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NOTE: A version of this article was previously published on Suze Orman's website on April 7, 2016.
I am concerned that many of you are banking on a retirement strategy that may not work out. According to a national survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, more than four in 10 Americans say they plan to keep working past the age of 65.
For many of today's workers, the motivation to delay retirement is financial. A concern they lack the savings to cover all their retirement costs, including health care expenses.
It's a logical plan to address a major concern, but I need you to listen to me: thinking you can just keep working may be unrealistic. In the same survey, just 15 percent of retirees said they kept working past age 65. That's a serious gap between expectations (40 percent plan to keep working past 65) and real life (Only 15 percent kept working after age 65.)
Many of those who retired earlier than they expected were sidelined by illness or disability. Taking care of a family member can also derail plans, as can being laid off or pushed out of a job by downsizing.
If your retirement plan is centered around the assumption you will just keep working longer, please consider these important steps:
- Keep saving. If you aren't saving for retirement, or pushing yourself to save even more, you're putting your future security at risk. The best way to navigate the unknown is to hope for the best and plan for the worst. In this case, not being able to keep working longer is a "worst" case scenario. Plan for that by committing to save as much as possible today in your retirement accounts.
- Keep Sharp. I know you've heard plenty about keeping your work skills up-to-date, but many of you still haven't done much. If there's no on-the-job training available, check for online courses; there are plenty of terrific web-based classes you can take. Or look into whether your local community college has useful courses in your field.
- Keep Fit. The healthier you are, the less susceptible you may be to certain illnesses. There's also the mind-body connection; I'm a believer that when you feel physically strong, it spills over into a frame of mind that can make you more valuable at work. Besides, I want you to be in the best shape possible for when you do retire, so you can enjoy yourself!
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I have been a Windows user for probably all my life, but started using Mac a few years ago. While I never required to use an external mouse with my Mac earlier on, I did find the need for one when I started using the Mac for longer periods.
On Windows, a mouse with a scroller will scroll the page in the direction the mouse wheel is scrolled, for example; the page will scroll down when you scroll the mouse wheel downwards and vice versa. However, Apple uses something called as natural scrolling direction and scrolls the page in the opposite direction.
If you are someone who is annoyed because of this strange scrolling behavior on a Mac, you can change the settings to make the page scroll in the direction you scroll the mouse wheel in.
To make that change, head over to System Preferences -> Mice and then uncheck the box next to "Move content in the direction of finger movement when scrolling or navigating" (In older Mac OS X versions, this would be the checkbox next to "Natural" scrolling".
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StackMob has launched version 2.1.1 of its iOS SDK. Epic Systems revealed an API for its Epic EHR as a platform. Plus: what APIs are and why they are important, and Plaid raises $2.8 million for API that opens banks up to developers.
StackMob Launches iOS SDK v2.1.1
StackMob, mobile platform provider, has launched version 2.1.1 of its iOS SDK. The latest release includes a number of feature fixes and improvements (e.g. chaching performance enhancements, synching corruption fix, translation fixes, and more). To learn more or download the new version, visit the iOS homepage.
Epic Systems Opens API for EHR Platform
Epic Systems, medical software provider, has announced an open API for its Electronic Health Record (EHR) as a platform. Open.epic allows app developers, medical device manufacturers, and more to integrate Epic's EHR platform and its associated data. The open.epic homepage explains:
"With open.epic, we're helping incorporate personal tracking data with clinical records to drive better care. Here, developers will find the APIs, sample code, and implementation guides to put that data in the hands of clinicians. Together, we can create the connections to put this data to work."


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Professional photographer Ghulam Rasool has spent his life documenting nature, culture and landscapes throughout his home country Pakistan. Here are a selection of his incredible pictures of Pakistan.
An ox race, Lahore
Shandur Lake, 12,000 feet above sea level
A villager and his yaks, Khaplu Town
Tawar Chacha & his wife in their traditional Wakhi home, Broghil Valley
Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
Tent pegging competitors ride victorious in Jhang
Phandar Valley
Semi-nomadic people in Hingol National Park
An oxen-led plough in Nawabshah, Sindh
Fishermen of Keti Bandar
A farmer and his straw, Thatta
Reflections in the waters of Ghizer Valley
The Ghizer River
Children play with fish on Bhandara Island
Cattle herds in the Cholistan Desert
Yak Polo in the Broghil Valley
Begum Shahi Mosque, Lahore
Sunset over Astola Island
In the alpine meadows of Azad Kashmir
Men enjoy a campfire in Dera Ismail Khan
A Wakhi family in the Broghil Valley, which is inaccessible for eight months of the year
The majestic Tupopdan ridge, or "Passu Cathedral"
The Skardu Desert, the historic path of the Indus River
The Indus River, Skardu
For more photographs by Ghulam, www.ghulamrasool.com, or see his Facebook page. Copyright © 2014 for all images belongs to Ghulam Rasool.
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Homicide Probe Sparked After Police Find Car of Missing Hollywood Executive Gavin Smith
Gavin Smith's disappearance now being investigated as a homicide.
Mar. 14, 2013 -- Los Angeles Police have located the car of missing 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith and say the condition in which the car was found has prompted them to reclassify the case as a homicide investigation.
The car, a black 2000 Mercedes-Benz 420E was found at a storage facility in Simi Valley on Feb. 21, police announced today. The storage facility is connected to a convicted drug dealer named John Creech.
"We got a tip that led us to the discovery of the car in the storage facility," Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore told ABC News. "They [investigators] had an inkling that this was indeed a homicide, the condition of the car and eyewitness cooperation has lead investigators to believe Gavin Smith was murdered."
The Los Angeles County Sheriff Office has named John Creech a person of interest in the case. Creech is currently in jail on an unrelated narcotics conviction, according to a sheriff's office statement.
Smith's body has not yet been found.
Investigators told ABC News station KABC they believe Smith had some type of relationship with Creech's wife. "We don't want to get into his personal life, but there was a relationship with his wife, they met in rehab," said Lt. Dave Dolson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office.
"The homicide detectives are relatively sure they know exactly what happened, they are not going to talk about it until things become clearer," said Whitmore. There is no time frame for any possible arrest.
Smith, 57, a married father of three, disappeared in early May 2012 after leaving a friend's home in Ventura County's Oak Park neighborhood. There were reports he was possibly spotted dining with a female companion later that month.
The Smiths told ABC News that Gavin Smith's cell phone charger, shaving kit and other belongings were all at the friend's house where he was staying. He was last seen wearing purple workout pants that had belonged to his teenage son, which the family said was a sure sign he had no intention of going out anywhere in public.
Smith's wife, children and sister previously told ABC News that the former UCLA basketball star and movie executive would never abandon his family.
"He would never do anything like that," said Evan Smith, Gavin's eldest son and a star basketball player at USC. "He's a great father. My dad had no reason to leave, no reason at all."
Police have served between 25 and 30 search warrants in the case. Police also believe that there were other people involved in moving the car and body after the possible murder occurred, and are asking for the public for help identifying the people responsible for moving Smith's Mercedes from the Porter Ranch area to the storage facility around May 8 or 9.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.


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Madison, South Dakota residents have permission to use water for non-drinking purposes. Initial tests have allowed for water usage in order to shower, wash laundry or dishes plus other household water usages. For consumption, water must still be boiled before usage. Further testing on the water needs to be completed before water can be deemed safe to consume. Those results are expected sometime Friday.
The reason for problems with the water in Madison is due to a concrete roof collapse over an underground well at the water treatment plant. The accident occurred on Wednesday night.


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Missouri Only State Without Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
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JEFFERSON CITY - A group of advocates met at the state capitol Thursday to testify in support of creating a statewide prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP).
Every other U.S. state has a PDMP. The program aims to stop "doctor shoppers," people who go from doctor to doctor trying to get prescriptions.
