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Wednesday, May 2, 2007. Chaos and violence continue, the US military announces more deaths, Big Oil drools over the oil grab, much time is wasted with people pretending to be shocked (and worse), today is World Press Freedom Day, and more.
Starting with the garbage that's stinking up and taking up too much 'coverage' of Iraq. Bully Boy gave the toothless, non-binding, weak ass measure the Democratically controlled Congress passed a veto. To no one's surprise. Andrew Ward (Financial Times of London) reminds, "Mr Bush had threatened for weeks to reject any legislation including withdrawal dates". The non-binding and toothless 'benchmarks' (always with get-out-of-the-benchmark-free cards). When the Democratic leadership caved and sold out the American people there was no call for "TAKE TO THE STREETS!"; however, because Bully Boy didn't sign the bill, WalkOn's calling for the closest thing to activism they can manage.
Bully Boy should have signed the bill. Not to end the illegal war. The bill didn't end the war, didn't guarantee anything (reclassification would have allowed Bully Boy to keep the exact same number of US service members on the ground in Iraq). But it would have been a PR victory for him. And then he could have said, "Well the bill didn't anticipate ___ so I've had to ___." He could have done whatever he wanted. The bill neither constrained nor contained the Bully Boy. He could have grabbed a few headlines, probably surprised enough people to leap all the way to 35% approval rating. His not signing a weak ass bill that gave him everything he asked for and put no binding condidtions on him was a sign (yet again) of the press' tendency to create 'boy geniuses' where there are none.
At the end of April, Gareth Porter (IPS) observed, "The language on a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq voted out of the House-Senate conference committee this week contains large loopholes that would apparently allow U.S. troops to continue carrying out military operations in Iraq's Sunni heartland indefinitely." Now WalkOn and Party Hacks who pretend to care about something other than elections (but don't) have reason to drum up phoney outrage -- they sold the weak ass action by the Democrats as if it were the second coming of FDR's Public Works Administration. Others telling people to drop everything in the middle of the week -- a day after many have participated in actual events for real issues -- and rush out to express your . . . well, not shock. Everyone knew Bully Boy would veto. But whatever it is, express it! Drop everything because the weak ass Democratic leadership just got a wedgie and, we all know, Dem leadership can't defend themselves. As one "key Democratic strategist" bragged to Elizabeth Drew (The New York Review of Books) about the bill, "We don't want to own this war. It's Bush's war, and we want him to keep owning it."
While it appears that you tried to do something? And they can't get away with that lie without an army of enablers which, fortunately, is one thing the Beltway has in surplus. But people are catching on to the con game Democratic leadership tried to play on the voters.
Which is why Charles Babington (AP) can report -- with little shock from readers -- that with Bully Boy having refused to budge and Dems already caved/collapsed, the 'compromise' is expected to come from the Compromised Party (Democratic Party) and chief among the compromised, House Majority Leader Steny Good Times Follow Me Around Hoyer who "told reporters Wednesday that he hopes to have a new bill passed in the House in two weeks, with a final bill sent to the president before the Memorial Day recess. 'We're not going to leave our troops in harm's way . . . without the resources they need,' said Hoyer, D-Md."
That quote is telling in two ways. First of all, Hoyer's now pushing the very thing used to tar and feather Dems with for the last few weeks (the abused often repeat the language of their abusers). Second, note the pause in the statement. "We're not going to leave our troops in harm's way . . . without the resources they need." As though Hoyer grasped that leaving US troops in harm's way is just what the Democrats -- same as the Republicans -- are doing. But, good news, they'll have "the resources they need." Babington also reports that Hoyer "said the bill should fund combat through Sept. 30 as Bush has requested, casting doubt that Democratic leaders would adopt a proposal by Rep. John Murtha [. . .] to fund the war two or three months at a time." [Note Babington wrongly identifies Murtha as a Republilcan -- ". . . by Rep. John Murtha, R-Pa., to fund . . ."] US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is quoted as saying, "The president wants a blank check. The Congress is not going to give it to him." No, they are not. They are not going to put it in his hand. They're going to leave it on top of the bureau as they tip-toe out the bedroom door with a big smile on their faces.
The BBC goes with their DC correspondent James Westhead's call "The Democrats acknolwedge they will eventually have to soften their bill as they cannot risk being accused of undercutting the troops during wartime". For those needing to see the con game from the other end, Noam N. Levey, Maura Reynolds and Joel Havemann (Los Angeles Times) produce the best piece of (unintentional) comedic writing of the year as they enter Bully Boy's head to report what he felt, what he hoped, what he thought, throughout the morning. It's an embarrassment of . . . embarrassments and did no think to wonder if this wasn't heavy on feature writing porn and light on what anyone expected from actual reporting? Let's hope all three wore gloves to protect themselves from bodily fluids.
Turning to Iraqi legislation news, the US allowed Big Oil to draft the Iraqi hydrocarbon law that would -- no surprise -- benefit Big Oil while stealing from the Iraqi people. This morning Ahmed Rasheed (Reuters) reported that the law had been "sent to parliament" even though "Parliamentary officials . . . said they were unaware the bill had been submitted to the legislature." Why should it be any other way? Iraqis weren't the ones drafting this law -- not even the parliament which is tasked with drafting Iraq's laws. Raed Jarrar earlier revealed that, in February, when the law was agreed upon, the Iraqi parliament had no idea. Jarrar most recently explained (Raed in the Middle) the three primary reasons the law will harm Iraqis: the law breaks up the nation-state into economic regions and threatens national unity; the sovereignty of Iraq is harmed since the Iraqi government has no say in production limits, the Iraqi judiciary cannot resolve disputes and Big Oil gets seats on the council approving their own contracts; and "Iraq will lose hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign oil companies during the next 35 years because the law doesn't give any preferences to local companies and due to the unconventional type of contracting this law legalizes called the Production sharing agreements (PSA) or the exploration and production agreements."
"Under the proposed law, Iraq's immense oil reserves would not simply be opened to foreign oil exploration, as many had expected. Amazingly, executives from those companies would actually be given seats on a new Federal Oil and Gas Council that would control all of Iraq's reserves" is how Juan Gonzalez (New York Daily News via Common Dreams) explained it in February, opening with: "Throughout nearly four years of the daily mayhem and carnage in Iraq, President Bush and his aides in the White House have scoffed at even the slightest suggestion that the U.S. military occupation has anything to do with oil. The President presumably would have us all believe that if Iraq had the world's second-largest supply of bananas, instead of petroleum, American troops would still be there." Ewa Jasiewicz (Democracy Rising) observes, "If passed by parliament, the law will mark a milestone in Iraqi history -- a shift of Iraq's massive reserves from public to private hands. It could see private companies develop and profit from Iraq's oil for 15-30 year periods with virtually no possibility for the Iraqi state to renegotiate contractual terms and conditions."
On February 23, Antonia Juhasz, speaking with Kris Welch on KPFA's Living Room, explained:
This law is being sold as the mechanism for helping the Iraqis determine how they will distribute their oil revenue. That is not what this law is about. That is the bottom end of an enormous hammer that is this oil law. This oil law is about foreign access to Iraq's oil and the terms by which that access will be determined. It is also about the distribution of decision making power between the central government and the region as to who has ultimate decision making power and the types of contracts that will be signed. There are powers that be within Iraq that would very much like to see that power divvied up into the regions, between the Kurds and the Shia in particular, and then there are powers that would like to see Iraq retained as a central authority. The Bush administration would like the central government of Iraq to have ultimate control over contracting decisions because it believes it has more allies in the central government than it would if it was split up into regions. The Bush administration is most concerned with getting an oil law passed now and passed quickly to take advantage of the weakness of the Iraqi government. The Iraqi government couldn't be in a weaker negotiating position and the law locks the government in to twenty to thirty-five year committments to granting the most extreme versions of exploration and production contracts to US companies or foreign companies. Meaning that foreign companies would have access to the vast majorities of Iraq's oil fields and they would own the oil under the ground -- they would control the production and they would in contracts yet to be determined get a percentage of that profit but they'd be negotiating essentially when Iraq is at its weakest when Iraq is hardly a country. And that's what this oil law is all about.
When Juhasz spoke in February, the Democratic leadership had yet to devise, let alone unleash, their hideous proposals; however, it bears noting that the passing of this law was a "benchmark" on the offensive law. Dems bought the war this year as a time-share with the Bully Boy.
