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BANGKOK (AP) - The price of oil dropped Monday as the likelihood of an imminent U.S. attack against Syria diminished.
BANGKOK (AP) � The price of oil dropped Monday as the likelihood of an imminent U.S. attack against Syria diminished.
Benchmark crude for October delivery was down $1.03 to $106.62 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $1.15 to close at $107.65 on Friday.
President Barack Obama has had difficulty convincing the world about the need to take action against Syria's government in response to an alleged chemical attack last month that the U.S. says killed at least 1,429 civilians. That number is significantly higher than the death toll of 355 provided by the aid group Doctors Without Borders.
Only France is firmly on board among the major military powers, after Britain's Parliament rejected the use of force in a vote last week. Both Russia and China strongly oppose unilateral U.S. military action.
While Syria is not a major oil producer, it straddles a region that is. The possibility of a wider conflict, one that could interrupt production and shipping routes in the region, has pushed oil prices higher in recent days.
Brent crude, the benchmark for international crudes, was down 17 cents to $113.84 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
� Wholesale gasoline was down 5.6 cents to $2.87 per gallon.
� Heating oil lost 5.7 cents to $3.132 per gallon.
� Natural gas rose 3.4 cents to $3.652 per 1,000 cubic feet.


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CCA Coaching Position
Courtesy CCA
Position: Coach of National Team Development Programs
Application Deadline: January 4, 2004
Starting Date: February 1, 2004
Job description:
The CANADIAN CYCLING ASSOCIATION, the National Sport Governing Body for the sport of cycling in Canada is seeking an experienced and innovative bilingual individual for the position of Coach responsible of the National Team development programs.
Reporting to the Director General, the successful candidate will be responsible for the development, implementation and control of the National Team development programs as delivered under the Canadian Cycling Association (CCA). The successful candidate will provide leadership and ensure that development programs are designed to provide a steady flow of new athletes in all Olympic cycling disciplines in Canada. The role will includes providing support and working in conjunction with committees, National Cycling Centres, coaches and provincial organizations.
Depending upon qualifications and / or experience of the successful candidate, at least 5 of the following will be under his/her responsibility:
National Cycling Centres coordination
Junior Development Program (road, track, MTB, BMX)
BMX Athlete Development Program
Handisport Program Direction
Young Women National Team Program
Youth Cycling Games Technical Direction
Communications around development programs
Post secondary degree in sports related field or similar, NCCP level 3 coaching certification with practical experience combined with development experience is required. Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills are critical. Strong computer skills and organizational skills. Direct cycling knowledge and experience as well as administration abilities will be viewed as an asset.
CCA offers a competitive compensation package in a professional work environment. This job is based out of the head office, located in Ottawa, Ontario.
Please submit applications to the attention of:
Mr. Pierre Hutsebaut, Director General
By Mail: 2197 Riverside Drive, Suite 702, Ottawa, ON K1H 7X3
By Fax: 913-248-9311
By email: email@example.com
Closing date for applications is January 4, 2003. Starting date is February 1, 2004. We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for interview will be contacted. No phone calls please.
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Two more of the ex-Saturn men have found teams for 2004. Chris Horner has joined an expanded Webcor squad, and Nathan O'Neill, still recovering from a horrific crash at the Tour de 'Toona, has taken a position with the Colavita-Bolla Wines squad. This position opened up after Tim Johnson, who had signed with Colavita-Bolla, moved up to the Spanish Saunier Duval team.
Kona Clarks Les Gets Announces 2004 Team
The 2004 Kona Clarks Factory Team looks very familiar apart from the addition of some interesting sponsors . . .
