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The much-vaunted secrecy of tax havens the world over is in danger as bailouts, outrage over low or no taxes paid by hugely profitable corporations, and precarious economies—such as that of Cyprus—make headlines.
Leaders from the EU to the U.S. are calling for greater transparency, tighter regulations and an end to tax evasion by multinational corporations and the high-net-worth. While the jury is still out on whether, and how much, change will come, one thing is certain: tax havens have become a much more open secret. That in itself could bring change in many areas—from taxation to earnings to business practices and even politics.
In 50 to 60 such locations in the world, corporations and individuals have sheltered what is estimated to be $8 trillion to $20 trillion; since there is such a shroud of secrecy over who owns how much, the actual amount is unknown. The EU estimated this April that it loses as much as a trillion euros per year to tax evasion. That by itself is enough to fund the complete bailouts of Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus twice over, and still have 200 billion euros left. Or, to put it another way, 1 trillion euros is equal to Spain's annual economic output.
Dr. Eric Toder, co-director of the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, said that there were two kinds of secrecy at issue in the current climate: "One conceals tax avoidance is a big concern about people who might be using secret accounts to conceal drug dealings or other [illicit activities]," he said.
With businesses trying to book their income in countries with the lowest tax rates and most advantageous laws, there is "public disquiet" about the effects of such activities as governments look for ways to bring in additional income to offset losses from the global economic slowdown.
That disquiet is making itself known in a number of ways, including a movement to rein in tax havens. An online petition launched in Europe seeks a "truth commission" to investigate corruption and tax evasion in Switzerland, as well as criminal action against officials and politicians who have salted money away in tax havens. The EU is discussing calls from various member states for those absent tax euros to help finance economies hurting in the wake of the financial crisis. And the U.S. has already taken action, both through investigations of financial misdeeds and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
However, with corporations—and many politicians on both sides of the world—firmly on the other side of the issue, just how much can be done remains to be seen. The U.S., though, in March asked Liechtenstein for information on Americans with financial ties there, and it has already brought Switzerland to heel through its pursuit of American tax evaders. Switzerland's oldest bank, Wegelin, ended a 272-year history earlier in the year when it succumbed to that pursuit. Now Switzerland is working to negotiate a settlement with the U.S. for the rest of its banks, but that's not the only issue for the Swiss. A distaste has developed for some of the companies that use Switzerland as a means of evading higher taxes in other jurisdictions.
Commodities traders that use Switzerland as the site of their trades have made their own headlines, such as Trafigura, which dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast, and Glencore, which recently reveled in the boost to its business a severe U.S. drought would pose. This is not the image Switzerland wants—the home of traders who focus on profits to the exclusion of human costs—and the country's finance, economy, and foreign ministries are jointly carrying out an investigation of trading companies that benefit from the country's long-entrenched confidentiality and low taxes.
Between the Swiss investigation and actions by other governments to bring home taxes on sheltered income, businesses may be in for a rude awakening. "That's the risk you take when you build a business essentially built on bilking other countries' treasuries Switzerland is in the middle of Europe," Toder said. It's no doubt worried about its reputation." However, he added, "Island [tax haven] jurisdictions are not that worried. I think they're attractive to the people they want to be attractive to." Other companies faced boycotts when their tax bills (or lack thereof) were revealed.
The heavy reliance of a tax haven's government on its financial sector is also a cause for concern. Cyprus's recent fall from grace resulted in large depositors falling prey to the costs of its bailout, with chatter that a similar fate may await other large depositors in other economically troubled countries. But subsequent headlines have suggested that problems could also lie ahead for Luxembourg, the EU's wealthiest country, because of the size of its banking sector: 22 times the country's annual economic output. In contrast, Cyprus's financial sector was only eight times its annual output. Luxembourg denies there is even a hint of trouble, but EU officials are concerned about countries where the financial sector tail wags the national economy dog.
Malta, too, has voiced its own central bank's concern about the state of its economy; its financial sector is also eight times its annual output. Josef Bonnici, the central bank governor, suggested that Maltese banks should better diversify their lending portfolios in the long term.
Fallout from ties to tax havens is heavy and growing heavier. News that former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney had accounts in the Cayman Islands did not help his campaign, but in March, a member of French President Francois Hollande's government resigned after news broke that he'd owned a secret Swiss account. Former Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac had been leading a government crackdown on, of all things, tax evasion, and repeatedly denied a December report by a French news outlet that he'd had the Swiss account until the beginning of 2010. When he was tied to the account by a voice recording, he resigned.
Still, change is unlikely to come quickly. Although Luxembourg has announced that it will lift its secrecy rules for EU citizens with accounts there, Austria still defends its own secrecy policies, which are written into its constitution. Maria Fekter, the country's finance minister, declared that she would "fight like a lion" to preserve Austria's banking secrecy. She also pointed the finger at Britain for its tax havens, including the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Gibraltar. Britain has said it will make tax evasion the top priority at the G8 this year, during its term of presidency.
While "how all this squeezes out is hard to say. It's a difficult problem because it really requires international cooperation. Even without cooperation, there are going to be some unilateral moves—by the U.S., to keep some minimum tax on the foreign income of its companies, and there's talk about changes in other places. Japan has a minimum tax on income that its companies receive from low-tax countries. It's not that countries are doing nothing; it's that you need to get away from a race to the bottom, and whether that's with coordinating activities [or singly], countries are doing that," according to Toder.


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Earlier this morning, we showed you an amazing photo of a swamped Japanese F-2A fighter jet. Now there's video of the damage done to it — and 17 others — at its air base.
We've learned now that 18 F-2As belonging to the 21st Fighter Squadron out of the Matsushima Japanese Air Self Defence Force base in the Miyagi prefecture were swamped due to the tsunami that hit directly after the March 11th 9.0 earthquake.
The Mitsubishi F-2 is manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Lockheed Martin as a fighter jet for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, with a 60/40 split in manufacturing between Japan and the USA. Production started in 1996 and the first aircraft entered service in 2000. A total of 94 F-2s were produced.
And we've now learned that these 18 jets might be irreparably damaged.

