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Seaview Survey, in partnership with Google, has been capturing 360-degree views of famous coral reefs. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports.
In its most sweeping use of the Endangered Species Act, the nation's oceans agency on Friday proposed listing 66 species of coral as endangered or threatened -- and cited climate change as driving three key threats: disease, warmer seas and more acidic seas.
Pillar coral are seen in the Florida Keys. The species was one of 12 proposed for listing as endangered by the U.S.
"Climate change and other activities are putting these corals at risk," Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said in announcing the proposal. "This is an important, sensible next step toward preserving the benefits provided by these species."
Lubchenco argued that the benefits extend to fishermen -- some of whom are worried that any coral protection could mean less fishing.
"Corals provide habitat to support fisheries that feed millions of people," she said, as well as generating jobs through recreation and tourism, and protecting coastlines from storms and erosion.
In its press release, NOAA emphasized that since President Barack Obama had directed agencies to minimize regulatory burdens it would strive to "adopt the least burdensome means" of compliance should it create protected habitat. "A full analysis of economic impact, including impact on jobs," will also be undertaken, it stated.
The proposal is the result of a court settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity, which petitioned to have 83 coral species listed. NOAA agreed to review 82 of those species.
Dave Gilliam and Liz Larson Nova Southeastern University and James Byrne, The Nature Conservancy discuss the large scale environmental program that is underway in Florida's coral reefs.
"While the government decided that 16 of the corals we proposed do not warrant listing, the fact that dozens are moving forward with protections is good news," the group's oceans director, Miyoko Sakashita, told NBC News.
"Our coral reefs are dying and need federal protection," she added.
Last April, NOAA scientists reported that more than half of those 82 species were "more likely than not" to face extinction by 2100.
Corals are very sensitive to disease and temperature change, and the fact that seas have warmed and become more acidic as carbon dioxide emissions have risen led to NOAA's proposal and focus on climate change. The acidity weakens the skeletal structure of coral.
The polar bear is the only other species listed under the Endangered Species Act because of climate change, and that's because of shrinking sea ice.
Since climate change is global in nature, NOAA can't do much to protect coral from that threat, but Sakashita said actions that the U.S. could eventually take include protecting corals from overfishing.
"For example, in the Caribbean we have a lawsuit pending that challenges overfishing of parrotfish, which are important grazers for coral reefs to keep them free of algae," she said. "Other local threats that need attention include water pollution, dredging, or coastal construction that impacts coral habitat."
See dozens of wonders from coral reefs and other exotic seascapes, courtesy of the Catlin Seaview Survey.
To date, just two species of coral -- staghorn and elkhorn -- are on the Endangered Species Act, and both are in Florida and the Caribbean. Now listed as threatened, they would be reclassified as endangered under the proposal.
Of the 66 species now proposed for listing, 12 would be listed as endangered -- seven in the Pacific and five in the Caribbean; 54 would be listed as threatened -- 52 in the Pacific and two in the Caribbean.
NOAA aims to finalize the listings in late 2013, after public meetings and a comment period. Comments can be made via NOAA's listing proposal site.
NOAA had never before analyzed so many species over such a wide geographic range. The closest in scope was a review of 30 West Coast salmon and steelhead species in 1994.
Friday's proposal came as nations met in Qatar to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol with a new framework for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Little progress has been made, and the talks continue next week.
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Thessaloniki is a big, modern city with 1 million inhabitants and the largest urban center of the Prefecture. It was founded in 315 B.C. by the king of Macedonia, Kassandros, son of the general Antipatros who was left as a prefect of Macedonia by Alexander the Great, when he dared his great expedition in Asia.
In this way, Kassandros, having won the battle for succession, married the step-sister of Alexander the Great, Thessaloniki, and founded the city in her honor, uniting 26 small settlements in the vicinity.
In less than two centuries from its establishment, Thessaloniki, just like all of Macedonia, was occupied by the Romans. In 148 B.C. it was the capital of the Roman province of Macedonia. A bit later the Macedonian Greeks support the Roman occupation together with whom they face the peoples who often arrived outside of her famous walls trying to gain occupation.
In 42 B.C., Thessaloniki is declared a free city (civitas libera) and begins a new age of peace and prosperity.
Half a century before the birth of Christ, the Roman orator, Cicero, lives in Thessaloniki. The large, famous Egnatia Road for travelers who went from Rome to the East or came back from the West, passes right next to it, uniting the Adriatic to Constantinople. The Roman Empire was finally coming to its end. Two large powers are created with Licinius in the West and Constantine in the East.
Constantine the Great chooses Thessaloniki from where he will engage in his great confrontation with Licinius. He builds the new port of the city and recognizes Christianity as the official religion of the state. During that period, Thessaloniki acquires important Byzantine churches, many of which visitors will see today during their walks through the city. In the centuries that follow, Thessaloniki suffers from the raids of Goths, Persians, Arabs and Turks without ever losing its character. The city is saved by its great walls of which several of its parts still exist today crowning the city.
In 1185 the Byzantine Empire could not prevent the occupation of Thessaloniki from the Normans. A few years later come the Franks and in 1224 A.D. the city is occupied by Theodoros Doukas Komnenos and is declared the capital of the Bishop of Epirus.
Afterwards, the city will face the threat of the Catalans while from 1300 A.D. enters its golden age. The city experiences a singular autonomy and self-government. It is multi-membered with a strong economy, cultural and artistic life, brilliant monuments, skillfully decorated churches and all sorts of factories: copper, iron, lead, paper etc.
Its cultural renaissance is supported by a series of important orators, theologians, philosophers, lawyers and hagiographers with important works during that period. Grigorios Palamas, Nikolaos Kavasilas, the lawyer Constantine Armenopoulos, Thomas Magistros and the hagiographer Emmanuel Panselinos are all present in Thessaloniki creating their works. In 1430 A.D., the Ottomans occupy the city and force all those inhabitants that survived the slaughter to abandon the city.
For several years, after the 16th century, the city develops again and its communities of which it is composed live in harmony. Thessaloniki is a populous city, exciting and a cosmopolitan center of the time. The Greek middle class which gradually formed until the 18th century gave Thessaloniki the glory of the large commercial center.
At the end of the 19th century, Thessaloniki is connected via rail with Skopje and from there with Europe. Also, it is connected with present day Alexandroupolis and Istanbul. The first horse-drawn trams, industries and gas-light are established. Thessaloniki acquires the face of a cosmopolitan, European city. Greeks are now the overwhelming majority of its population.
Liberated Greece in the first years of the 20th century defends its national claims through many sacrifices with the Greek General Embassy of Thessaloniki as its center. However, word of the fall of the Ottoman Empire is evident.
On 26 October, 1912, on the day its protector, St. Dimitrios celebrates, Thessaloniki is liberated by the Greek army and is united to Greece after five centuries of Turkish occupation.
A few years later, after the Asia Minor catastrophe in 1922, and the population exchange with Turkey, Thessaloniki receives the larger part of the refugees, many of whom were of Pontic Greek descent and later comprised significant factors in the economy and social development of the city.
For more information please visit Thessaloniki's official site.
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The E-Literacy Programme runs regular 2-hour sessions for free that introduce the Joomla system and you are welcome to book places on any of these, to attend more than once and to invite others that need to build a professional standard website. It covers hosting, creating content and navigation around the content, media tools, templates and extensions, marketing and SEO and any questions you have about building and running a website. If you are certain that you want a website and know that you want to join the e-literacy programme please attend an introduction session anyway as it is very helpful to have a proper grounding in using the Joomla system.