"They can then take those prescriptions to different pharmacies in the same area and get the scripts filled and end up with a large quantity of controlled substances to sell or abuse," Darran Alberty, a pharmacist at D and H Drugstore in Columbia said."I think we would all be very surprised of how common it is."
The program would include a database allowing doctors and pharmacists to have access to who uses prescription drugs in Missouri and what they use.
Right now, even if a pharmacist suspects the abuse of prescription drugs, there's no legal way to deny the drugs if the person has a prescription.
The bill was shot down in 2012, but advocates are trying to push for it again this year.
"Florida and several of the states swear by it. They say that they're able to track this drug use down and people don't try to go in and doctor shop and go to three or four different places," Rep. Kevin Engler, R-Farmington, said.
Engler is sponsoring the House Bill 347 and Sen. David Sater, R-Cassville, is sponsoring the companion Senate Bill 233.
Sen. Robert Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, said he doesn't think Missourians would pass the bill if it came to a vote.
"I believe that the voters of Missouri would reject this because most people don't want the government to have access to their very sensitive very private information," Schaff said.
The Centers for Disease Control recently named prescription drug abuse as an epidemic. Alberty said this doesn't surprise him.
"I've seen it right here," Alberty said. "This bill would be another tool that could help stop it."


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Graphic: First Committee's Reverse Side of the Great Seal Design
"In the story of America's Great Seal, a particularly relevant chapter is the imagery suggested by Benjamin Franklin in August 1776. He chose the dramatic scene described in Exodus, where people confronted a tyrant in order to gain their freedom. ….s8int.com
"Pharaoh sitting in an open Chariot, a Crown on his head and a Sword in his hand, passing through the divided Waters of the Red Sea in Pursuit of the Israelites: Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Cloud, expressive of the divine Presence and Command, beaming on Moses who stands on the shore and extending his hand over the Sea causes it to overwhelm Pharaoh."
"Motto: Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God."
Franklin's design was recommended by the first committee for the reverse side of the Great Seal. The above realization was made by Benson J. Lossing for Harper's New Monthly Magazine in July 1856. The first committee made no sketch (that survives) of their design – one that is more historical than religious
Thomas Jefferson liked the motto "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God" so much, he used it on his personal seal. Also, it seems to have inspired the upper motto on the final reverse side of the Great Seal: Annuit Coeptis (God has favored our undertakings).
"Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God" echoes the Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. . . whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." …..greatseal.com
Romans 13:1-7
1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. 6This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. 7Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor..


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The most odious and degenerate of humanity are often the most friendly and charming at first glance. They know when to smile, how to speak to people, and their tones and words have that reassuring quality about them. Think on the most disreputable scam artists, flim flam men, hucksters and swindlers that abound in our modern capitalist inferno. These monsters lurk all over the place.
Due to this common danger in our modern lives, we have had to stand on guard, keep strangers at wariness levels, even act a little paranoid, and in the end, pervert our genuine personalities in order to suit the pathologically lying, structural violence, and legal theft, which abound in our societies.
In the current Amerikan Empire, the United States of America, these confidence men and fraudsters are everywhere, from the local car dealer to the EBT card scammer, from the local drug dealer to the greasy spoon owner, from the local petty thief to the bank executive, from the local donut cop to the politician-hack, from the local beggar to the slumlord. Almost everyone is now on the take.
This rampant crime wave is due to the examples that they have previously watched in seeing vile thugs getting away with such malfeasance. Their heroes are the those same thugs, thieves and murderers in power, meaning US government state power. This Amerikan imperial state edifice has continually murdered and plundered both at home, domestically, and in foreign countries across the globe – without any justice for most of their victims, without much historical memory to recount such heinous crimes.
No other empire in world history has gotten away with such horrendous criminality. Most distressingly, its crimes of mass murder and genocide have steadily continued since its first year of operation, 1790, and still survive, until the writing of this essay. Two hundred and some odd years of sinister design and operation has been quite a long time to perfect such evil.
Around two hundred years ago, a murderous incident took place just after the first decade of the 1800s. US soldiers, white slave patrol militia men, and a free colored battalion hunted down dangerous African slaves that had previously been involved in an attempted slave revolt in the New Orleans region. These slaves had wanted their freedom as the Haitians had achieved a few years earlier.
The ragtag American force of order, while searching for the malefactors, found an escaped male slave outside of his plantation that had nothing to do with the attempted revolt. They did not know this, and he looked like a dangerous slave anyway. One of the soldiers shot the slave directly in the chest, and then the other soldiers open fired into his scrawny body. The murderers threw the African slave's riddled body into a ditch filled with other African corpses. The next day, they cut off his head, so that they could put it on a spike as a warning to other slaves thinking about rebelling.
This assassin group later murdered hundreds of other unarmed African slaves, men, women and children, and placed their heads on pikes along a road that connected New Orleans to Baton Rouge. This act of mass murder became the 1811 Slave Rebellion. The official history still denies such an atrocious act of carnage.
A hundred years later, under a false pretext to begin another war, (the false sinking of the Maine battleship by the Spanish), the US military had invaded the former Spanish colonial islands, called 'Las Filipinas,' or the Philippines in east Asia. The year was 1902.
During this brutal invasion, an American commander was having a hard time arresting and exterminating the nationalist guerrillas, inclusive of their supporters. After a few years of hit and run tactics, the guerrillas were still active and many of the Filipinos still supported them. The American commander referred to them as the 'Moros.' The American military leader had an idea. The US Army could simply assassinate or murder any young men of military age that they could find in the cities and villages. This would deplete the numbers of the guerrillas and potential guerrillas.
On a humid and hot day of death, one American battalion had invaded a small city in the province of Luzon, the officer gave the word for the soldiers to shoot in the head all of the lined up young men and boys in single file, Nazi SS style. The US military command did just that, and in hundreds of other towns across the land. By the end of the Philippine Invasion in 1906, the US government had murdered up to 2,000,000 Filipinos. The US military would use the same tactics in its later of Invasions of Korea and Vietnam, murdering over 6,000,000 Asians in the process. Still to this day, most Americans know nothing about this US government sponsored mass murder spree against the Filipino, Korean and Indochinese people.
About a hundred years later, in the middle of a hot early evening, a US military checkpoint was stopping cars on a road. The funny thing about this checkpoint was that it was inside a foreign country with thousands of years of history located on another side of the globe, far from the continental United States. These foreign occupying soldiers did not have any extensive global education, nor did they even speak the local language. They were here because their government invaded this country, like many others around the world during its short history. They did not even know why they were here in the first place. They had received orders from their officers to shoot at anything that seemed dangerous – or at anything that moved funny.
They saw a car that looked suspicious and open fired on the car with their weapons. They murdered the front passengers who happened to represent the father and the mother of a family inside the vehicle. The children of the murdered parents ran out of the cars screaming horribly and weeping uncontrollably. The soldiers detained them and sent them to a recently recruited, local collaborator force that dealt with these unfortunate children. This murder, and one of many murders, represented the Second Invasion of Iraq during the first decade of the 2000's. This statistic would add to 3,000,000 Iraqis murdered by the US government since the first invasion in 1990. Still to this day, the official murder count of Iraqis only points to around 100,000 victims.
There is also the US Government Invasion of Afghanistan. Even Leftists today only list about a few thousand Afghani victims of the US government invasion. But this sinister invasion has also included the Russian Invasion war in the 1980s, where the US government, through the CIA, overtly subverted a modern Leftist regime and then armed and funded the other side, the Mujahedeen Islamist movement.
During this same invasion, the US Military command has continually bombed the country murdering entire villages and families in the rural zone. The Amerikan Empire has imposed forced famines on the country through US government sanctions, and has encouraged the opium plague on the general population since occupying it. Afghanistan has lost over 3,000,000 of its own people. This country can never recover the loss of entire families and generations due to such US government mass murder.