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Categories: Constitutional Law
Instructor(s) Althouse, Ann
This course explores constitutional protections of individual rights. Most of our time will be spent contemplating the "Equal Protection" and "Due Process" clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Our analysis of the Equal Protection clause will address race (including the related issues of desegregation and affirmative action) and gender discrimination, as well as other potential bases of equal protection claims such as disability and sexual orientation. Next, we will consider the fundamental rights recognized as part of the Due Process Clause, covering the constitutional protection of contraception, abortion, and sexual activity.
I teach this course with attention to the idea that what constitutes a good or persuasive constitutional argument has changed and will continue to change over time. In class, we will explore how "what the Constitution means" is often intertwined with the questions of how one chooses to interpret it, who is the person or institution performing this interpretation, and why the question is presented in the first place. Important to our study will be an appreciation of the "law in action," taking into account the history, social realities, discourses, and political efforts surrounding the key cases. To help us go beyond the doctrinal rules of the law, we will use several non-traditional techniques, including role plays (where students literally wear the hat of a constitutional interpreter), video supplements, internet streaming audio/video, and real life hypotheticals.
I expect students to come to class prepared to articulate the relevant constitutional rulings as well as your own analyses of the issues. The goal is an interactive classroom environment that is demanding yet open and alive.
Textbook: Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking: Cases and Materials, edited by Paul Brest, Sanford Levinson, Jack Balkin, Akhil Amar, & Reva Siegel


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Geertken Erasmusdochter (d. 1538)
Geertken Erasmusdochter, an Anabaptist martyr, a native of Maastricht, was burned at the stake on 11 September 1538 at Vught near 's Hertogenbosch in the Dutch province of North Brabant. She was one of the nine members of Paulus van Drunen's congregation, who were executed at Vught on 9 and 11 September 1538.
This is the same person as Geertruydt Adriaens de Roevre (d. 1539)
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1917): 189.
|Nanne van der Zijpp
|Date Published
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Geertken Erasmusdochter (d. 1538)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 29 Sep 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Geertken_Erasmusdochter_(d._1538)&oldid=107717.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1956). Geertken Erasmusdochter (d. 1538). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 29 September 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Geertken_Erasmusdochter_(d._1538)&oldid=107717.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 442. All rights reserved.
©1996-2020 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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Birthday Blocks
Cream cheese is the secret ingredient in this simple pound cake recipe. It makes the cake firm for cutting—and easy to frost, too. This cake can be baked ahead and frozen, then thawed before the party and decorated, leaving you with plenty of time for other preparations. — Ethel Ledbetter, Canton, North Carolina
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake 1 hour 20 min. + cooling
Makes16 servings
- 1-1/2 cups butter, softened
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 3 cups sugar
- 6 large eggs, room temperature
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1/3 cup butter, softened
- 9 cups confectioners' sugar, divided
- 1/2 cup milk
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Additional milk
- Tinted icing and pastry bag or tubes of tinted icing
- In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually add flour; beat just until blended. Stir in extracts. Pour into two greased and floured 9x5-in. loaf pans. Bake at 325° for 1 hour 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pans for 15 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
- For frosting, in a large bowl, cream butter until fluffy. Gradually beat in 4 cups confectioners' sugar. Slowly add milk and vanilla. Beat in remaining confectioners' sugar. Add additional milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, until frosting reaches spreading consistency; set aside.
- To make building blocks, cut each cake in half, then cut each half into four blocks for a total of 16 blocks. Gently trim crusts of each; blocks should measure 1-3/4x1-3/4 in. Frost sides and top of blocks. Smooth frosting using a warm spatula. Using tinted icing, decorate with letters and numbers (see photo). Carefully stack blocks on a serving platter.


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The conservative blogosphere is fighting back against Seamus-gate, pointing out that while Mitt Romney may have strapped his family dog to the roof of his car, President Obama has actually eaten man's four-legged best friend.
Daily Caller blogger Jim Treacher flags this excerpt from Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance:
"With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share."
Of course, the experience to which Obama is referring happened over 30 years ago, during the boyhood years he spent with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia. And he's talking about sampling exotic local delicacies, not eating his own pet.
But that hasn't stopped the Internet from gleefully celebrating the rediscovered anecdote, with Treacher leading the charge. (He launched at least three Twitter hashtags about the story, including #GenK9 and the popular #ObamaDogRecipes.)
See the best #ObamaDogReicipes Tweets Here >
The Romney campaign also had a little fun with the story — and who can blame them? Democrats have relentlessly hammered the Seamus story, and seized on it again today after Ann Romney told Diane Sawyer that "the dog loved" riding on top of the car.
But top Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom got a little retribution via Twitter, dragging up this old tweet from Obama strategist David Axelrod:
As I pointed out earlier today, the Seamus story has had staying power because it reinforces the perception that Romney is "weird" and unfeeling. Similarly, the Obama-eats-dog story might similarly underscore Obama's perceived "foreignness."
But hopefully this new front in the 2012 "dog wars" will just make it clear that the entire debate has been dumb from the beginning.