At these 2-hour intro sessions you get to use our Joomla 3 'sandpit' website aurateal.com to create content and menu items to navigate to the content. You also get to insert images, create links, format content, categorise articles, and understand why all of these operations are important for the success of your enterprise. We also introduce your to cPanel hosting, the Joomla Extensions Directory and the Joomla Free Templates Directory Joomla 24.
For students of IT we strongly recommend attending the monthly meetings of the advanced/developer Joomla Users Group. They meet every month to provide support to each other in University College London's Engineering Building and is for professional and semi-professional website developers.
We cover all that is necessary for building a website in these 2-hour sessions but it is only a basic platform for the development of a fully operational website. After attending the introduction session you are welcome to join 80+ subscribers to the E-Literacy Programme to learn how to build and develop a professional website. Alternatively there are numerous textbooks, websites and videos showing how to use the Joomla content management system that will enable you to build websites on your own. Attending the E-Literacy Programme introduction sessions and workshops is the quickest way to build a professional standard website i.e. www.nomanono.com. Also important is the exchange of information about services that are helpful to you in your enterprise such as free government office space.


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Our couples service offers people in relationships a way to introduce a third person into their sexual lives. This service is becoming more popular as people realize that threesomes need not be a taboo subject. Rather an amazing way to invigorate ones relationship. Unlike swingers clubs our couples service is far safer and non-threating to all parties concerned. Our escorts are also professionals, this means they know what they're doing and can help guide the experience.Read More
The dinner date service is an excellent way to have some great companionship over a romantic dinner and when the meal is done you and your lady can take this to the next level in the privacy of your hotel room. This service is ideal for the solo business traveler who finds the long trips lonely and devoid of companionship.Read More
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Chicago man with concealed-carry permit fatally shoots would-be robber
Chicago – When this 23-year-old man went out to walk his dog in the 8200 block of South Ingleside in Chicago, he brought his lawfully carried concealed pistol along with him. So when an armed gunman shot the 23-year-old in a brazen daylight robbery attempt, the gun owner drew his own firearm and shot back, striking the suspect in the head, killing him. The Cook County medical examiner confirmed that


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UBS (UBS) released estimates for its second-quarter results on Monday in an apparent effort to pre-signal the markets about its actual results, which are set to be released July 30.
The global investment bank expects its operating profit before taxes to be up 7% from last year to roughly 1.020 billion Swiss francs (or $1.3 billion) and its net profit attributable to shareholders to jump 62% to about 690 million Swiss francs ($742 million).
Last year, it reported a second-quarter operating profit before taxes of 951 million Swiss francs ($1.02 billion) and a net profit of 425 million Swiss francs ($457 million).
The bank also says that its Basel III common equity tier 1 ratio should "improve significantly to approximately 11.2% on a fully applied basis and 16.2% on a phase-in basis."
These preliminary results include pre-tax charges of about 865 million Swiss francs (or $930 million) for litigation, other provisions and an impairment of financial assets; some 700 million Swiss francs ($753 million) is expected to affect the results of the Corporate Center, while roughly CHF 100 million ($108 million) will impact its non-U.S. Wealth Management in relation to the Swiss-U.K. tax agreement.
In addition, UBS plans to report "strong" net new money in the wealth-management businesses, with net inflows of some 10.1 billion Swiss francs ($10.9 billion) in non-U.S. Wealth Management and about 2.7 billion Swiss francs ($2.9 billion) in Wealth Management Americas, which includes about 7,000 advisors. Global Asset Management experienced net outflows of 2.0 billion Swiss francs ($2.2 billion).
The investment banks also has said that it reached an agreement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency to settle claims tied to U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) offerings sold between 2004 and 2007.
In the first quarter of 2013, UBS had a net profit was 988 million Swiss francs ($1.06 billion), or 0.26 Swiss francs ($0.28) per share, down slightly from 1.035 billion Swiss francs ($1.11 billion) a year ago, or 0.27 Swiss francs ($0.29) per share—beating analysts' estimates.
The company says the Wealth Management Americas unit "achieved another record profit and strong net new money inflows. In addition, asset inflows into the global wealth management businesses were nearly CHF 24 billion ($25.8 billion).
In the Americas, net new money for the first quarter of 2013 was $9.2 billion versus $4.6 billion a year ago and $8.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012. The company says this increase can be attributed to both newly recruited advisors and interaction with its Global Family Office operations.
On Thursday, bond insurer Syncora Guarantee sued UBS over interest-rate swaps tied to $1.4 billion of Detroit pension debt, according to a Bloomberg report.


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Shimer College changed me from an arrogant high school with a narrow world perception into a better scholar, citizen, and person. I once thought I had all the answers. Shimer…
A wonderful space for avid readers. A school whose pace is set by the self motivated. A small school for those who want to genuinely get to know their classmates.…
Shimer College provides and preserves education centered on discussion of enduring questions and issues. Historically influential original sources are studied through Socratic questioning, in small seminar classes and following the kind of Great Books curriculum advocated by Robert Maynard Hutchins. The core values informing education at Shimer are free inquiry, dialog, critical open-mindedness, and integration of disciplines. The College offers all members of its community the opportunity to participate meaningfully in deciding the future of the institution. A Shimer education demands much of both the intellect and the character of students, and prepares them for responsible citizenship and the examined life.
There is a bit of pretentiousness at Shimer, which is kind of to be expected when it is a great books school, but still hard to deal with. The education here is amazing. The books you will read are incredible and the conversations you will have are intense and usually in a good way. People, on the other hand, tend to be cold until you establish yourself as a potential Shimer graduate, because the drop out rate is abnormally high. Both of these trends, unfortunately, feed each other, which makes the social situation rough.Read More
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Preacher who predicted rapture says world ends Friday -- or not
OAKLAND, Calif. -- This time, Harold Camping sounds like a man who has suffered the whisper of self-doubt.
The Oakland minister's latest prediction of the end of the world - which he's set for Friday - is couched among words like "probably" and "maybe," a far cry from the carved-in-stone certitude he projected onto his infamous May 21 forecast.
"I do believe we're getting very near the very end," Camping, 90, said during a podcast recorded earlier this month and posted on his Family Radio website. "Oct. 21, that's coming very shortly, that looks like it will be, at this point, it will be the final end of everything."
After his last apocalyptic prediction failed to materialize, Camping said he was "flabbergasted" and was reconsidering his calculations.
"We've learned that there's a lot of things we didn't have quite right," he acknowledged during the podcast.
A June 9 stroke kept Camping hospitalized until early September, but he's since returned to the airwaves. He now characterizes May 21 as a "tremendous event" that unleashed a spiritual judgment day, just not the material one that he expected.
Tom Evans, a longtime Family Radio employee who believed he would ascend to heaven May 21, declined to comment on Camping's latest end-of-times prediction.
Evans also serves as a liaison to the media on Camping's behalf and said the minister was not available for interviews.
"We said all we were going to say after May 21," Evans said. "There's nothing more or new to say now."
On recently recorded podcasts, Camping hedged his Oct. 21 prediction - "Probably there will be no pain suffered by anyone because of their rebellion against God" - but he maintained that, ultimately, the end is nigh.
"I really am beginning to think as I've restudied these matters that there's going to be no big display of any kind," Camping said. "The end is going to come very, very quietly."