Turning to the the topic of courage. Eric Ruder (Socialist Worker) reports on war resister Agustin Aguayo who "was released from confinement at a U.S. military base in Mannheim, Germany, on April 18, but he's still far from free. [. . .] Helga and his twin daughters thought he would be headed home, but now the Army says that it plans to keep Agustin on active duty for one to two years more. And he remains under the authority of members of his old unit -- the same 'people that tried to take him by force, i.e., shackle, handcuff and carry him onto the plane' for his second Iraq deployment, explained Helga." Heather Wokush (OpEdNews) interviewed Agustin Aguayo for a piece published last Saturday and he stated, "I was determined that I would not hurt/injure others in any way, no matter what the consequences. I actually belileve that this action of not loading my weapon kept me sane. It brought me great sadness to know some soldiers I knew had shot at people and some soldiers I knew were hurt by the actions of others. It was so absurd." On his first tour of duty in Iraq, Aguayo refused to load his weapon. He went to Iraq as a medic and, while there, the realities he saw were in conflict with his own spiritual beliefs. As a result, he attempted to apply for c.o. status. As Helga Aguayo has noted, everyone who interviewed her husband during the process felt he was a c.o. objector but superiors (who never spoke with Aguayo) overruled that. Aguayo has attempted to address the matter via the civilian courts. Robert Zabala is another example of someone who had to go to the civilian courts to be awarded c.o. status (which he was awarded last month). The inequalities (and the fact that some people "in charge" don't even grasp the military guidelines as written) is why the Center on Conscience & War has declared May 14th the day to lobby Congress to pass a law that would "protect the rights of conscientious objectors".
As Courage to Resist reported, Agustin Aguayo is supposed to join with war resisters Pablo Paredes, Camilo Mejia and Robert Zabala for a speaking tour from May 9th through 17th in the San Francisco Bay Area. The announced dates include:
Wednesday May 9 - Marin
7pm at College of Marin, Student Services Center, 835 College Ave, Kentfield. Featuring Agustin Aguayo, Pablo Paredes and David Solnit. Sponsored by Courage to Resist and Students for Social Responsibility.
7pm at College of Marin, Student Services Center, 835 College Ave, Kentfield. Featuring Agustin Aguayo, Pablo Paredes and David Solnit. Sponsored by Courage to Resist and Students for Social Responsibility.
Thursday May 10 - Sacramento
Details TBA
Details TBA
Friday May 11 - Stockton
6pm at the Mexican Community Center, 609 S Lincoln St, Stockton. Featuring Agustin Aguayo.
6pm at the Mexican Community Center, 609 S Lincoln St, Stockton. Featuring Agustin Aguayo.
Saturday May 12 - Monterey
7pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 490 Aguajito Rd, Carmel. Featuring Agustin Aguayo and Camilo Mejia. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace Chp. 69, Hartnell Students for Peace, Salinas Action League, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Courage to Resist. More info: Kurt Brux 831-424-6447
7pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 490 Aguajito Rd, Carmel. Featuring Agustin Aguayo and Camilo Mejia. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace Chp. 69, Hartnell Students for Peace, Salinas Action League, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Courage to Resist. More info: Kurt Brux 831-424-6447
Sunday May 13 - San Francisco
7pm at the Veterans War Memorial Bldg. (Room 223) , 401 Van Ness St, San Francisco. Featuring Agustin Aguayo, Camilo Mejia and Pablo Paredes. Sponsored by Courage to Resist, Veteran's for Peace Chp. 69 and SF Codepink.
Monday May 14 - Watsonville
7pm at the United Presbyterian Church, 112 E. Beach, Watsonville. Featuring Agustin Aguayo, Camilo Mejia, Pablo Paredes and Robert Zabala. Sponsored by the GI Rights Hotline & Draft Alternatives program of the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV), Santa Cruz Peace Coalition, Watsonville Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF), Watsonville Brown Berets, Courage to Resist and Santa Cruz Veterans for Peace Chp. 11. More info: Bob Fitch 831-722-3311
Tuesday May 15 - Palo Alto
7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church (Fellowship Hall), 1140 Cowper, Palo Alto. Featuring Camilo Mejia. Sponsored by Pennisula Peace and Justice Center. More info: Paul George 650-326-8837
Wednesday May 16 - Eureka
7pm at the Eureka Labor Temple, 840 E St. (@9th), Eureka. Featuring Camilo Mejia. More info: Becky Luening 707-826-9197
Thursday May 17 - Oakland
4pm youth event and 7pm program at the Humanist Hall, 411 28th St, Oakland. Featuring Camilo Mejia, Pablo Paredes and the Alternatives to War through Education (A.W.E.) Youth Action Team. Sponsored by Veteran's for Peace Chp. 69, Courage to Resist, Central Committee for Conscientious Objector's (CCCO) and AWE Youth Action Team.
If the military is thinking they'll clamp down on war resistance by holding Aguayo, they obviously aren't factoring the passion this tour will create and the questions of, "Wheere's Augie?" All are part of a growing movement of war resistance within the military: Camilo Mejia, Ehren Watada, Terri Johnson, Dean Walcott, Camilo Mejia, Linjamin Mull, Joshua Key, Augstin Aguayo, Justin Colby, Marc Train, Robert Zabala, Darrell Anderson, Kyle Snyder , Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman, Joshua Key, Mark Wilkerson, Patrick Hart, Ricky Clousing, Ivan Brobeck, Aidan Delgado, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Jeremy Hinzman, Stephen Funk, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Joshua Casteel, Katherine Jashinski, Chris Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey, Tim Richard, Hart Viges, Michael Blake and Kevin Benderman. In total, thirty-eight US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.
Information on war resistance within the military can be found at Center on Conscience & War, The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline, and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters. In addition, the documentary Sir! No Sir! traces the war resistance within the military during Vietnam and it will air at 9:00 pm (EST) on The Sundance Channel followed at 10:30 p.m. by The Ground Truth which examines the Iraq war and features Jimmy Massey and Iraq Veterans Against the War's Kelly Dougherty among others.
From that worthy topic, we again have to dig through the trash. CNN reports no one can confirm that Abu Ayyub was killed in Iraq on Tuesday. Had Kirk Semple (New York Times) focused on something more productive, he might have gotten the violence numbers correct in this morning's paper.
The violence continued today and maybe tomorrow the New York Times will cover it? Or maybe they'll continue their undercount when summarizing reported violence?
Sahar Issa (McClatchy Newspapers) reports 8 dead in Baghdad, 4 wounded from a Baghdad minibus bombing ("IED carried in a plastic bag, left aboard"), 3 Baghdad mortar attack that killed a total of 5 and wounded 29, 4 Baghdad roadside bombs that killed a total of 3 people and wounded 4, a Baghdad car bombing that killed 4 people and left 25 wounded, a Basra bombing that killed one person and a Basra "katiosha missile" attack that wounded a child. Reuters reports 10 dead and 35 wounded in a Baghdad car bombing attack in the Sadr City section of the capital.
Sahar Issa (McClatchy Newspapers) reports two injured people from a Basra "confrontation between gunmen and a British patrol, two gunmen were seriously injured." Reuters reports the Mosul shooting death of Nidhal al-Asadi who had been "a university professor".
Sahar Issa (McClatchy Newspapers) reports 30 corpses were discovered in Baghdad and, in Kirkuk, the corpse of Nejim Mohammed Hussein was found (he had been a blacksmith).
In addition, today the US military announced: "A Multi-National Corps Soldier was severely wounded after an improvised explosives device exploded under her vehicle at approximately 1:55 pm Wednesday in western Baghdad. The Soldier later died of wounds at 3:25 pm while at the 28th CSH in Baghdad." And they noted: "Two MND-B Soldiers were killed and two others were wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in a southern section of the Iraqi capital May 2."
In other news of how bad things continue to get in Iraq, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom issued their press release stating:
This year the Commission has added Iraq to its Watch List, due to the alarming and deteriorating situation for freedom of religion and belief. Despite ongoing efforts to stabilize the country, successive Iraqi governments have not adequately curbed the growing scope and severity of human rights abuses. Although non-state actors, particularly the Sunni-dominated insurgency, are responsible for a substantial proportion of the sectarian violence and associated human rights violations, the Iraqi government also bears responsibility. That responsibility takes two forms. First, the Iraqi government has engaged in human rights violations through its state security forces, including arbitrary arrest, prolonged detention without due process, extrajudicial executions, and torture. These violations affect suspected Sunni insurgents, but also ordinary Sunnis who are targeted on the basis of their religious identity. Second, the Iraqi government tolerates religiously based attacks and other religious freedom abuses carried out by armed Shi'a factions including the Jaysh al-Mehdi (Mahdi Army) and the Badr Organization. These abuses include abductions, beatings, extrajudicial executions, torture and rape. Relationships between these para-state militias and leading Shi'a factions within Iraq's ministries and governing coalition indicate that these groups operate with impunity and often, governmental complicity. Although many of these militia-related violations reveal the challenges evident in Iraq's fragmented political system, they nonetheless reflect the Iraqi government's tolerance--and in some instances commission--of egregious violations of religious freedom. Finally, the Commission also notes the grave conditions for non-Muslims in Iraq, including ChaldoAssyrian Christians, Yazidis, and Sabean Mandaeans, who continue to suffer pervasive and severe violence and discrimination at the hands of both government and non-government actors. The Commission has added Iraq to its Watch List with the understanding that it may designate Iraq as a CPC next year if improvements are not made by the Iraqi government.