The list of US government sponsored mass murder does not stop here. But before going into other acts of mass murder and genocide, it is important to state the obvious. The US government-state apparatus in Washington D.C. is first, the greatest threat to peace and to the natural dignity for most of the Earth's inhabitants. Second, this imperial, intelligence-military-prison-police state complex has been in continual war against the common people of the Earth since its nefarious beginnings in 1790. Third, its egregious acts of state terrorism and mass murder have been worse than the most organized form of mass murder in recent history, the Nazi Regime, (1933-1945).
The reason for the third statement relates to both its impunity and immunity regarding such crimes of murder from 1790 to the present. No other empire in world history has been in continual states of war, both domestic and foreign, and yet, has gotten away with such outrages for over 200 years of history.
Nor has the United States Government received any punishments whatsoever due to its contemptible abominations in the name of Liberalism, Capitalism-Free Markets and Democracy. The Nazi Regime had different ideological foundations: Fascism, Nationalism and Racialism, yet it lasted for thirteen years – not two hundred and twenty or so years. Nazism lays demonized in contemporary political thought. This Amerikan Nightmare Empire still feeds on the imperial carrion.
The most dangerous aspect of this empire is that the leaders of this monstrosity, which only offers the bad death for so many millions of Earth's inhabitants, actually believes that its great holocausts have been the greatest goods to humanity!
These sociopaths in power actually and truly believe their own lies. They are not trying to dupe the world. They accept wholeheartedly the innate rectitude of their murderous actions. They simply want more war, more bad deaths, and support every 'democratic' fascist and colonial regime on Earth, such as the Zio-Nazi Crusader State, the neo-Fascist Ukrainian coalition, the Moroccan absolute monarch, the genocidal regimes of Rwanda and Ethiopia, and the current Narco-Death Squad governments of Colombia, Mexico and Honduras. Those US Imperial madmen only want to murder and destroy unmolested. Everywhere war and murder reign across our globe, the US government in Washington D.C. has had some evil finger or toe inside of the wanton destruction.
For the sake of this essay, let's only show a few more of its loathsome outrages. The US government recently supported death squads from Uganda and Rwanda, and within the Congo itself to make sure that mini-continent in Africa stays loyal to Amerikan imperial interests, or as they use the term, 'western interests.' These proxy, paramilitary forces have already murdered over 6,000,000 Congolese. Are there any Holocaust museums to document such terrorism?
From the beginning of the 'Republic,' there has been one recurring genocide of mass murder: the war against the native nations. In the current United States, there are about 3,000,000 people who have some cultural and biological identity with a native nation. This is only 1% of the current US population.
In 1790, the US government did not include the natives in the census, so it is difficult to know how many were living in the North American continent at the time. The English colonists had already murdered entire nations, while other nations were greatly weakened through European microbiological diseases, such as the flu, and through continual warfare against them. As a historian, I can rightly state that the North American continent in 1790 had a greater native population in 1790 than it does now.
But since the beginning of the Amerikan republic-empire in the 1790s, the US government has been in continual genocidal warfare against the native nations. There was the Northwest Indian War, the Creek Wars, the Seminole Wars, the Tecumseh War, the Black Hawk War, and countless other wars throughout the first half of the 1800s. Then there were the forced removals of the eastern native nations, such as the Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw, to a desolate earth, now called, 'Oklahoma.' In the 1850s, Amerikan settlers under the California government, almost exterminated the entirety of the California nations. Now only a few survive. Around and after the US Civil War period, there were continual wars against the western nations on the Plains, in the Pacific Northwest, and in the mountain valleys of the southwest until the 1890s. All of these dreadful wars had the name of the 'Indian Wars.'
Within this period, unscrupulous American government agents traded in putrid blankets to the nations, so the villages would die from terrible diseases. Indian agents gave out bad and rotten food at the 'Indian stations,' so the natives would get sick and starve. They continued to do this and often had no food rations for the nations, in order to facilitate hunger in the young children, and early deaths. The US military command forced marched whole families into 'reservations, ' or early concentration camps. Native families died horribly during those long marches in the desert.
The US government broke every single treaty that they had signed with every single nation. There were the wanton massacres of entire villages, such as Sand Creek and Wounded Knee. The US government hired killers to exterminate the millions of buffalo in the west, which also encouraged starvation. The US government also spurred on ranchers, or local private property pimps, to put up barbed wire fencing around 'their lands' against traveling nations that lived on the horse and hunted for game.
Once they rounded up the nations into 'the concentrated areas,' the US government kidnapped their children and shoved them into religious boarding schools where they experienced physical beatings, ill treatment, bad food, and a few priests even raped and murdered some of the more sensitive unfortunates. The US government wanted a complete and full genocide of the nations. If they could not physically liquidate them all, then they could at least culturally exterminate them.
Meanwhile on the reservations, the Bureau of Indian Affairs organized gangs of thugs, called the 'tribal police, ' and mostly made up half-castes to harass any natives that still lived in the old ways. Native families got the worst of the government welfare, so their standard of living was horrible, their life expectancy was low and many other natives, with the complete loss of their souls, succumbed to painful deaths of drunkenness, mental illness and suicide. Like the other genocides concocted by this putrid empire, the ones responsible never took any official counts of the murders. But enough historians have documented that millions of natives lost their lives to such state sponsored terrorism and mass murder. Real and actual history never lies but proclaims the truth instead.
How many thousands of African-Americans lost their lives through over 200 years of institutional racism? With this state sponsored criminal neglect, came brutal poverty, economic misery, ghettoization, rampant crime due to lack of any social safety nets, and the prison-industrial complex, which still targets most African-American men.
The historian cannot forget the legal lynch murders of thousands of African-American men and women, (1870s-1970s), and even children, and who were simply the victims found in the wrong town and at the wrong time of the day. There was also the convict leasing system. How many African-Americans lost their lives through overwork or simple torture-murder, and how many still suffer and die within the greatest gulag in world history, often due to the so-called, Drug War and the War on Crime, within the dungeons of the Amerikan prison camp. We cannot forget the daily victims of Amerikan police gang violence, which still tortures, imprisons and regularly gets away with murdering, mostly African-American men.
Like the Amerikan sponsored native cultural genocide, American corporations have continually appropriated Afro-American cultural expressions, such as jazz culture, Black political agitation, dreadlocks, banjo picking, reggae, dancing, rhythm and blues, or 'rock,' hip-hop street culture, urban hand gestures, Blaxploitation films, Soul food cooking, Afro-English, and even Gospel spirituals. The corporations have reconstructed the 'black stuff' into white expressions for safe public consumption.
Finally, if we look across the Earth, we find many countries wantonly bombed by the United States government, while other countries suffered to have their legal governments covertly or overtly overthrown, often through the CIA or its NGOs lackeys. The United States government has also regularly sanctioned, blockaded, invaded, occupied or has imposed the most murderous and unjust of political regimes on peoples across the globe. Do any historians exist who can document the millions upon millions of victims from such state terrorism?
What are the actual numbers of victims from the Great Amerikan Holocaust? I will leave this discovery for another historian truth teller – who is also good with numbers. She or he can warn the Earth's inhabitants of such excrescence and sociopathic obsessions in control.
We now have over 220 years of continual violence, often performed through the nasty arts of mass murder, and ultimately, against life itself.
And unlike those sociopaths in D.C. who lie and believe their own lies, history shall not lie. History judges the Amerikan Empire as the worst culprit of mass murder, holocausts and genocides within human civilization.
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Deputies: Two men might be linked to numerous burglaries
Two men arrested during the investigation of a reported burglary might be linked to burglaries in numerous counties spanning two years, according to the Dodge County Sheriff's Office.
Officers responded to an Amerigas franchise south of Beaver Dam on Highway 151 at 1:32 a.m. Friday when surveillance technology picked up activity at the business. The first two officers on the scene reported seeing two men running from the building.
Deputies said one man was found trying to hide on the loading dock of a storage building, and officers said he was armed with a handgun. They said a second man was found in a drainage ditch and was held by officers at gunpoint.
The man found in the ditch had a gym bag containing burglary tools and items stolen from Amerigas and a neighboring business that was also burglarized, according to investigators.
