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Shipping included in price. The back story that provides the theme for this deck is that our world, as we know it now, is in its death throes, as the sun slowly burns itself out (cheerful, eh?). The Creator has turned his attentions elsewhere, deserting the last remnants of the human race, and leaving them to their own devices. However, against their orders, some of the Dark Angels take pity upon our race and come down, in mortal form, to share those end-times with us.
This is a dark and dramatic deck, which conveys coherently with its images its mournful message in a masterly fashion. Artwork is by Luca Russo, and seems to mix mediums in many illustrations. Pen and ink pick out detail which contrast against muted deep-toned colour washes. Interesting several cards present small areas (often faces or figures) with the clarity of photographic work, which is skilfully combined with the other elements. This has the effect of making certain parts of some cards come into sharp focus, directing the attention.
This is particularly noticeable on cards like the Hierophant and the Chariot. The theme of end-times is sharply illustrated by the reversal effect in the Moon and Sun .here it feels to be the moon which is the more benevolent influence.
Suits are standard, and the Courts follow the Page, Knight, Queen, King format. There are still strong hints of the kind of images we expect in the Rider-Waite tradition, though consistently referring back to the bereavement inherent within the decks theme. This is strongly apparent in the 3 of Cups where the flower-bedecked maidens are replaced by angelic beings who peer into chalices.
Theres a heavy Goth influence to the artwork most apparent in the Suit of Wands the symbol of the Suit is often a skull-topped staff here. And the limited range of colours used here black, many shades of grey, deeoest crimson, dramatic violet, all add to the dreamlike or is it nightmarish quality of the cards.
The booklet accompanying the cards is quite interesting. The commentary is written by somebody called Lillie. It is very brief as most of these are but theres some really interesting statements that have the effect of pointing to open doors and then waiting to see if you will step through.


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Members of the Beaufort/Jasper Multi Agency Drug Task Force (DTF) concluded a drug investigation into a subject known to sell and distribute illegal drug in the Hardeeville area.
Over the past two months, DTF members have conducted an investigation involving Alphonza Ulmer, a known distributor of illegal drugs in Hardeeville. As a result of these efforts, DTF members obtained two search warrants for locations where Ulmer is known to store illegal drugs.
At 2 p.m. Thursday, DTF members located Alphonza Ulmer at his business, Omega Car Wash (494 Church St) in Hardeeville. Upon contact, a quantity of crack cocaine was discovered in Ulmer's possession. It was also learned that Ulmer had allegedly just made a drug transaction of crack to Esau James.
James was located on the property and was charged with Possession of Crack Cocaine. A search of the business and surrounding area resulted in the seizures of illegal drugs, currency, drug paraphernalia and Ulmer's vehicle.
At the same time, second search warrant was being simultaneously executed at Ulmer's residence in Hardeeville. This search yielded additional quantities of crack cocaine, cocaine, guns, currency and other drug paraphernalia.
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Chara, Hossa, Halak highlight Slovakia Olympic rosterby NHL.com Staff
Slovakia again will not be short on star power at the 2014 Sochi Olympics as the country's 25-man roster announced Tuesday includes Zdeno Chara, Marian Hossa and Jaroslav Halak.
The Slovaks were the surprise team four years ago in Vancouver, qualifying for the semifinals and pushing Canada in that round before losing to Finland in the bronze-medal game. Chara, the Boston Bruins captain, will anchor a defense corps that includes NHL veterans Andrej Sekera (Carolina Hurricanes), Andrej Meszaros (Philadelphia Flyers), Lubomir Visnovsky (New York Islanders) and Edmonton Oilers rookie Martin Marincin.
Hossa, a two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Chicago Blackhawks, has 12 goals and 25 points in 15 games at the Olympics (three tournaments). He leads a group of forwards that includes Marian Gaborik (Columbus Blue Jackets) and a trio of intriguing young NHL players in Tomas Jurco and Tomas Tatar from the Detroit Red Wings and Richard Panik from the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Halak, who beat Russia in the preliminary round and Sweden in the quarterfinals four years ago, will be the No. 1 guy in net again if healthy. He has missed a couple of games recently for the St. Louis Blues because of an illness.
Here is the 25-man roster for Slovakia:
Goaltenders: Peter Budaj, Montreal Canadiens; Jaroslav Halak, St. Louis Blues; Jan Laco, Donbass Donetsk (KHL)
Defensemen: Ivan Baranka, Avangard Omsk (RUS); Dominik Granak, Dynamo Moscow (RUS); Zdeno Chara, Boston Bruins; Martin Marincin, Edmonton Oilers; Andrej Meszaros, Philadelphia Flyers; Andrej Sekera, Carolina Hurricanes; Michal Sersen, Slovan Bratislava (KHL), Lubomir Visnovsky, New York Islanders
Forwards: Milan Bartovic, Slovan Bratislava (KHL); Marian Gaborik, Columbus Blue Jackets; Michal Handzus, Chicago Blackhawks; Marcel Hossa, Dinamo Riga (KHL); Marian Hossa, Chicago Blackhawks; Tomas Jurco, Detroit Red Wings; Tomas Kopecky, Florida Panthers; Tomas Marcinko, HC Kosice (SVK); Michel Miklik, Slovan Bratislava (KHL); Peter Olvecky, Slovan Bratislava (KHL); Richard Panik, Tampa Bay Lightning; Tomas Surovy, Dynamo Minsk (KHL); Tomas Tatar, Detroit Red Wings; Tomas Zaborsky, Salavat Yulayev Ufa (RUS)


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Given all the actors suggested for the role I can't think of a better choice. He has the maturity screen presence and a ready wit, all the ingredients for a great Wolverine. He has my vote does anyone else agree?
Given all the actors suggested for the role I can't think of a better choice. He has the maturity screen presence and a ready wit, all the ingredients for a great Wolverine. He has my vote does anyone else agree?
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He should be anyone but Wolverine. He can do a nice gravely voice but that's all hes got going for him. Hes looks like a tough guys next to Sam and Castiel. Put him next to John Bernthal or Tom Hardy(From what I can tell the most popular choices) and hes gonna look like a Male model(yes tom hardy is a Male model but he has a proven track record of being able to pull off tougher characters on screen.) Also Ackele has shown no evidence he can make the leap from TV to film so I think a role owned by Jackman for 15years is not for him. Give him something that hasnt been done. Booster gold, Redhood. Or something that's been done so many times we dont care like Bruce Wayne.
Zach McGowan. He's got the look, the physique, and not being so big of a name will, IMO, ease the transition/passing of the claws.
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Just in terms of the mechanics of doing it...
- The guy is still probably contracted for at least one season.
- Even if they raced to do it, the next film that might call for a Logan would be at least three years away.
- By that most probably unlikely window of time, the guy would already be approaching his mid-forties. Not exactly optimal if you intend on making more than one film.
i have only two requirements for Wolverine. He should be short (5' 9" at most) and he should be Canadian. Movie audiences got a tall Australian for two decades, now let's have a Canuck hero that really is a Canuck.