KONAWORLD - The Kona Clarks Les Gets Factory Team today announced their 2004 World Team roster featuring many stars that have sported the team colors in the past. World Cup Leader, Tracy Moseley, and World's DH Bronze medalist, Fabien Barel, are back with the Kona Clarks Les Gets Team for the next two years! Also returning are current Canadian National Cycle Cross Champions, Peter Wedge and Kris Sneddon. Joining Pete and Kris on the XC squad will be last year's teammate, American and current Collegiate Cyclo Cross #1 Barry Wicks, and fresh from the Kona X team, and a score of major National results Ryan Trebon, also from the US
As you will have already noticed, new to the team is the addition of Les Gets Ski Resort (pronounced "Lay Jay"), Portes du Soleil, France as a title sponsor, to create "Kona Clarks Les Gets" for the next 2 years. Les Gets is a mountain biking mecca in Europe and is situated between Lake Geneva, Switzerland and Mont-Blanc in France, Les Gets will becoming a Kona Ride Centre next season and will have a full range of Kona Bikes for rent, new courses are planned and the team will also be using the resort as their official training ground.
Sandra Lardy from Les Gets said, "We are so pleased to be involved with Kona and to be a Kona Ride Center. We will be working with the team to promote the resort and the Ride Center and the team will also be involved with designing the trails. The whole community is really looking forward to it
The riders are going to be busy this year, Tracy and Fabien will be competing in the full UCI World Cup schedule along with the Maxxis International Cup in Europe. The XC boys will be trashing it out on the NORBA circuit and North American World Cup stops.
The team will continue to have and update their comprehensive web site with the name changing to www.konaclarkslesgets.com which will be live Jan 04.
Team Manager, Russell Carty said, "I am so pleased that we have been able to bring on board two new major sponsors and bring back our star riders from last season with this support it's going to be an amazing year!"
The Kona Clarks Factory Team finished as the 2nd best UCI trade team last season, so the main goal for 04 is to finish #1!
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The head of the agency that insures bank deposits said today it has plenty of money to cover any failures this year.
Sheila Bair, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said the agency has set aside $22 billion to cover any projected losses over the next year, leaving $19 billion. The deposit insurance fund now stands at its lowest level in nearly a quarter-century and is raising the assessment on banks and thrifts to give it more money in reserve.
"We'd like a bigger cushion. We'd like to be prepared for all contingencies, so we are increasing our reserves, our assessments, so that should bolster our reserves some more," Bair said.
Just 2½ months into the year, 17 federally insured banks have failed. The FDIC believes U.S. bank failures will cost the deposit insurance fund more than $65 billion over the next four years. The FDIC insures bank accounts for up to $250,000.
"Overall, we're fine. But it is important for people to understand, we're backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government. The money will always be there. We can't run out of money," Bair said.
Bair was interviewed on CBS' "Early Show."
FDIC Chief: "We'd Like a Bigger Cushion"
The head of the agency that insures bank deposits said today it has plenty of money to cover any failures this year.


