dirt. This is why everyone outsources research. No one in their right mind would want to touch documents under subpoena. No lawyer would ever let you. All of this being said, of course you want them to go public.... If the Russians had them, the last thing they would do is call a goofy record promoter in England and set up a meeting with a lawyer that can't even get a visa. Instead, DHL them from Asia to the New York Times."ADDED: I'm rereading Bennett's last sentence. Bennett seems to be saying Don Jr. was a fool: 1. For getting personally involved in acquiring the material, and 2. If he thought the Russian government would hand over material in this manner. #2 also supports the inference that the Russian government wasn't behind the Don Jr. meeting. It wouldn't operate like that. But that also could mean that Don Jr. didn't think he was dealing with the Russian government and that he simply didn't think too much about what he was doing. He was a neophyte.
By the way, Hillary Clinton tried to pass off her destruction of the email as some sort of rookie mistake. I don't think anyone believed that. But, as York says (at the link), Donald Trump was effective just talking about how bad she was — having an insecure system, destroying the email while it was under congressional subpoena, and lying about it.


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Agents go after Zetas in raids
Brother of top-level leader linked to S.A. is arrested.
Federal agents Tuesday arrested the brother of a Zetas cartel leader who is wanted in Laredo on murder charges and who the feds say laundered money in San Antonio.
Properties were raided across Texas and the rest of the country as part of an investigation into the drug cartel and its U.S. money laundering operations. The feds searched a horse farm near Bastrop and ranches in New Mexico and Oklahoma, said John Murphy, first assistant U.S. attorney in the Western District of Texas.
The raid in Oklahoma netted José Treviño Morales, 45, brother of the Zetas' second-in-command, Miguel "El 40" Treviño Morales, who is a fugitive in Mexico. Miguel Treviño, 38, is wanted in Mexico and the U.S. for a wide range of crimes, including drug trafficking and ordering hits on both sides of the Rio Grande. An indictment unsealed Tuesday adds money laundering charges.
The Treviños, a third brother, Omar, and 12 others laundered drug proceeds in their horse farms, according to the indictment, filed in court in Austin. Seven of those charged were arrested across the country, including José Treviño and his wife, Zulema, 38. The two own a house in the Dallas area. As part of the case, the feds are trying to take horses, property and bank accounts.
"It's difficult to seize live animals because it can be expensive to care and feed for them," Murphy said. "We don't want the horses to be injured. This operation took a lot of planning."
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A fugitive on the run in Mexico, Miguel Treviño "was actively involved in the management of the quarter-horse activities, including directing funds to pay for the purchase, breeding, training and racing of the quarter horses," according to the indictment. His horses have raced at Retama Park.
It was unclear Tuesday whether Treviño has hired a lawyer to represent him.
Tuesday's arrests prompted a travel warning from the U.S. State Department, which discouraged travel to Mexico because of an "enhanced potential for violence."
The Zetas have become the top cartel in Mexico, said Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"What the Zetas do is they engage in every type of criminal activity that one could possibly imagine," Vigil said. "Not only drug trafficking, but extortion, kidnapping, money laundering, weapons trafficking, human trafficking. They have created a massive corporation of criminal activity."
The New York Times reported Tuesday that the Treviño brothers were part of a wave of quarter-horse breeders from Mexico who have infused the sport with new blood — and cash.
Miguel Treviño is an avid horse racer. He's believed to be the money behind a dog-racing track in his hometown of Nuevo Laredo as well.
The Times reported that José Treviño stunned the quarter-horse world, winning stake after stake with unknown animals, and soon became a well-known figure in the community, even giving interviews.
The paper also reported the tragic story of Ramiro Villarreal, "an unlikely horseman" from a modest family who became the brothers' prized horse purchaser.
But Villarreal eventually turned informant against "El 40," whom he called "Papi," the paper reported. In March 2011, he was found in a torched car near Nuevo Laredo.