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I love Ackles for Gambit. No attempt should be made for an accent, but he would be so perfect for Remy. My friend and I do a podcast and we recently did our take on who we would cast for four superhero movie franchises, one of which was the X-Men.
He's been in a couple of superhero movies and he's already Thanos in the MCU, but I think the best option for Wolverine was Josh Brolin. He just looks mean. He also has a smaller frame compared to the likes of Jackman, but looks like he can pack a lot of muscle within that smaller frame. If anyone could bring everything to the table, I think it's Brolin.
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I'm just not sure that a guy who just ended a fifteen season plus gig is going to want to jump right into a "With 'X' amount of sequels..." contract. Maybe a single film and a sequel.
It seems like a year or two of John Public life might have it's appeal to that specific person.
Never mind that the guy is most likely not the guy for the role.
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He neither has the looks(Wolverine should never be handsome or sexy, not in a classic sense anyway) nor the acting chops(though, personally, I don't think the archetype of Wolverine is really that hard to pull off acting-wise).
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@thirty. Yea and have they said they are done after 15 seasons cause I don't see that show ending untill the actors walk away. A smaller role could be easier to work around but being Wolverine is all gigantic. It's a huge commitment
Around season thirteen, I thought I read that they are on one or two year contracts. Can't even begin to wrap my head around how that must work for that duo and the CW.
It seems like it must be like "It's Time To Make The Donuts..." for them now. While it's tough to see them doing the show into their late forties, it also seems like it's not an impossibility.
I think Jensen Ackles should get a part in a CBM, but not Wolverine. Personally, I think he'd make a great Batman and, ideally, I'd like to see him reprise the role of Jason Todd as a live-action Red Hood.
As for Wolvie himself, I dunno who should play him, but a lot of these picks are flat-out impossible: Bernthal's already the Punisher, Hardy's Venom* and Momoa (though mentioned as Sabretooth somewhere above) would never jump ship from Aquaman, which just made a billion dollars for WB.
I think the MCU needs to avoid Wolverine for as long as they can. Jackman owned the character for close to 20 years, and there shouldn't be any rush to replace him.
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For surfers chasing that one perfect wave, the beaches of Sydney are 'the place to be'. The city boasts dozens of beaches that embody Australia's laid-back surf culture. If you would like to avoid the crowds at Bondi Beach and Manly Beach, there are plenty of other options to choose from.
Sydney's beaches offer waves of every type and size. Try surfing the barrels; these are waves where the top moves faster than the bottom, creating a beautiful tunnel. For an exciting and varied surf experience visit some of these lesser known top beach destinations.
If none of the beaches offer the kind of surf conditions you are looking for, then head to Curl Curl Beach; this is where you will find the best waves of the northern beaches. The beach lives up to its name: the waves curl as they roll in because of the sandbanks along the shore, creating metres high waves. The 2 saltwater pools at Curl Curl are very safe for swimming and surfers can catch their breath after paddling in the heavy current. Did all the action make you hungry? The local surf club is said to serve the best egg and bacon sandwiches in town.
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Long Reef Beach, an extension of Dee Why Beach, lies along Sydney's northern beaches. A western wind and a southern 'swell' (gentle rolling waves created by the wind on open water) provide fairly consistent surf conditions. The waves are highest in the middle and at the south end of the Beach Strip. Because of the frequent strong winds, the beach is also popular with kite surfers and hang gliders.
Long Reef Beach, New South Wales, Australia
Real daredevils head to the ultimate surfing spot at Shark Island. The reef is composed of sharp stones and the ocean is only 2 metres deep. The waves are fantastic, but those who miscalculate their take-off may end up with some nasty scrapes and scratches. It seems redundant to say that these waves are only for very experienced surfers and require some practice. It may be reassuring to know that Shark Island got its name from the shape of the island – not because the waters are teeming with sharks.
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Surfers have 2 options at Newport Beach. On the northern side the waves break on the beach, offering beautiful long waves and a laid-back surf experience. The south side requires a bit more effort: here the waves break on a reef in the ocean, creating the famous barrels. The trick is to time your exact entry into the barrel and let the wave carry you back to shore. After a day of surfing, sit back with a refreshing beer in the huge beer garden of the Newport Arms Hotel.
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This project began as part of a Fall 2012 Digital History class at NDSU. With the goal of exploring Fargo's history between 1871 and 1897, students visited libraries and archives to search for clues to the city's history. Future classes will conduct further research and add to the site.
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Everything You Know About Tannin Is Wrong
In the world of theoretical physics, there is something called the Standard Model, which pulls together several key building blocks of how scientists understand the basic particles and forces that make up the universe. In winemaking, there is another kind of Standard Model for describing the role and evolution of tannins, which goes something like this:
Skin tannins are better (softer, friendlier) than seed tannins, so fermentations should aim to get more of the former and less of the latter. Once in the wine, tannins form longer and longer chains, in the process becoming smoother and less astringent, until finally after long aging they become so large they precipitate out.
Based on this model, many people have made a ton of very good wine. Unfortunately, each of the phrases seems to be either vastly over-simplified or flat wrong. Like the legendary (imaginary?) hard, soft and green tannins, these parts of conventional tannin wisdom don't fare well under rigorous scrutiny.
Challenges to popular views of tannin behavior were a major thread running through the several days of presentations and discussions at the June meetings of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture (ASEV) in Napa, highlighted in the talks delivered by phenolics researcher Jim Harbertson of Washington State University, Prosser, and tannin chemist Paul Smith of the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI). On the heels of other counter-revelations in recent years, it seemed like time to try and separate the truths from the tales by following up with Harbertson and Smith and tracking down phenolicsologist Jim Kennedy, who is still settling in after his move from Oregon State University to a new position with the AWRI.
Grapes, seeds and skins
Of all the ASEV speakers taking shots at tannin dogma, Harbertson was clearly having the most fun. In a presentation during the High-Brix Winemaking Symposium, which kicked off the meetings (and which he organized), Harbertson touched several times on the qualities of seed and skin tannins, drawing upon his own research and other literature. His overall point was that seed tannins aren't the menace they are often seen as, and that perhaps they just suffer from "bad mojo" rather than bad chemical makeup.
Seed tannins are bad-mouthed and avoided by a great number of winemakers. They are alleged to be harsher, meaner, greener, more astringent and downright unpleasant. Minimizing them is part of the motivation for techniques such as delestage (rack and return) and pressing before dryness, and a reason many winemakers shy away from extended maceration. (Full disclosure: I have passed along these views in print on more than one occasion.) Legions of growers and winemakers make a practice of chewing seeds to make harvest decisions, waiting for the mean qualities to subside in hopes of keeping them out of their tanks. It's not clear whether all this avoidance is worth it.
Tannin is a collective term for a wide variety of complex compounds, all with multiple sub-units. By themselves, in splendid isolation (or in solution), the flavon-3-ols that are the building blocks of tannin -- catechin, epicatechin and various gallate forms -- are just monomeric tannin wannabes; to earn the title tannin, they have to form polymers at least two units long -- and possibly a whole lot longer -- joined by carbon bonds. During grape maturation, polymerization proceeds in both skins and seeds, chaining up some of the monomeric pieces.