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Discover! Simulations
The Life Processes
1. Get Set to Explore
- diffusion: The movement of particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.
- organelle: Small structures inside a cell that perform specific functions.
- ratio: The relationship between two quantities, which can be expressed as a fraction.
- surface area: The area of the surface of an object; the surface area of a cell can be expressed as 4πr2, where r is the radius of the cell.
- volume: The amount of space something occupies; the volume of a cell can be expressed by the formula ()πr3, where r is the radius of the cell.
Building Background
- Review what a cell is and draw a circle on the board to represent a cell. Referring students to Student Edition pages A8–A10, call on volunteers to come up and draw different organelles inside the cell. Have them label each with its name and function.
- Go over the idea that some organisms are made of one cell and some are made of many cells. Ask students to name some single-celled organisms. Discuss the size of these organisms. Elicit the idea that single-celled organisms tend to be small, in comparison to multicellular organisms. Write the Discover! question on the board and give students a chance to discuss answers. Record their ideas on the board.
- Present the vocabulary words, reinforcing the math concepts related to ratio, surface area, and volume. Define π for students. Explain that the vocabulary words give hints to help them answer the Discover! question. Encourage students to try to formulate an answer to the question. Let them revise the answers already written on the board.
2. Guide the Exploration
- Have students launch the Discover! Simulation. Tell them to listen closely to the directions. Point out the scroll bar for changing the size of the cell. Explain that moving the cursor over the controls gives definitions of key terms.
- Students should try changing the cell to several different sizes, taking notes on what they observe. They should pay attention to how the bar graphs comparing surface area and volume change as the size of the cell changes. They should watch the animation and listen to the narration at the conclusion of each animation.
- Before students do Step 3 of the simulation, return to the Discover! question and let students propose answers. Encourage them to revise or add to the ideas already up on the board. Then, direct them to complete the simulation.
3. Review/Assess
- Ask students to summarize Step 3's Wrap-Up text in their own words. Encourage them to explain what happened in the simulation when the cell got too large. Make sure students understand the relationship between a cell's size and its need and ability to take in nutrients. Allow students to revise their previous answers to the Discover! question, which are recorded on the board. To tie concepts together, have a volunteer read the final paragraph of the Wrap-Up text aloud to the class.
- Refer students to the drawing of the cell on the board the class made before doing the simulation. Students can return to the simulation to do the Extension activity. Challenge them to look for all of the organelles shown in the drawing on the board. Students should be able to identify these following organelles in the computer cell: cell membrane, nucleus, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, Golgi apparatus.
If time permits, present students with the following question and activity:
- Critical Thinking: Classify Study the structure of and organelles in the cell pictured in the simulation. What kind of cell is shown? Answer: An animal cell is shown. Students can infer this is an animal cell because of the lack of cell wall and chloroplasts.
- Inquiry Skill: Use Models Use a rubber band or another type of thin, stretchy material, to make a model of a cell membrane. Use beads of different colors to represent nutrients and wastes. Show how the cell membrane can change to aid a single-celled organism in taking food into the cell. Answer: Students can use the rubber band to make arms like an amoeba for surrounding and ingesting food. They may be able to modify a rubber band to represent cilia and model the process a paramecium uses to take in food. If necessary, refer students to Student Edition page A16.
4. Reaching All Learners
English Language Learners
Group English Language Learners with native English speakers who are good at explaining things and are strong in science and math. The groups should go over the vocabulary terms. Let students remain in their groups to do the simulation. Check in with the native English speakers working with the groups from time to time to help clarify concepts for groups.


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I've been working on a PSO2 skill simulator for a while now because it seems like there was none in the works.
For those unfamiliar with skill simulators, here's how it works: It allows you to try out various SP distributions before you apply them in the game, meaning that you don't have to calculate anything in your head. It also allows you to share your builds with others which should become useful later on when discussing various skilling options.
Here's the link: http://arks-layer.com/skillsim/
Go thank AIDA for hosting it!
There might be bugs flying around, please report them here! I'll try to fix them asap unless I get lazy.
Known issues
- [Firefox] cannot use mouse wheel to change skill levels
Link to a build: http://arks-layer.com/skillsim/skill...b00000ib00000f
Text version of the same build:
HU/FI Skill Build
Code: 03gEbdIkbdIkbdIkbdIkbdIkbdIkcg7OlbkIqBGXcB5dInik00 008ebrbGBboGFIb2N0000Ib00000ib0000Ib00000ib00000f
=====Hunter Lv 55/55, +10 CO SP
1: Step
1: Guard
3: S-DEF Up 1
1: Just Guard
1: Just Counter
5: HP Up 1
10: JA Bonus 1
1: Partisan Gear
10: Fury Stance
1: Wired Lance Gear
10: JA Bonus 2
3: Guard Stance
5: War Cry
3: S-ATK Up 1
1: Sword Gear
10: Iron Will
=====Fighter Lv 55/55, +10 CO SP
1: Step
3: Step Advance
1: Step Attack
1: Just Reversal
3: S-ATK Up 1
5: Brave Stance
1: Knuckle Gear
10: Brave S Up 1
1: Twin Dagger Gear
5: S-ATK Up 2
5: Wise Stance
10: Wise Stance Up 1
1: Double Saber Gear
10: Chase Advance
1: Chase Bind
Translated Skill Trees (HU and FO only)


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Helping Illinois Elect Mitt Romney in 2008
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IPhone 5: LTE? NFC? Natural Language Voice Interface?
With the unveiling of the next iteration of the iPhone likely postponed until after WWDC, speculation has begun in earnest about what sort of enhancements Apple's building into it.
On the software side, there's the possibility of the natural language voice interface and navigation service I mentioned here earlier this month. Last April, Apple acquired Siri, developer of a virtual personal assistant supported by speech recognition, natural language processing and semantic Web search. (see video below). And in 2009 it purchased PlaceBase, a mapping outfit that specialized in enhancing maps with private and public data sets. Weave elements of those two acquisitions together and give them a 505,000-square-foot data center as a back-end and you've got a pretty compelling offering.
But what about the hardware side? An improved camera seems certain, as does a bigger screen and a faster chip. Support for near field communication (NFC), which would enable mobile payments through iTunes, is also a rumored feature, as is an increase to 64GB of internal memory. And, increasingly, it seems like an LTE chipset will be included as well. As I noted here Monday, a later-than-usual iPhone unveiling dovetails nicely with the expected launch of AT&T's LTE network (Verizon's is already up and running). It also would appear to coincide with the debut of an updated Qualcomm LTE chip.
"We believe Apple wants its next phone to be LTE capable and have a chipset compatible with both AT&T and VZ (with the LTE capability on AT&T turned on once their network is ready)," says Jeffries analyst Peter Misek. "Also, we believe the iPhone 5 could contain new chips from Qualcomm incorporating GPS and WiFi on the same chip (and in the future the socket could support Bluetooth and NFC)."
Misek, incidentally, is betting on a second-half 2011 launch for pretty much all the reasons cited above. "Our checks indicate Apple is aiming for a significant step forward with a strong focus on integrating cloud services into the operating system," he concludes. "We believe this additional functionality is taking longer to incorporate than expected, leading to the next iOS launch being later this summer or fall."