Also under attack are attorneys. IRIN reports that, "Threats to judges and lawyers have escalated over the past 14 months in Iraq, in line with a general escalation in sectarian violence after the bombing of a Shia shrine in February 2006. Hundreds of legal workers have left the country because of threats and persecution. This is delaying judicial processes and denying thousands of people their legal rights." The right to the pursuit of happiness (a US right enshrined in the Constitution) never got established post-invasion. Joshua Partlow (Washington Post) reports: "From the boys selling black-market gasoline from donkey carts, to the abandoned movie theaters, restaurants and liquor stores, from the overflowing sewage to the dwindling food rations, Baghdad has lost its place as a pinnacle of Middle East modernity. Existence has become more rudimentary." Partlow speaks with Um Mohammed (nickname, not real name) who notes that she is now using a "tanoor, a waist-high clay bourd for baking bread over smoldering palm-tree coals" -- a device she's never used before in her life but with her family's cost for monthly bread hitting $70, she's using it now. She tells Partlow, "We are living in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, of prosperity. Where is the prosperity?" Let's repeat "she tells" because the New York Times apparently has the shyest correspondents in the world -- or the most sexist -- since they seem to consider a real chore to speak with Iraqi women.
Just walking along, shopping for food
Stepping out of the line of fire when people are rude
Cheap stuff made in China, someone calls it a sale
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
Beat down in the market, stoned to death in the plaza
Raped on the hillside under the gun from LA to Gaza
A house made of cardobard living close to the rail
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
-- "Somebody's Jail," written by Holly Near, off her new CD Show Up
On World Press Freedom Day, we'll note Edmund Sanders (Los Angeles Times) report from Monday about Amal Mudarris ("One of Iraq's most beloved broadcasters") who made the 'mistake' or committed the 'crime' of being "outside her Baghdad home Sunday morning" and was shot repeatedly. Sanders notes: "Police said her attackers had waited in parked cars near her home in the Sunni Muslim neighborhood of Khadra. Mudarris, a Shiite originally from soutehrn Iraq, is a host of a daily call-in show on a station of the state-owned Iraiq Media Network." Reporters Without Borders states she "is reported in a coma" and notes that she is among 167 journalists who have died in the Iraqi war. But will anyone count the women's deaths? This week, two female college students were killed as they attempted to drive from college to their home. If the genders noted, does it seem like it registers? One group who is following and leading on this issue is MADRE which published the report "Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq" (which can be read in full in PDF format or, by sections, in HTML) in March. In addition, the spring 2007 issue of Ms.features Bay Fang's "The Talibanization of Iraq." We noted the article on April 19th but it is now up at the Ms. website (click here). The attacks on Iraqi women are very real -- regardless of how much the bulk of the mainstream press attempts to ignore what's happening.
And I feel the witch in my veings
I feel the mother in my shoe
I feel the scream in my sould
The blood as I sing the ancient blue
They burned in the millions
I still smell the fire in my grandma's hair
The war against women rages on
Beware of the fairy tale
-- "Somebody's Jail," written by Holly Near, off her CD Show Up.
Finally, today, Wednesday, May 2nd at 6:30 pm in The Great Hall, Cooper Union (NYC), Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove will be presenting readings from their Voices of a People's History of the United States featuring music performed by Allison Moorer and Steve Earle and readings and vocal performances by Ally Sheedy, Brian Jones, Danny Glover, Deepa Fernandes, Erin Cherry, Harris Yulin, Kathleen Chalfant, Kerry Washington, Opal Alladin, Staceyann Chin and Stanley Tucci. Zinn and Arnove will provide both the introduction and the narration.
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1-1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
This is the regular "creaming method", for those of you who come from the professional baking world. For those not from the professional baking world, here's what that means:
- Cream together the sugar and butter, until "light and fluffy". (I put "light and fluffy" in quotes because it is a phrase I read all the time and think "what does that mean?" of course, I know it means lighter in color, and not little butter chunks mixed with sugar. (Oh, Chef Haymon, you would be so proud.)
- Beat in the egg and vanilla.
- Gradually beat in the flour and cocoa powder and baking powder and salt. Mix until just combined.
- Scoop into walnut sized balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Press down.
- Bake in preheated 375º oven for 8-10 minutes. Cool on racks.

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Web Survey Bibliography
Title Using Electronic Mail for Data Collection in Organizational Research
Author Sproull, L. S.
Source Academy of Management Journal, 29, 1, pp. 159-169
Year 1986
Access date 08.08.2004
Year of publication1986-1990
Bibliographic typeJournal article
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- Questionnaire Design Activities in Government Statistics Offices; 1985; Sudman, S., Cowan, C. D.
- CATI in an Agricultural Statistical Agency; 1985; Tortora, R. D.
- Questionnaire Design with Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing; 1985; House, C. C.
- From intentions to actions: A theroy of planned behavior; 1985; Ajzen, I.
- Response time and display rate in human performance with computers; 1984; Shneiderman, B.
- Cognitive science and survey methods; 1984; Tourangeau, R.
- Reducing Bias in Observational Studies Using Subclassification on the Propensity Score; 1984; Rosenbaum, P. R., Rubin, D. B.
- The Central Role of the Propensity Score in Observational Studies for Causal Effects; 1983; Rosenbaum, P. R.; Rubin, D. B.
- Category ratings and the relational character of judgment; 1983; Parducci, A.
- Implications of CATI: Costs, Errors, and Organization of Telephone Survey Research; 1983; Groves, R. M.
- Research Opportunities Related to CATI; 1983; Freeman, H.E.
- Effect on Weighting Adjustments on Estimates From a Random-digit-dialed Telephone Survey; 1982; Botman, S.L.; Massey, J. T.; Shimizu, I.M.
- Asking questions: A practical guide to questionnaire design; 1982; Sudman, S., Bradburn, N. M.
- Application of multi-attribute utility theory to measure social preferences for health states; 1982; Torrance, G. W., Boyle, M. H., Horwood, S. P.
- Question & answers in attitude surveys. Experiment of question form, wording, and context; 1981; Schuman, H., Presser, S.
- Label versus position in rating scales; 1981; Friedman, H., Leefer R., J.
- Surveys by telephone: a national comparison with personal interviews; 1979; Groves, R. M., Kahn, R. L.
- Evaluation of the Feeling Thermometer. A Report to the National Election Study Board based on data from...; 1979; Weisberg, H. F., Miller, A. H.
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- Applied Sampling (Quantitative studies in social relations); 1976; Sudman, S.
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- Stapel scale or semantic differential in marketing research?; 1974; Albaum, G., Hawkins, D. I., Best, R.
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- The retinex theory of colour vision; 1974; Land, E. H.
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- Recent trends in the development of market research; 1936
- The Handbook of Questionnaire Design (Forthcoming); ; Krosnick, J. A., Fabrigar, L. R.


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"It creates a huge match. Great for fans, exciting for players. We look at it as a
big challenge and one that we're thrilled to have."
Bradley, who will be coaching at a World Cup for the first time, seemed pleased with the draw into Group C.
"I think that it's a fair chance for us," said Bradley. "Algeria and Slovenia both came through great situations to get to the World Cup. Algeria with a historic win in Cairo. Slovenia beating Russia in the playoffs. But we feel this is a group that gives us a real fair chance to move on. ...
"Believe me we know that Algeria and Slovenia are very good teams and we have respect what they've accomplished."
Asked on how his team would approach its opening game, Bradley said, "We know their team. Fabio Capello is a great manager. ... We believe in playing our game. We believe in playing at a good tempo. We believe in the fact that we have the kind of players who can be dangerous against very good teams."
The USA was also fortunate on the logistics front with games in three cities not far apart: vs. England June 12 in Rustenburg; vs. Slovenia June 18 in Johannesburg; vs. Algeria June 23 in Tshwane/Pretoria (Group C).
"It works well that all of our games are within driving range," said Bradley.
U.S. attacker Landon Donovan, who is looking forward to his third World Cup, says the team is very familiar with at least one of its first-round opponents.
"It's a very interesting group," said Donovan. "We all know the English players, but we will need to do a little more research on Slovenia and Algeria. Bob Bradley [USA coach] is a very organized coach and we will need to focus our attention on our first game against England at this point. We have some injuries that we'll need to overcome and we'll need to come together as a team."