Erik Vasys, FBI spokesman in San Antonio, said the investigation began in Laredo but mushroomed after agents learned that the case had tentacles in several parts of the country.
"My personal opinion is that these individuals, they figured that José doesn't have a criminal record. He's clean," Vigil said. "And I think initially the idea was for him to get a ranch and basically keep a low profile. Buy horses. Sell horses. But I think they got to the point where they started racing. They started making a lot of money in Ruidoso (N.M.) and other horse races. I think they forgot about keeping a low profile and became very visible."
One of those arrested as part of the raids was Carlos Miguel Nayen Borbolla, 32, who the feds say laundered money to buy horses and pay trainers. Although he was arrested in California, Nayen is the officer of a Zetas front company in Laredo, the indictment alleges.
Miguel Treviño was named in a warrant for the February arrest of Antonio Peña Arguelles, a Laredo rancher who was picked up at his Stone Oak-area home on money laundering charges. Peña Arguelles was an intermediary for Treviño and corrupt Mexican politicians, the warrant alleges.
Treviño is wanted on five murder warrants in Laredo for killings that happened there in 2005 and 2006. As recently as 2010, a Laredo police detective testified in a court there last year, Miguel and Omar Treviño ordered hits north of the Rio Grande.


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Clouds are fascinating because they take on so many different, beautiful shapes and are constantly changing. Cloud-watching from Earth can be endlessly entertaining, but some of the most amazing cloud patterns can only be properly appreciated from space.
Satellites can take in thousands of miles of the Earth's surface in one shot, revealing complicated and intriguing cloud patterns we could never see from below. We've gathered here some of the best cloud formations to see from above.
Click on any of the images in this gallery for a higher-resolution version.
Von Kármán Vortex Street, Selkirk Island
The crazy-looking swirls in the image above may be one of the weirdest cloud formations that can be seen from space. The pattern is known as a von Kármán vortex street, named after Theodore von Kármán. First noticed in the laboratory by fluid dynamicists, it occurs when a more-viscous fluid flows through water and encounters a cylindrical object, which creates vortices in the flow.
Alejandro Selkirk Island, off the Chilean coast, is acting like the cylinder in the image above, taken by the Landsat 7 satellite in September 1999. A beautiful vortex street disrupts a layer of stratocumulus clouds low enough to be affected by the island, which rises a mile above sea level.
More strange and wonderful vortex streets formed by islands can be seen in the images below and in the last slide of this gallery. Below is Guadalupe Island, 21 miles off the coast of Mexico's Baja California, shot in 2000 by Landsat 7; Rishiri Island in the northern Sea of Japan, photographed by space shuttle astronauts in 2001; and Wrangel Island, above the Arctic Circle northeast of Siberia, flanked by a vortex street created by the smaller Gerald Island, imaged by NASA's Aqua satellite in August 2008.
Images: 1) Bob Cahalan/NASA, USGS. 2) NASA. 3) NASA. 4) NASA (STS100-710-182).
Anvil Cloud, Western Africa
Under specific conditions, the towering, fluffy white clouds known as cumulonimbus can become flattened into the shape of an anvil. The anvil in the image above was captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station as it crossed over western Africa in February 2008.
Cumulonimbus clouds form when air warmed by sun-heated ground rises. If the warm air contains water vapor and it encounters cooler air, the moisture condenses into water droplets. The air continues to rise, expand and cool as atmospheric pressure and temperature decrease. At the same time, heat released from the phase transition between water vapor and liquid water warms the air. The cooler air wants to fall, while the warmed air wants to rise, which sets up convection cells that feed the tall cloud towers and often result in thunderstorms.
In the tropics, these towers can grow to be 12 miles tall. At this point, they hit the tropopause, which is the boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere layers of the atmosphere. Beyond the tropopause, air no longer cools as it rises, which stops the cloud top, which may then spread and flatten along the boundary.
The image below, taken by an astronaut aboard the space shuttle in February 1984, shows several cumulonimbus towers and anvils over Brazil.