text: We in the modern world have grown used to the wonders of the Space Age. Rockets routinely launch people, probes, and satellites into space, making this once gutsy business seem almost humdrum. But it's always a good thing to be reminded of the pluck and determination it takes to strap something to a giant firecracker, light the fuse, and hope that everything goes according to plan. With the recent passing of Neil Armstrong, one of spaceflight's great heroes, we thought we'd pay tribute to a few of the most amazing and badass maneuvers in spaceflight history. In this gallery you can find out about the men, women, and a few robots that had the right stuff to keep cool under the most difficult conditions. As everyone knows, breaking the bonds with Earth and floating around in space is already inherently badass so our list is subjective. Please feel free to let us know anything we missed in the comments. Above: Armstrong and Agena The late great Neil Armstrong, whose daring knew no bounds, makes it on our list not once, not twice, but with three counts of spaceflight badassness (and that's not even counting his awesome role as first man on the moon). For starters there's this well-known moment, during Armstrong's days with the Gemini program. On his first trip to space, Armstrong and his fellow astronaut David Scott coasted their Gemini VIII capsule to the first successful docking in orbit, rendezvousing with the unmanned Agena spacecraft. Shortly after docking, with mission control out of communications range, Scott noticed Gemini was banking and that the Agena was likely to blame. Armstrong realized he would have to pull away to inspect the unmanned vehicle for problems. But when they backed off, their real problems began. Gemini VIII began tumbling end over end at a dizzying rate of one revolution per second, leaving Armstrong and Scott with blurred vision and in danger of blacking out. Armstrong used his hand controls to steady the vehicle but with such problems, he also knew they would have to make an emergency landing. With NASA's tracking stations out of range, the astronauts weren't quite sure where they would come down. Armstrong feared it would be in some remote wilderness where they would be hard to find. Gemini VIII eventually splashed down in rough swells about 500 miles east of Okinawa in the Pacific, with rescue vehicles recovering them shortly thereafter. Image: A Titan booster launches the Gemini VIII spacecraft. NASA Special thanks to space historians Stephen Garber and Bill Barry at NASA, Roger Launius at the Smithsonian Institution, and Asif Siddiqi at Fordham University for helping compile this list.Soviet-Style Landing Here's an old joke: In Communist Russia, re-entry from space comes with no braking mechanism and requires you to eject and parachute to the ground from 20,000 feet. (Ha ha!) At least, that's what happened to the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, after orbiting the Earth successfully in his Vostok spacecraft in 1961. Soviet engineers at the time had not yet perfected a braking system that could slow the craft down enough for someone to survive impact. The best they could think of was having their pilots eject and parachute from 20,000 feet. Secretive as ever, the Soviet brass kept this mechanism under wraps and told everyone that Gagarin landed with his spacecraft. It wasn't until Gherman Titov, the second human in space, owned up to ejecting before landing that the Soviet-style landing technique was discovered. Dangerous and premature as the method was, at least it showed off the high levels of awesome that cosmonauts needed to have if they expected to fly in space. Image: Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft, which he did not land in, on display at the RKK Energiya Museum outside of Moscow. Wikimedia/SeifkinDRCooper's Landing Astronaut Gordon Cooper, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, probably wins as the most clear-headed and fast-thinking space pilot of all time. On the final manned Mercury mission in 1963, Cooper flew the Faith 7 spacecraft into orbit. After nearly 20 successful trips around Earth, Faith 7 experienced a life-threatening malfunction. Carbon dioxide levels in the vehicle began to climb and the temperature jumped to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Cool as a cucumber, Cooper took manual control of the spaceship and estimated the angle he needed to approach for re-entry. By using star patterns, drawing lines on his window, and checking his wristwatch to keep time, Cooper calculated his orientation and fired his rockets at just the right time to land almost exactly by the ship waiting to pick him up. Image: Gordon Cooper, badass. NASABadass Spacewalk You might be able to pull off some fancy moves here on Earth, but spacewalking is the ultimate thrill. Floating around with nigh-nothing to protect you save your spacesuit is pretty badass. The world's first spacewalk was also included possibly the most awesome life-saving technique ever. In 1965, cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov climbed out of his Voskhod-2 spacecraft and stepped outside. After