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Bubenheimer Spieleland, located in Nörvenich between Cologne and Aachen, is a popular all-weather activity park for families with children. Just as Pippi Longstocking once said, "I make my world the way I like it!"
Bubenheimer Spieleland has tons of attractions for children. But with so much choice, where do you start? The park has various slides, a 500m² water playground, inflatables, a huge swing boat, a maize maze, an all-weather hall with fantastic climbing equipment, a pedal go-kart course and trampolines. One thing's for sure: at Bubenheimer Spieleland, kids reign supreme. The adventure playground covers an area of 50,000m² and even has a football arena. Basketball, beach volleyball and handball players are also well catered for. The 40,000m² maize maze is another highlight: from July to October, hordes of children scurry back and forth past the cobs of corn just like little field mice. Mastering the maze is a real challenge and requires reasoning and orientation skills. Those who successfully find the hidden stamping points and submit their stamp cards are entered into the end-of-season prize draw. Have we whetted your appetite? Then pay us a visit and let the fun begin!
The multiple-hectare site features a maize maze and an adventure playground with two 150m² inflatables for jumping and sliding on, a giant carpet slide that is ten metres tall, a beach volleyball court and much more besides. And if it rains? No problem! The indoor play area (a 400m² barn) is equipped with a huge ball pit, a pillow fight corner, slides, table football, swings, hidey houses, a sandpit for budding builders, a Punch and Judy show, a supersized trampoline and a whole host of fantastic toys. Children with energy to spare can let off steam on the climbing nets in the 3,000m² all-weather hall, test their driving skills on the Kettcar course or knock down a few pins at the children's bowling alley.
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Miso Film and DR's ambitious feature and television project will be directed by Ole Bornedal.
Epic war project 1864 is to start shooting on April 8 in the Czech Republic before moving onto Denmark.
The $30m (€23m) project will be produced by Miso Film in cooperation with DR and support from Nordisk Film & TV Fond, and is based on the best-selling novels Slagtebænk Dybbøl and Dommedag Als by Tom Buk-Swienty.
Ole Bornedal writes and directs, with the cast including the likes of Norwegian rising star Jacob Oftebro, Søren Malling, Pilou Asbæk and Sidse Babett Knudsen.
Telling a love story set against the backdrop of the Danish-German war, 1864 will comprise of a TV series of 8 x 58mins and a feature film of 150 minutes, and is set to be delivered in December 2014.
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What show recently impressed you?
The production that has most impressed me is Giant at the Public — the sweep of the story and the gorgeous music as well as the fact that this is a play for grown ups and deals with the world in a fierce and unsentimental way which acknowledges both the hope and the dangers of our time — it is an amazing piece of work.
What production are you most excited to see?
I am looking forward to seeing Sorry at the Public because I, like everyone, has fallen in love with this family and to seeing Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike because Christopher Durang fills me with delight every single time as soon as I get over laughing harder than I ever have.
What play/musical would you most like to revive on Broadway, and which role would you want to play?
I would like to see a revival of A Delicate Balance on Broadway and I'd love to play Agnes.
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Looking at kills, we can see that the four basic enemy types (that start unlocked) are by far the most commonly killed.
Lord Gobb is getting killed a lot. He always spawn in Hobbler's Hold, so it was inevitable.
The fine sword tops both lists here, probably since it's the most obvious "give me damage" item, so new players are likely to favor it.
It seems like the Berserker Camp and Doubledoom are either easier than the other dungeons, or only attempted when plays feel quite confident.
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Lujo wrote:Bit surprised about the lack of bandits (they were my selective unlock monster along with gorgons and goats).
Berserker camp is just lol. Doubledoom seems to be what people just looking for a coffe-break experience are playing, you know, the "beta got bloated, all I want is an endlessly replayable dungeon" kind of thing. Just my bet.
Darvin wrote:Mystera is also shockingly low, given that she has a "gimme" boon that costs a paltry 5 piety to purchase, so not purchasing a second boon is a bit of an eye-opener.
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New Orleans cops are chasing a man they believe responsible for a mass shooting at a Mother's Day street party on Sunday. The bloody, panic-stricken scene created by the attack has shocked and mobilized a city long intimidated by violent street codes.
Surveillance cameras captured images of a gunman firing rapidly into a packed street as some 200 festival-goers screamed and ran in terror. Police, who have identified the shooter as 19-year-old Akein Scott, say he and possibly two other shooters ran away from the area before police, some of whom were dispersed in the crowd, could pursue.
Analysts say preliminary information about Mr. Scott fits the profile of violent members of the community that New Orleans Police are targeting in a new crackdown on violence.
Shooting victims sustained wounds ranging from bullet grazes to more serious internal injuries.
Coming after two festival-related shootings earlier this year in New Orleans, Sunday's brazen attack drew immediate attention to a struggle in New Orleans and other dense, poor, urban cores against sudden and senseless gun violence. The apparently gang-related attacks broaden the public debate over gun violence that has been focused on the mass shootings in Tucson, Ariz., Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn.
The investigation "is going to be a watershed event" in the city's struggle against its towering murder rate, says Dee Wood Harper, a Loyola University emeritus professor and co-author, with Kelly Frailing, of the upcoming book, "Fundamentals of Criminology."
"The brazenness of the Mother's Day shooting is a trademark of the kinds of things we've been having here," including homicides, daylight killings, and children being hurt or killed in crossfire, Professor Harper says. "It's a lot about retaliatory killing."
Over the years, New Orleans has lurched, not always successfully, toward easing pervasive violence in its roughest areas, with people coming together for marches and the city working with local clergy to ameliorate a murder rate climb exacerbated by hurricane Katrina. While the number of people murdered regularly climbs to near 200 per year, other crimes, including burglary and assault, are way down in the Crescent City.
The US Department of Justice has since last summer cooperated with the New Orleans Police Department to end a pattern of discriminatory policing and excessive force that has driven a wedge between the communities enduring the violence and the police ordered to patrol the streets.
But perhaps more critically, Mayor Mitch Landrieu late last year launched the city's newest and arguably most dramatic anti-violence effort, in part by opening a slew of new youth centers, but also by reorganizing the city's anti-gang taskforce under a new philosophy: single out the most violence-prone members of various neighborhoods and use historical arrest data to help build conspiracy charges around them and their crews.
Last week, the new unit announced its largest bust so far, the indictment of 15 members of a violent street gang involved in several street murders, including the killing of a 5-year-old girl last year.
The murder rate was down slightly in 2012, to 193, and the rate has slowed in the first quarter of 2013 compared with the year before, police say.
"It's not that I don't think the new strategies are working, but it's just that there's still people out there, like the people involved in this, who don't read the paper, they're not getting the message," says Harper.
Sunday's mass shooting suspects fit perfectly the kind of criminals the city authorities have begun to target under the new policy, says a consultant to the project, David Kennedy, a professor at John Jay College in New York.
"As information is coming out about the suspect and the shooting, he is also straight down the middle of what we now know drives this stuff: known to the police, extensive criminal record, and it's nearly certainly going to turn out that he's involved with others just like himself in some form of drug crew or gang," says Mr. Kennedy, who is also director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College.
While the push in New Orleans is to convince criminal gangs "that the game has changed profoundly," it's also to assure residents that complaints and testimony will result in convictions.
In that vein, the shootings may test what Kennedy has called a "toxic schism" between police and community, underscored by a "no snitch" rule inspired less by the potential for drug money proceeds and more by a distrust in the ability of police and prosecutors to protect those who speak up.
"We think the violence is about money, and hardly any of it is," Kennedy said at a recent symposium in New Orleans. "It's overwhelmingly about the street code," which he adds is "unquestionably" pervasive in New Orleans.
Despite a history of audacious shootings in the city, some criminologists predict that New Orleans will see a dramatic dip in its murder rate in 2015, but not necessarily just because of the new anti-violence gambit.
The city in 2015 will see its smallest cohort of 14-24-year-olds in recent memory, which will come at a time when New Orleans high schools are also graduating a higher proportion of their students than they have in many years. Those two trends affecting the age and demographic groups most responsible for street violence in the city could help the murder rate drop by as much as 30 percent, experts say.
But while residents marched on Monday in a show of force against the violence, the shootings also became wrapped up with the darker reputations of so-called "second line" marches, where gunfire occasionally happens and which are often known, as Harper said, to have a "thug element" in the vicinity.
In this case, the Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club has held a Mother's Day event since 2001. Sunday's event, which organizers said was intended "to celebrate the women of America in New Orleans for the hard time that they have taking care of children," started at about 1 p.m. on Elysian Fields Avenue.
A video released Monday shows a festival crowd exploding in different directions about 45 minutes into the Mother's Day street party. Celebrants appear to be ducking away from a man in a white t-shirt and dark pants, who then runs out of the frame.