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Aldrich wrote:Is this something that a complete beginner can dive into, with only a rudimentary knowledge of the Tree of Life and little to no information on anything else? I've only just begun my studies in this field and while I have been practicing the meditations in Liber Theta for about two weeks now I find that I am unable to extract very much meaning or understanding from the symbols, aside from being able to discern vaguely what they represent.
Jim Eshelman wrote:UPDATE:
I have just made a few corrections (errata discovered by one of our members) and uploaded version 3.3.
The changes were typos, mostly minor, but at least one corrected outright wrong information (the esoteric title of Atu XVII, The Star). If you are using the book as a permanent reference, I recommend you go back and download a fresh copy.
I had not heard of that deck before; it looks very good. It seems far clearer that the Harris deck.gmugmble wrote:There's a tarot deck called "Liber T: Tarot of Stars Eternal" that is essentially a re-drawing of the Harris-Crowley deck.
Jim Eshelman wrote:Yes, Case's adaptation of Liber Tav is mentioned on the same page as the diagram.
Jim Eshelman wrote:Nothing documented... except that it's certain that he was familiar with Liber Tav years before he began teaching a slight variation of it. (Case was a devoted student of The Equinox.)
In this Fourth Edition, I have added a versicle near the top of each Trump page. These poetic passages, rich in visual and emotional imagery, are from a devotional work titled Liber Amoris vel Calicis that was a fruit of parabhakti practices in 1997. These verses express the intimacy between the adept and the Holy Guardian Angel in terms of each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. They may be of assistance in understanding the deeper implications of each card in terms of its letter symbolism and placement on the Tree of Life.
Iamus wrote:Unfortunately this wasn't good enough for them. They wanted a fax number for the copyright holder so they could send forms to sign and federal documents and god knows what else, so I told them to forget it. I'm just going to print it off, three hole punch it and put it in a binder. Thanks anyways, Jim, I appreciate it.
Jim Eshelman wrote:We don't have faxes. (People still use those?) Sorry. - I suggest a different copy place.
There's a FedEx at 200 S University Avenue. If they're like they are out here, you can walk in and do it yourself from a thumb drive.
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Snowboarding is all about fun, but if you're not clued up on some basics, then buying a new board can be daunting and downright confusing. Help us narrow it down for you and get you on the right equipment.
Skis have come a long way in the past 10 years. This may be your first pair or your forth. Either way, knowing what to look for can really help you not only choose the best pair but progress your skiing to where you want it to go.
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In a normal country, preparations for an election look a bit like this: dozens of eager young activists put up posters, candidates meet with community leaders to seek their support, and middle-aged party members walk door-to-door to meet the voters.
In Zimbabwe, election season means violence.
For months, President Robert Mugabe's supporters in the military and the police have terrorized villagers in rural areas where many in 2008 supported opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and propelled him into the seat of prime minister.
And in the past few weeks, the violence has spread to urban areas with the seeming intent of intimidating those who would vote for Prime Minister Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party.
While such tactics long preceded the recent coup in Tunisia that instigated massive antigovernment demonstrations this week in Egypt, analysts say Zimbabwe's strongman president is taking note of North African events as he strengthens his grip. Indeed, President Mugabe, says political analyst Takura Zhangazha, may speed up plans for parliamentary elections to capitalize on a current wave of violence and voter intimidation – conditions he sees as favoring his party.
Mugabe loyalists seen behind unrest
MDC members say the offensive, which started last week in Tsvangirai's political strongholds of Harare and Chitungwiza, involves the police and the military, war veterans of the liberation struggle, and youth militia from Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party. All the assailants are known for their unwavering loyalty to Mugabe.
Chitungwiza, a dormitory town of more 2 million people, is 25 kilometers southeast of Harare.
ZANU-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo denies that his party is spearheading political violence or that it is working with security forces to decimate the MDC. "We have heard that before every time there is talk of election," he says. "They are afraid of losing an election."
The violence is just the latest sign that not all is well with the coalition government, put together in February 2009 after months of political stalemate. Mugabe's cabinet meetings are reportedly more and more fractious. Meanwhile, MDC members are decrying breaches in the coalition's powersharing agreement, which divided control of several ministries but left Mugabe in charge of the military and security agencies.
The political squabbling is nothing compared with the violence faced by those on the front lines in villages and towns.
Violence spreads to cities
The spread of violence to cities is a recent phenomenon, and a dangerous turn for Zimbabwe politics. In previous election years, political violence was mainly concentrated in those rural areas where ZANU-PF still commands some support.
In the past week, scores of MDC supporters were injured in Harare's high-density slums after they clashed with ZANU-PF supporters, who are in most cases backed by armed uniformed soldiers, police, and war veterans.
Presently, at least two MDC supporters are in an intensive care unit at a private clinic. One of them was shot by unidentified soldiers in Budiriro, a suburb of the capital that is touted as Zimbabwe's own "Baghdad" and is a popular support base for Tsvangirai.
An MDC activist, who identified himself only as Amon for fear of victimization, says he saw his colleague being gunned down by a group of soldiers in Budiriro.
"I saw one of them pointing a gun and I thought he wanted to shoot me so I started running," he says. "I heard William's loud cry and I knew he had been shot but I continued running, fearing that they will fire another one."
In a scene reminiscent of the violent June 2008 elections, 150 MDC supporters huddled together at the party's headquarters in Harare's Central Business District (CBD) this week after they were chased out of their homes by ZANU-PF youth militia, soldiers, and war veterans.
'You could have another bloodbath'
Police spokesperson Wayne Bvudzijena denies that the police are Mugabe partisans, saying instead that it is the MDC that has provoked ZANU-PF supporters. "In most cases, MDC activists are the ones who provoke and rush then to the police to report," he says. "The police are never partisan. We are a professional force."
The surge in politically motivated violence comes barely a week after the MDC secretary-general, Finance Minister Tendai Biti, warned that Zimbabwe could face a "bloodbath" at elections this year if the international community does not help to prevent the crisis.
"The tell-tale signs are already there that you could have another bloodbath," said Mr. Biti.
MDC spokesperson Nelson Chamisa says ZANU-PF is trying to provoke his party so that the violence degenerates into anarchy.
"Whenever there is an election, ZANU-PF starts a campaign of violence against the country's innocent citizens," says Mr. Chamisa, who also heads the Ministry of Information Technology Communication in the coalition government. "It is not a civil way of transacting politics in this day and age."
Why violence started now
The current wave of violence started when ZANU-PF mobilized and bused in youths from rural areas to demonstrate against the slashing of maize crop by Harare City council recently.
Incidents of political violence have continued to rock the country since last month when Mugabe, who has ruled the country with an iron fist for the past three decades, announced his determination to hold elections this year.
Political analyst Takura Zhangazha says that by unleashing soldiers and militia, ZANU-PF was trying to measure its ability to destabilize the MDC ahead of both the referendum and elections.
"Urban areas have been areas of concern to ZANU-PF," says Mr. Zhangazha. "They are trying to measure their ability to destabilize the MDC well ahead of elections by targeting its leaders and activists."
Mugabe's tactics
Other analysts said Mugabe has, since 1980, when Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, used violence against adversaries to maintain power. In the March 2008 elections, Mugabe used violence against MDC supporters, hoping to force Tsvangirai to back out of the vote. At least 200 MDC activists were killed by suspected ZANU-PF supporters and state security agents.
Zimbabwe's unity government, which comprises Mugabe's ZANU-PF, Tsvangirai's MDC, and a rival MDC faction headed by Arthur Mutambara, is facing total collapse because of deep disagreements within the coalition over political reform.
Under the Global Political Agreement (GPA) signed in September 2008 and implemented in February 2009, the three principals are supposed to hold consultations leading to a new constitution, which would then have to be approved by a referendum before new elections can take place.
But Mugabe this week threatened to dissolve parliament and call early elections, without waiting for a new draft constitution.
"I have the constitutional right to call an election on the basis of the old Constitution," Mugabe said on Monday. "If the constitutional process is not wanted, I will have parliament dissolved and call elections."
Such a hard line by Mugabe flies in the face of South African President Jacob Zuma, a facilitator in the Zimbabwe post-election crisis, who has been pressing the three principals to come up with and implement a roadmap ahead of elections.
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MDC spokesperson Chamisa says Mugabe wanted to ambush the MDC into a snap election.
"ZANU-PF has not abandoned guerrilla tactics," he says. "We suspect he wants an election before our own congress. He [Mugabe] thinks he will catch us flat-footed. No, for us, if one eye closes, the other one is wide open."
The MDC has expressed concern for the lack of action by the police as "innocent citizens" are harassed for belonging to a political party of their choice. Police are victimizing MDC activists even when they are victims of violence, MDC members say, while they protect ZANU-PF militia from prosecution.
"It is clear that the repeat of June 2008 in an amplified version is inevitable," Chamisa said in a statement. He has called on the African Union and the Southern African Development Community, who are the guarantors of the Zimbabwe agreement, to take immediate action.
The Monitor's correspondent in Harare cannot be named for security reasons.