The men are 20 and 27 years old.
Investigators said several Amerigas franchises were burglarized in 2011, and the same locations were burglarized again in 2012, which is why the Sheriff's Department installed surveillance equipment at the businesses.
Dodge County Sheriff Todd Nehls said they are fielding calls from several other counties investigating similar burglaries over the past two years. He said the men possessed tools, drills, pry bars, face masks, two-way radios and other items to carry out the burglaries.


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http://ca.eonline.com/videos/v178964_the-amazing-race-premiere-peek-219.htmlit shows JJ skydiving then Rachel then the other Rachel lol. Not sure how to embed its on the eonline twitter feed along with a story with Rachel and Brendon
My spec (based on multiple things) of who is safe this episode in no particular order:Safe:Mark/BopperBrendon/RachelVanessa/RalphNary/JaimeElliot/AndrewDave/RachelPossibly in danger:Kerri/StaceyMisa/MaiyaJoey/DannyCherie/DavidUnknown:Art/JJ
So are they doing Kandace's reverse roadblock? <3
Fords sponsorship includes on-air components featuring the new 2013 Taurus in the premiere episode, when teams begin the race in Santa Barbara, Californias wine country. After receiving their first clue from host Phil Keoghan, the 11 teams jump into a new Ford Taurus where they receive additional information about their first destination via the MyFord Touch system in each vehicle. Teams will drive their cars to Los Angeles International Airport before departing on their first leg to Argentina.Fords Fiesta and Focus will also make appearances in additional episodes this season. Also, one lucky team will win two new 2013 Ford Taurus vehicles for finishing in first place in an upcoming leg of the Race.
Is that Mark I see behind Misa/Maiya?
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But didn't Show contentMark & Bopper get eliminated in Italy? So that list would be incorrect.
Quote from: Leafsfan on February 18, 2012, 10:01:36 AMBut didn't Show contentMark & Bopper get eliminated in Italy? So that list would be incorrect. The list is simply a speculation on who is safe for the 1st episode. The safe teams are more or less ones that have been spotted later on in the race, or teams that from the time stamp in the pictures are clearly ahead of others.
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- Kim Kardashian appears nude in the new issue of Harper's Bazaar, but says, "I'm sorry I did Playboy. I was uncomfortable." Kim explains she only agreed to pose because her mom Kris Jenner told her to "go for it..."
- Kim says her mom told her, "They might never ask you again. Our show isn't on the air yet. No one knows who you are. Do it and you'll have these beautiful pictures to look at when you're my age." [Radar]
- Kim Kardashian's Twitter followers and PETA are upset with her for posting a picture of herself holding a kitten by the scruff of the neck. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals L.A. came to her defense (sort of) saying, "It is permissible to hold a kitten by his or her scruff for a brief amount of time" ... but warning, "the manner in which Ms. Kardashian is holding the kitten could lead others to mishandle animals." [TMZ]
- At the Matrix Awards, where Gayle King was being honored, Oprah Winfrey commented on the new Kitty Kelly tell-all. "Last week was a rough week for Gayle when a so-called biography came out," said Oprah. "Every day she's getting herself more and more worked up about all of my new daddies that are now showing up. New daddies who are saying, 'Hello daughter, call me, I need a new roof.'" [ET]
- Onlookers say Lindsay Lohan was "wasted" at the Coachella music festival over the weekend. Radar also claims she owes $500,000 on her credit cards "One card cut her off last week and it's only a matter of time before all her other credit cards cut her off too," said a source. [Radar]
- Last week at an anti-nuclear proliferation summit in D.C. French President Nicolas Sarkozy passed a letter from Roman Polanski asking for clemency to President Obama. [Daily Beast]
- Larry King and Shawn Southwick were spotted hugging again today. When Larry was asked if they'll reunite he said, "You never know." [TMZ]
- Larry King's lawyer says, "There's a 50-50 chance this divorce is not happening. His focus is on the best interest of his children. It's not clear to me which way he's going to turn on this issue." [People]
- Larry King Live is also in trouble. In the first three months of the year Larry King's ratings dropped 44 percent from 2009. [AP]
- Snooki dumped her boyfriend Emilio because she suspected him of cheating on her. [TMZ]
- A source says Snooki "Found out that he was writing messages to girls on Facebook at like 3am and asking them out to try and hook up. He even posted pictures on his page of him with girls wrapped around him. Snooki has a lot of self respect and she just won't put up with that behavior." She also thought he was using her to get famous. [Radar]
- Oksana Grigorieva announced she's performing a charity concert to aid victims of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. She also said she's removing a hammer-and-sickle tattoo on her ankle that Mel Gibson encouraged her to get. [AP]
- Oksana Grigorieva also said, "I can tell you that..we have split up, suddenly and recently. Unfortunately, I cannot give you the reason. But you will find out everything quite soon... Here is the official version: We split up by mutual consent and we will raise our daughter together. She is currently with my mother in my Los Angeles home." [Us]
- Charlie Sheen's domestic abuse case has been pushed back to June 18 so a hearing can be held on whether or not Charlie was read his Miranda rights while being questioned by police. [Radar]
- Steven Seagal filed an arbitration claim for breach of confidentiality agreement against Kayden Nguyen, the woman who accused him of sexual harassment. [Radar]
- TMZ posted the headline, "Why George Clooney Dates Elisabetta Canalis ..." along with photos of her on the beach in a thong bikini. [TMZ]
- Builders digging up the lawn of John Lennon's old house in England found a leather satchel that contained several large broken glass bottles. It's believed the bottled contained Lennon's LSD stash, which he buried in 1967 but couldn't find again. [ONTD]
- Pamela Anderson owes the IRS $493,000 in unpaid income tax. "I take full responsibility and I'm working it all out as best I can," said Pam. "I hate to owe anybody anything. It's driving me crazy, but I'm doing everything I can to solve all that." [Access Hollywood]
- Kyle MacLachlan and his wife, Desiree Gruber, an executive producer of Project Runway, are asking $2.875 million for a three-bedroom condo in New York. [NYT]
- Today Michael Jackson's estate rejected two creditors from Raymone Bain, Jackson's longtime publicist/manager/friend. She claims he owed her $44 million in unpaid wages. [TMZ]
- Merilee Gerth, the Jesse James mistress who threatened to sue him for sexual harassment, wanted him to leave Sandra Bullock for her. "Merilee genuinely cared for Jesse. Would she have made a life with him and married him? Sure," said a friend. "Once she realized she wasn't anything special to him she was devastated." [Radar]
- Bret Michaels says of his emergency appendectomy last week, "They told me that if I had gone onstage like I wanted to, [my appendix] likely would have ruptured and I could have died." [People]
- Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren's funeral will be held in London on Thursday. [Reuters]
- The cover of Andrew Morton's Angelina Jolie tell-all book features a photo of the "know your rights" tattoo on her back. [People]
- We're usually no fans of "baby bump" speculation, but its pretty clear from these pictures that Isla Fisher is expecting again. [Popsugar]
- Simon Cowell and Mezhgan Hussainy are getting married four times: once in Brighton, once in LA, once in Barbados on a yacht and once in Hollywood. [The Sun]
- Dr. Robert Rey of Dr. 90210 says he wouldn't have performed more than three or four procedures on Heidi Montag. "What worries me is the commentary she is making to young girls," said Dr. Rey, who has a 9-year-old daughter. "My young girl looks up to her and likes her. What message is she sending to young girls?" Dude, have you ever seen your show? [Us]
- Chris Brown will host a concert in Virginia next month to benefit Haiti. Performers include Trey Songz, Keri Hilson, T-Pain, Mario and Ryan Leslie. [AP]
- Susan Boyle has signed a deal to write her autobiography, which will be titled The Woman I Was Born To Be. [Mirror]
- Corey Haim's autopsy report should be released this week. [CNN]
- Elin Nordegren took her children on another trip today without Tiger Woods. She's vacationed by herself four times this month. [Radar]
- Chaz Bono says it's been a year since he started taking testosterone. "I'm very happy, feel really good," he said. "I've had really good positive reactions from people, I hoped people were starting to progress and move along and understand more, and so far my experience has shown that." [Access Hollywood]
- Over the weekend at the GLAAD Media Awards Wanda Sykes gave Constance McMillen, the Mississippi teen who tried to take her girlfriend to the prom, the Stephen F. Kolzak Award. Sykes praised her for being out and said, "I wouldn't even tell people I was black in Mississippi." [E!]