Seed tannin can be extra-astringent when its terminal unit is a gallic acid ester, which doesn't happen with skin tannins. But Harbertson observed that gallic acid is easily hydrolyzed and removed in winemaking, making that temporary astringency moot. More importantly, Harbertson kept pointing out that seed tannins average 10 units in length, while skin tannins average a little north of 30 units, so they're not anywhere near the same size. And (jumping ahead a bit), longer tannin polymers--that is, the ones found in skins--have been shown to be more astringent, which is not what we're generally looking for.
The shorter seed tannins are more plentiful--3.5mg to 5 mg worth per grape berry, says Harbertson, as opposed to 0.5mg to 0.9mg of skin tannin--but more difficult to extract. Skin tannins come out earlier and easier, thanks to warm fermentation temperatures and rising ethanol levels, and then tend to plateau after a few days; seed tannins come out slowly and steadily and for longer duration.
This means that fermentation strategies aiming to maximize skin tannin and minimize seed are going after the least abundant and most astringent tannins. What's boosting the tannin count in prolonged maceration -- the factor that may account for the smoothing/rounding effect many practitioners report -- is probably an accumulation of less astringent seed tannin.
Makes you wonder.
Grape vs. wine tannin
Once the raw tannin material from the berries gets into a wine solution, all hell breaks loose. The commonly held view that the exclusive or dominant trend is for tannins to clump together in longer and longer polymeric chains seems to be far wide of the mark -- yes, that ha ppens, but it's only one of a hundred fates.
Tannin structures form and re-form, and combine with all manner of other molecules. They go through oxidative reactions (some involving our friends the aldehydes) and acid-catalyzed reactions; they glom onto anthocyanins in forms that preserve color and perhaps influence mouthfeel; they are "sticky" enough to hook up with many other compounds. Some of the conglomerate forms become locked in, no longer easily broken apart; others come and go.
Researchers in this area are fond of quoting Doug Adams from the University of California, Davis, who has called the wine tannin dance a "chemical train wreck." In an e-mail, Paul Smith of AWRI called it a "freaking nightmare."
And those are just descriptions of the parts we know something about. While methods for the quantitative analysis of grape and wine tannin are improving steadily, everyone agrees that techniques for qualitative analysis of wine tannin composition are woefully inadequate.
"There is no question that our understanding of what tannins are is at a high point prior to veraison," Jim Kennedy said. "From there it is all downhill. By the time a wine is 3 years old, we can chemically define less than 50% of the isolated material that we call tannins."
Size matters for astringency
While much remains mysterious, we do at least know that the notion of a linear progression toward longer polymers isn't the defining story. And it's a good thing, too, because if that were the story, wine would get more and more "tannic" as it aged.
The feeling of astringency is produced when tannins grab the proteins from saliva, lessening the lubrication in the mouth and making tissue scratch against tissue. Research in France in 2003, conducted by Stéphane Vidal, Véronique Cheynier, Ann Noble and others, using model wines in which the tannin composition could be controlled, demonstrated through tasting panels that longer tannin chains register as more astringent than shorter ones.
This makes intuitive sense: Bigger molecules have more ways to snatch proteins than smaller ones. Or, imagine the relative mouthfeel of fine beach sand and chunky gravel. (Fans of minerality in their wines can do the actual trials; for others, this is simply a thought experiment.)
Which brings us back to seed and skin tannin. One reason that seed tannins can be more astringent than skin tannins of the same length is that, while in the grapes, seed tannin chains are sometimes terminated with gallic acid, which increases astringency. But, Harbertson said, this effect is outweighed by the substantially shorter (and thus less astringent) length of the seed tannins; and in any case, the gallic acid -- which is not itself astringent -- can easily be cleaved under wine conditions.
Where do the tannins go?
In the Standard Tannin Model, at least some of the tannin chains get so long and heavy that they fall out over time, so that older wines are not only less tannic but contain less tannin. Wrong again, apparently.
The AWRI was fortunate enough to receive a more than 50-year vertical of Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon a while back, and reported the results of phenolic analysis of the wines in the proceedings of a seminar of the Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology in 2005. Turned out, as Paul Smith explained in a seminar on wine aging at the ASEV meetings, that the 50-year-old wines had tannin levels comparable to, and sometimes higher than, much more recent vintages. Whatever hoops those tannins are jumping through, they're not going away.
The sensory phenomena are undeniable: Most red wines get mellower with age. But if the tannins don't just get longer and fall out, and they wouldn't be less astringent if they were all longer, what the heck is going on? Sorry, I'm out of space.
That's one of the main things phenolics researchers are working on, sorting through the myriad changes tannins go through to parse out what they might mean in the glass. It is equally possible that the explanation of lower tannic impression in older wines has to do with something else altogether, in the same way that elevated alcohol and perhaps a pinch of residual sugar mask the massive tannin levels in many high-end California Cabernets.
While all this is getting worked out, if you're a winemaker and like the way your tannins behave, your best course of action may be to keep doing what you're dong. And if you're a tannin researcher, take comfort that the "freaking nightmare" of tannin chemistry comes with job security. "One thing that is good about being a tannin scientist," Paul Smith conceded, "is you know you've got a job for life -- if the funding keeps coming in."
Tim Patterson writes about wine and makes his own in Berkeley, Calif. Years of experience as a journalist, combined with a contrarian streak, make him interested in getting to the bottom of wine stories, casting a critical eye on conventional wisdom in the process. Contact him through email@example.com.


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This colorful PBS show from 1997 celebrates Leonard Bernstein's three New York musicals, On the Town, Wonderful Town and West Side Story. It's half a documentary and half a performance piece, and a solid effort.
The show begins with its best material, rehearsals for the master recordings. The fine selection of singer-actors is fascinating to watch when trying out a song in an apartment or performing it 'for real' in front of a studio microphone. Mandy Patinkin dominates group scenes by virtue of his expansive personality but the really great voices belong to the other performers, all Broadway stars: Dawn Upshaw, Judy Blazer, Audra McDonald, Richard Muenz and a specially billed Donna Murphy.
Director Hart Perry makes his show serve several functions. The main draw is to hear the Bernstein songs, which are chosen not from a best-of perspective, but to illustrate the theme of hopefuls in the big city. In On the Town returning soldiers look forward to a better and more exciting life, along with newly-emancipated women no longer afraid to express desires of their own. Wonderful Town is a musicalization of the Rosalind Russell film My Sister Eileen, and it concerns the hopes of talented youngsters coming to Greenwich Village to make a start. 1 By extension West Side Story is simply a plea for peace and calm by two lovers across embattled gang lines in the late 1950s.
The selection of tunes is refreshingly atypical; many seem to be chosen simply because they aren't often recorded.