Police on Tuesday were still trying to determine if there was more than one gunman after saying that there may have been as many as three.


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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Fear and Rejection Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Fear and Rejection Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Ya-ta BoyJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: Established in 1994 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:46 am Post subject: Fear and Rejection This is an opinion piece by David Brooks, from the NY Times. June 2, 2005 Fear and Rejection By DAVID BROOKS Forgive me for making a blunt and obvious point, but events in Western Europe are slowly discrediting large swaths of American liberalism. Most of the policy ideas advocated by American liberals have already been enacted in Europe: generous welfare measures, ample labor protections, highly progressive tax rates, single-payer health care systems, zoning restrictions to limit big retailers, and cradle-to-grave middle-class subsidies supporting everything from child care to pension security. And yet far from thriving, continental Europe has endured a lost decade of relative decline. Western Europeans seem to be suffering a crisis of confidence. Election results, whether in North Rhine-Westphalia or across France and the Netherlands, reveal electorates who have lost faith in their leaders, who are anxious about declining quality of life, who feel extraordinarily vulnerable to foreign competition - from the Chinese, the Americans, the Turks, even the Polish plumbers. Anybody who has lived in Europe knows how delicious European life can be. But it is not the absolute standard of living that determines a people's morale, but the momentum. It is happier to live in a poor country that is moving forward - where expectations are high - than it is to live in an affluent country that is looking back. Right now, Europeans seem to look to the future with more fear than hope. As Anatole Kaletsky noted in The Times of London, in continental Europe "unemployment has been stuck between 8 and 11 percent since 1991 and growth has reached 3 percent only once in those 14 years." The Western European standard of living is about a third lower than the American standard of living, and it's sliding. European output per capita is less than that of 46 of the 50 American states and about on par with Arkansas. There is little prospect of robust growth returning any time soon. Once it was plausible to argue that the European quality of life made up for the economic underperformance, but those arguments look more and more strained, in part because demographic trends make even the current conditions unsustainable. Europe's population is aging and shrinking. By 2040, the European median age will be around 50. Nearly a third of the population will be over 65. Public spending on retirees will have to grow by a third, sending Europe into a vicious spiral of higher taxes and less growth. This is the context for the French "no" vote on the E.U. constitution. This is the psychology of stagnation that shaped voter perceptions. It wasn't mostly the constitution itself voters were rejecting. Polls reveal they were articulating a broader malaise. The highest "no" votes came from the most vulnerable, from workers and the industrial north. The "no" campaign united the fearful right, led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, with the fearful left, led by the Communists. Influenced by anxiety about the future, every faction across the political spectrum found something to feel menaced by. For the Socialist left, it was the threat of economic liberalization. For parts of the right, it was the threat of Turkey. For populists, it was the condescension of the Brussels elite. For others, it was the prospect of a centralized European superstate. Many of these fears were mutually exclusive. The only commonality was fear itself, the desire to hang on to what they have in the face of change and tumult all around. The core fact is that the European model is foundering under the fact that billions of people are willing to work harder than the Europeans are. Europeans clearly love their way of life, but don't know how to sustain it. Over the last few decades, American liberals have lauded the German model or the Swedish model or the European model. But these models are not flexible enough for the modern world. They encourage people to cling fiercely to entitlements their nation cannot afford. And far from breeding a confident, progressive outlook, they breed a reactionary fear of the future that comes in left- and right-wing varieties - a defensiveness, a tendency to lash out ferociously at anybody who proposes fundamental reform or at any group, like immigrants, that alters the fabric of life. This is the chief problem with the welfare state, which has nothing to do with the success or efficiency of any individual program. The liberal project of the postwar era has bred a stultifying conservatism, a fear of dynamic flexibility, a greater concern for guarding what exists than for creating what doesn't. That's a truth that applies just as much on this side of the pond. ********* What is this about Polish plumbers? I've seen several references to them lately, but none tell what incident/situation is being refered to. I've only been to Greece and that was back in '89. For those who have visited both the US and Europe, are living standards really 1/3 lower in Europe? And for anyone who would know, is European productivity on a par with Arkansas--which except for Wal-Mart and Tyson Foods (chickens) is not known for economic leadership but is otherwise a pretty nice place to visit? Back to top CthulhuJoined: 02 Feb 2003 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:08 am Post subject: Good article. It's possible the standard of living is much lower, though you have to factor in the freebies and longer vacation time the Europeans enjoy. Purchasing power is certainly much lower and higher taxes cuts things down further. I was always under the impression that American liberals were not so much reacting towards the European way of life (which seems far more "liberal" than American liberals feel comfortable with) as they were reacting against the harsher aspects of the Republican Party's values--but perhaps I was mistaken on that. It would take much higher taxes in America to effect even a portion of what Europeans enjoy as far as welfare state policies go, and even liberals are nervous about that. This bit from Brooks sums it up rather well: "It is happier to live in a poor country that is moving forward - where expectations are high - than it is to live in an affluent country that is looking back." The huge issue of declining birth rates/aging population seems to make European decline almost inevitable unless immigration is increased, and I doubt there are too many calls for that at present. The wefare state can't survive if no one is paying to support it. Back to top Ya-ta BoyJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: Established in 1994 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:04 am Post subject: My take on the American liberal/conservative thing that you mentioned is this: (and it is just my opinion) American liberals see the flaws in capitalism and work to fix them. For example, if capitalism is successful, it tends to destroy competition, which is the heart of capitalism. So the liberals intervene with government regulations that attempt to preserve or restore competition. The liberals also see Big Business as a rival of government and want to use government as a balancer, since individual workers certainly can't go toe to toe with the CEO. As many on this board have pointed out, American liberals are not far enough left to be considered socialists. I think that is true. Ironically, it seems that there are more Marxists now than before the Berlin Wall fell--and they are all in the universities. I'm pretty sure you could fit all the American socialists in one medium-sized football stadium and have room left over for the outright communists. One of the conservatives will have to explain what they think. As far as I can tell, American conservatives just hate any and all governments and shout "Me! Me! Me!" There must be more to their philosophy than that, but I haven't figured it out. One of the nice things about the NY Times is that it publishes both liberal and conservative opinion pieces. George Will and David Brooks are two of the more well-known conservatives. Back to top jajdudeJoined: 18 Jan 2003 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:18 am Post subject: Some people have no idea how good they have it. And some of the biggest whiners have it so good. Reminds me of an article about Norway. (or was it Finland?) Something like: "Everyone complains because we have (the best of) everything." Back to top Leslie CheswyckJoined: 31 May 2003Location: University of Western Chile Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject: Europe is dying. Europeans, start f*cking! It is the only way. Send in the Viagra Corps. 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Note: This review originally appeared in the March, 2009 edition of the Illinois Entertainer. That was the issue that featured the crowning achievement of my journalistic endeavors: An interview with Graham Nash. I also had an extended piece on The Bee Gees' Odessa album, and Around Hear reviews of Hired Goons, a band that combines The Ramones with The Simpsons; and the hard-hitting trio, Bruiser.
The March 2009 cover story was a profile of Fleetwood Mac, written by Janine Schaults, who would later go on to become IE's editor .
I had mixed emotions about the Meet Ellie CD, but a year later, I would express more positive things about Ellie Maybe's punk/pop band, The Maybenauts, and their high-speed and infectious Big Bang EP.
As introductions go, Meet Ellie is more of an extended middle finger than a handshake. The Ellie Maybe Experence (yes, it's intentionally misspelled) revels in matching R-rated insults to a variety of arrangements. That singer-songwriter Ellie Maybe delivers even her raunchiest material in a sweet, folk-singer style voice is initially ironic, but the novelty doesn't always pay off.
She does spin some clever scenarios, like the woman in "Rufus," who likes her ex-boyfriend's dog so much she sneaks biscuits under the guy's door. On the catchy "I Thought I Could Love You," she's hot for a guy until she sees him performing with a third-rate rock group. By contrast, "Hacks Of The Heartland" is an overly bitter swipe at Midwestern copy bands. "Carcinogens" is a generic hard rock song about giving up smoking, but on "The Clap" and "Cum On Baby," The Ellie Maybe Experence backs illicit desires with energetic melodies.


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Ottessa Moshfesh sits down with Lena Dunham to discuss her novel.
Our narrator should be happy, right? She's young, beautiful,has a job at a happening art gallery,and lives in the upper east side in an apartment she pays for out of her inheritance. However, there are storm clouds hanging over her head, and not only because of the loss of her parents, or her toxic friendship with her friend Reva, or the way her investor boyfriend treats her. What else could be going on in her head? My Year of Rest and Relaxation gives us a view into this young woman's journey attempting to heal her alienated self through psychotherapy and pharmaceuticals, and the revelations she has about said alienation. This story is bold, compassionate and darkly humorous in a way that we have come to anticipate from Ottessa Moshfegh.