Images: NASA
Gravity Waves, Indian Ocean
The gravity-wave clouds in this image look almost like a fingerprint on the stratocumulus cloud layer below them. This intriguing pattern occurs when air below moves vertically to disturb a stable cloud layer, causing a ripple effect.
The disturbance can be caused by features of the terrain below, such as a mountain range, but these waves overlie the Indian Ocean and are more likely the result of a vertical updraft caused by a thunderstorm or some other atmospheric instability.
The best viewpoint for this phenomenon is probably from space. This natural-color image from the multi-angle imaging spectro-radiometer aboard NASA's Terra satellite was captured in October 2003.
Image: NASA
Wave Clouds, Amsterdam Island
Amsterdam Island is just 13 miles long, but the island's volcano rises 2,844 feet above the surface of the Indian Ocean, high enough to disturb the clouds above it. In the image above, the island creates a wake of lenticular clouds, sometimes called wave clouds when they form this pattern.
The wave clouds were created by wind that hit the island and was forced upward by the volcano. As the air rises, it cools, and water vapor condenses and forms clouds. The air then falls down the other side of the volcano, and the clouds evaporate. This pattern alternates as air flows past the island, creating what resembles the wake behind a ship.
From the ground, lenticular clouds often look like flying saucers or continuous shelves. The image above was taken by the moderate-resolution imaging spectro-radiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite in December 2005.
Below, the Sandwich Islands in the Southern Atlantic are also creating wakes as low-lying stratiform clouds pass by their volcanic peaks. The size of the wake corresponds to the height of each peak, which range in elevation from 620 feet to 4,500 feet. This image was captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite in January 2004.
Images: 1) Jeff Schmaltz/NASA. 2) Jacques Descloitres/NASA.
Cyclones, South Atlantic Ocean
The swirling pattern in the image above is two tangled polar cyclones over the South Atlantic Ocean. Cyclones like these are often created by low-pressure systems over cold, open water. The spot of green in the upper left is water just off the southern tip of Africa.
This image was taken by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite in April 2009.
Image: Jeff Schmaltz/NASA
Popcorn Clouds, Brazil
This vast, impressively uniform layer of small clouds over the Amazon rain forest shown in the image above is the product of rapid plant growth. During the forest's dry season, the plants get more sunlight. This leads to more growth and more photosynthesis, which releases water vapor into the air through transpiration. The warm, wet air rises and cools, causing the water vapor to condense into small, fluffy white clouds that resemble popcorn, particularly in the close-up below.
In this image, taken by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite on August 19, 2009, the cloud cover is broken by the rivers, which don't give off as much heat as the land does to warm the air and trigger the cloud formation.
Images: Jeff Schmaltz/NASA
Cloud Streets, Bering Strait
Wind is chilled as it moves across sea ice in the Bering Strait, and when this cold air hits the the open ocean, parallel rows of clouds known as cloud streets are formed.
The streets are the result of the interaction of the dry, chilled wind with the warmer, wetter air over the water. The warm air rises and is cooled by the wind, which causes the water vapor in it to condense into clouds. At the same time, the cool air sinks, which sets up long rotating cylinders of air where clouds are formed on the upward moving sides, and the air stays clear on the downsides. This creates the long, alternating rows of clouds and clear air seen in the image of the Bering Strait taken in January 2010 by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite.
Below is a closer view of cloud streets in the Bering Strait captured by Terra on January 20, 2006, and below that an image of cloud streets in the same area the next day. At the bottom is an image of cloud streets forming off the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, taken by NASA's Aqua satellite in August 2006.
Images: 1) Jeff Schmaltz/NASA. 2, 3, 4) Jesse Allen/NASA.
Ship Tracks, Pacific Ocean
The maze of cloud streams in this image is the result of exhaust from ship engines. The clouds form when water vapor condenses onto particles in the exhaust, which act as seeds for the clouds. The ship tracks are brighter than the other clouds in the image, because they are made of more plentiful, smaller particles.