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An anonymous donor provided $500,000 to post bail Thursday for Justin Carter, 19, who faces a terroristic threat charge for writing on Facebook that he was going to "shoot up a kindergarten."
Carter had been jailed since April, when he was indicted by a Comal County grand jury on the third-degree felony for his Feb. 13 Facebook post.
The case has drawn international media attention and, according to Carter's attorney, and thousands of people have sent messages of support, calling the charge inappropriate for a crude but sarcastic comment.
One man offered more than a message. The donor "was appalled at the fact that Justin was stuck in jail with such an unreasonably high bond," said Carter's attorney, Donald Flanary III. "He believes in him, he believes in his innocence and he believes in his First Amendment rights."
Flanary wouldn't identify the donor or say if he resided in the area. The donor contacted the defense team with an offer to help, Flanary said.
Comal County Jail officials confirmed Carter was released Thursday around 12:30 p.m. He left with Flanary, who posted the bail, and is with his family, Flanary said.
"He's extremely happy to be released and very thankful to the person who posted his bond and very thankful to the thousands of people who are supporting him," said Flanary, who's representing Carter for free.
Carter, who worked at a San Antonio drapery firm, turned 19 in jail.
Jennifer Tharp, the Comal County criminal district attorney, has declined to comment on the case.
She noted in a statement last week that third-degree felonies are punishable by up to 10 years in prison but that a defendant with no previous felony convictions could get deferred adjudication probation "if the court finds that it is in the best interest of the defendant and society."
A bail-reduction hearing set for Tuesday has been canceled, Flanary said.
An online petition started by Carter's mother, Jennifer Carter, has been signed by almost 123,000 people. She also launched an online donation site to "raise the outrageous bond of $500,000" and supporters have been selling "Free Justin Carter" T-shirts.
Carter got into an argument on an online message board, which then spread to Facebook, his mother wrote on the fundraising page.
When someone on Facebook said he was crazy, Carter wrote he was so crazy he was going to shoot children at a school.
"What I said was terrible, mean and downright stupid," Carter wrote in an undated letter to a judge from jail, which was filed with the court in May.
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The Farm Journal/Pioneer Legacy progam was in Amarillo this week. It was my first chance to sit through one of the sessions, and the first such session since the election.
I walked away with two distinct impressions.
First, our Washington leadership MUST do something about estate taxes. What we have now is bad enough. Returning to the pre-Bush plan would decimate American agriculture. We'll go from 34% of everything over $5 million to 55% of everything over $1 million.
That's drastic stuff. Say you have a $6 million estate—which isn't exactly a big operation with today's inflated land prices. I figure at current prices in my neighborhood, it would buy you enough land to run maybe 300 to 400 cows. It would be fewer if you're somewhere close to scenery or cities.
If you die on Dec. 31, your kids' bill is $350,000. Go the next day, it's $2.75 million. Where are those kids going to come up with that much money on 400 cows? As one of the Amarillo participants said, almost incredulously, "if I die, my kids would have to sell everything to pay the taxes."
Well, yes. Believe it or not. And remember that the average age of farmers in this country is 55 and more than a third of us are over 65. This ain't exactly long-term planning for a lot of us.
Second, what a fine program Kevin Spafford has put together. I can't think of a single thing Farm Journal Media could offer its readership—recalling that average age thing—that would be of more value.
If my family is any indication—and judging by the folks I talked to at the workshop, we are—most farmers and ranchers are poorly prepared for the inevitable. We've got wills and estate plans, of course. But we don't have succession plans, where we drag all the kids and parents together and hammer out a program based on consensus of what everybody wants. Kevin suggests that's why 70% of family farms fail during the second generation.
Kevin's got ideas that could put the "success" in succession, so to speak. I sure do wish my parents had generated such a program a generation ago. I hereby resolve to make my family do it in the very near future.
But back to the estate taxes, which just irk me despite the fact that I'm one of those who believe a dollar earned is worth ten dollars inherited. I don't know any farmers who wouldn't be caught in a death tax that kicks in at a million bucks.
We read a lot in the papers about the fiscal cliff. Here's what I think farmers and ranchers should hope (and press their GOP congressmen) for: a compromise that allows Obama to raise INCOME taxes on the rich but holds the rest of the Bush tax cuts in place.
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You might not know it, but you're the key to fighting poaching in Utah.
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The agreement includes the nomination of two new members to Compuware's board of directors and provides for the creation of a committee to advise the board on ways to improve performance. Technology veterans John Freeland and Stephen Schuckenbrock will be added to the company's slate of nominees for election to the board of directors at the annual meeting of shareholders for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013, which has been postponed to a date yet to be set in March.
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Covisint, the cloud-based data-sharing service that focuses on health care and the auto supply chain, went public in September, generating about $60 million for Compuware.
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Freeland has more than 30 years of executive management and operational experience in the technology sector, including being president of worldwide operations for salesforce.com.
Schuckenbrock has nearly 30 years of experience leading IT organizations, consulting businesses, and hardware companies. He has served as president and CEO of Chicago-based Accretive Health Inc. since April 2013, and from 2007 to 2013 served in various roles at Texas-based Dell Inc.
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Longer than a pamphlet, but smaller than a book, these teaching booklets are just the right size – and the right price – to give to anyone who is casually interested in the Faith. No matter who they are or what their interest, we have something for them.
Almost anyone will welcome A Gift of Prayers. And if they are interested in the Sacred Writings, then we have The Hidden Words and Bahai Teachings for a Hopeful Future.
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Nick Saban told the media after practice on Tuesday that he was giving freshly-departed Kenny Bell a 'personal day' and that he expected the wide receiver to return to practice with the team on Wednesday.
"Kenny's a fifth-year senior, he's done a great job in this program, he's played a lot of good football for us, he's made a lot of big plays, he's been a good teammate to a lot of guys on the team. He's certainly somebody I have a tremendous amount of respect for as a competitor," Saban said. "Sometimes we have personal things that we need to get ironed out.
"He had a day today to do that so there's really nothing else to talk about when it comes to that."
Bell had sent a series of tweets on Tuesday afternoon that he was leaving the team and quitting football.
"I know I'm going to lose so many friends and followers and get more negative talk from people but truth is I [don't] care," Bell stated, "[I].t's been a nice run but I'm hanging up my cleats. … time too [sic] focus on my responsibilities MY KIDS.
"I've made so many memories here @ Alabama but some things you gotta let go. Salute to the team y'all keep grinding and win that championship."
It appears Saban can be quite persuasive, though, as Bell didn't stick with his decision very long. The turnaround by Bell allows the Tide receiving corps to retain a veteran presence, something it's sure to need as the program guns for its third-straight BCS title.
Update: Not long after this story was posted, Bell tweeted the following:
"I'm back with the team!! Just needed time to myself for a day but I couldn't leave my boy @10AJMcCarron we ended this run together."
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Torrance, Calif.-based Robinson Helicopter is coming off a "pretty good" year, producing 162 helicopters in 2010. And signs are pointing up for a recovery worldwide in demand.
"One-hundred sixty-two. That's pretty good, kind of like the old days, so we're not complaining at all and we have lots of orders coming in for the R66," said company founder (and now retired) Frank Robinson.
Photos by Editor-at-Large Ernie Stephens
His son and CEO Kurt Robinson noted that sales were down at the same time a year ago, with an inventory instead of a backlog. But when things are down the most, that's when the recovery begins, he added, noting that sales started to increase in late 2010. "In the spring, all the R44s and R22s were gone, and the orders just slowly kept trickling in. All through the fall, we kept getting orders, and by the end of the year we actually had a backlog," Kurt Robinson said. The company delivered around 10 R66s in 2010 after receiving certification in October.
"After the first of the year, we continued to get orders in, and to date, we've gotten over 100 orders since the beginning of the year," he added. "And they're not all for R66s—actually over 60 of those have been orders for the R44. And I think 18 for the R22. So we're starting to see a pickup in orders worldwide."
As Robinson moves into 2011 and beyond, the manufacturer is "not only trying to pick up production of the R66, but production of both the R22 and the R44," Robinson explained.For related news