- Shayne Lamas eloped with some dude named Nik Richie hours after meeting him at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, thus validating our decision to ignore everything she does. [Us]
- In other news we don't much care about, Doug Reinhardt made out with some woman at a club. [TMZ]
- Behold: The new cover of Rolling Stone featuring the Black Eyed Peas. [Just Jared]
- "I think I've always had a really expressive face. I don't think I could ever be a really good poker player, because I think my face just expresses too much. Particularly when I was a teenager, I would think something, and it would automatically just show on my face. I think that really helped a lot for those characters." — Molly Ringwald [Mother Jones]
- Tiffani Thiessen says she hopes her baby has, "my laid-back personality, because I think it will help us as parents if the child's not too high maintenance and just loves life." [Us]
- "Mariah's a great cook," says Nick Cannon. "She likes to make fun dishes. We like to make little pizzas together. You know, the pizzas with the English muffins and the mozzarella? We do that a lot." Great story! [People]
- Drew Barrymore says of Ricky Martin coming out, "My lofty goal in this world is that we can live in a world that doesn't judge each other, I just want people to be able to live their lives that are true to them. I celebrate what (Ricky) is doing because we have to create a world for each other where acceptance is first and foremost." [Daily Express]
- A source who worked with producer Bruce Beresford-Redman before his wife was killed say it was common knowledge that he was having an affair with casting director Joy Pierce. "Are you kidding? Everyone knew about it. It was going on all last summer and trust me it was no secret that he and Joy were having an affair." [Radar]
- Kate Gosselin defended her decision to be on DWTS again saying, "This is the first and only thing I have ever done that my kids care about. It pushes me on to do better, to stay on the show, to get voted through because, honestly, they count down the days until Monday." [People]
- Hugh Laurie says House is putting a strain on his marriage, since Jo, his wife of 23 years, is living at their home in London while he films in L.A. "I wouldn't say doing the series has made marriage easier. Doing weekly TV is like joining the Navy and going to the other side of the world for 10 months of the year. But the truth is that whatever challenging situation you're in, somebody somewhere has got a much more extreme version. So I think one ought to shut up and not moan about it." [Daily Express]
- Carrie Underwood says she's not stressing about her upcoming wedding: "I don't care what color napkins are on the table. I don't care. We're just both really laid back. Family, food and fun, that's all we really need. And, oh yeah, get married." [People]
- In an interview with Jenna Bush Hager, Bill Clinton said of Chelsea Clinton's upcoming wedding, "I just hope I can keep it together [until] I walk her down the aisle and do the handoff. Like your dad was telling me when he did it with you, you know it proves you've done what you were supposed to do, but it doesn't make it entirely easy." [People]
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Okay, sometimes people are dumb. I mean, freakin' CATS hold their kittens by the scruff of the neck. Cats have a lot of skin there. Speaking as someone who used to inject insulin into a diabetic cat right there, they don't even feel it.


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Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Monday touted the department's crime-fighting strategies in tamping down the city's murder rate since earlier this year when homicides skyrocketed.
"This is not a zero-sum game. There has to be a recognition that we're doing better," McCarthy told reporters at a news conference at police headquarters. "I can't change what happened in the first quarter. What I can do, is to fix it going forward."
By April, homicides had soared 66 percent in Chicago compared with a year earlier, but that rate has been gradually brought down to about an 18 percent increase at this point, McCarthy said.
McCarthy credited the reduction to the city's decision to demolish more vacant buildings, arrest more gang members and focus police attention on individuals who are more likely to commit crimes. In general, the city is seeing less overall crime that it did decades ago, McCarthy said.
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"The city is enjoying the lowest crime rate it has had in 30 years," McCarthy said. "We might be in a position where we are leading the nation in crime reduction."
McCarthy's remarks came right before the department retired the star of Officer Clifton Lewis, who was slain last December while he was working off-duty as a security guard at an Austin convenience store.
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Wavelength: Troubled Light (Listening Through Black Midi)
The Impossible Music of Black MIDI
The machine on which Conlon Nancarrow created his player piano rolls. Photo by Carol Law, 1977. Collection: C Amirkhanian.
In 1947, the composer Conlon Nancarrow—frustrated with human pianists and their limited ability to play his rhythmically complex music—purchased a device which allowed him to punch holes in player piano rolls. This technology allowed him to create incredibly complex musical compositions, unplayable by human hands, which later came to be widely recognized by electronic musicians as an important precursor to their work.
A similar interest in seemingly impossible music can be found today in a group of musicians who use MIDI files (which store musical notes and timings, not unlike player piano rolls) to create compositions that feature staggering numbers of notes. They're calling this kind of music "black MIDI," which basically means that when you look at the music in the form of standard notation, it looks like almost solid black:
Blackers take these MIDI files and run them through software such as Synesthesia, which is kind of an educational version of Guitar Hero for the piano, and bills itself as "piano for everyone." It's kind of brilliant to imagine a novice piano player looking for some online tutorials and stumbling across, say, this video of the song Bad Apple, which reportedly includes 8.49 million separate notes.
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- Why Johnny's dad can't read. Bishop, Meredith // Policy Review;Winter91, Issue 55, p19
Focuses on the social problems associated with the lack of universal adult literacy in the United States. Lack of accountability in adult literacy programs; Lack of interest by illiterates; Combination of literacy training with drug and alcohol rehabilitation for the homeless.
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Another of the Devil Rays top prospects has run in to trouble in the minors. B. J. "Don't Call Me Melvin" Upton, was arrested last Friday for DWI in Durham, NC. With Delmon Young set to return from his 50 game suspension tonight, Upton removed that good feeling by committing his worst error of the season, and this comes from a guy that knows a thing or two about errors. Maybe Melvin would become a better fielder if he practiced with empty beer cans. Upton was not in the lineup Friday night, but returned on Saturday and went 1-4. Then on Sunday, he let everyone know that things were back to normal by committing 2 errors in the Bulls' 6-4 victory over Charlotte.
There had been reports earlier this season that Upton had openly berated Young after his bat-tossing incident. Apparently Upton made it clear that Young let down his Bulls teammates and was hurting his chances of being promoted to the parent club anytime soon. Let us hope that somebody on the team will return the favor to B. J.
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Eager Beaver Review
- Publisher: EA Chillingo
- Genre: Family
- Released: 14 Jun, 2012
- Size: 29.9 MB
- Price: $0.99
- One-touch control simplicity.
- Hazards provide a modicum of challenge; all predictable in their own way.
- Cute presentation over a variety of locations.
- Sinks in to repetitious familiarity early on.
Eager Beaver mixes up the tower-building concept by placing it underwater; while similar in many ways it proves to be entertaining despite the same-ish feel.
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I'll simply mention the awkwardness that is the title of Eager Beaver by Gamagio and Chillingo and simply leave it at that. Thankfully the game has absolutely nothing to do with the gutter-mind interpretation and everything to do with its literal interpretation as you control Edgar, the only beaver who seems to enjoy creating dams with the help of junk laying about and his trusty wooden fork-lift.
As you can imagine, your time will be taken up by the task of building dams with the fixed series of objects you're handed, hopefully stacking them just right to block the flow of water (as indicated by a handy % label in the corner of the screen). 'Flow' being the key word here as each level slowly ramps up the strength of the tide that twists and turns the rocks and junk being tipped in to the river. Add in explosives, ravenous and angry fish, as well as turbines to suck up some of the water and things aren't as easy as they first appear.