The image above was taken in March 2009 over the Pacific Ocean south of Alaska by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite. The tracks below were captured by Terra in the same area in April 2002. Below that is an image of ship tracks in the Pacific Ocean near the northwest coast of North America taken by the Aqua satellite in January 2008.
Images: 1) Jeff Schmaltz/NASA. 2) Jacques Descloitres/NASA. 3) Jesse Allen/NASA.
Open- and Closed-Cell Clouds, Pacific Ocean
The honeycomb pattern in the image above is made up of stratocumulus clouds with open cells that look like voids surrounded by thin clouds, and closed cells that look like cotton balls surrounded by strips of open space. The empty-looking open cells occur when closed-cell clouds begin to produce a light drizzle. Fields of these cells are difficult to see from the ground, but are spectacular from space. The clouds pictured above were imaged by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite over the Pcific Ocean near Peru on April 17, 2010.
In the image below, open- and closed-cell clouds can be seen along with closely related actinoform clouds. The actinoform pattern, near the center of the image, has rays that look like the veins on a leaf. This image of clouds off the west coast of South America was captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite in September 2005.
Images: 1) Jeff Schmaltz/NASA. 2) Jesse Allen/NASA.
Glory, Baja California
The images above and below show a spectacular phenomenon known as a glory, which is a rainbow-like ring pattern caused by the scattering of sunlight by clouds made of liquid water droplets that are less than 50 micrometers across and all about the same size. These images were taken when a satellite passed directly between the sun and the clouds.
In the image above, captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite in May 2008, the glory runs down the center. The red and orange colors are easiest to see, and the band of color is around 37 miles wide. There is also a bonus von Kármán vortex street created by Guadalupe Island in the upper right of the picture.
The image below shows a slightly less-visible glory, as well as von Kármán vortices behind Guadalupe Island. This shot was taken in June 2007 by NASA's Terra satellite.
Images: 1) Jesse Allen/NASA. 2) Jeff Schmaltz/NASA.
Lake Effects, Aral Sea and Great Lakes
The Aral Sea created an unusual pattern of wave clouds in the image above, captured by NASA's Aqua satellite in March 2009. Wave clouds themselves aren't especially rare, but they are usually formed when high topography (such as a mountain) or a strong updraft of air causes a disturbance in a cloud layer. Here, the shore of the Aral Sea is clearly creating the disturbance, which could be the result of a sudden uptick in wind speed as the air reaches the smooth surface of the lake, or by the shoreline which has steadily been growing higher than the water surface as the Aral Sea shrinks over time.
A more typical lake effect is seen in the image below of the Great Lakes region of North America, taken by the sea-viewing wide field-of-view sensor (SeaWiFS) aboard GeoEye's SeaStar satellite in December 2000. As cold air flows northwest across the relatively warm Lakes Nipigon (top left), Superior, and Michigan, the warm, moist air rises and mixes with with the cold, dry wind forming a stratocumulus cloud layer. As the process continues, the water droplets in the cloud layer may freeze and grow into snowflakes, sometimes creating massive snowstorms.
Images: 1) Jeff Schmaltz/NASA. 2) GeoEye/SeaWiFS.
Hurricane Bill, Atlantic Ocean
Hurricane Bill was one of the largest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record and grew to a maximum diameter of 460 miles. This image of Bill was taken August 20, 2009 NASA's Terra satellite when the storm was northeast of Puerto Rico and had sustained winds of 120 miles an hour.
Image: Jeff Schmaltz/NASA.
Island Effect, Greenland Sea
Jan Mayen island is creating spectacular von Kármán vortices in a otherwise uniform set of parallel cloud streets in the Greenland Sea. Like the islands on the first page of this gallery, Jan Mayen is interrupting the flow of air and causing the clouds streaming by to break into eddies swirling in opposite directions in its wake. The coast of Greenland and protruding sea ice is visible in the upper left of this image taken in February 2009 by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite.