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March 14, 2014
Book Review - A History of Food in 100 Recipes by William Sitwell
This is much more of a history book than Who put the Beef into Wellington? Sitwell, a British TV and magazine foodie goes back in time to identify when foods first emerged and the historical contexts. Bread, porridge, roast beef, tomato sauce, oatmeal cookies and ice-cream sodas are a small fraction of what is covered. Including fragments from the earliest known writing about the dish, Sitwell's purpose isn't to help you cook it, but to appreciate its history. Find out why the tomato was viewed with great suspicion in Europe to begin with - apart from anything else, The Axtecs ate them but they also ate people…. , but it went on to be one of the essential ingredients of many cuisines. I found this a fascinating but slow read – a few chapters at a time. Be warned with both of these two food books you will experience a great need to read bits aloud to your nearest and dearest! Wendy
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Volpi in at Joost
As has been rumored and even reported on last week, sources say former Cisco exec Mike Volpi will be announced later tonight by Joost as its new CEO.
Volpi knows the founders of the online video service, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, as he has served on the board of their last hit, Skype.
Before he left, Volpi was in line to run Cisco, which is now under the leadership of CEO John Chambers. But as the ebullient Chambers told me in an interview onstage at D last week, he was not planning any move from the tech giant anytime soon (not even for an offer made onstage by Sen. John McCain at the conference to serve in the cabinet if he won his presidential bid).
The company needs a tech-savvy CEO, and one familiar with Silicon Valley, given that it recently got a $45 million boost of cash from a group of big venture firms and media companies, as I wrote here, including Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, as well as CBS.
While a lot of Joost's success rests on getting a lot of great content for its service to deliver quality video content on the Web, how well it works and how easy it is to use (not so easy in my beta tests, so far) will be key to its success. And also how it works with all its multiple partners.
In that vein, Volpi is a good choice. Though his last Cisco title sounded geekish–SVP of Routing and Service Provider Technology Group–he was deeply involved in all of the company's wheeling and dealing, including its aggressive acquisition sprees.
He was born in Italy, lived in Japan, attended Stanford University and also worked at Hewlett-Packard, so he is also perhaps a perfect balance of international and local (tech-wise) for the internationally based Joost.
Interestingly, sources told me that Volpi also talked to Yahoo about running its Audience Group.