Most of the songs are not allowed to play uninterrupted. Part of the biographical story of Leonard Bernstein is told over stills and news film clips of the city, but other explanations and comments edge over the songs themselves, an unwelcome touch. We hear the singers, music critics and other New York journalists, and a couple of Bernstein biographers explaining the social context for the three shows and Bernstein's move from writers Betty Comden and Adolph Green to Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim ... all relevant information but too thin to comprise a comprehensive Bernstein bio. Some of the best comments come from the singers: Dawn Upshaw makes good sense when she opines that the One Hand, One Heart song from West Side Story is often spoiled by too much sentimentality when performed. She sings it straight.
Also something of a distraction is the director's determination to make his show into an On The Town- like moving music video. Most of the songs are presented as little filmed stories with the singers lip-synching the lyrics on the streets of the city. When the concept is strong, as with Come Up to My Place the conceit works well enough, but too many songs simply have the singers drifting on real sidewalks mouthing the words, while we take note of normal city dwellers staring at the camera. Director Perry also goes for weak drama, like having one of the women agonizing in a muddy junkyard wearing a formal gown, with the New York skyline behind her. The lack of full production values -- lighting, camera movement, etc -- also keeps the material from making a major impact. The fact is that lip-synching is a poor substitute for seeing the actor-singers actually performing, even if it's in the confines of a recording studio with wires and microphones in the shot. The one compensation is that Leonard Bernstein's New York is not an 'in concert' performing piece, where every song ends with enormous waves of applause. 2
Clocking in at one hour, Leonard Bernstein's New York makes for a satisfactory show, especially for Bernstein fans eager to hear new interpretations of some of his less-revived songs. Conducting and playing the piano is Eric Stern, who sums up the 1940s and 50s as an entirely different time, musically speaking. American culture no longer leads with works on the Broadway stage and wonderful songs like these just aren't being written any more. Yet they're not pieces of nostalgia, as they really haven't aged.
Kultur's DVD of Leonard Bernstein's New York looks fine and sounds good in a two-channel stereo mix. The flat image is colorful and stable and few if any video flaws come through. There are no extras, but Humphrey Burton does provide a Bernstein timeline bio on the printed insert.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
Leonard Bernstein's New York rates:
Movie: Very Good
Video: Excellent
Sound: Excellent
Supplements: none
Packaging: Keep case
Reviewed: August 5, 2006
1. The confusing factor in this is that My Sister Eileen was later made into a separate film musical separate from Bernstein's work, with songs and lyrics by George Duning and Jule Styne. Return
2. The career of director Perry, a former cinematographer (Harlan County USA) is split between music video-style work and activist documentaries. Return
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Goldman's Jan Hatzius and Sven Jari Stehn put out a great note on Friday that's generating some buzz ( Krugman, FT Alphaville). The topic: Uncertainty, and whether it's really playing a depressing role in the economy.
The GOP -- along with many of the tycoons that come on shows like Squawk Box -- like to slam policy uncertainty for creating an environment in which businesses are immobilized by fear of the unknown.
Hatzius and Stehn find that to be bunk.
They write:
- A common explanation for the economy's disappointing performance in recent years is a rise in "policy uncertainty," a term popularized by Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and his co-authors. They suggest that the increase in their "US policy uncertainty index"— which is based on news searches, expiring tax provisions, and forecaster disagreement—has depressed real GDP by more than 3%.
- We do not doubt that uncertainty shocks depress economic activity, or that uncertainty has risen substantially since 2006. But we do not believe that the economy's poor performance has been caused by an exogenous increase in US policy uncertainty.
- First, the observation that most forecasters have been surprised by the economy's poor performance probably says more about the forecasters than about the economy. The historical record shows clearly that the bursting of a large asset price and debt bubble inflicts enormous and long-lasting damage on economic activity, and the recent US performance is no worse than that record would suggest.
- Second, much of the increase in policy uncertainty is probably a consequence of economic weakness, rather than its cause. Indeed, if we "purge" the uncertainty index of its correlation with past economic activity, it shows a much smaller increase since 2006.
Two charts from the report really stand out.
One is that the US recovery is very much in line with past financial crises, that were the result of a big debt bust. AKA: There's nothing unusual about this slow economy.
Second, they use an index that measures policy uncertainty (the index looks for the prevalence of certain words, and examines the dispersion of economic forecasts) to show that just in general, uncertainty is a byproduct of weak growth.
Bottom line: There's really nothing to see here on this front.
"Uncertainty" is just code word for "don't raise taxes" or "Policies made by Obama."


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Wildfire risks around the world are likely to change dramatically during the latter half of this century, with some types of terrain projected to see dramatic increases in likelihood and in the expanse of fire-prone areas during the next 30 years, according to a new study.
The areas at highest risk for increased fires in the short term include landscapes familiar to residents of the western United States – Mediterranean forests, woods, and scrub, such as those that blanket the coastal ranges of California, alpine grass and shrublands, desert shrublands, and forests dominated by conifers.
But over the longer term, significant increases in fire frequency are expected over a much wider range of ecosystems – as are significant decreases.
IN PICTURES: Colorado wildfires
Indeed, decreases in fire frequency often take a back seat to efforts to project places where fires are likely to increase. Yet the declines can be just as important, suggests Max Moritz, a fire ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley and the lead author of the study, which was published this month in the journal Ecosphere.
"You're worried about the right kind of fire being maintained or restored in these systems," he says. "Big decrease in fires … could be just as disruptive ecologically as a big increase."
For instance, the decreases could allow vegetation types alien to the existing landscape to move in and alter the region's ecology in unpredictable ways. Or fewer fires would allow fuels to build up to levels that allow the fires that finally occur to reach catastrophic levels.
One type of ecosystem projected for significant decreases by century's end are subtropical savannas in Africa, Australia, and elsewhere. These are projected to see fewer fires than they currently experience, the research suggests. This would lead to major ecological changes there, since frequent fires keep savannas savanna-like.
Previous studies largely have produced projections of changing fire risks for individual regions of the globe, such as the western US. This new study is a rare attempt at trying to gauge future changes to wildfire patterns globally as the climate warms, the research team says. The warming has been triggered and sustained by rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere, increases researchers have traced to burning fossil fuels as well as by land-use changes.
The study applies to fires once the province of ecologists trying to gauge the effect of climate change on the future distribution of plants and animals, Dr. Moritz explains. It treats fire as an entity that has its own form of ecological requirements: fuel, fire-favorable climate patterns, and ready sources of ignition.
The researchers first gathered global wildfire data gathered by two satellites and spanning 11 years – from 1997 to 2007. They used the information to estimate wildfire probabilities for each of 14 different broad vegetations types, or biomes, around the world under climate conditions that existed at the time.
They then turned to 16 climate models to develop projections of the climate's likely trajectory. They applied the results from each climate model to their fire model separately to see how much convergence they might or might not show in the final results.
They also used an existing model for plant production as a way to see how the abundance of fuel for these biomes could change in a warming climate.
As for ignition sources, the third piece of a fire's "ecosystem," humans supply the latter with enough regularity to suggest ignition sources won't be a limiting factor for fires.
From these steps they estimated changes to fire risks for each of the biomes for two periods: a 30-year span starting in 2010, and another starting in 2070.