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With its comprehensive tools for composing, recording, editing and mixing, Cubase Elements 6 is the most desirable entryway to the world of Cubase. The eminently powerful collection of quality instruments and effects modifies your PC and Mac computer into your personal music production system for crafting compositions to minute detail, making studio-grade recordings for band practices as well as everything in between. And with the same professional user interface and award-winning audio engine as in Steinberg's Cubase 6 flagship, the Elements version boasts all the tools of the trade at an irresistible price.
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- Award-winning 32-bit floating-point Steinberg audio engine with flexible routing and fully automatic delay compensation
- Supports up to 64 MIDI and 48 audio tracks simultaneously in DVD quality (24-bit/96 kHz)
- Includes outstanding virtual instruments: HALion Sonic SE workstation, MPC-style Groove Agent ONE drum machine, Prologue synthesizer
- Comes ready with 33 audio effect processors, including PitchCorrect for vocal intonation correction and the great-sounding AmpSimulator
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At the heart of MIDI sequencing in Cubase is the Key Editor: a breathtakingly powerful yet transparent tool which offers functional wealth that opens up virtually limitless possibilities for songwriters and composers. This is where melodies, chords, arrangements and performances take shape, and where ideas are sketched out, developed and taken to their full potential. Entering, cutting, moving and transposing individual notes or whole chords, editing any of the hundreds of MIDI parameters available or reworking even the most subtle nuances of a MIDI performance are just some of the tasks for which the Key Editor has been developed and refined continuously by Steinberg for over two decades. The Key Editor's Inspector provides smooth and intuitive access to the most important MIDI tools and functions, including Quantize, Transpose, Length and many more in one central spot.
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The Score Editor in Cubase Elements is a streamlined and simplified, yet powerful notation environment. Completely integrated within Cubase Elements, the Score Editor lets you view and edit music in the form of scores. A few clicks are all it takes to adapt the view to show recorded MIDI performances correctly and print them on demand for others including soloists, orchestras and choirs. Handy functions such as display quantization and transposition make this task even easier.
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Cubase Elements 6 delivers three exceptional rich virtual instruments right out of the box. Over 550 mind-blowing presets spanning across the HALion Sonic SE virtual instrument, the Prologue synthesizer and the MPC-style Groove Agent ONE drum machine
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Designed for vocal and solo instrument recordings, the new PitchCorrect VST 3 plug-in brings easy and automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal and monophonic instrument recordings to Cubase. PitchCorrect is based on the acclaimed Yamaha Pitch Fix technology and constantly detects the pitch of the input material and immediately corrects it to match to the closest pitch of a user-specified scale, including minor, major, chromatic and custom scales.
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The Project Assistant provides a wealth of ready-made templates for different styles and scopes like recording, mixing, producing and mastering. The templates contain the number of channels, effects, dynamics, amp simulators and channel inserts — tailored to your particular needs. Creating customized user templates and integrating those into the Launch browser makes recording with a DAW software and audio interface just that easy. Start up Cubase Elements, go to Project Assistant and select a template from the list. A new project is created with the necessary number of tracks, audio input and output routings, all effects, amp simulator, sounds and much more. Thanks to this assistant, initializing a Cubase Project from scratch even saves professionals a lot of time — and as we all know, time is money.


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Big Dog Property Management offers leasing and property management services for homes located throughout the Greater Raleigh NC Area, to include: Apex, Cary, Clayton, Durham, Fuqua Varinay, Garner, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Morrisville, Raleigh, Wake Forest and Youngsville.
A Few Of The Things You Get With Our Garner NC Property Management
- Perform initial evaluation of your property
- Collect security deposits and monthly rents
- Conduct routing property evaluations
- Provide 24 hours emergency service
- Coordinate all work order requests
- Pay your vendors
- Provide you with monthly income (profit and loss) reports
- Provide year end income reports and issue 1099
- Provide you with online access to your account 24/7
- Provide ACH payments to you
Why Hire the Big Dogs?
Big Dog Property Management strives being a forerunner on communication – communication with Landlords and communication with Tenants. For this process to operate efficiently, we must have open lines of communication with all parties involved.
Financial Accountability
Your financial reports are available to you 24/7 through our owner's portal. You can see when money comes in, and when (and to whom) it goes out.
Regular Property Evaluations
We realize that we cannot efficiently manage your property by sitting behind a desk. We need to see what is going on at the property. Therefore, we have established in-house criteria for performing regular property evaluations.
Competitive Leasing & Management Fees
Our property management clients enjoy a low, 75% leasing fee, NO renewal fees, and a low, $95.00 monthly property management flat fee
No Setup or Marketing Fees
That's right…None!
No Markups on Maintenance or Repair Invoices
When you engage Big Dog Property Management to be your property manager, we consider coordinating repairs as a part of our regular duties. We do not charge you extra for that.
Easy-Out Guarantee
Your initial agreement with us is for only 90 days. After that, it runs on a month-to-month basis with only a 30 day notice required to terminate.


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Impact Wrestling News
TNA Impact spoilers from NYC (airs 8/14/14)
Thanks to Michaela R. and lordsofpain.net for the following spoilers:
* Bully Ray is out next. He cuts a promo and thanks the fan for helping him put Dixie Carter through a table. Devon joins Bully and Team 3D gets a big pop. They're interrupted by Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy. Matt Hardy said it was the first time they had all been in the same ring in over a decade. He congratulated them on their Hall of Fame induction. They cut promos. Bully said it sounds like the fans want one more match between the two teams and we've got Team 3D vs. The Hardys for later tonight. It will be a TLC match.
* Eric Young, Bobby Roode and Austin Aries vs. MVP, Kenny King and Bobby Lashley is next. Lashley's team gets the win after MVP knocked Aries off the top rope with one of his crutches. Lashley speared Aries for the win.
* Rhino, Rockstar Spud and Ethan Carter III come to the ring for a promo. Rhino is wearing flip-flops and Ethan has his head bandaged from the Thursday night injury. Spud is sporting a black eye it looks like. Kurt Angle interrupts them to a big pop. Angle has all three of them surrounded by officers from the New York City Police Department. They resist and get taken down by the cops and arrested. Apparently these were House of Hardcore students dressed as police. Angle had them arrested because they refused to wrestle.
* Mr. Anderson vs. Gunner is next, as a result of something that happened between the two on the 8/7 episode. The crowd gets bored during this match, chanting for John Cena and Rusev. They also sing Adam Rose's theme song. The match ended when Shaw came out and attacked Anderson. Fans thanked Shaw for ending the match.
* The Wolves defeated Robbie E and Jessie Godderz.
* Abyss comes to the ring and calls out Bram and Magnus. Bram is still in possession of Janice. They announce a Hardcore Ladder Match between Bram and Abyss for "next week" which is the next set of tapings in August. Janice will be hanging above the ladder.
* Low Ki vs. Tigre Uno vs. Crazzy Steve vs. Homicide vs. DJ Zema Ion vs. Manik in an X Division Scramble match is next. This may be to crown a new #1 contender. There are two wrestlers in the ring at a time while the others wait in their own corner for a tag. The match came down to Homicide and Low Ki. Ki gets the win.
* The Dudleys vs. The Hardys in a TLC match is next. This was described as an awesome match and the match of the night. Team 3D got the win. Both teams embraced after the match and celebrated together to end the show. Bully Ray called The Wolves to the ring for a promo. They may have been building to something between the teams at Bound For Glory.


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The sustainability of the enterprise depends on the solid foundation of operations from three aspects: economy, environment and society. It is through accumulation of realization that the energy can be accumulated for future sustainable growth. In 2015, BenQ Corporation continued to cultivate its enterprise vision "realize the truth, goodness and beauty of IT life" and steps into the four areas: L.I.F.E from 3C products via diversified operation. BenQ expects to provide better digital fashionable life, highly-efficiently enterprise operation, complete and advanced medical equipment service and educational learning with more agile applications. It also expects to lives up to its enterprise responsibility amid the pursuit of profits and growths, delivering a proactive and positive influence over the society and public.
BenQ keeps its promise of corporate sustainability development and brings enjoyment'n'quality to life in being the first to releasing DLP 4K UHD projectors globally in 2016, winning the top-tier dual-certificates of THX®; multiple-people wireless reporting system InstaShow won "IF Design"and "Good Design"awards while entering the evaluation of the Silver and Gold Award of Taiwan Excellence Award; BenQ treVolo S and A static-electricity Bluetooth speakers both won "G-Mark 2016"; 55-inch 4K UHD HDR large-size eye-protection Internet LCD and 65-in 4K UHD eye-protection large-size LCD received "Taiwan Excellence Award"; BenQ WiT screen reading desk lamp received "2016 24th Taiwan Excellence Award", the unique design position of BenQ have not only received attention of the global design field, its products are also designed under the thinking of environmental protection and energy-saving while winning certificate of Energy Star.