Image: Jeff Schmaltz/NASA
See Also:
- Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space
- Erupting Volcanoes on Earth as Seen From Space
- Asteroid Impact Craters on Earth as Seen From Space
- Sublime Sand: Desert Dunes Seen From Space
- Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space
- Huge Holes in the Earth: Open-Pit Mines Seen From Space


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All the Light We Cannot See Book Review
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"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr; Scribner Publishing; May 2014; 531 pp
Author Anthony Doerr was traveling in a New York subway when he had the idea for his new book "All the Light We Cannot See." A fellow traveler was overly upset when he was unable to get reception on his cell phone. Doerr reflected on the magic of radio and how amazing it is that we can hear the voice of someone many miles from us; he decided this would be the inspiration for his next book. He began with the idea of a boy trapped somewhere, listening to the voice of an unknown young girl reading to him over the radio.
While traveling in Europe, Doerr discovered the beautiful walled city of Saint-Malo, on the north coast of France, which was almost entirely destroyed by allied bombs in 1944. He did some research and immediately knew he wanted to set his novel in this city, during the time of the bombing. He was also fascinated by what happened during the German invasion of Paris in 1940 when the French worked to save as much art and natural science objects as they could from the Germans. This became the third inspiration for his novel.
In "All the Light We Cannot See" Doerr weaves the parallel stories of Werner, a German boy, with Marie-Laure, a young French girl. Marie-Laure, who lives with her father in Paris, has been blind since age six; her father is the locksmith for the thousands of locks at the Museum of Natural History. When Marie-Laure turns twelve, the Nazis take over Paris and she and her father flee to Saint-Malo to live with his reclusive uncle Etienne; in their possession may be the museum's most valuable jewel.
Werner, a young orphan in a mining town in Germany, discovers that he has an aptitude for the workings of radios. His hope is that this expertise will keep him from working in the mines. He ends up in an elite academy for Hitler Youth where he becomes an expert at building and repairing radios. As a young German soldier his skills win him an assignment to track the Nazi resistance by finding illegal radio transmissions.
Eventually, Werner's path crosses with Marie-Laure's when he arrives in Saint-Malo to locate radio transmissions that are coming from somewhere in that city. Etienne and Marie-Laure are responsible for some of those broadcasts; Etienne's transmissions are to aid the resistance but Marie-Laure is simply reading aloud one of her favorite novels, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," which intrigues Werner. He is drawn to her voice even as he is trapped in a basement, under the rubble of a bombed-out hotel near the spot where Marie-Laure is broadcasting. By this time, Marie-Laure is alone, hiding from a German soldier who is after the valuable jewel.
"All the Light We Cannot See" has suspense, interesting historical aspects and a compelling storyline. What makes the novel such a great read, though, is the manner in which it is written. Doerr tells his story in a beautiful, tender way, while skillfully capturing the sights, emotions and sounds of wartime. Werner is depicted as a good person who has to make choices between opportunity and morality. Marie-Laure is a beautiful, thoughtful young girl whose attentive father has done everything he can to ensure her independence in spite of her blindness.
Ten years in the writing, this epic novel touches on a variety of subjects including the power of the voice via the radio, valuable gems, mollusks, wooden miniatures and locks. Even more, it tells a rich story of kindness, love, fear, beauty and grace. "All the Light We Cannot See" is a book that will stay with readers long after it is read.


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Konoha Cryptanalysis Team (木ノ葉暗号解読班, Konoha Angō Kaidoku Han)
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The Konoha Cryptanalysis Team (木ノ葉暗号解読班, Konoha Angō Kaidoku Han) also known as the Konoha Cryptology Team (木ノ葉暗号班, Konoha Angō Han) is an organisation specialising in deciphering secret codes and messages, taking their orders directly from the Hokage. Their base of operation is located in a library-structured office. This facility possesses a desktop computer and numerous vertical files, presumably holding almost all of the secret codes Konohagakure uses in missions and message delivery. They work closely with the shinobi who oversee the Konoha Aviary.