about 12 minutes in open space, his suit malfunctioned. It began to balloon up and would no longer fit through the tiny airlock. He desperately decreased air pressure in his suit – which could have triggered a potentially dangerous case of the bends – and then straight-up somersaulted through the lock. The Voskhod-2 crew, which also included commander Pavel Belyayev, suffered a further spate of disasters. Their internal oxygen system began pumping in way too much of the gas, making the vehicle extremely flammable and liable to explode from just one errant spark. During re-entry, they suffered the opposite problem, with the craft's pressure dropping alarmingly. Furthermore, their automatic re-entry program failed. The cosmonauts switched into manual mode and Leonov crouched under a seat to allow Belyayev to lay horizontally and manually orient the vehicle. Once the engines fired, both men had to scramble to return to their seats so as to not leave the vehicle off-center of gravity. Their descent module landed nearly 250 miles from their target, in a densely forested and remote area north of Perm covered in 6-foot-deep snow. With search parties unable to reach them, the cosmonauts endured a night alone, warding off wolves. Rescuers on skis finally arrived the next day but, since they still couldn't get a helicopter to land nearby, all the men had to spend another night out in the frozen forest. At their Moscow press conference a couple of days later, Leonov and Belyayev toed the party line and smiled for the cameras, saying nothing of their harrowing ordeal. Their mission troubles didn't come to light until after the fall of communism in the late '80s. Image: Rare footage shows Leonov conducting the first spacewalk outside the Voskhod-2 spacecraft. Still taken from video. YouTube/tvroscosmosCorned Beef Sandwich The best spaceflight maneuvers don't have to be dangerous to be badass. Astronaut John Young proved this in 1965 as part of the two-man crew onboard Gemini III. Young was apparently a little unhappy with the terrible-tasting space food that astronauts received. Once in orbit, Young pulled out a mysterious object he had snuck aboard, leading to this exchange with his co-pilot Gus Grissom: Grissom: What is it? Young: Corn beef sandwich Grissom: Where did that come from? Young: I brought it with me. Let's see how it tastes. Smells, doesn't it? The smuggled sandwich was apparently a nice prank that Young pulled off with help from director of flight crew operations Deke Slayton. Young and Grissom each took a few bites of the contraband and then Young put it back in his pocket. Image: John Young (left) and Gus Grissom in 1965. NASANeil Armstrong Escapes LLRV This video shows Neil Armstrong's last-second escape from a fiery death as a test vehicle crashes in 1968. NASA built this craft, the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, during the Apollo era to give its astronauts practice in touching down on the moon. During one test at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, a fuel leak caused total failure of the vehicle controls. As the LLRV went spinning down to the ground toward a tragic ending, Armstrong ejected and parachuted safely down. His only injury: a hard tongue bite. Video: NASALunar Landing Anyone who has played the early Atari videogame Lunar Lander knows that landing on the moon is tricky business. Neil Armstrong did that, except for real, and 100 percent more badass than any low-graphic video game could allow. As the Apollo 11 mission approached the lunar surface, Armstrong made the decision to take the lander vehicle slightly past the chosen spot. Seeing large boulders at the region that could have potentially caused the lunar module problems, Armstrong flew beyond this field, running the fuel tanks 36 seconds longer than planned. It might not sound like much time but, because of sloshing the tanks, Armstrong had no way of accurately gauging how much fuel he had left. The longer burn used up about 530 lbs. of fuel and left the module with a razor-thin margin of error. Post-flight analysis showed that he had about 12 to 15 seconds of fuel left in the descent stage when he touched down on the lunar surface. Image: NASASaving Salyut In 1985, the Soviet Salyut-7 space station was dead, crippled by a solar array malfunction. Rather than leave it to rot, the Russians decided to send a rescue crew to repair the station, launching cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibenkov and Viktor Savinykh to space. Frozen, drifting, and spinning asymmetrically, the space station was not an attractive target. Since it was not broadcasting radar or telemetry for rendezvous, Dzhanibenkov and Savinykh basically had to track Salyut-7 like a cat-and-mouse game in space. As they approached, they used a hand-held laser rangefinder to determine their distance and successfully dock. Inside, the station was arctic cold, with ice covering nearly everything. The cosmonauts worked and slept in full winter garb with fur hats — probably a better job for experienced Russians than Americans. Taking shifts, Dzhanibenkov and Savinykh replaced the station's batteries