After crunching the numbers, the team found that for the period 2010 to 2039, model runs most consistently pointed to an increase in fire risk for biomes already in regions with warm climates. A handful of biomes in the tropics and subtropics showed small decreases in fire risks. But for this period fewer than half of the models agreed on the direction of change across the 14 biomes.
The team notes that this points to major uncertainties in the results. But it also falls in line with a feature of global warming many scientists have highlighted – its effects become more pronounced toward the latter half of the century than they are today. For many of the more-localized effects of climate change – from severe storms to heat waves to wildfire patterns – the climate's natural variability can still make it hard to tease out global warming's fingerprints.
But the team's model runs also indicate significant increases and decreases in risk during the final 30 years of the century. Fire risks increase for up to 62 percent of biomes in mid and high altitudes, while the risk drops by 20 percent, largely in the tropics. And the models are in much greater agreement.
During the 2010 to 2039 period, for instance, boreal forests, which cover a broad swath of Canada and northern Russia, stood about an equal chance of seeing increases or decreases in wildfire risk over relatively small expanses of the territory they cover. Most of the model results, however, in effect shrugged their digital shoulders.
During the 2070 to 2099 period, however, the vast majority of models agree that boreal forests will see an increased risk of wildfire over nearly all of its extent. The likelihood of increased risk runs from 66.7 percent for most of the boreal zone to 90 percent for a small but still significant fraction.
The results held a couple of surprises for the team, Moritz says.
"One is that in the near-term future, despite the fact that the global climate models have huge variations amongst them, about half the planet shows model agreement for disruptions" in fire regimes, he says. Those disruptions include decreases as well as increases in risk.
"As we crank the models forward, we saw much stronger agreement" and the patterns of increased and decreased risk, as well as consistency among models, solidifies, he says.
The other is projected decreases in fire risk for much of the tropics during the latter half of the century. "It's pretty striking," he says.
One potentially important drawback to the team's approach – it doesn't capture year-to-year climate variability or features such as the El Nino-La Nina cycle – which plays a role in fire risks in some tropical rain forests.
Indeed, in most regions of the world, "fires are determined by more-nuanced aspects of climate variability, the sorts of climate and weather conditions that vary from between years or seasons," writes Cathy Whitlock, a researcher who focuses on climate and wildfire response at Montana State University in Bozeman.
Mortiz acknowledges the point, but adds that at this stage, global climate models do a poor job reproducing the cycles. The approach the team took – basing its analysis on a pair of 30-year intervals and the climate "normals" each would represent – smooths out those year-to-year changes.
Still, he says, if one could include such patterns, a future direction for the work, the results for the tropics might be different.
Another feature the approach lacks at this stage is the ability to feed in changes global warming could bring to the amount of landscape each of the 14 biomes covers as time progresses.
Despite the approach's limitations, it provides "insight into the complex fire responses that lie ahead, especially in the near term," says Dr. Whitlock.
And while the results don't attempt to predict changes to the expanse and distribution of the 14 biomes included in the study, the results could be set beside those of models that do predict those biome shifts to get a sense for the shift in fire risks those altered landscapes could face, she agrees.


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Gee, Ya Think?
So someone at the bakery felt this cake needed an explanation, but not a do-over. I also can't help but notice that that particular "someone" has rather nice handwriting.
Of course I mean nothing by that; I was merely making an observation.
Thanks to Claudia D., who tells me this is her "favorite" birthday cake, even though her name is NOT "Genenick Claudia Shawn".


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A Corner of the Heart for Sandy Hook
The enormity of Sandy Hook has hit us hard. It is almost too much to bear. So we do what humans do and try to make sense of things by finding our reflections in the details.
Proponents of gun control say that stricter laws would have prevented the tragedy. Those against gun control say that guns don't kill people, people do. Others castigate both sides for attempting to politicize the massacre of innocents. Meantime, nobody really knows what could have prevented this from happening now or on into the future, Heaven Forbid.
A pro-Israel friend posts about Maalot, in which 22 Israeli schoolchildren were killed, and a friend castigates him for using Sandy Hook as political capital to support a favored cause.
We post about the Jewish child, Noah Pozner, because we are Jewish and it helps us relate. Others are offended that we express pain over a Jewish child—that we don't see death by massacre as ecumenical, that we don't realize all creation deserves our pain when torn from the earth by evil.
We avidly read whatever we can find about Sandy Hook, devouring photos, video clips, and articles, feeling frustrated when no more information is available. Then we excoriate the media for refusing to give the families their privacy.
We pour over photos of anguish, preferring the wailing child over the more stoic children being led through the school parking lot with their eyes closed, a teacher leading them from in front.
We are in full moral panic mode.
What is moral panic?
The term was invented by Stanley Cohen who wrote about the concept in Folk Devils and Moral Panics, in 1987. It works like this: the media runs with a story, amplifying events to gigantic proportions in order to generate ratings. The world becomes fascinated, completely absorbed, unable to think about anything else and devouring every bit of related news as if addicted.
A most important part of the moral panic process is found in identifying a scapegoat.
We need to blame someone or something. We need to blame guns or gun laws. We need to blame Lanza or his parents. We need to blame God or Huckabee.
The media offers us ample choice for an object or person(s) to blame. Important authorities are brought to bear. They weigh in and tell us where to point our willing fingers. There are priests and rabbis. There are cops and medical examiners. There are neighbors and friends. We are treated to an endless parade of authoritative figures who opine about people, laws, and things to blame.
But soon, the voices coalesce and a narrative is found: a reason for the tragedy. Cohen called this summary of events the "moral barricade." At last the public has a diagnosis of sorts, a way to understand the evil, the hubbub dies down. We move on.
In Israel, where I live, there are endless senseless violent murders. When something bad happens, the radio plays sad music, as if offering confirmation that we are in the midst of a tragedy, that we are supposed to FEEL. We have learned to absorb the tragedies and then let the feelings wear off as we move back into the swing of real life.
But a part of me hates us for that: for the very humanity of moving on.
I watched the reactions of my friends after Casey Anthony was acquitted of killing her 2 year-old daughter, Caylee. I watched my friends post meme after meme, promising they'd never forget their "angel." But when is the last time they actively thought about Caylee? How many days until we moved on to something else?
It's human to move on.
I resolved long ago, to try to engrave the names of the victims on my mind—to reserve a special corner of my heart for the memories of those robbed of the fullness of time. I pause for a moment and reflect on the names. I let them truly sink in because I know that these details are fleeting and I feel the victims deserve something more from us. I do my best.
Today, I resolved not to post anything of a frivolous or political nature on Facebook out of respect for the families of Sandy Hook. "Is one day enough?" I wondered. "How many days are enough? One day? Two days? A week?"
How many days are enough to mourn little children shot through their tender flesh multiple times with an assault rifle? How many days will their parents mourn?
For the families of Sandy Hook, there is no forgetting, or moving on. They will develop a new normal, while we will forget about them at some point, for days or perhaps weeks and months on end. This is human, too. We cannot expect our pain to match their own. That would be somehow disrespectful.