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New products and changes introduced over the last week include an actively managed equity fund from Vanguard; a long-short fund from Newberger Berman; new fund names and indexes for 10 of Invesco's existing funds and the closure of 4 others; and private placement opportunities from Miller Tabak on the FNEX.com platform.
Here are the latest developments of interest to advisors:
1) Vanguard Adds Actively Managed Equity Fund
Vanguard has announced the launch of its Global Minimum Volatility Fund (VMVFX), designed to provide long-term capital appreciation with lower volatility relative to global equity markets. VMVFX, which will be solely managed by the in-house equity investment group, will employ quantitative models to evaluate the securities in the fund's FTSE Global All-Cap Index (USD Hedged) benchmark in order to construct a global equity portfolio.
It is expected to invest approximately half of its assets in foreign company stocks and the other half inU.S.company stocks, and to use forward currency contracts to hedge most of its non-U.S. positions to the U.S. dollar. VMVFX offers two share classes. Investor shares will have an estimated expense ratio of 0.3% and require a minimum initial investment of $3,000, while admiral shares will have an estimated expense ratio of 0.2% and require a minimum initial investment of $50,000.
2.) Vanguard Expands Admiral Shares to Dividend Appreciation Fund
Vanguard also says its $22.8 billion Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund is now available in Admiral Shares (VDADX), expanding number of Vanguard funds that offer these "ultra-low-cost shares" to 84.
The estimated expense ratio for Admiral Shares of the Dividend Appreciation Index Fund is 0.10%.
"With Admiral Shares, investors are paying mutual fund fees that are among the lowest available," said Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb, in a press release. "Making this share class an option for more than half of our fund family demonstrates our commitment to reducing the cost of investing for our clients whenever possible."
More than $700 billion—about one-third of Vanguard's more than $2.4 trillion in U.S. fund assets under management—is currently held in Admiral Shares.
Currently, 50 index funds and 34 actively managed funds offer Admiral Shares. To qualify for Admiral Shares of Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund, retail investors are subject to a $10,000 minimum investment requirement; advisors and institutions are not subject to a minimum.
3.) Neuberger Berman Rolls Out Long-Short Product
Neuberger Berman Group has launched the Neuberger Berman Long Short Multi-Manager Fund (NLMIX, NLMAX, NLMCX). The new fund "seeks long-term capital appreciation with a secondary objective of principal preservation by allocating its assets to a select group of external hedge fund advisers that employ distinct long short strategies investing primarily in equity securities of companies throughout the world."
Unlike traditional hedge funds, Neuberger Berman says, the fund provides daily liquidity, lower investment minimums ($1,000 for Class A and C shares), and 1099s for shareholders, while offering full transparency of portfolio holdings without a performance-based management fee.
It employs the risk management and monitoring, mix of managers and long short strategies, and operational due diligence traditionally available only to institutional and high-net-worth investors through traditional hedge funds.
The fund is managed by members of the Neuberger Berman Hedge Fund Solutions group serving the needs of institutional and high-net-worth investors since 2002, including David Kupperman, Ph.D., managing director; Jeff Majit, managing director; Ian Haas, senior vice president; Fred Ingham, managing director; and Eric Weinstein, managing director. The team currently manages the $630 million Neuberger Berman Absolute Return Multi-Manager Fund, introduced in 2012. Overall, Neuberger Berman currently manages over $42 billion in mutual fund assets.
"We believe 'liquid alternatives' – hedge fund strategies in a mutual fund format – can present attractive solutions for investors who have not been able to access traditional hedge funds as well as for defined contribution plan sponsors seeking to provide their participants with a full range of investment options," said David Kupperman, in a statement.
Subadvisers for the Neuberger Berman Long Short Multi-Manager Fund are: Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, LLC and Lazard Asset Management LLC, both for global long short equities; Levin Capital Strategies, L.P. for utilities long short investments; SLS Management, LLC for equity restructuring long short investments; and Turner Investments, L.P. for healthcare sector long short.
4) 10 Invesco Funds Get New Names, Indexes; Four Funds Close
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC announced Wednesday that it is changing the underlying indexes and names of 10 ETFs. In addition, it also announced plans to close four ETFs.
The ETF changes are as follows:
- Dynamic OTC Portfolio (PWO) will become DWA NASDAQ Momentum Portfolio, and its ticker will also change to DWAQ;
- Dynamic Basic Materials Sector Portfolio (PYZ) will become DWA Basic Materials Momentum Portfolio;
- Dynamic Consumer Discretionary Sector Portfolio (PEZ) will become DWA Consumer Cyclicals Momentum Portfolio;
- Dynamic Consumer Staples Sector Portfolio (PSL) will become DWA Consumer Staples Momentum Portfolio;
- Dynamic Energy Sector Portfolio (PXI) will become DWA Energy Momentum Portfolio;
- Dynamic Financial Sector Portfolio (PFI) will become DWA Financial Momentum Portfolio;
- Dynamic Healthcare Sector Portfolio (PTH) will become DWA Healthcare Momentum Portfolio;
- Dynamic Industrials Sector Portfolio (PRN) will become DWA Industrials Momentum Portfolio;
- Dynamic Technology Sector Portfolio (PTF) will become DWA Technology Momentum Portfolio; and
- Dynamic Utilities Portfolio (PUI) will become DWA Utilities Momentum Portfolio.
In addition, the final day of trading for the following four ETFs will be Feb. 18: KBW International Financial Portfolio (KBWX); MENA Frontier Countries Portfolio (PMNA); Dynamic MagniQuant Portfolio (PIQ); and Lux Nanotech Portfolio (PXN).
5) Convergence Investment Partners Launches Second Mutual Fund
Convergence Investment Partners has announced the launch of its second mutual fund. The Convergence Opportunities Fund (CIPVX) focuses on investing in small- to mid-cap stocks.
CIPVX seeks to generate returns by identifying not only value, but also what the market is valuing. By incorporating the ability to short, the fund strives to provide additional alpha above similar long-only strategies. The fund was launched in collaboration with Montage Investments, Convergence Investment Partners' parent company.
6) Larkin Point Introduces Equity Preservation Fund
Larkin Point Investment Advisors LLC has announced the launch of its Equity Preservation Fund (LPIUX, LPAUX), which targets growth while seeking protection and balance.
The fund is managed by a team headed by Michael Winchell, chief investment officer, and Charlie Hon, portfolio manager, is administered by Gemini Fund Services, LLC and is a series of the Two Roads Shared Trust.
7) Miller Tabak and FNEX Announce Opportunities on FNEX.com
Miller Tabak +Co., LLC and FNEX have announced that Miller Tabak will offer select private placement investment opportunities on the FNEX.com platform.
The Web-based platform, which was launched in September, has attracted agreements from listing banks that project approximately 140 private placements in the next 12 months that nearly $3 billion in total capital raise goal.
8) AssetMark Trust Company Introduces CashAdvantage Lending
AssetMark Trust Company, an affiliate of AssetMark Inc., has announced that it has added CashAdvantage Lending to its services. It allows advisors to help clients set up an interest-only revolving credit line from The Bancorp that provides a suite of banking services to clients of AssetMark Trust Company.
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Possibly a new theory?