After Takamaru arrived at the aviary, noting the fact that the village had sent their fastest hawk and the seal on the scroll, Natori immediately calls Yurika — a member of the Cryptology Team — who rushes to Tsunade to inform her that the Fifth Kazekage had been captured by Akatsuki.
The Cryptanalysis Team was later requested to assist in deciphering the code Jiraiya had left behind. After finding out the key to the code (with help from Naruto and Kakashi), Shiho uncovers that the message stated: "the real one is not amongst them", referring to who the real Pain is. After the assault on the village where their office was destroyed, they operated in a tent for the time being.


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text: Discovering your true risk tolerance level By David Joy, Chief Market Strategist, Ameriprise Financial Share on: Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Email Key Points Identifying your risk tolerance level is critical to developing an appropriate investment portfolio. Yet, traditional methods of determining your appetite for risk can fall short. Ameriprise Financial is developing an approach that can help you more precisely assess your risk tolerance. The ability to accurately identify an individual's risk tolerance is one of the foundational underpinnings of a well-designed investment portfolio. Typically, the process involves answering a series of questions related to your financial position, investment goals and attitudes toward maintaining a consistent portfolio — even through periods of significant market fluctuations. The objective of such a questionnaire is to reveal where you reside on the risk spectrum, ranging from conservative to aggressive. Defining your risk tolerance level makes it possible to build a portfolio that is suitable for your needs. Not a perfect science There are limitations to the process of determining an investor's risk tolerance. It is rather mechanical, designed to be "one size fits all," at least as a first step. Furthermore, research shows that various factors, such as your degree of financial literacy, educational background, marital status and other variables can influence how you respond to a risk-tolerance questionnaire. In addition, your answers are subject to change over time. "Recency bias," for example, can influence how you respond to questions about your ability to manage market risk. From an investment standpoint, this means your answers at a time of relative market calm may not be the same as your answers at a time of real market stress. For example, it wasn't unusual to see investors turn far more risk-averse after the dramatic stock market decline of 2007 to 2009. Today, into the 11th year of a bull market, you may be more inclined to shift to a more aggressive investment stance and take on more risk. But will the next bear market change your perspective again? The need for an honest self-assessment Ancient Greek philosophers exhorted their students to "know thyself." Investors should do the same. Develop an understanding of your hopes and fears, motivations and aspirations, and how those factors might impact your attitude toward gain and loss, risk and reward. This is one of the foundational principles of behavioral economics, which reminds us that we are human, not the rational actors that classical economic models assume. A number of factors influence the decisions we make about our financial lives. Understanding how you are likely to respond to changing market conditions makes you better equipped to avoid counter-productive, emotionally driven short-term decisions. By honestly assessing your risk tolerance level, you are less likely to abandon a thoughtful investment plan during a market selloff, or to take on excessive risk during a bull market. You should seek to build an investment portfolio that is designed to work for you over the long run, with only minor adjustments from time to time. Your advisor can help Ameriprise Financial is developing new tools to make the process of identifying your risk tolerance more dynamic. It uses a series of real, historical market scenarios to illustrate their impact on a portfolio, in both percentage and dollar terms. The process is designed to enhance the traditional risk-tolerance questionnaire by making it more interactive. You will gain a greater appreciation of how specific changes in future markets are likely to impact your own portfolio. In this way, we believe the process will lead to greater precision in defining what it means to be a conservative or aggressive investor, or somewhere in between. As a result, you should be able to more clearly define where you, as an investor, truly stand on the risk spectrum. This is critical in the preparation of an Investment Policy Statement that documents your risk tolerance, investment objectives and the frequency with which to revisit and potentially make adjustments to your portfolio. To learn more about risk tolerance and the role it plays in building a sound portfolio, or if you have questions about your own profile, please speak with your Ameriprise financial advisor. News & Featured Insights Personal Finance & Investing Is your portfolio on the right side of digitalization? Markets & Economy Potential sector impacts of the presidential election Markets & Economy 5 key drivers for stocks in the near term Retirement Planning for unexpected medical costs Insurance & Estate Insurance solutions later in life Markets & Economy Resources during market uncertainty Retirement 5 things to know about Medicare View more insights