For the meantime, I resolve to be kind to my friends who are expressing their pain and outrage in a most human way: trying to find meaning by connecting the event to politics, gun control, God in or out of school, and by hating the media even while yearning for more and more terrible photos.
Let us be a little kinder to each other then, more understanding about the varied experiences of human beings confronted with horror. Let us not castigate each other for our reactions, even as we disagree or find them distasteful. Let's be there for each other, for as long as that is needed.
And now a prayer, for I believe in God. Please God, rest the souls of the little children, their nurturing teachers and principal. Help the families to find meaning and goodness in spite of the horror. Let them find their balance. Let us be adequate in loving them. May we remember them enough. May we care.


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I'm probably late to the bandwagon, but I love The Dresden Files. I just finished book nine (White Night) and am impatiently waiting for the bastard who has the next book to check it back into the library
Just finished the Liveship Traders Trilogy by Robin Hobb and I must say it was pretty badass. I enjoyed his Assassin Apprentice books a long time ago and wasn't ready to reread them so gave these a try. Very glad I did. Very interesting idea to them and some of the characters were pretty neat. Others were just as cool but left a little too much mystery about them by the end of the book. But all said, "D'aaar, they be a great breed of book they are."
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Hobo Nickels
by Dave Tabler
Coin collectors today consider the hobo nickel a numismatic treasure, a tribute to long- forgotten folk artists who often literally carved for their supper. The Buffalo nickel debuted in 1913, but it wasn't until the Great Depression struck that hobo nickel carving reached its peak. During this period, buffalo nickels were the most common nickels in circulation.
The sudden scarcity of jobs in the early 1930s forced a huge number of men to hit the road. Certainly some coins were carved to fill the idle hours. More importantly, a 'knight of the road,' with no regular source of income, could take one of these plentiful coins and turn it into a folk art piece, which could in turn be sold or traded for small favors such as a meal or shelter for a night.
The nickel was an ideal coin from which to fashion such a token. The large profile of the Indian on one side and the classic image of the very wide American bison that complemented it on the reverse side provided an adequately sized canvas for the wandering hobo artist to use. It was portable, and the nickel (a copper-nickel alloy) is the hardest U.S. coin in circulation, ideal for carving.
In a community of generally anonymous drifters, two carvers rose to prominence among hobo nickel creators. Bertram 'Bert' Wiegand was born in 1880 and carved from 1913 to 1949. He signed his coins by removing L I and Y from L I B E R T Y, leaving only B E R T. He tutored the man coin collectors consider the giant of hobo nickel carving: George Washington 'Bo' Hughes (born between 1895 and 1900 in Theo, Mississippi). Bert met the young teenager in a jungle, or hobo camp, along the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio railroad line, and Bo's first nickels appeared two years later, in 1915. Bo carved till about 1980, when he was last seen by his friend of 40 years, Williard Chisolm, in a Florida camp.
Life as a hobo took its toll: the rigorous manual labor Bo undertook to survive during the money-tight, poverty-ridden 30s rendered his hands stiff and permanently damaged. Frequent beatings by ruthless detectives prowling railroads (where many hobos resided) in search of freeloaders and thieves compounded his dexterity impairment.
Nevertheless, devoted to his craft, Bo worked through the pain and frustrating impediments throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s, but in 1957, while he was working on a nickel, his chisel suddenly slipped and struck his hand. The injury forced the once-great hobo nickel engraver to resort to a haphazard punching method. Bo continued his work, but with less frequency and diminished quality, and as America moved into the post-war era genuine hobo nickels became a thing of the past.
The U.S. Mint ceased striking Buffalo nickels in 1938.


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Tritons Use Occidental Invitational as Final Tune-Up for Division II Nationals
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Selected student-athletes from the UC San Diego men's and women's track & field teams competed at the Occidental Invitational on Saturday and used the meet as a final tune-up for the NCAA Division II National Championships that will be held May 24-26 in Charlotte, N.C. Most of the Tritons who took part in the meet finished in the middle of the pack in their selected events.
As of right now, 11 women and one male UCSD student-athletes have qualified for the national track & field championships. The official list of qualifiers will be released this week by the NCAA.
While most of the Triton student-athletes have solid provisional qualifying times and marks, only two have reached automatic qualifying standards. Juniors Laiah Blue and Whitney Johnson have already punched their tickets for Charlotte. Blue's time of 13.69 in the 100 meter hurdles is the second fastest time in the country this season and .11 seconds below the automatic qualifying time of 13.80. Johnson's mark of 12.59 meters in the triple jump is also the second best mark in the country this season and better than the automatic qualifying distance of 12.50 meters.
On the men's side, only Daniel Anderson has met the NCAA provisional qualifying standard in his event. His time of 1:51.60 in the 800 meters is the 13th fastest time in the nation this season and is less than two seconds away from the automatic qualifying time of 1:49.80.


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Republicans Criticize Obama's Gun Proposals
(WASHINGTON) -- Less than an hour after President Obama finished outlining his plan to address gun violence in America, Republicans in Congress fired back, criticizing the president for attacking the Second Amendment.
Sen. Marco Rubio, who many conservatives look to as a viable presidential candidate in 2016, said he would, "oppose the president's attempts to undermine Americans' constitutional right to bear arms." Instead, he believes Congress should focus its efforts on keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.
"Nothing the president is proposing would have stopped the massacre at Sandy Hook. President Obama is targeting the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens instead of seriously addressing the real underlying causes of such violence," Rubio, R-Fla., wrote. "Rolling back responsible citizens' rights is not the proper response to tragedies committed by criminals and the mentally ill."
Michael Steel, spokesman to Speaker John Boehner, reacted to the president's proposals in a brief statement, putting the onus on the Democratic Senate to lead the legislative path to tougher gun laws.
"House committees of jurisdiction will review these recommendations," Steel wrote in an email after the announcement. "And if the Senate passes a bill, we will also take a look at that."
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said House Republicans, "welcome the recommendations of this task force and will consider them" but his committee will plot its own course in addressing gun violence.
"Good intentions do not necessarily make good laws," Goodlatte, who received an "A" rating from the NRA, stated. "As we investigate the causes and search for solutions, we must ensure that any proposed solutions will actually be meaningful in preventing the taking of innocent life and that they do not trample on the rights of law-abiding citizens to exercise their Constitutionally-guaranteed rights."
House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline, R-Minn., also said his committee would convene a hearing, "to examine school safety and ways to protect our children." Rep. Fred Upton, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee is also planning to review mental health laws.
Other House Republicans were skeptical of the effectiveness of the president's ideas, such as enacting another ban on assault weapons.
"The fact is these firearms are no different than other legal firearms except for their exterior design," Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas, wrote. "Claiming to address gun violence by offering a failed, illogical action is nothing more than a red herring to target the constitutionally protected liberties of law abiding gun owners."
"More gun restrictions may allow Washington to congratulate itself, but will never change the sickness and depravity that drives someone to murder indiscriminately," Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., wrote in a statement.