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Well I can garentee that we use 100% of our brain, and plants are a simple life form to understand, just take a simple 8th grade biology class, and you'll see for yourself. As far as some brains being effected or more sensitive than others is a great probability. The hard part to figure out is who has visions, telepathy, or is telekanitic. It's easy to think one is special, tha hard part is to prove it. The millions of years that mammals have been evolving, It's hard to believe that humans as fragile as we are have some power like superbeings. The brain is an amazing organ, and I can assume that no one figures braindamage is a good thing, and people with braindamage are not superman, and their lives are difficult. Even Steven Hawking as smart as he is, trapped in his disabled body, dosen't claim to be psychic. He would be a prime canidate by any standards. So if you feel or see somthing strange, try to duplicate it several time under different settings. If you only have visions, and telepathic results sitting infront of the TV or in your bed than you may want to take a better look at your TV shows, and or dreams. Besides can't you hear me talking to you in your head right now
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Jovis, how can you guarantee that we use 100% of our brain???
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Einarson third place in Russia, second in world rankings
Nine months and 104 matches after beginning its season at a Manitoba Curling Tour event in Winnipeg, Kerri Einarson's team from the Gimli Curling Club finished their season in a Siberian mining city above the Arctic Circle, 6,661 kilometres from home ice.
Einarson, from Camp Morton, with third Val Sweeting, second Shannon Birchard and lead Briane Meilleur, scored a third-place finish at the final event of the 2018-19 World Curling Tour season, the 2019 Arctic Curling Cup in Dudinka, Russia, with a 5-4 win over Russia's Anna Sidorova in the third place game on May 27. Einarson's team was the only one from Canada at the event, the team's only tournament outside Canada.
After exchanging singles in the first two ends, Einarson's team proceeded to steal two in the second and one more in the fourth for a 4-1 lead. Both teams traded singles in the fifth and sixth before Sidorova scored one in the seventh to pull her team to within two. However, the Russian squad could only muster a steal of one in the eighth.
Scotland's Eve Muirhead defeated Russia's Alina Kovaleva, also by a score of 5-4, in the championship game.
The team from Gimli ran the table in the round robin, opening the Arctic Cup with a come-from-behind 7-6 win over Switzerland's Binia Feltscher on May 23. Einarson later won 11-1 over Sidorova and 6-1 against Vlada Rumiantseva on May 24. The team completed the sweep with a 10-2 victory over Finland's Eszter Juhasz.
In Einarson's semifinal against Kovaleva, the Russians scored two in the first end. Both teams answered each other with singles over the next five ends before Einarson stole one to tie the game 4-4 going into the eighth end. However, Kovaleva scored one in the eighth for a 5-4 win, sending Einarson down to the third-place game.
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by Yvonne Dolan
Note: This article was originally published in The Psychotherapy Networker (2003) January/February issue and reprinted (2015)by The Psychotherapy Networker online.
It was a completely full morning flight to Los Angeles. Despite the post 9-11 security procedures, our United Airlines flight was actually leaving on time. Everyone, passengers and crew alike, seemed in pretty good spirits. Then I noticed the man seated across the aisle. He was hunched over, his face in his hands, the muscles in his back shaking. He nodded almost imperceptibly when the attendant gently touched his shoulder and reminded him to fasten his seat belt in preparation for takeoff.
A few minutes into the flight, I heard the muffled sound of sobbing. After a few minutes, I leaned across the aisle and asked, "Are you okay?" He shook his head. "Is there anything I can do?" Again, he shook his head.
A little later, a flight attendant walked down the aisle, noticed the man's sobbing, and asked, "Do you need anything?" He shook his head and cleared his throat.
"My wife and all four of my kids were killed last night in a car accident. I'm on my way back to Hawaii to make the funeral arrangements. I moved over here [the flight had originated in Chicago] for my work." His voice broke. "They were going to join me when the school term ended. "
"I don't know what to say, sir," the attendant said gently. "I'm so sorry. Are you sure there isn't anything I can get you?" Again, he shook his head. "I just need to get through the next two flights, so I can do what needs to be done. Our family is all flying over from the mainland for the funeral and I'm going to have to pick them up and make arrangements. I was up all night last night after they called me, so I'm going to try to get some sleep."
"Ring the call bell if you need anything, sir, "the attendant murmured. As she walked away, the man looked across the aisle at me. "I just need to focus on what needs to be done. That's the only way I can get through this." Then he folded the airline blanket across his chest and closed his eyes.
To most people, this man would hardly qualify as "hopeful." His misery and his story make it easy to conclude that he was, literally, without hope. Easy, but wrong. True, he undoubtedly felt hopeless, but he was not hopeless, he had not succumbed to despair. Even in the face of his catastrophe, he was taking small, tentative but active, steps back toward the realm of life. By focusing on what he needed to do in the immediate future–get some sleep, pick up his relatives, and begin making arrangements–he was assuming a future, a time for which plans needed to be made, people contacted, tasks met, even if, for now, that future encompassed only the next few hours or days. Despite his acute grief, he was saying, in effect, "this is impossible, but I'll find a way to get through it."
Making his plans didn't change what had happened or his feelings about it, but it gave him some small measure of control in otherwise uncontrollable circumstances. It also provided him with a rough map for what would undoubtedly be a brutal journey through a wilderness of suffering. For the time being, he was alive and coping; he hadn't been defeated by despair, and that in itself was a harbinger of hope to come.
There's Hope in Activity
As therapists, we've been trained to think that we should focus primarily on emotions. We often elicit negative emotions, believing that they must be purged before there'll be room for hope and other positive emotions. We're particularly anxious to assuage trauma survivors, whose desperate, unbearable pain seems to demand immediate relief. We frequently assume that all clients must feel hopeful and believe that life is meaningful before they'll make much progress in therapy or in life.
But the fact is that in the wake of catastrophe, it's often impossible to summon up the least glimmer of hope or faith or sense of life's meaning. How, for example, can you suggest to someone whose child has been shot in a schoolyard, who has lost a home to a hurricane, or who's been raped as a child by family members that there's hope for the future, that they'll feel "better" someday? To clients who have suffered such profound trauma, it's ludicrous to suggest that they can be coaxed into feeling hopeful about the future.
In these cases, the trauma therapist may be in something of a bind. Trying to "drain off" negative emotions by focusing on the pain–asking clients to rehash what happened or to speak repeatedly about their terrible feelings–is likely to make them feel worse. Just asking such clients an open-ended question about their emotional state–"How do you feel today?"–may exacerbate already terrible feelings or call forth a sense of numbness and apathy.
But favoring positive emotions and subtly trying to subdue negative ones can backfire. Asking these clients to imagine a time when they won't feel suicidal or reframing their trauma as an opportunity to "grow" can trivialize their suffering and inadvertently insult them. These efforts may also strike them as manipulative, as though the therapist is trying to maneuver them into a hopeful response they're not ready for.
How do we get beyond this impasse? We can begin by looking again at the ways people have found consolation and support in the thousands of years before psychotherapy was developed. Throughout history, human beings have found rough relief and a modicum of comfort in the immediate obligations and habits of ordinary, daily life. The greatest incentive to go on coping lies in their relationships with other people, not only those who comfort and support them, but those who depend upon them. Sometimes, the simplest act can have profound power. I learned recently of a Red Cross survey given to disaster survivors, asking them to name the most helpful "intervention" they'd experienced right after the disaster. Many said they most appreciated being given a cup of coffee by an aid worker. It wasn't fancy trauma therapy, but I suspect the familiarity and ordinary helpfulness of the act implied to survivors that, in spite of catastrophe, normal life was still going on. In receiving a cup of coffee lay some small kernel of hope for the future.