text: Just about everything is going right for the Kansas City Royals these days. Theyve won 24 of their last 31 games to take over first place in the AL Central. Even the schedule seems to be breaking their way. The Royals played their last nine games against teams currently in last place Ś and theyll play 10 of their final 33 against last-place Minnesota, Texas and Boston. Manager Ned Yost, however, is taking nothing for granted. "These are the games that according to the standings and this and that, these are games youre supposed to come in and win Ś and thats not always the case," Yost said. "You dont understand the difficulty of coming in and playing a major league game. Its hard to win a major league game." The team chasing the Royals in the division can certainly vouch for that. Second-place Detroit had to fight back over the weekend just to salvage a four-game split against the Twins. Minnesota scored 32 runs in the first two games of that series. According to STATS, the Royals have the easiest schedule in the American League the rest of the way, playing opponents with an aggregate winning percentage of .479. But how significant is that? The Tigers will face teams with a winning percentage of .496, so theyll have a chance to go on a run themselves if they play well enough. In baseball, there are no gimmes on the schedule Ś and thats even more true this year, when theres a decent chance nobody will lose 100 games. Texas, which has baseballs worst record, is on pace for 99 defeats. The Twins may be in last place, but theyre on pace for 72 wins and just gave Detroits pitching fits. And on the flip side, baseball hasnt had a 100-win team since 2011, and nobody is on pace for it this year either. The parity in the game right now is one reason nobodys schedule will be that easy or that hard down the stretch. For what its worth, the toughest remaining schedule belongs to Texas Ś the Rangers cant play against themselves, after all. Their opponents have a .537 winning percentage. The NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers (.467) have the easiest road ahead, but the second-easiest schedule belongs to San Francisco, which trails the Dodgers by 4 1/2 games in the division. Here are five things to watch around the majors this week: HOLDING ON?: The Milwaukee Brewers are clinging to a 1 1/2-game lead in the NL Central, but they catch a bit of a break this week because second-place St. Louis will play a three-game series at third-place Pittsburgh. The Brewers will have a chance to gain ground on one or both of those teams. TATTERED TIGERS: Detroits starting rotation looked imperious when the Tigers traded for David Price, but injuries to Anibal Sanchez and Justin Verlander left the team in a surprisingly precarious position. Youngsters Robbie Ray and Buck Farmer failed to make it out of the second inning in their starts against the Twins. 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High incidence of leukemia in large animals after stem cell gene therapy with a HOXB4-expressing retroviral vector Zhang, Xiao-Bing; Beard, Brian C.; Trobridge, Grant D.; Wood, Brent L.; Sale, George E.; Sud, Reeteka; Humphries, Keith; Kiem, Hans-Peter (2008-03-20)Retroviral vector–mediated HSC gene therapy has been used to treat individuals with a number of life-threatening diseases. However, some patients with SCID-X1 developed retroviral vector–mediated leukemia after treatment. ...


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The investment map of Russia shows the business potential of each region and the risk connected with possible investment. The fourteen investment rankings of the Russian regions for 2008/2009 has been prepared by Expert RA Rating Agency. You can also compare the results with a previous ranking.
The investment map and preferences of investors has radically changed. The economic crisis has forced investors to rethink priorities from both sides; potential and risk. Nowadays the most competitive are those regions with the lowest "human" risks; criminal, administrative and social. The potential of the consumer, that held the leading position in previous rankings, is less important for investors that in the past. The importance of infrastructure potential remains stable.