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I'm meeting my brother in Idaho next month. It will be my first long trip in the new GS.
The Navigator II and Mapsource say I should slab it through Reno and across western Idaho till I arrive at destination.
Are there any "must see" roads or attractions? I have 5 days for the round trip so I can't do justice to the American West, but I'd like to get off the highway for something worthwhile.
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Legislative session continues, expense payments stop
Iowa lawmakers have work to complete before adjournment, but they'll be finishing up without daily payments for their expenses.
The session has no specific end date, but Tuesday, the 100th day of the session, marks the last day lawmakers will receive their per diem payments.
Pages will be sent home and Capitol staff will be reduced, but lawmakers must stick around to wrap up budget bills and finish work on other measures.
The key task is approving budgets. Those measures have bounced back and forth between the House and Senate, but only two have cleared both chambers.
Gov. Terry Branstad's four main priorities remain alive. They deal with school bullying, veterans programs, broadband expansion and apprenticeships.
But time is running out, as legislative leaders hope to adjourn within days.


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Some automakers like to use their dynamics or power as publicity for their cars. Chevy used animated dwarves and an association with Disney's new MGM Studios as its promotional tool.
Yes. You read that correctly.
The Lumina is wholesome, according to MotorWeek. I'd elaborate, but I'm not entirely sure how to interpret that.
But check out that very red interior! And the strange recline of that seat! And that close up of the B-pillar! This is recorded video people! There is little time to prepare the rake of the seat or edit out awkward closeups.
Ok, enough of me. Take a listen to the Lumina since it sounds like it's breaking down and watch its majestic 17.9 second quarter mile run.
MotorWeek Theater is our showcase of some of our favorite classic reviews from public television's finest motoring program. How does this video only have 2,137 views on YouTube? It's the heartbeat of America!


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Sounding Off on Facebook Home, Privacy and Why Travel Books Are Going Extinct
It was a busy week in tech news, which also meant a busy week in the media for the staff here at AllThingsD.
The big tech story of the week was clearly Facebook Home, and Arik Hesseldahl was on Fox Business News, talking about the privacy implications of Facebook's move:
Speaking of privacy, Liz Gannes appeared on KCRW's "To The Point" to talk about the issues raised by Google Glass.
Mike Isaac took on a range of topics while on "This Week In Startups," and Bonnie Cha was on "Tech News Today":
Meanwhile, Ina Fried was on NPR's "Morning Edition," talking about travel guidebooks and the apps that are forcing them to the sidelines.
And, of course, Walt Mossberg was on the The Wall Street Journal's "Digits" show to talk about this week's review — Dell's convertible XPS laptop:


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The biggest reveal in Peter Jackson's epic Hobbit trilogy will absolutely be the first time the audience gets a glimpse of the giant dragon with the gold belly, Smaug. But when exactly will we get to see the greedy beast in the Lonely Mountain? The actor who voiced the role, Benedict Cumberbatch might know.
Cumberbatchweb has a tidbit from an interview with Anne Richardson, in which the actor reveals his potential debut:
"I think my eye might open at the end of the first film and then you'll get the rest of me in the second."
Now, this interview was given before the announcement that Jackson would be splitting the movies into three parts, so it's probably changed a bit. However, we could see either the second movie or the first movie both ending with the Smaug eye. It's a great cliffhanger. I guess it all depends which stories from the Tolkien appendix Jackson feeds into his films.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will open in theaters on December 14th