In the economic performance segment, although the global information electronic market slightly declined in 2016 due to slowed demand growth, BenQ continued its strategy of focusing on high-end, high value- added products amid the volume reduction of low-end product market scale. Take BenQ products for examples, we continue to focus on the sales and development of high-end professional, gaming and large-size LCD displays while steadily growing our various functions, differentiation and special-application products; for projectors, we won the top spot of global DLP sales market for eight consecutive years and continued to cultivate customer demand experience, focusing on four areas: education, home, business and professional engineer model markets. In 2017 we will speed up and increase the volume of 4K high-end models, focusing on high value-added models such as dust-prevention, short-focus and super short-focus to keep our global leading position,
In environmental management, BenQ continues to consider overall product delivery and usage phase environmental impacts during product R&D phase such as energy saving, package reduction and easy-to-recycle designs with product life cycle thinking. With improvement of various segments, BenQ creates green products that are environmental-friendly and have lower impact on the environment to respond to stakeholder expectation. For WiT smart desk lamp, we do not use cheap plastic materials used by various competing desk lamps and adopt environmental-friendly green materials. Even for those parts requiring using plastic materials, we avoid earth-unfriendly paint-spraying method while using the most pure design to love and care for our earth to respond to the anticipation of related interest parties. In the mean time, we regularly receive third-party verification, realizing environmental management tasks. In 2016, BenQ building adopted smart energy-saving for electricity including controlling indoor temperature, adding sunscreen curtain, successfully reducing air-conditioning load while our electricity-consumption reduced around 4% per year.
In the social aspect, we believe that talent is the key to corporate growth. Therefore, BenQ cultivates employee creativity and competitiveness while further accumulating strength for the company by devoting to various trainings and creating a safe and care-free working environment. In 2016, we actively enforced and built up steady exercise habit of employees, continuing to innovate our sports utility and activity planning, offering blood-pressure, body temperature and heart-rate cloud measurement. We also have comfortable shower space for employees to have a work smart, play hard five-star career environment, winning "2016 Exercise Enterprise Certification Award" of the Sports Administration of the Ministry of Education, realizing the "corporate social responsibility" of caring for employees; meanwhile, we showed our social influence by brand power, establishing a responsible unit or staff to promote environmental protection, hosting "Guard the Environmental Volunteer Day", hosting outdoor education training program at the Zhishan Cultural and Ecological Garden while launching clearing foreign species activities, experiencing the importance of environmental protection.
BenQ is a brand based on human beings. We believe that design and technology should meet the true requirements of human beings to perform the best functions. If we can extend from human beings to the society, we can better deliver a fair value of the enterprise and bring positive influence over the society. Because if it matters to you, it matters to us; as such, we hope that BenQ philosophy can be further expanded to every corner of Taiwan, realizing the truth, goodness and beauty of technology life.
President & CEO of BenQ Corporation
Learn more about BenQ's CSR initiatives, download BenQ CSR report.
BenQ supports the global prohibition against the conflict minerals1 and corporates with suppliers to conduct investigation to avoid procurement of conflict minerals 2 and minerals that directly or indirectly finance for the benefits of illegal armed groups from conflict-affected regions such as DRC and adjoining countries3.
1. Research findings from international NGOs (Non-Government Organization) such as SOMO and Enough indicate that the Democratic Republic of the Congo, scene of the deadliest conflict since World War II, remains the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman or a girl—in significant part because of the international demand for electronic products that requires minerals found in the eastern Congo. Companies that produce electronics containing conflict minerals from eastern Congo have a responsibility to ensure that their business dealings are not inadvertently helping to fuel atrocities.
2. Conflict minerals: Tantalum, Tin, Tungsten, Gold and Cobalt.
3. DRC and adjoining countries: Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan ,Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.


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Book now your Summer 2020 holiday and enjoy Last Minute Offers from £499 per person. View offers
You'll love the location of the Chalet Hotel Rosanna, just off the pedestrianised main street in the heart of St Anton village, which is famous for its night life. The hotel is only a five minute walk away from the ski schools and main lifts which give you access to arguably the best skiing in the Austrian Tirol.
Adult only outside school holidays
Central location
Cosy, social lounge
Lively hotel bar
5 minute walk from lifts & ski school
Rooms: twins, Austrian twins
You'll love the location of the Chalet Hotel Rosanna, just off the pedestrianised main street in the heart of St Anton village, which is famous for its night life. The hotel is only a five minute walk from the ski schools and main lifts which give you access to arguably the best skiing in the Austrian Tirol.
Inside this traditional style chalet hotel you'll find plenty of charm, with ornately carved ceilings, rich fabrics, comfy sofas and rustic wooden furniture. Chalet Hotel Rosanna is adult friendly outside of the school holidays and the lounge is an extremely popular meeting place for our hotel guests at the end of the day. Step out into the main street and sample the village night life or you can always opt for our very own Scotty's bar right next door to the hotel which has a lively, fun atmosphere and, incidentally, serves delicious pizzas too.
Breakfast, afternoon tea and dinner are all served in the spacious dining room, which has plenty of charm of its own. The large tables are perfect for a sociable evening, catching up on the day's skiing over the delicious three course dinner which is accompanied by a choice of complimentary wines. The day starts with a hearty English breakfast or an appetising continental option with fresh pastries. And we make sure there's plenty of home baked cakes and warming soup available at tea!
Children are welcome at Chalet Hotel Rosanna from the age of 7 upwards during school holidays however childcare is not provided.
St Anton appeals to skiers and boarders for so many reasons. Located in the Arlberg region of Austria, it boosts 300km of pistes and a further 200km of off-piste itineraries plus some awesome off-piste terrain. Furthermore, head to the resorts of Lech and Zurs for a day out and explore what they have to offer.
The short transfer from Friedrichshafen enhances its appeal even more and the icing on the cake has to be the town itself. Renowned for its apres, you have to stop at the Mooserwirt simply to watch the dancing - at 3pm.
Read more on St Anton.
Take a look at St Antons mountain webcams, showing you each area of the mountain.
The bedrooms are freshly styled with a crisp, contemporary feel and all have en-suite bathrooms, most have balconies. Guests may choose from twin and Austrian twin style rooms with en-suite facilities. An Austrian twin room has a double bed base with two single mattresses.
Guest rooms have en-suite facilities. Some rooms have balconies and may have a sofa bed.
Room amenities include WiFi and toileteries. For information on Chalet Hotel Rosanna room amenities click here.
Local taxes are not included in the holiday price and are payable at check-out.
An Austrian twin room has a double bed base with two single mattresses. All rooms have ensuite bathroom facilities.
Maximum occupancy: 2 guests
An Austrian twin room has a double bed base with two single mattresses. All rooms have ensuite bathroom facilities.
Maximum occupancy: 3 guests
These guest rooms are available on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor. All twin rooms have ensuite bathrooms.
Maximum occupancy: 2 guests
These twin rooms are available on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor. They have 2 single beds and ensuite bathrooms.
Maximum occupancy: 3 guests
Fly with Easyjet direct to Friedrichshafen (Germany) and enjoy a short transfer of just 1 hour and 30 minutes to St Anton (Austria).
For more information on our winter flying visit winter flights & transfers and for additional travel advice visit essential travel information.
This flight operates all season.
|London Gatwick (LGW) to Friedrichshafen (FDH)
|UK Airport terminal
|London Gatwick North Terminal
|Overseas Airport terminal
|Friedrichshafen Main Terminal
|Outbound Flight times
|LGW to Friedrichshafen 06:35 / 09:25
|Inbound Flight times
|Friedrichshafen to LGW 09:55 / 10:40
|Flight Duration
|1 hour 50 minutes
|Outbound Flight number
|Inbound Flight number
|Baggage Allowance
|23kg per person
|Buy on board
Flight times are subject to change. If your flight times do change you will be alerted by our flights team.
For luggage and bookable extras please click here.
Airport parking partnership
We are pleased to have developed a partnership with APH (Airport Parking Hotels). APH is a multi-award winning company for airport parking and is renowned for having the best-priced parking options at U.K airports. Our customers can enjoy 15% discount on APH parking at Gatwick, Birmingham, Stansted, Luton and Edinburgh airports. A discount of 10% is also available at other airports when using APH parking services.
If you plan on driving to the airport and need parking, you can book your parking directly via APH via https://partners.aph.com/markwarner and your discount will be applied.