In my 25 years of treating traumatized people, I've found that in these crisis situations dissecting negative emotions or trying to rev up positive ones isn't the most useful step we can take. This isn't to say we should avoid discussions about how clients feel–far from it. But talking with clients about what they're doing and how they're coping provides not only a framework for them to talk about how they feel, but a real-life scaffolding for the eventual construction of more positive emotions. Hope follows action, rather than the other way around. Helping clients become aware that what they're doing–even if it's "merely" coping and "just" getting by–can be the first step toward rebuilding their sense of agency and control.
I first began thinking about the healing power of activity and its "hope-implicit" quality when I was a young therapist-in-training, working in a shelter for abused and runaway teenagers. Every one of these kids had experienced severe and prolonged abuse, and virtually all suffered from acute post-traumatic stress. As an all-night staff person, my job was to help them get to sleep–an almost impossible task because for my charges sleep was a realm of nightmares and flashbacks. Talking with them about their traumas just heightened their distress, and asking them "positive" questions–about what they wanted to do with their lives, what they liked, what would make them feel safer–didn't engage them.
Desperately casting around for a solution, I began to ask more specific questions about the immediate future. "What would you like to do tomorrow? What do you need to get that done? How will you know tomorrow night that you had a decent day?" Several said they wanted to contact brothers, mothers, or friends to find out if they were okay. Others said they wanted to go outdoors; they'd been cooped up inside for too long. Still others said they wanted to wash their hair, take a bath, get clean clothes. This doesn't sound like therapy, nor does it provide much in the way of emotional breakthroughs. But it worked. Talking about practical, immediate plans calmed them down and helped them sleep. I believe that the practical details of their lives reminded them that they were more than their traumas, and gave them concrete realities that, at least momentarily, jostled them out of their inner turmoil.
Drawing on my shelter experience, I work with trauma clients to help them identify actions they can take to keep going. But sometimes trauma clients no longer have a sense of who they are and why they should continue living–except that they feel they have to go on for the sake of their kids, their grandchildren, their spouses, or even the person they've lost. Many clients who cannot imagine going forward for themselves can summon up some last ounce of strength on behalf of those they love.
Focusing on Day-to-Day
Germaine, came to see me after her adolescent son had been killed in a gang-related shooting. She'd just lost her job, was drinking heavily, and was almost paralyzed with grief. She entered therapy not to make herself feel better, but so that she could go on living for the sake of her other two children.
At that point, nothing I could say would make her feel better. I told her how sorry I was for what happened to her son, and how painful I imagined this must be for her whole family. "How have you managed up until now?" I asked. This focused her on what she was doing and offered her an indirect opportunity to express her feelings. Germaine said she'd been going to a support group, and while it helped to get dressed, get out of the house, and be with others, the overall experience wasn't particularly useful. "I feel like I'm being swallowed up by how much it hurts, like I could, literally, drown in the pain."
Germaine was a former crack addict, but had been clean for six years. She'd resisted taking drugs again, but she was drinking heavily. "These feelings aren't ever going to go away," she said. "And just talking about it isn't going to cut it. I have to have some sort of concrete plan of what I'm going to do to fill up the time or I'll die of grief. What am I going to do?"
Of course, I didn't know the answer. But clients often have within themselves the budding solutions to their own dilemmas, though they may not recognize it at the time. Germaine had come up with a potential way out of her hell when she said she needed a "concrete plan" of action. I thought we should try to construct one. I asked her if there had been anything at all that had helped to make these past few months a little bit more bearable. She was silent for several minutes, staring at the floor.
"It helps when I make a list," she said finally. "Some days, when I get up in the morning, I make a list of what I need to do and, somehow, those days seem to go a little bit easier–maybe because I have a plan, sort of like a map for getting through the next few hours. When I don't have my list, it's a lot worse. I can just sit and cry all day."
I asked her how the list helped. She said that it wasn't so much the list itself that helped, but that the act of making it put her completely in the present. Listing the most mundane chores–"go to grocery store," "pick up Michael's shoes from repair shop," "make kids' lunches for tomorrow"–and then doing them helped her "get back to living, at least for the time being," she said. In a sense, she could do hope before she could feel hope. This focus reflects a great human wisdom found in many major spiritual traditions: that being consciously mindful, maintaining full awareness of what's going on in the present can bring some solace and peace when all else fails.
It struck me that concentrating on her list-making and following through with the tasks when she felt so terrible must have taken extraordinary effort. "How did you do it?" I asked.
"I guess I just made up my mind."
"But just how did you make yourself get up in the morning?"
"I told myself I had to do it."
"What did you do to convince yourself?"
"Well, I gave myself a lot of shit, as I lay there, telling myself it was a lousy thing to do to my kids–just let them fend for themselves while I wallowed in bed."
This pursuit of minutiae can have a powerful impact on the client. In answering the questions, Germaine acknowledged her own agency and strength. If I were to praise her, no matter how sincerely, for managing to get up every morning, it might have sounded condescending. Focusing her attention on what she was doing for herself helped her to recognize her own strength and her ability to keep going despite her pain.
I saw Germaine weekly for a year and a half, keeping the focus on her own efforts. One of the most powerful and respectful ways to help clients actively find new meaning for their lives is to ask them to imagine someone who loves them telling them what they're accomplishing. When I asked Germaine what she was doing right, she responded like many depressed and grieving people that she wasn't doing anything right. So, I rephrased the question, "Well, imagine that your kids are remembering what you did during this past week. What would they say you'd done right?" After a pause, she said, "I guess they would say that I'd put a meal on the table every night, and that I took them to church on Sunday, and that we went to the movies one evening." Once, I asked her what a favorite aunt, who was deceased, might have said to her. For the first time, she smiled softly and said in a small voice, "She would tell me I was doing good, taking care of the kids and all, and that she was proud of me for not hitting the bottle at the end of the day."
Session by session, Germaine gradually began to immerse herself in the mundane stuff of daily life, and her despair seemed to lessen over time. But she seemed to grow more anxious about her children. She worried that she hadn't been a good enough mother, expressing guilt for neglecting them while addicted to crack. She wondered if she'd been responsible for her son's death. Now, though still grieving for the one she'd lost, she felt increasingly frightened for the other three, and anxious about her own capacity to guide them through childhood.
"Suppose that you dream that many years have passed and your children–who are now adults–are sitting around the kitchen table with you, telling you that you did a great job as a mother and describing all the things you did completely right while raising them," I said. "Now, suppose you wake up and can't remember the dream, but find yourself doing all the things they said made you a great mother. What would be the first things your kids would notice you doing?"
Germaine closed her eyes and smiled. "I would go to every parent-teacher meeting. And I would make sure they told me where they were going to be every hour of the day–even if they fought me on it. And I would help them with their homework. And I would push them to finish school. I would keep on loving them, and let them know how much I loved them every day." Because she was already beginning to do some of these things, it slowly dawned on her that she was already becoming the kind of mother her kids needed.
By asking this type of question, the therapist makes a kind of hypnotic suggestion that communicates–indirectly, without ever denying the client's ongoing pain–that there is something significant to hope for. If the question is worded right, the client will answer it not by expressing a wish for the impossible, but by setting out realizable goals. I didn't ask Germaine the kind of question that would provoke her to wish for her son to be alive again. Instead, she could wish for something entirely achievable, through her own efforts–something that would help her become the mother she wanted to be.