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Hostess closing could affect 200 central Fla. workers
A long run for Hostess and its related brands may be over.
For nearly 80 years the tasty treat in the bottom of millions of lunch boxes has been the Hostess Twinkie.
The company announced Friday it is asking the bankruptcy court to shut down and liquidate. That could mean more than 200 people will be losing their jobs in Orlando because Merita Bread is part of this corporate group.
At many Orlando supermarkets shelves where Twinkies and HoHos once sat are now empty.
"No, I've got to have my Twinkie. I have to have my filling," said one shopper.
If Twinkies and Cupcakes end their lengthy run it's because the people who made them aren't working.
"Sooner or later, you have to take a stand," said James Werle. "I hate to see anybody lose a job, but we don't have anybody who wants to put anything back into the company. They just want to take and take."
In Orlando Thursday, some striking workers would not talk on camera but said they have heard the threat before.
Local workers said they have taken pay and pension cuts and won't take it anymore.
Workers said they hope Hostess will sell their operations to another company and that they keep making bread.
Some of the striking workers said they were willing to risk the chance of losing their jobs in this economy to get what they feel they deserve.
Depending on how all off it makes its way through bankruptcy court, many believe Hostess' brands will be bought by other companies, meaning Twinkies could be made by someone else and still be found at the bottom of the lunch pail.


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More profitable biogas production by optimization of anaerobic waste digestion
VTT Technological Research Centre of Finland (VTT) coordinates a new European project, which focuses on studying anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic waste and developing its control. AD process can be optimized to produce either biogas or volatile fatty acids that are even more valuable products than biogas. The produced volatile fatty acids can be converted further to raw materials with which it's possible to produce oil-replacing biobased products, such as bioplastics.
During the anaerobic digestion process, which contains four main steps, the organic matter is degraded by bacteria to biogas in the absence of oxygen. Controlling the digestion process is one of the most important ways of making the biogas production process more efficient. A prototype for process monitoring and controlling system will be developed during the OPTI-VFA project. This system enables more efficient control of both volatile fatty acids and biogas production. It also improves the profitability, efficiency and reliability of the process.
Anaerobic digestion of biowaste also promotes the green society, due to the fact that AD process has many positive environmental impacts. After digestion, waste has considerably less odour problems, reduced acidity as well as reduced pathogen and pesticides content. Fossil fuels can be compensated by biogas and thus the amount of emissions can be decreased. Also the methane emissions will be decreased, when the methane produced as a disintegration product during AD process will be utilized as energy in a closed process.
The total budget of the two-year OPTI-VFA project is EUR 1.15 million of which the share of VTT is approximately one third. VTT is responsible for the planning, building and calibration of the prototype for monitoring and controlling system.
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Following their shocking separation in October, longtime Hollywood couple Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman are back together, People reports.
Celebrity couples: Can you believe they dated?!
DeVito, 68 and Perlman, 64, have been quietly working on their relationship in recent months and have called off their separation. "They love each other," a friend of the couple told the magazine. "Always have and always will."
The couple, who first started dating in 1971, married in 1982 and have two daughters, Lucy and Grace, and one son, Jacob, together. Over the years, the actors played a couple on the TV show Taxi, and also co-starred in the 1996 film adaptation of Roald Dahl's Matilda.


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Mix dedicated students with a green space and building materials. What do you get? A budding community garden and greenhouse on East Campus.
The UMass Lowell Community Garden grew out of junior business major Will Deady's Eagle Scout project in his hometown of Northboro. Deady helped build and run a community garden at St. Rosa of Lima church that has donated 3,000 lbs. of produce to food pantries annually for the past five years.
After seeing the community-building results of that garden, Deady decided to bring one to campus. Work on the original garden began in the summer of 2011 and has picked up again this spring. Deady and his fellow students have relocated a greenhouse to the plot behind Donahue Hall and plan to build raised beds for plants in coming weeks.
"The plan is to have flowers and taller plants like tomatoes outside in the garden for people to enjoy and then use the greenhouse for seedlings and vegetables," says Deady. "We've had unbelievable support from the University, students and the community."
The garden project has been funded by the Deshpande Foundation and the Division of Student Affairs. In addition to financial support, the garden is gaining partners in the Lowell community. Several organizations, including UTEC, Greater Lowell Technical High School and Lowell Sprouts -- which is run by student Mary Beth Skelley -- have expressed interest in working with the garden.
Deady has been working with his brother JJ, also a student at the University, and civil engineering student Ben Levesque to assemble and improve the greenhouse. They and other students meet most Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. at the garden to work on the structure and garden.
As the group prepares for seedlings and blossoms to appear in a few weeks, they're working with the Deshpande Foundation to determine the best use of their anticipated vegetables and flowers. Ideas under consideration include donating produce, starting or contributing to a community-supported agriculture program and selling produce to support the garden. Either way, Deady wants the garden to be a benefit to the UMass Lowell and Lowell communities.
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I am having trouble with PCHelpWare.
I have finally gotten a tunnel established (though, it only seems to be working when traversing NAT... LAN2LAN conneciton is showing "NAT Punch Failed" from the Debug window... (I originally was trying PCHelpware V2 RC1, but then found a link for RC3.)
Anyway, on both RC1 and RC3, once the tunnel is established, I don't see any modules listed.
Any thoughts on where to start troubleshooting? I am seeing the connection icon go green (both monitors on the icon are green), the Info option from the menu is functional - just no modules listed from this right click menu.
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EA Sports is developing a next-gen FIFA World Cup title, the publisher has confirmed.
The title was mentioned by CEO Andrew Wilson during EA's investor call last night, and later by CFO Blake Jorgensen while discussing the publisher's line-up of next-gen products.
"In the last 2 weeks, you've also seen several announcements about our product slate for the remainder of this year and into FY '15," said Wilson. "We are refining our focus on our biggest brands and great new IP in development, including The Sims 4, EA SPORTS UFC, FIFA World Cup and Dragon Age: Inquisition."
It isn't known whether the game will be a DLC expansion for this year's FIFA 14, similar to last year's Euro 2012 add-on, or a full disc-based release.
FIFA 14 launches on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One alongside the consoles next month.
Source: seekingalpha.com


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