At Chalet Hotel Rosanna you'll love the charming restaurant with its social tables and warm welcome from our friendly staff.
A full English or continental breakfast will set you up for the day, followed by a delicious afternoon tea consisting of freshly baked cakes, juices and an assortment of teas. Evening dinner includes complimentary wine, the perfect setting for reminiscing and exchanging anecdotes from the slopes.
One evening a week dinner is not served in the chalet hotel allowing you the opportunity to dine out at one of the excellent local restaurants.
Scotty's bar to the side of the hotel is a great place for socialising with a pool table and a variety of entertainments during the week. If you don't want to venture too far on the dining out evening then Scotty's is your one-stop destination because the pizzas are to die for.
Pre-book your lift passes in the UK before you depart for Chalet Hotel Rosanna and they will be available at the hotel when you arrive, leaving you one less thing to arrange on your first day. Should you wish to pre-book then please do so no later than 2 weeks prior to your departure date.
Please note that beginners do not need a lift pass for the first couple of days, as the beginners lifts are free to use- your instructor will let you know when to get a lift pass for your following lesson (from the tourist office or hotel).
The Arlberg region offers a fantastic mix of wide open areas for beginners, long cruising reds and ski routes for intermediates and advanced plus some serious off-piste challenges for expert skiers and boarders. With an excellent ski lift system servicing 340km of pistes, you can be up on the slopes in no time.
The Arlberg lift pass is valid for all lifts in St Anton, Lech, Zurs, St Christoph, Stuben and Sonnenkopf.
The Arlberg hands-free lift pass is valid for all lifts in St Anton, Lech, Zürs, St Christoph, Stuben and Sonnenkopf.
(75yrs plus)
(under 8yrs)
|Arlberg 6 day pass
Hire your skis before your holiday in St Anton. We have carefully selected ski and snowboard hire shops that provide quality equipment, good customer service and value for money. A member of staff will guide you to the shop for equipment collection on your arrival day where everything will be ready.
|Kids pack
|Snowboard boots
|Child (7 to 9 years)
|Child (10 to 14 years)
Kids pack includes skis, boots and helmet.
Skiing can sometimes seem a little daunting to learn as an adult but is easily achieved with a great instructor and a group of like-minded and similar ability skiers. For those who already know the basics, a lesson can also really help improve technique, enabling you to perfect your turns on all level of slope. We look after all level of skier and snowboarder here at Mark Warner and warmly welcome you on your way to loving the sport as much as we do.
In St Anton, Mark Warner use the Arlberg ski school, which claims to be the oldest in the world and the home of alpine skiing. What a place to start your skiing journey!
|Group Max.
|Kids (7-12 yrs) Full day
|10.00 - 12.00 & 13.00 - 15.00 (inc lunch)
|Adults (ski) Full day
|10.00 - 12.00 & 13.00 - 15.00
|Adults (snowboard) Full day
|10.00 - 12.00 & 13.00 - 15.00
Lesson times and group sizes are subject to change.
"I just love St. Anton, my favourite run is 'The Run of Fame' which is a 65km circuit through the Arlberg ski villages including St. Anton am Arlberg, Zürs, Lech, Schröcken and Warth. If you're looking for a full day experiencing the best pistes, this is it!"
Prices shown are per person. Change to 'total price' to see the full cost for your family. Prices are subject to availability. Room supplements apply. Facilities and what is included varies between resorts.


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Strengthening brain networks after a silent stroke
Sarah Atwi, doctoral student in neuroscience at the University of Toronto
By age 63, one in 10 people have had a silent stroke, doubling their risk for dementia. Most won't know they've had one because they will experience none of the symptoms typical of a conventional stroke, such as numbness or trouble speaking.
Conventional strokes happen in the brain's grey matter — regions that control specific functions, including movement or speech. Silent strokes, on the other hand, usually attack white matter, which acts as a highway in the brain connecting various grey matter regions.
As a result, no one faculty is compromised. Rather, silent strokes weaken connections necessary for overall functioning. In many cases, this leads to problems with planning, decision-making and thinking speed.
While there is no proven treatment for reducing these symptoms or the risk of dementia, researchers suspect exercise is key, says Sarah Atwi, a doctoral student in neuroscience at the University of Toronto.
That's because exercise helps keep blood vessels healthy and increases blood flow, which circulates oxygen and nutrients to the brain. It's also thought to boost levels of a protein known to help neurons grow.
"So defending yourself against the cognitive deficits associated with old age may be possible," says Atwi. "The question I want to answer is: Can exercise strengthen these weakened connections within the brain after a silent stroke?"
Funded in part by the Alzheimer Society Research Program, Atwi is now recruiting 60 people who have had silent strokes, as determined by brain scans Atwi will use MRI machines to peer into their brains as they complete various cognitive tasks at the six-month and one-year marks. The MRI will measure signals indicating participants' blood oxygen levels in brain networks generally used to accomplish cognitive tasks. The higher the signal, the more active these networks are.


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Stop using and distributing paper consignment notes to your drivers. Using the DigiCMR App for the TomTom PRO 8275 in combination with our web application, you can easily create your digital consignment notes or import them from your Transport Management Software.
All involved parties are notified and receive the digitally signed consignment note at each sign off stage. Each party can then use our web portal or their own ERP, TMS and WMS if integrated to further automate their order workflow to start invoicing.
Pionira NV (joint venture DigiCMR & Portmade) offers with DigiCMR a distinctive and innovative solutions for transport and logistics, aimed at improving productivity in the logistics processes. The cloud platform is designed for administrative tasks to reduce human error and to gain stakeholders access their e-file from creation to invoicing (CMR, loading lists, transport documents, permits, Customs Brokers) and this coupled with the e-CMR.


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HUNTER-based private health insurer NIB has received twice the number of complaints of its nearest competitor.
Data from the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman shows that while NIB (with 7.5 per cent of national market share) received 165 complaints in the 2011-2012 year, HBF insurance (with 7.7 per cent of market share) received just 87.
The contrast is even more stark when disputes (a serious level of complaint) are considered.
NIB had 40 disputes lodged with the ombudsman's office compared with 12 from HBF.
In three out of four of the ombudsman's most recent quarterly reports, the proportion of NIB complaints outstripped its market share.
NIB is the fifth largest private health insurance company in Australia and is regularly fourth on the complaint list behind Bupa, Medibank Private and HCF.
Most of the complaints related to restrictions and exclusions, waiting periods and oral information.
The company said it had recognised it could improve its customer service and had appointed a special chief customer officer.
It was also instituting a customer-focused approach across the entire company.
The company has more than 900,000 customers.
NIB chief executive officer Mark Fitzgibbon said many of the complaints were related to exclusions.
He said the company worked hard to create affordable products and the challenge was communicating to customers what treatments were excluded.
"People like the idea of not paying for insurance cover they do not need," he said.
"We've got to make it clear to the person they're buying a product that doesn't cover everything."
He said customer satisfaction ratings were generally good but conceded there was more work to be done.
"The greatest thing we can do for a customer is have the right product.
"We're trying to shift the business to what does the customer want."
The insurer also reportedly has a poor reputation among doctors for its policies.
Mr Fitzgibbon said the company deliberately took a tough stance with medicos to stop prices being forced up.
The Private Health Insurance Ombudsman Samantha Gavel said the main three areas of complaint about private health insurers in 2011-2012 were oral information, restrictions and exclusions and waiting periods on pre-existing conditions.
Ms Gavel said consumers got the best outcomes when armed with information.
"There is demand from consumers for more affordable policies, particularly from younger people."


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Composition: Natural beads and 316L Stainless Steel
Width: 0.6cm
For bracelets, we advise you to measure your wrist with a tape measure and add 1.5cm of difference to the size of the wrist. This way you get the ideal size for your bracelet. (For bracelets with a thickness of more than 0.8cm, 1.8cm difference will be necessary as a precaution).
For necklaces, we advise you to simulate with a measuring tape around the chest, so that you can choose the most suitable size for you.
All our watches are adjustable, if you have any difficulty adjusting or do not understand the instructions, please contact our email firstname.lastname@example.com.
How to choose the size for a ring?
1 - With a tape measure or with a cord check the measurement around the finger. (If you use a cord, after placing it around the finger, you can stretch the cord on a ruler to find the measurement)
2 - After checking the size of your finger you are ready to choose the size of the ring with this guide:
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6.2cm - 10
6.6cm - 11
7cm - 12
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Tip: If you already have other articles in the same category (necklace/bracelet) it will be easier to measure the article itself.
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If you want to receive the return in money, you will be able to do it in the first 14 days after receiving the product.
All the returns and exchanges will be physically verified before being accepted. Make sure your products don't have signs of use and still have their labels on.
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