Starting with Baby Steps
Though focusing on mundane tasks in the present can seem impossibly beside the point for someone who has suffered a life-shattering event, it can help build, inch by inch and then yard by yard, a pathway out of despair and into the fullness of life. A Japanese doctor told me a story about how powerful this kind of mindfulness can be. Mr. Tanaka, a recently retired patient of his, had been admitted to a hospital after trying to commit suicide. For nearly 50 years, Mr. Tanaka had suffered from severe back pain as a result of tubercular meningitis he'd contacted at 15. He'd endured 30 operations, to no avail. Every treatment–physical therapies, nerve-blocks, drugs–had failed. Indeed, the pain was getting worse and he was now confined to a wheelchair. Stuck at home and in constant pain, he'd lost all hope and had attempted suicide. The doctor asked him how he'd managed to get through his painful life to that point.
"Well, I'm a very optimistic man at heart, and that has helped me," Mr. Tanaka answered. "While the pain was awful, I just buried myself in work, which relieved it a tiny bit. I also believed the pain would become much less some day–and that made me optimistic. But now that I know I'll never have relief, I feel there is no hope."
Not knowing what else to offer, the doctor grabbed at this lifeline. "Could you do something for me?" he asked Mr. Tanaka. "When you feel even a little bit more comfortable, please notice and remember the occasion, and notice why and how it occurs."
Each time he saw Mr. Tanaka over the next few weeks, the doctor encouraged him to notice when his pain was less severe. For six weeks, nothing. But one day, Mr. Tanaka came in smiling. "Since you began asking me to notice times I feel better, I've been thinking about it. A couple of days ago, on the way home from the dentist, I stopped in the park by the riverside. I ate sandwiches and fed the crumbs to the pigeons. They started going after the crumbs, and I really enjoyed watching them. In fact, I became so absorbed in watching them that I didn't have any pain at all while I was there!"
The doctor encouraged him to continue noticing other times he became so involved he didn't notice the pain. Gradually, Mr. Tanaka noted more and more activities during which the pain disappeared. He also noticed that the pain didn't seem to be getting any worse. He began gardening and fishing and even took a short trip with his wife. Seven years later, the doctor told me, Mr. Tanaka was still improving.
Strangely enough, the "distraction" of living fully in the present seems to be the only real cure for the terrible things life can do to us, the only real source of hope in hopeless situations. As therapists and healers, we can't make people feel hopeful, nor can we reverse the tragedies that make them feel hopeless. But we can help them slowly begin building, out of life's own materials, a place in which hope can nest.
Note: This article originally appeared in The Psychotherapy Networker Magazine.
Dolan, Y.M. (2003, January/February) The pragmatics of hope: What to do when all seems lost, Psychotherapy Networker, 27, 39-43,


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The international media had a field day headlining a Stanford university study dissing the nutritional benefits of organic food. I hope it's not too late for me to ask a few questions that might steer the debate in a more useful direction.
I would like the media to explain why a study that was not based on either original research or professional expertise was considered so significant.
The paper, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, is strictly a "meta-analysis," combining some of the findings of some 200 other scientists' publications over the years. It is the ninth such paper to come out in a decade, and the fourth to turn thumbs down on organic claims to significant superiority in the nutritional realm – not exactly trail-blazing stuff. Nor, considering the ability of writers to cherry pick various findings from different individual studies, does a meta-analysis inherently prove much more than ability to cherry pick. That's why new hard research, rather than summaries of old research, is usually the stuff of news stories.
I would also like to ask why no-one checked the qualifications of this 12-person team, which was granted immediate credibility, despite the absence of a professional nutritionist, agrologist or bio-medical specialist. One is a librarian, a few are graduate students, several are medical doctors who specialize in such fields as infectious disease, bio-terrorism, diagnosis or HIV, one is a mathematician, one an administrator, one a research assistant.
The heavy-hitter on the team is Igram Olkin, an 88 year-old retired professor of statistics. Stanford University media releases cite his renown as a specialist in meta-analysis, without mentioning that his name is batted around as a paid witness on statistics for the tobacco industry. Given that the Stanford team's use of statistics is subjected to withering criticism by organic advocate and academic Charles Benbrook, it's odd no mainstream reporter checked to see if where there's smoke, there's fire.
It's also a bit odd that no-one asked what an article on nutritional merits of organic foods was doing in a medical journal, given that doctors have minimal training, credentials or interest in this field – although maybe I've just answered my own question.
One of the first things I learned when researching for my first serious food book some 15 years ago was that the relation between organic and nutrition does not compute.
Nutritional levels vary according to a host of factors. One big one is the quality of soil long before anyone farmed it organically or conventionally (no history of volcanoes in New York means no rich volcanic ash in the soil, for example). Another factor that has little to do with organic or conventional is when the crop was picked (tomatoes get most of their vitamin C as they turn red, not when they're hard and green, which is when they get picked by machines).
The list of crucial questions and variables keeps growing: how long was the produce in a truck or store, under what conditions was the food stored, how was the food prepared (some vitamins are destroyed by heat, some nutrients only become available when heated).
It's quite likely that healthier and stronger plants grow on organically-managed soils, without any help from synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. But that's no guarantee that the plants bulked up on more nutrients. Organic or not, plants work to meet their own survival needs, not ours, and the optimum level of vitamin B needed by a particular plant may or may not work best for humans. That's why people choose particular plants if they're looking for high doses of particular nutrients.
Put the whole mix together, and a study based on analysis of a conventional ruby red tomato, lightly cooked immediately after picking, will probably show more nutrients than an organic tomato picked green from an industrial organic farm a week ago, hauled across the continent on a truck, and left to sit at a salad bar, for example. These are the kinds of things that affect nutrient levels, and anyone who knows more about nutrition than editors of a conventional medical journal would hear alarms ringing in their ears if writers started making a big case about nutrient differences with or without organic.
This is why nutrition expert Marion Nestle started her blog item on the controversy by saying "sigh," as in "have I not explained this a hundred times already?" Organic advocates rarely make a nutritional claim, she points out. So the Stanford article is knocking down a straw man.
With dairy and meat, new evidence suggests that a key issue is how animals are treated. Still- controversial studies suggest that grass-fed animals have more nutritious milk and meat than animals fed corn and soy – no matter whether organic or conventional. That's only logical, given that most animals evolved to eat grass rather than corn or soy, which are good for bulking up fast, but not necessarily so good for complex nutrients.
Organic scores well, even in the Stanford study, in terms of pesticide residue, which is as important to personal health as nutrients. Almost no-one is suffering from scurvy, rickets or wasting in North America or Europe, where the Stanford study got a lot of media, but breast, prostate, colon and bladder cancers have affected almost every family. A strong case can be made that toxic residues from pesticides, brought into the body by food, are implicated in these cancers. So this isn't exactly a minor selling point for organics.
On the question of toxins, however, I'm also intrigued that there are any—not 30 per cent less, but any—pesticide residues on organic. That can only mean that the toxins from conventional fields migrated by air, rain or water table to organic fields, and who knows where else.
Why didn't that set off media alarm bells? It means that people who pay extra for organic are still getting toxic residues that rightfully belong to the people who produced and bought conventional food.
This is an issue worthy of a meta-analysis. Are organic consumers dupes, taking the toxic bullet for people who saved money thanks to pesticides. Is it fair that some farmers get to cut their production costs by spreading toxins throughout the environment?
Since the Stanford team is asking whether organic costs more when it doesn't deliver more nutrients, why doesn't the team also ask the flip side of the question—whether conventional gets to charge less because the toxic load is passed on to everyone?