Building your dam is at least a complete doddle as you only need one touch to play. Holding down and dragging will reposition your flotsam while also rotating it slowly. Let go and the piece drops in to the stream, sinking to its final destination. While not entirely realistic in its physics, the blocks do fall with a somewhat intuitive predictability, making failure a problem of poor placement and timing than random luck.
Still, the variety of challenges wears thin after some time, even with the multitude of traps and creatures barring the way - each block your given tends to hint at the optimal solution (as they're fixed), so with only a modicum of experimentation you'll plow right through the currently available content.
Eager Beaver's unique take on the tower-building concept makes it a worthwhile title to check out, but before long the game will set in to a rote pattern and you may be wishing for a bit more meat to the various challenges you're presented.
DescriptionConstruct a Dam with Edgar the Eager Beaver!
Play as Edgar the tireless dam building machine, whose hard work had led to all the other beavers becoming lazy, as you build dams to stop the torrent of water destroying your home.
Do what beavers do best in this puzzle game. Pile objects on top of one another and block off the water with a makeshift dam.
You will have to contend with raging rapids, pesky fish and awkwardly shaped blocks as you try to stop the flow of water. Out your wits to the test and choose the perfect order to place your pieces. Remember, balance and patience is key!
Gorgeous character artwork really makes Eager Beaver stand out. Have a look at Edgar in his hardhat, the dim-witted fish, and the chubby, lazy beavers and we dare you not to smile!
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People opposing and supporting abortion rights demonstrate outside the Alabama Women's Center for Reproductive Alternatives in Huntsville in February.
When Virginia approved restrictions that could force abortion clinics to close, it joined a rapidly growing list of states that are energizing social conservatives by making it more difficult for women to terminate pregnancies.
Four other states have tightened abortion restrictions in less than two months — part of what abortion-rights groups say is an alarming trend since Republicans swept the 2010 elections. The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday called the Virginia restrictions "excessive and inappropriate."
Anti-abortion groups see evidence of a break between the relatively stable politics of abortion at the national level and the action in the states.
"There's a fundamental culture change going on," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List, which supports anti-abortion political candidates. She called the recent restrictions "common-sense, common-ground" measures.
"The middle ground is exactly where most people are," she said in an interview. "They want to see clinic regulation. They want to see parental notification. They don't like late-term abortions."
Arkansas legislators, overriding the Democratic governor, banned abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The Kansas legislature blocked certain tax breaks for abortion providers and declared that life begins at fertilization.
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Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard, back left, Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey, second left, and others applaud as Gov. Robert Bentley signs an abortion clinic regulation bill on April 9.
Alabama enacted a law last week requiring abortion doctors to have permission to perform the procedure at local hospitals, challenging a practice under which clinics bring in physicians from out of town.
And in late March, the governor of North Dakota signed the toughest abortion law in the nation — a ban on abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, a restriction that even some abortion opponents say is designed to provoke a court challenge.
"Although the likelihood of this measure surviving a court challenge remains in question, this bill is nevertheless a legitimate attempt by a state legislature to discover the boundaries of Roe v. Wade," Gov. Jack Dalrymple said.
In Virginia, the Board of Health on Friday voted 11-2 to require abortion clinics to meet the same architectural standards required of new hospitals. Abortion-rights groups say the standard is clearly designed to be so costly that clinics will have no choice but to close.
"This is a blatant attempt to impose a backdoor ban on safe, legal abortion care," said Caroline O'Shea, deputy director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, which supports abortion rights.
The Guttmacher Institute, a research group that studies reproductive health, reported this week that 694 state provisions on reproduction have been introduced this year, about half of them to restrict abortion.
Among those are provisions in 14 states seeking to ban abortion before the fetus is viable. In recent years, the institute said, lawmakers had focused on regulating abortion, such as requiring ultrasounds for pregnant women.
"Legislators this year seem to be focusing on banning abortion outright," it said.
Grisly Philadelphia case
Conservative bloggers, including at RedState and National Review, have lashed out this week at national media organizations for not paying enough attention to the gruesome trial of a Philadelphia abortion provider accused of killing seven late-term fetuses after they were born alive.
The doctor, Kermit Gosnell, faces the death penalty if convicted. Prosecutors say he killed some of the fetuses by plunging scissors into their necks and snipping the spinal cord.
Stephen Massof, an unlicensed medical school graduate who worked at the clinic, testified last week that women were sometimes given medicine to speed deliveries and "it would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place."
The accelerated restrictions on abortion come at a time when Americans have deeply mixed feelings about the procedure.
An NBC/WSJ poll showed 52 percent of Americans say abortion should be illegal with or without exceptions. Former Gov. Ed Rendell and Republican strategist Chip Saltsman debate what that means for their parties.
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday found that 52 percent of Americans believe abortion should be illegal with some or no exceptions, compared with 45 percent who believe it should be legal most or all of the time.
Those figures have been roughly unchanged over the past decade, although the same poll found in January that only 44 percent believed it should be illegal with some or no exceptions.
Still, that January poll, timed at the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that established a limited right to abortion, found that seven in 10 Americans wanted it to stand, the highest figure since 1989.
Giving ground
The state restrictions have been enacted while national Republicans have given ground on other cultural issues.
Two Republican senators have announced support for gay marriage. Republicans are working with Democrats on a way to establish some path to citizenship for undocumented workers.
And on Thursday, 16 Republican senators joined most Democrats to overcome a threatened filibuster on a bill that would expand criminal background checks for gun sales and toughen penalties for illegal sales.
Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the Republican vice presidential nominee last year, told an anti-abortion group on Thursday that Republicans "need to work with people who consider themselves pro-choice."
He also said: "We don't want a country where abortion is simply outlawed. We want a country where it isn't even considered."
Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, pointed out that three dozen governorships will be decided in the 2014 election, and suggested the restrictions passed over the past few weeks would wake up voters.
"What we're seeing here is an extreme position about women's rights that was soundly rejected in the 2012 election at the federal level," she told MSNBC. "These governors should be watching very, very carefully."
Kansas lawmakers pass sweeping anti-abortion legislation
Abortion worker at trial: 'It was literally a beheading'
North Dakota governor signs toughest anti-abortion package in US
Arkansas lawmakers approve toughest abortion limits in nation


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The chemicals sector ́s export share (mainly in Europe) amounts to more than two thirds of overall sales. French businesses are in strong competition with international players, especially the US.
- Growth continues while international competition increases
- Modest insolvency decrease expected in 2015
- The refinery segment suffers from overcapacity
The French chemicals sector has proved to be resilient in recent years, despite the feeble growth rates of the French economy. According to the French chemicals association UIC, French chemicals production is expected to grow 2% in 2015 after a 2.9% increase in 2014. Looking at subsectors, mineral chemicals, which is linked to the industrial gas and fertilizer industry, grew 0.9% in 2014 and is forecast to increase 1.2% in 2015. Soap and perfumes, which are niche markets and benefit from the experience of French businesses, grew 3.9% in 2014 and are forecast to increase 3.5% in 2015.
Organic chemicals, one of the most important segments of the French chemicals industry, grew 5.6% in 2014, mainly due to a rebound in the French automotive sector and robust demand from packaging, while demand from construction remained subdued. In 2015, production in this segment is expected to grow 1%. Specialty chemicals are expected to increase 1.3% in 2015 after registering 1.8% growth in 2014.
Given that the chemicals sector´s export share (mainly in Europe) amounts to more than two thirds of overall sales, French businesses are in strong competition with other international players, especially with US chemicals businesses that benefit from lower energy prices. The current gains from lower oil prices are partly offset by this competition, as decreases in raw material prices have to be rapidly passed on to lower sales prices in order to maintain market shares. However, those lower sales prices for chemicals products should further stimulate demand and provide more financial flexibility for chemicals businesses as working capital requirements should deflate. The currently lower exchange rate of the euro against the dollar also helps French chemicals exporters for the time being.