"The president's plan approaches the problem of gun violence from the wrong direction," Louisiana Republican Rep. Rodney Alexander, who also received an A rating from the NRA, wrote in a statement. "This proposal will not stop criminals from getting their hands on weapons and using them for harm."
"Guns are not the problem, evil people are," Rep. Dan Beneshik, R-Mich., wrote in a statement. "The only thing these proposed restrictions would do is prevent law-abiding individuals from protecting their homes, children, and businesses."
"The Second Amendment is non-negotiable," Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kansas, wrote in a statement. "The right to bear arms is a right, despite President Obama's disdain for the Second Amendment and the Constitution's limits on his power."
Huelskamp said the debate should instead focus on, "what fuels a very small segment of the population to inflict harm and instill fear," and the Obama administration should enforce gun laws already on the books.
"This means holding Hollywood accountable for its culture of violence and death, and talking about mental health issues and the responsibilities of families and communities," Huelskamp, who received an A+ rating from the NRA, stated. "The Obama Administration is neglecting its obligation to enforce current law. Apparently public safety matters only when there's political gain to be had."
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Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal. The spinal canal is located in the backbone. It is a small space that holds the nerve roots and spinal cord. If this space becomes smaller, it can squeeze the nerves and the spinal cord. This causes pain and other symptoms. Stenosis can occur anywhere along the spinal cord. It is most common in the low back (lumbar) region.
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Some people are born with narrowed canals. Most often stenosis is a result of aging. Conditions that can cause spinal stenosis include:
Spinal stenosis is more common in people aged 50 years and older. Other factors that may increase the chance of spinal stenosis include:
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You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
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thehautehound needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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I need a logo designed for a new line of environmentally friendly pet products called Eco-Hound.
I own a pet boutique called the Haute Hound. I recently started making environmentally friendly washable pee pads for pets which is the first product manufactured for my eco-friendly pet product line. I plan to expand my line shortly.
I've named the new line Eco-Hound. I need a logo designed for this new line. I have four Italian Greyhounds which is where the "hound" comes in.
- Item 1: If you look at the site http://www.eco-hound.com, you will see the color scheme I am looking for, greens, browns, earth colors.
- 2: where you see the name on the top right of the site, that is where I will be placing the logo.
- I would like the logo to say: Eco-Hound Environmentally Friendly Pet Products(written smaller)
- I would like some sort of long-nosed hound(like my dogs) profile incorporated into the logo. But just the basic outline, not a full drawn face etc. And maybe throw some pawprints in there too. Maybe give it a whimsical look. I'm not really sure exactly how I want it to look so be creative.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. - Georgia Southwestern guard Shanedra Lockett posted a double-double with 20 points and a game-high 13 rebounds to lead the Lady Hurricanes past Paine College, 74-70, on Tuesday evening.
GSW improves to 3-1 and matches its win total from a year ago. The Lady Hurricanes finished 3-23 last season. Paine falls to 1-3.
For Lockett, it was her second 20-point night in as many games. The junior from Roberta, Ga. was 6 of 8 from the field, 8 of 13 from the free throw line and she had five assists. Danisha Green added 16 points and broke the program's NCAA era record for most steals in a game with eight. Tiara Thompson scored 14 points and Jasmine McSwain added 11.
Ashley Watts led the Lady Lions with a game-high 29 points. Watts connected on 6 of 11 from beyond the arc and she picked up six assists. Ariel Brown scored 19 points and Lashonda Canty chipped in 10.
Paine held its largest lead of the night at 19-10 with 9:49 left in the first half before the Lady Hurricanes went on a 15-6 run to tie the ballgame at 25-25 with 4:14 until the break. After both sides went scoreless for almost two minutes, Danisha Green broke the deadlock with a pair of free throws to give GSW the lead. The Lady Hurricanes were unable to hold the advantage and Paine led 34-32 at the half.
The two sides tussled the entire second half as the lead changed hands 13 times. GSW grabbed control for good when Lockett sank a pair of free throws with 2:39 remaining to go up 67-65.
With the Lady Hurricanes up 73-70 in the closing seconds, Green picked up her final steal of the night to keep Paine from getting a look at a game-tying basket and sealed the win for GSW.
Southwestern shot 50.9 percent for the game compared to 45.0 percent for Paine. The Lady Hurricanes outrebounded the Lady Lions, 35-32, and had 11 more steals (20-9). A solid night from long range kept Paine in the contest. The Lady Lions were 6 of 12 from 3-point range while GSW finished 1 of 8.
The Lady Hurricanes face another pair of Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference schools this weekend when they host Albany State at 4 p.m. on Saturday and Fort Valley State at 4 p.m. on Sunday in the third annual PBC/SIAC Challenge.


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HOUSTON, Oct. 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LinnCo, LLC (Nasdaq:LNCO) announced today its first quarterly cash dividend of $0.71 per common share, which reflects a reduction for taxes of $0.015 per common share from the LINN Energy distribution of $0.725 per unit. The cash dividend will be payable on November 15, 2012, to shareholders of record at the close of business November 6, 2012. ABOUT LINNCO LinnCo was created to enhance LINN Energy's ability to raise additional equity capital to execute on its acquisition and growth strategy. LinnCo is a Delaware limited liability company that has elected to be taxed as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes, and accordingly its shareholders will receive a Form 1099 in respect of any dividends paid by LinnCo. LinnCo will have no assets or operations other than those related to its ownership of LINN units. More information about LinnCo is available at www.linnco.com. The LinnCo LLC logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=15371 This press release includes "forward-looking statements." All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that the company expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. These statements include, but are not limited to forward-looking statements about acquisitions and the expectations of plans, strategies, objectives and anticipated financial and operating results of the company, including the company's drilling program, production, hedging activities, capital expenditure levels and other guidance included in this press release. These statements are based on certain assumptions made by the company based on management's experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, anticipated future developments and other factors believed to be appropriate. Such statements are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the company, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those implied or expressed by the forward-looking statements. These include risks relating to the company's financial performance and results, availability of sufficient cash flow to pay distributions and execute its business plan, prices and demand for oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids, the ability to replace reserves and efficiently develop current reserves and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected as described in the company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. See "Risk Factors" in the company's Annual Report filed on Form 10-K and other public filings and press releases. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made and the company undertakes no obligation to correct or update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Belatedly, policymakers and researchers are recognizing that quality charter schools depend on quality charter school authorizing. This report presents findings from a pioneering national examination of the organizations that sponsor, oversee, and hold accountable U.S. charter schools. Its primary aim is to describe and characterize these crucial but little-known organizations.
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A little more than 48 hours left for this one, I think it looks really cool.
Kamigakari: God Hunters is a tabletop role-playing game set in modern-day Japan that combines centuries of Japanese mythology with a modern-day setting and urban fantasy action. You play as a God Hunter, a being wielding supernatural strength, magical abilities, and reality-warping spiritual powers. Your mission is to protect an unsuspecting populace from evil beings known as Aramitama, and to prevent the supernatural from leaking into the public eye.