That question gets to the penultimate tricky question of agricultural prices. Why do some get to offload costs to the environment for free, while those who contribute to a safer environment get no fee compensating them for their extra work on behalf of the public good? If an environmental fee was paid to the farmer producing the environmental service, then all farmers would compete on an even playing field, and no academics would ever have to ask whether organic delivers more value for the money.
Why doesn't the Stanford team, or any of the media following their study, ask that? There I go again, answering my own question.


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BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Lebanese authorities Friday raised the death toll from a car bombing the day earlier, saying at least 22 people were killed and hundreds injured in a southern suburb of Beirut.
Thursday's bomb rocked an area known as a stronghold of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, the Lebanese army said.
At least 228 others were injured in the terrorist attack, the Lebanese Internal Security Forces said.
There was a heightened security presence Friday in Beirut and other areas of Lebanon, but tensions appeared lower than on Thursday evening.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is due to address a large rally Friday in the southern Lebanon town of Aita al Shaab, close to the border with Israel.
It's unclear if Nasrallah will respond to the bombing, which appeared to target Hezbollah, and whether, if so, his words will provoke more anger against the movement and its involvement in Syria's civil war.
The previously planned rally is being held to mark the seventh anniversary of Hezbollah's July 2006 war with Israel.
Along with Shiite-dominated Iran, Hezbollah is helping Syria's government fight rebels, whose ranks are dominated by Sunnis.
After Thursday's blast, a YouTube video surfaced in which three masked men holding weapons claimed they are part of a group responsible for the attack. They stood before a large Arabic sign containing the Islamic creed, "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah."
The group, which calls itself the Brigade of Aisha, Mother of Believers, accused Hezbollah of being aggressors. Aisha, the last wife of the Prophet Mohammed, is especially revered by Sunni Muslims.
In its YouTube post, the group called Nasrallah a "pig" and said he works on behalf of Iran and Israel.
"A message: To our brothers and sisters in Lebanon: Stay away from anything to do with Iran -- whether in Beirut or outside Beirut," it said.
CNN could not confirm the authenticity of the video or the men's claims. The U.S. Embassy in Beirut tweeted condemnations of the attack.
Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian conflict has angered some in Lebanon, and many Lebanese fear that the group could be the target of more attacks in future.
People living near the scene of Thursday's blast told CNN they worried that if a car bomb could be brought into this neighborhood, which Hezbollah tightly controls, then others might follow.
Many Lebanese see the attack as another indication that Syria's civil war is spilling over its borders. Lebanon is divided along the same sectarian lines as its neighbor.
Lebanon's army said its units responded immediately to the bombing Thursday evening, setting up a security zone and beginning investigations.
Civil defense units were trying to rescue some citizens stuck inside their homes due to the fire resulting from the blast, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
The explosion came about a month after a car bomb injured dozens of people in the pro-Hezbollah neighborhood of Bir El Abed in a southern Beirut suburb.
CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reported from Beirut, Lebanon. CNN's Yasmin Amer reported from Atlanta.


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Although an exact figure hasn't been decided, the number of U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan after the 2014 pullout will be substantial, officials said.
Speaking Thursday at a news conference, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said a number of U.S. troops will stay in Afghanistan after the pullout to participate in training of Afghan forces as well as counter-terrorism efforts.
"The fundamental mission in Afghanistan is to establish an Afghanistan that can secure and govern itself and ensure that al-Qaida never again finds a safe haven within Afghanistan from which to conduct attacks on the United States or any other country," Panetta said.
"The goal here is an enduring presence, therefore, that will direct itself towards, you know, three important missions. One is obviously CT, counter-terrorism, to ensure that we continue to go after whatever al-Qaida targets remain in Afghanistan. And although, you know, we clearly have had an impact on their presence in Afghanistan, the fact is that they continue to show up and intelligence continues to indicate that, you know, they are looking for some kind of capability to be able to go into Afghanistan, as well."
The exact number of troops to stay in Afghanistan is yet to be determined.
The U.S. Senate voted 62-33 Thursday for an accelerated withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. Although the bipartisan vote in favor of a faster pullout is non-binding, it will likely affect talks between President Barack Obama and the military on the withdrawal of the 66,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Khaama Press said.


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"It is part of the statist mystique to confuse the necessity of ends-means consistency; it is thus the most crucial activity of the libertarian theorist to expose inconsistencies."
– Samuel Konkin III, The New Libertarian Manifesto
The institution known as the State is by far the most dangerous idea to date. Millions of people around the world have bought into the idea that some external creation has the authority, or the "right" to commandeer a particular geographic location and dictate what is "legal". The State encompasses more than just the simple ruling class however.
In our modern age the State has many faces. The lines between government, corporation, media, and military have been blurred to the point that many corporations work hand in hand with the military, governments work directly with media propaganda campaigns and so on.
Where in the past an individual may have only had to fend off the clutches of an over reaching government we now have to stand against corporations with subsidies and bailouts, and governments that take without care or concern. Add to this already volatile mix a conglomerate of media organizations that represent nothing close to independent news reporting, and you have a clearer picture of our current situation.
The machine that is the Media-Military-Corporate-Fascist complex exists for one purpose: To break you down so that you will willfully submit to a set of ideals that do not promote freedom and do not encourage empowerment. Samuel Konkin referred to these as "anti-principles". He believes these to be "those seeming like principles but actually contrary to natural law". I would argue handing over your natural ability to make decisions for yourself is contrary to natural law.
In forfeiting our own power to an external force we find a number of problems arise. An individual who has been raised to see the government as parent is likely to grow dependent on their new found parent figure. One who has become acclimated to the "benefits" of the welfare state is unlikely to question or oppose their corporate partners. Those who do question the corporations but not the government fail to recognize the hypocrisy of benefitting off one while hating the other. There is no separation between the corporations and the government.
One who has resigned to the comforts of pseudo-freedom is not likely to find much relief from their favorite past time: the media and it's many distractions. From television to internet ads, the majority of advertisements that cross an individuals vision are owned by the same corporate-fascist interests that influence other areas of our lives. We are constantly bombarded by messages telling us to spend more money, degrade individuals based on their clothing, sex, and skin color, and in general any skewed message they can get across in thirty second snippets.
Whether it is sex, money, politics, or religion, we are shown extremes. We are to believe that sex can neither be healthy or loving but instead we are shown images of promiscuity or told to hide away your desires. Either you join corporate America or you live under a bridge. Either we keep you safe or there will be chaos.
We are sold one fallacy after another from the State and it's many tentacles.
This system, whether by design or freakish accident, will make you feel alone. Isolated. Fearful. From this unbalanced mental state it is much easier to manipulate an individual. To make them believe they want to relinquish control over their own affairs. In order to counter act this attack by the State we must strengthen the foundation they seek to destroy.
If we allow ourselves to be swept up in a whirl wind of propaganda, division, instant satisfaction, and a "now or never" mindset we will fall prey to the Statist dis-ease. By stepping back and allowing ourselves time to become aware of what our "self" is we can avoid such traps and continue on the path towards freedom.
Do not allow yourself to be manipulated into what to like, eat, or buy. Learn more about who you are as a person and create your role in it all. The State will march on with it's intentions and you with yours. The moment you decide to separate and no longer play the game that is the moment you become free.
The State will always seek to divide, isolate and control. A solution to these attacks is a deeper understanding of yourself. By knowing your desires, your limits, your needs, and being honest about these things, not only to yourself but the community around you, you build a protective cocoon around your existence. The State manipulations are no match for a conscious, self-aware human being ready to reach their fullest potential. Once we begin to take these steps in our own personal lives we must encourage those willing to hear the message to do the same for themselves.