In the long term, the high level of investment in the US chemicals industry seen in recent years clearly provides the US competition with a strategic advantage against their French peers. Basic chemical products are most affected, as this segment's profitability depends mainly on volumes, which makes it more sensitive to energy costs. On the contrary, the specialty chemicals segment maintains a competitive advantage as it is less price-sensitive, but depends on innovation.
The danger of losing competitiveness has clearly led to some strategic restructuring measures by French chemicals businesses, such as focusing on core business activities and diversification of activities towards specific segments with higher margins (painting, ink, glue, herbal-pharmaceutical products, essential oil). In order to improve their margins, smaller companies continue to focus on niche markets, invest in research and development and develop additional services for technical support of customers.
Despite growing competitive issues, businesses in the French chemicals sector generally show satisfying margins with good cash generation. The volume of protracted payments and non-payments is expected to remain low. The industry is characterised by a low level of insolvencies. It is expected that the number of insolvencies will decrease further in 2015, although this decrease will probably be below 2%. However, given the value chain structure of the sector, insolvency of a major player would have a severe impact on suppliers.
Due to the overall good performance and the low frequency and value of credit insurance claims, our underwriting approach is positive. That said, we scrutinize the refinery subsector more closely, which suffers from overcapacity in France and Europe. The French petroleum industry association UFIP estimates that the average refining margin was EUR 22/tonne in 2014, while variable and overhead expenses amounted to EUR 30/tonne, leading to large losses. When underwriting chemicals businesses, it is also still important to identify end-markets (for instance the French construction sector as one of the major chemicals buyer industries still shows no comprehensive rebound).


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Sample of Manufacturer Response to Flooded Equipment
Boiler Manufacturer Response to Flooded Equipment
Technical Bulletin
Dated: September 28, 1999
Subject: Flooded Boilers
Issued by: Tom Senter, Weil McLain
Sample: This bulletin covers how to service a Weil-McLain cast iron boiler, which has been either partially or fully, under water due to flooding conditions.
When a Flooding Condition Has Occurred with a Boiler, You Must Follow One of These Two (2) Options:
1) Replace the boiler which has experienced flooding conditions with a new Weil-McLain boiler, OR
2) Thoroughly service the boiler which has experienced flooding conditions using the following guidelines:
Thoroughly service the boiler which has experienced flooding conditions using the following guidelines:
a) Replace all controls, gas valves, and electrical wiring on the boiler. Once an electrical control has been wet, it poses a fire and electrical shock risk and must be replaced. Gas valves are no longer assured to provide a safe shut-off to the gas, potentially causing gas leaks, fires, and explosions. Even mechanical devices such as float low water cut-offs and safety relief valves need to be replaced, as their components may become corroded, making the device unreliable for future use.
b) Thoroughly inspect all burner tubes, gas piping, manifolds, orifices, and flue ways for signs of rust and/or sediment from the flood waters. The rust and sediment can prevent proper operation of the boiler if it is not cleaned out from the boiler.
c) For oil-filled boilers, replace all oil burners. Oil burners, including Weil-McLain QB series burners, are complex systems consisting of solenoid valves, motors, electrodes, and pumps. If these components have experienced flooding, oil leaks, valve failures, and electrical faults may occur resulting in a severe fire hazard, potential injury or death. In the case of large commercial burners, such as Gorden-Piatt and Power Flame, it is more cost efficient to replace the entire burner rather than attempting to replace all the controls and repair the mechanical components.
d) Replace all insulation that has become water damaged. This includes jacket insulation, base box insulation, and combustion chamber insulation and refractories. After insulation has become water damaged due to flooding, it may deteriorate, reducing its insulation value and causing a potential fire hazard. Also, it can pose a health risk due to bacteria from the flood waters remaining in the insulation.
e) Where possible, inspect seal rings for damage from petroleum products. Flood waters are often contaminated with gasoline and other petroleum products, which damage elastomer seals used on most Weil-McLain boilers.
f) Thoroughly inspect all venting for signs of corrosion. Replace any venting that is rusting or corroded in order to prevent flue gasses from entering the building through the venting system.
NOTE: Even if only part of the boiler has been submerged in flood waters, replace ALL controls, gas valves, and other components as noted above. There is no easy way to know which components may be damaged; and even if a control was not submerged, water can get inside components because of splashing, wicking action, and/or moisture in the air. Water and sediment easily enter controls, wiring, and insulation and other boiler components. Even if you can not see obvious signs of penetration, water and sediment may have entered a device and render it unsafe. Replacing the boiler is usually the quickest and most cost economical option when servicing a boiler that has experienced flooding. With so many areas of concern in attempting to repair a boiler that has experienced flooding conditions, replacing the boiler is generally the safest choice.


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Amazon has been busy gathering up plenty of content partners for the past little while and now they've come to agreements with the folks from Paramount Pictures. Amazon Prime members will be able to access hundreds of videos from the Paramount Pictures catalog through any Prime Instant Video compatible device, including the Amazon Kindle Fire.
"We are continuing to invest in building a vast selection for Prime Instant Video and are excited to bring Prime customers some of the most renowned and popular films in cinema history under this new agreement with Paramount," said Brad Beale, director of digital video content acquisition for Amazon. "This deal will bring Prime Instant Video customers hundreds of new movies to enjoy on their Kindle Fire or any device connected to Amazon Instant Video, including titles such as Star Trek, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Top Gun, The Italian Job and The Truman Show, and we will remain committed to adding even more great movies and TV shows to Prime Instant Video in the future."
If you don't already have an Amazon Prime membership, you can sign up for a one month free trial right now. Looking for the full press release from Amazon? It's below for you all or you can hit up the Amazon website for the full details as well.
Source: Amazon
Hundreds of Critically-Acclaimed and Blockbuster Films from Paramount Pictures Coming to Prime Instant Video
Fan favorites Mission: Impossible 3, Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Mean Girls, Nacho Libre, Clueless and many more soon to be available to Amazon Prime Members with unlimited streaming
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 23, 2012-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon continues to invest in Prime Instant Video and add to the already-vast selection of movies and TV episodes available to customers as part of their Prime membership. Amazon.com, Inc. today announced a licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures that brings hundreds of new hit movies to Prime Instant Video in the U.S. over the next three years. Prime Instant Video now offers customers more than 17,000 movies and TV episodes to enjoy. To start watching Prime Instant Video immediately, visit www.amazon.com/piv. Customers who are not Prime members can enjoy a free one month trial of Prime.
"We are continuing to invest in building a vast selection for Prime Instant Video and are excited to bring Prime customers some of the most renowned and popular films in cinema history under this new agreement with Paramount," said Brad Beale, director of digital video content acquisition for Amazon. "This deal will bring Prime Instant Video customers hundreds of new movies to enjoy on their Kindle Fire or any device connected to Amazon Instant Video, including titles such as Star Trek, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Top Gun, The Italian Job and The Truman Show, and we will remain committed to adding even more great movies and TV shows to Prime Instant Video in the future."
Prime customers can enjoy Prime Instant Video on Kindle Fire or any of the hundreds of compatible Amazon Instant Video devices, including PlayStation 3. For a list of compatible Amazon Instant Video devices visit here.
About Amazon Instant Video
Amazon Instant Video is a digital video streaming and download service that offers Amazon customers the ability to rent, purchase or subscribe to a huge catalog of videos. Customers can choose from more than 120,000 titles to purchase or rent and content ranges from new release movies to classic favorites, major television shows, entire seasons, or even day after air TV. Prime Instant Video is Amazon's video subscription offer—it includes more than 17,000 movies and TV episodes selected from the full assortment available at Amazon Instant Video. This subscription offer allows US Prime customers to stream as many Prime Instant Videos as they like, at no additional cost.