Originally, the game was released in Japan by Arclight Games on November 2013 as Legendary Arms RPG Kamigakari, to great popularity. In January 2017, a text-only fan translation appeared on the internet, exposing Kamigakari to the attention of English-speaking RPG fans world wide, and creating a thriving fanbase that continues to grow to this day!
Serpent Sea Games is a team of experienced RPG translation and development professionals, including the creator of the fan translation, who have licensed Kamigakari from the creators at Arclight Games for publication in English and want to bring the game officially to Western audiences.
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The world of Kamigakari features a distinctly seinen action anime and style to it. With crazy abilities and flashy powers, it's an over-the-top world where you can battle kaijus, giant robots, gods and demons all under the same umbrella. The system is designed to keep interactions as simple and intuitive as possible, for an easy pick-up-and-play. Kamigakari splits its play up into "scenes", which are short, episodic and will often split the focus onto individual players. It's a different experience compared to western systems that often assume the party is always together, which allows for more varied and engaging character focus and development.
So what is a God Hunter? A God Hunter is a person who, through one means or another, has gained supernatural powers by possessing a shard of a legendary weapon, relic, suit of armor, or maybe even the crystallized soul of a legendary hero. These powers can be anything from a master of the sword or magic, transforming hero, a living avatar of flame, or the ultimate hacker. Instead of a familiar class-based system, Kamigakari uses its own character generation called Styles, which lets you mix and match your power sets to create a gun-slinging samurai, a chainsaw-wielding magical girl, a hacker who codes his magic into existence, or a hunter who stalks his victims through the shadows.
And it's not just limited to your class: weapons and gear are utilized under the Arms system, a mechanic where a base weapon is upgraded over time by using materials or spending gold. Two basic swords, in the hands of two different god hunters, can end up very different weapons after extensive modification!
An average God Hunter on a normal day. Does being a God Hunter mean that you hunt gods? Of course it does! With concepts rooted in Shintoism and traditional Japanese folklore, a God Hunter is tasked with tracking down dangerous beings known as Aramitama - a dark god that is born and grows in power by devouring the souls of its victims. Aramitama come in many forms - from recognizable Japanese icons like oni and tengu, mythical beings like the Pegasus or Griffin, to eldritch monstrosities made of gnashing teeth and glowing orbs. Upon defeating an Aramitama, God Hunters can use their remains to create stronger Regalia - magical weapons and equipment, in order to face even even more powerful Aramitama. It's not just a fun gameplay loop, either: These creatures threaten the sanctity of innocents and the world in their lust to reach their ultimate form, the Avatar of Ruin, a true god of destruction capable of ending the world. It's up to the God Hunters to prevent that!
An Aramitama awakens. Kamigakari utilizes the unique Numen Dice pool. Numen Dice are resource wherein you roll a set of dice and use it to pay for abilities or change the outcome of a roll. There's many ways change, swap and spend dice. Players must be careful how they manage their Numen Pool to both survive the battle and save the perfect set of Numen Dice to activate their ultimate abilities!
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ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — Those Americans who count themselves as "war-weary" should meet Fawzia, a middle-aged woman who made perhaps the most difficult decision any parent can.
Fawzia was among the refugees straggling across the Syria-Jordan border here. She had just arrived on a dangerous weeklong journey from Ghouta, Syria, a Damascus suburb where nerve gas killed hundreds on Aug 21. But for Fawzia, chemical weapons are secondary. The real weapons of mass destruction in Syria are the AK-47s, rockets, missiles and bombs. An agreement brokered by the world's powers that is limited to chemical weapons — while useful — seems a bit irrelevant to the atrocities that define the lives of most Syrians.
No one in Fawzia's family was hurt in the chemical weapons attack, but then there was a ferocious conventional shelling of her neighborhood. Her family members scattered in terror, and Mustafa, her 8-year-old son, disappeared. No one knows what happened to him.
Fawzia decided to flee with two children to Jordan, in hopes of saving them, possibly sacrificing Mustafa. She is racked by guilt.
The United Nations refugee agency, which runs this Zaatari camp, is accustomed to tragedy. An aid worker gently told her how to register Mustafa's name in case he turns up somewhere.
Talking to Syrians like Fawzia, it seems bizarre and narcissistic that in Washington there is talk of whether the Syrian crisis has been "resolved." Maybe the politicians' crisis there has been eased, but the humanitarian catastrophe here just gets worse.
Indeed, in the last couple of weeks, President Bashar al-Assad seems to have stepped up the pace of bombing, shelling and other conventional attacks on civilian areas.
Fawzia says she would like to see American missile strikes on her country, in hopes that an assault would degrade the Syrian army's capacity for mass murder and shorten the war. That seems by far the most common view among refugees here, although it's not universal. Some worry about civilian casualties or think a strike would be too little, too late.
Whatever one thinks of a military strike to destroy some of Assad's murderous air force — I'm in favor but have very little company in America — we should find common ground in insisting that international negotiations address not only chemical stockpiles but also humanitarian access in Syria.
That would mean demanding that the Syrian government and rebels alike allow aid workers and food and medical assistance across their lines. It's not impossible that both sides would agree under pressure, and that might ease some of the worst suffering within Syria.
Valerie Amos, the United Nations humanitarian chief, tells me that nearly seven million Syrians will need aid to survive. Humanitarian access could save some of those lives, and also reduce the hemorrhage of refugees.
The United Nations estimates that every 17 seconds another Syrian flees the country, placing almost unbearable strains on Lebanon and Jordan, in particular. Jordan has been remarkably welcoming to Syrian refugees, but public resentment has apparently led the government to tighten the arrival spigot recently, and many tens of thousands of displaced Syrians are now reportedly stuck on the Syrian side of the border.
One-third of Syrians are now displaced. On an American scale, that would be equivalent to 100 million Americans having fled their homes.
This refugee camp, Zaatari, is already one of the biggest cities in Jordan, and the refugees are tough to manage. A few months ago, they began dismantling a trailer that functioned as a police station. Within hours, there was nothing left; they had stolen an entire police station.
Many refugees told me that everyone in their neighborhoods would relocate to Jordan if it weren't so dangerous to travel.
Fareeda al-Hassan, a woman from the city of Hama, had just crossed from Syria with a gaggle of children when I met her. She explained that government bombing had destroyed her home and she had seen pro-government militias behead children, so she paid a guide to smuggle them on a 10-day journey that bypassed government checkpoints. If soldiers think travelers are headed for Jordan, they sometimes execute them as presumptive traitors.
During the family's journey, a machine-gun post opened fire on their convoy. The two vehicles in front of theirs, a bus and a private car, burst into flames and everyone in them was killed, Hassan said.
Guides ferrying Syrians to Jordan sometimes give small children sleeping pills so that they won't cry from hunger and draw an attack from Syrian troops.
We may not be able to solve Syria's problems. I'm not even certain that we can mitigate them. But we can try, and a starting point would be a big push for humanitarian access.
Maybe that would even allow aid workers to find Mustafa and reunite him with his guilt-ridden mother.