In my personal life I have found much use for the practice of meditation. Taking even 5 minutes of your day to sit is a surprisingly helpful way to stay more present. Whether you are sitting in silence, focusing on an issue you wish to resolve, or chanting, the effect is similar: A calming sense of awareness. Awareness of ones own emotions, doubts, insecurities, hopes, and dreams. By taking steps towards a more fuller awareness of self we can truly advance our species forward and continue the process of evolving past the State.
"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with Diligence." – Siddartha Gautama


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Length (mm) : 70 |
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Dimensions (mm) : 70 x 7 |
One of a Kind : No |
Metal : silver |
Hallmarked : No |
Wire Material : silver
Elegant drop silver earrings. These beautiful silver earrings have been etched with blossom pattern that reflect designer Sally Grants love of the natural world.
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text: I would agree with that, but be even more precise; all fiction is alternate history; there is only one History, but infinitely many Stories! Someone earlier made the point better than I, but to use my own example: a story where people travel faster than light is a science fiction story. If the story could be told without the characters being able to travel faster than light, that's a bad sci-fi story. If the story not only required that the characters be able to travel faster than light, but also showed how the characters were altered by this fact, and their actions, words and thoughts provoked an interesting comment about people today, that would be a good sci-fi story; perhaps today, a great one.


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Descend 250 meters in an elevator and climb out in the early 19th-century at the Railway Museum Utrecht. Explore a collection of locomotives, carriages, steam engines and even train sets, learn about the Netherlands' train history and little ones can play on the interactive exhibits! Calling all trainspotters!
The Railway Museum Utrecht is dedicated to living the life locomotive in the late 18th and early 19th-century! It's a fully interactive adventure for trainspotters young and old.
Step into the carriage once used by the royal family. Ride Fire Test, a virtual journey through two whole centuries of track history!
Take the kids to the Techlab, where they can learn how trains worked – then and now – via fun, interactive exhibits.
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This is the perfect way to 'train' your kids to appreciate the railways more.
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New international standard for spacecraft docking
Partners in the International Space Station programme have agreed on a new standard for docking systems, which will be capable also of implementing berthing. The agreement allows a range of compatible, but not necessarily identical, mechanisms for spacecraft docking. A first agreed version of the Interface Definition Document will be released on 25 October.
The International Docking System Standard (IDSS) provides the guidelines for a common interface to link spacecraft together. It builds on the heritage of the Russian developed APAS system (Androgynous Peripheral Attachment System) used for the Space Shuttle for the 'hard docking' and the innovative soft-capture features of the new NASA and ESA systems. Other agencies will be free to choose specific features behind the interface.
"The IDSS is an outstanding example of international collaboration. We have developed a common language for docking systems to use the same 'words' in space when it comes to work together," said Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight.
"The Docking Standard sweeps away the boundaries for a truly global exploration endeavour. It will also make joint spacecraft docking operations more routine and eliminate critical obstacles to joint space exploration undertakings," she continued.
"Today, our future in space is more open-minded than ever. ESA has been committed to the development of this standard since the inception of the working group and has contributed to the document defining this standard interface. We have been working for a number of years on the development of the IBDM (International Berthing Docking Mechanism) and we are willing to make the IBDM compatible with this new international docking standard," Simonetta Di Pippo concluded.
Open and flexible standard
The initial IDSS definition document will be released into the public domain on 25 October. It will contain a preliminary description of the physical features and design loads of the standard docking interface.
The technical teams from the five ISS partner agencies will continue to work on additional refinements and additions to the initial standard. ESA, NASA, Roscosmos, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Canadian Space Agency are represented on the Multilateral Coordination Board, which coordinates Station activities among the partners.
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HI again Norman3D,,
IT would be super COOL. with Vray support..:tu: :tu: :tu:
best Daniel
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HI again Norman3D,,
IT would be super COOL. with Vray support..:tu: :tu: :tu:
best Daniel
it doesn't work in Max 9.
it says Doscommand error.
Thanks for this, and another vote for Final Render MTD connection for displacement map :tu:
Fantastic! Thanks Norman, I was suffering withdrawals. :D
just wanted to upload a working version of the smooth group import plugin for Zbrush 4 so hopefully it can get included as an option for GoMax.
Looking for a link in between Zbrush and max/vray as well.
It is just a drag to go through all the renderer settings everytime you send your model, AA, GI, samples, render elements, re-applying the materials ...
I know an answer is model first, shader setup after ... but come on, if you work in the industry you know how we are led to go back and forth in between both pretty usually.
Googling it would have been a faster answer but : yes, the last final render version is out now R3.5 SP3 (compatible with the once again disappointing Max 2012). Check cebas website for more info ;)
First off, awesome tool! :tu::tu:
I have a lot less issues with this over GoZ with max.
I have one suggestion though.
(Unless I am totally missing something) Could you add an option for the Max > zbrush workflow where material libraries are exported by default?
Currently matids/polygroups are not imported from max to zbrush because you have them turned off by default when the mesh is exported out of max.
Kind of a hassle to have to turn them on manually every time I wanna export something.
Also, it looks like the option to export polygroups from zbrush > max is grayed out? Why is that?
It appears the script is auto turning off "tool > export > grp" in zbrush which prevents polygroups from being exported out of zbrush.
Is it possible to turn this on?
Hey E!
The reason why polygroup is grayed out is because I never got to implement support for polygroups.
Here is the "problem" with exporting polygroups from Zbrush to 3dsMax.
When you export your mesh with the polygroups, and import it in 3dsMax you will realize that the mesh has been split into pieces, different meshes. At this point the mesh is broken, the vertex IDs are renumbered and don't match the original one, even if I merged them back together automatically.
There are a couple of ways around this, but it would not be pretty and only work some of the time.
As far as I know GoZ uses a whole different method. I'm simply exporting my mesh as an obj, whereas GoZ is exporting in a GoZ format, which is able to support polygroups nicely.
So, unfortunately GoMax won't be supporting polygroups any time soon. You'll have to use GoZ, which I'm sure will keep improving. Sorry. :/
Hi Norman3d,
Do you plan to update Gomax to work with Zbrush4R2?
I tried testing it with Max 2012 and Zbrush4R2 but can't seem to make a connection. Hopefully this would be a minimal thing to fix.
Thank you
Correction - GoMax does work Zbrush 4R2, I forgot to re-install GoMax and point it to the Zbrush 4R2 folder. Works just as before now. :)
Can it work with Autodesk 3ds Max 8?, Please, I hope
I also need VRAY support!!!!
Yes a way to make max use a specific .max file would be great to make every user of 3rd part renderers happy.
Until then. save your render settings so you can load them.
Hi, I'm having this problem everytime i try to export or import. >.<


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The analytic rank of the Mordell elliptic curve $y^2=x^3-86069^5$ indicates that it has rank 2. However, deriving a set of generators, and hence the regulator, is proving to be a little bit of an intractable problem.
I'm posting this question in the hope that someone may have investigated this curve already and, as such, may be able to help me out with some of the points on the curve.
Any help with this would be very much appreciated.
As further background, I have been involved in a small group searching for values of #Sha > 1 up through the ranks of Mordell curves, currently from ranks 0 to 9.
To date we have been able to progress to a rank 9 curve were #Sha would seem to be at least equal to 9. The details of which may be seen at the NMBRTHRY Archives.