About Prime
Amazon Prime is an annual membership program for $79 a year that offers customers unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items including books, home and garden products, electronics, video games, clothing, and much more. Amazon Prime members also get access to unlimited instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV episodes and access to tens of thousands of books to borrow for free, as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates from a Kindle device. Customers who receive free Prime shipping benefits through our Amazon Student or Amazon Mom programs can upgrade to an annual paid membership to receive Amazon Prime's digital benefits.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages, search, shop, and take notes – still with all the benefits of the most advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the line e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch, with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire is the Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon's new revolutionary cloud-accelerated web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core processor.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, www.amazon.it, and www.amazon.es. As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
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AC Podcast 492: TikTok/WeChat Ban; LG Wing; Pixel 5s; PS5
Daniel and Jerry are joined by Alex Dobie and Joe Maring to make sense of the impending (at the time of recording) TikTok and WeChat bans in the U.S. The crew also preview the LG Wing and discuss Apple's recent Watch and iPad announcements in comparison to Android-compatible watches and the Galaxy Tab S7. Alex also reports on the rumored Pixel 5s. Plus, the next-gen consoles are coming...
Foldables are finally good enough to actually spend money on
Foldable phones have come a long way in 18 months, and now with the Galaxy Z Fold 2, we have no major flaws, no shortchanged specs and no hurdles still to overcome. Now is the tipping point when foldables start to actually become worthy of your wallet.
Want an Oculus Quest 2? Here's where to buy one!
The Oculus Quest 2 was announced at Facebook Connect 2020. Here's how to preorder the hottest new wireless VR system around!
These heavy duty & kids cases are perfect for the Amazon Fire HD 10
It's cool to have a super-slim and minimal case that doesn't add any bulk, but those cases don't offer much in the way of protecting your Amazon Fire HD 10. There are a lot of great options out there that are either heavy-duty, designed for kids or both, so your Fire HD 10 can withstand anything.


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Star Trek: New Frontier is a novel and comic book series created by John J. Ordover and Peter David, and primarily written by Peter David. Published by Pocket Books, the series was released beginning in 1997.
The first Trek novel series not based on a television series, New Frontier began as a series of four short, interconnected novellas, then became full-length novels, and eventually expanded into other areas of Trek merchandise and literature.
In Sector 221-G, the former Thallonian empire has recently collapsed in a popular uprising. The USS Excalibur under the command of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun is dispatched to fly the flag and offer aid to the inhabitants. The crew – a mixture of characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Next Generation Starfleet Academy books, with some original characters thrown in – must learn to work as a team, creating friendships and relationships, as they confront a number of deadly foes.
- House of Cards (Book 1 of 4)
- Into the Void (Book 2 of 4)
- The Two-Front War (Book 3 of 4)
- End Game (Book 4 of 4)
- Omnibus (reprints #1-4)
- Martyr
- Fire on High
- The Quiet Place
- Dark Allies
- Excalibur: Requiem
- Excalibur: Renaissance
- Excalibur: Restoration
- Being Human
- Gods Above
- Stone and Anvil
- No Limits (anthology)
- After the Fall
- Missing in Action
- Treason
- Blind Man's Bluff
- The Returned, Part 1
- The Returned, Part 2
- The Returned, Part 3
- Starfleet Academy
- #1: Worf's First Adventure
- #2: Line of Fire
- #3: Survival
- The Captain's Table
- #5 Once Burned (takes place between #6 and #7)
- Tales from the Captain's Table (anthology)
- Double Time (graphic novel)
- Double Helix
- #5 Double or Nothing (takes place after Once Burned)
- Gateways
- #6 Cold Wars (takes place between #11 and #12)
- #7 What Lay Beyond (conclusion "Death After Life")
- Tales of the Dominion War (anthology)
- Turnaround (IDW Comics miniseries; takes place between #16 and #17)
USS Excalibur
- For canon appearances, see USS Excalibur.
The USS Excalibur (NCC-26517) was an Ambassador-class Federation starship. In 2373, the Excalibur was involved in the Borg incursion, fighting in the Battle of Sector 001. The ship took heavy damage in the battle, and its captain, Morgan Korsmo, an old Academy classmate of Capt. Picard, was killed in the attack, his final actions securing the safety of the ship and crew. Following the destruction of the Borg cube, the ship was taken to dry dock for repair and refit.
USS Excalibur-A
The USS Excalibur (NCC-26517-A) was a Galaxy-class Federation starship, commissioned in 2376, following the destruction of the former vessel to carry the name. The vessel was originally assigned to Captain Elizabeth Shelby, but was given to Mackenzie Calhoun upon his return to active duty.
Excalibur-A was a late model Galaxy design, described as a hot rod in terms of speed and armament (at the expense of some of the earlier Galaxy starships' civilian arrangements). Some new features built into this vessel included holographic communications and a primary hull (saucer) warp drive.
USS Trident
The USS Trident (NCC-31347) was another Galaxy-class starship, assigned in 2376 as Captain Shelby's second command following her tenure aboard the USS Exeter. When Shelby was promoted to Admiral, first officer Kat Mueller was given command and promoted to the rank of Captain. Andorian Commander Desma then served as first officer.
|Pocket releases
|The Original Series • The Next Generation • Deep Space Nine • Voyager • Enterprise • Discovery • Picard • Alternate Reality
|New Frontier • Starfleet Corps of Engineers • Stargazer • Titan • Vanguard • Klingon Empire
External links
- Star Trek: New Frontier at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Curt Danhauser's Guide to New Frontier


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There's nothing quite like the drive to Montauk —especially when Gurney's Inn Lobster Bake awaits. Driving down the Napeague stretch, the riddles of life seem to fade, and you begin to ask yourself, "Am I on Long Island anymore?"
What better way to spend an evening out in Montauk than at Gurney's Inn, on the outdoor patio, dining next to the Atlantic Ocean? It's a good thing the people at Gurney's believe in tradition, because their summer-long Lobster Fests are truly an experience not to be missed. [expand]
Being a seasoned lobster bake foodie, I came knowing I was in for a royal feast. Gurney's spares no expense for their guests dining at its Lobster Bake. Your pound-and-a-half lobster is a sight to see—it should come as no surprise that I jumped at the chance to indulge in one of the finest crustaceans to be pulled from the sea. In my world lobster is, unfortunately, not an everyday food—it's an indulgence, a treat ,and Gurney's never disappoints this food lover. The lobsters are, of course, served whole with decadent melted butter for dipping. The chef kindly gives the bright red crustacean a few whacks with his cleaver to help you get to the delicious meat, which is perfectly cooked and pleasantly moist. My first bite was nearly indescribable. I couldn't help but close my eyes and chew very slowly, savoring the heady flavor, not wanting it to end. The meat was fresh and tasted of the sweet smell of the sea, as if it had just been plucked from the ocean.
Besides your lobster, your $49 admission grants you full access to the plentiful buffet, where you'll be delighted with Gurney's other offerings—mountains of shrimp, boiled with spices and cooled, smoked fish, tomato and mozzarella salad, hot dogs, hamburgers, sausages, Mako shark marinated in honey and teriyaki, mussels, corn…
Let's not forget the dessert table, which features fresh fruits and baked goods from Gurney's very own Beach Bakery—including strawberry shortcake. I'm not ashamed to admit that I enjoyed two helpings—it was SO good!
So after you've eaten all the food you can fit into your tummy, why stop the night there? If you plan carefully, you can also enjoy another Gurney's Inn summer staple—the Comedy Night. Admission includes one complimentary bar drink and a gaggle of guys and gals looking to make you laugh. We got the chance to check out the comedy line-up this past week with funnyman Clayton Fletcher, the animated antics of Andrea Mezvinsky and quirky Mike Fine.
What could be better than a night out at Gurney's Inn in the summertime, drink in hand, lobster bib attached, and that view? Not much. Get to Gurney's, and you can thank me later for this hot tip!
Gurney's Inn Resort Spa, 290 Old Montauk Highway, Montauk. www.GurneysInn.com. 631- 668-2345.