and systematically resuscitated its components, system by system. Within a week, Salyut-7 was working well enough to allow robotic cargo ships to dock. The space station was inhabited for another year and eventually burned up in Earth orbit in 1991. Image: Diagram of a Salyut station with Soyuz spacecraft attached. NASASkylab Tools In 1973, the U.S. got its own space station, Skylab, and immediately needed to repair it. The first crew sent to the station – composed of astronauts Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz, and Joe Kerwin – had to unjam the primary solar array and mend Skylab's meteorite and sun shield, without which the station sat roasting in the sun. Baking temperatures inside the space station threatened the crew and their food supplies. In space, the astronauts found their tools weren't the right ones for the job. They had to fabricate new instruments on the spot from on-board material lying about. The crew assembled six 5-foot rods with a cable cutter attached to the end and then tied 20 feet of rope to pull the cutter. Conrad and Kerwin used this jury-rigged item to free the jammed solar array. Both astronauts then had to heave with all their might to get the array positioned correctly. When it finally came unstuck, the panels flung Conrad and Kerwin from the space station hull, requiring them to both act quickly to regain their positions. In addition, the crew deployed a collapsible parasol as a replacement sunshield, bringing temperatures inside the station down to workable levels. They remained aboard for another month, finishing repairs and gathering data. Image: Skylab during the first manned mission to the space station. NASAHand-Captured Satellite On the maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992, three astronauts — Pierre Thuot, Richard Hieb, and Thomas Akers — were hanging outside the vehicle. This was not a typical situation. One, or at most two, astronauts at a time typically undertook extravehicular activity (EVA). This unexpected turn of events started when the crew attempted to capture the non-functional Intelsat VI satellite, which launched two years prior but had suffered a malfunction that left it in low-Earth orbit. The satellite needed to climb higher, to geosynchronous orbit, in order to conduct communications properly. During an initial spacewalk, Thuot and Hieb were unable to snag the satellite with an 8-foot capture bar on the end of the shuttle's long arm. Difficult times call for extraordinary measures and mission control made the call to try a three-person EVA for a never-before-attempted maneuver. The next day, Thuot, Hieb, and Akers all suited up and climbed into space together as their pilot, Daniel C. Brandenstein, carefully nudged the shuttle to within a few feet of the 4.5-ton satellite. The three astronauts reached out and grabbed the satellite with their gloved hands. The astronauts repaired their catch, attaching a new engine that tugged the errant satellite to its intended orbit. Image: NASAChandra Launch The Columbia spacecraft launched in 1999, bringing with it a special payload: the Chandra X-ray space telescope. But the mission was wracked with problems, starting five seconds after launch when an electrical short took down two of the three main engine controllers. The launch director had the choice to abort the mission and attempt the first ever return-to-launch-site maneuver but instead decided to go forward. Soon after, the shuttle's engine three started leaking hydrogen. Mission commander Eileen Collins noted that the engines were running very hot throughout the vehicle's ascent to space and controllers nearly aborted the mission at several other points. Limping to space, Columbia barely made it through the launch. The shuttle had run out of fuel and its reusable engines were seriously damaged so the spacecraft settled in a far lower orbit than intended. After releasing its cargo, the shuttle returned to Earth early and no doubt with an exhausted crew. Chandra is still flying high and has significantly expanded astronomers' view of the heavens. Image: The Chandra X-ray observatory sitting inside the space shuttle bay. NASARobotic Right Stuff Humans aren't particularly special — robots can also have the right stuff. While probably every robotic probe sent out into space can boast some badass moves, perhaps none are more impressive than the recent Curiosity rover's landing. This was one of the most complex sequences undertaken on another planet. As the spacecraft entered the atmosphere, it went through six configurations, shedding layer after layer of landing vehicles to slow it down. Explosive charges – 76 of them – took off each piece and also deployed a supersonic parachute, the largest ever built for an interplanetary mission. The rover was tucked beneath a hovering platform that fired eight rockets to kill its velocity until it could be safely lowered on ropes – the famous "sky crane" maneuver – to achieve a soft landing on the ground. One more badass pair of robots deserve mentioning here: the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Voyager 1 swung by Jupiter and Saturn as part of a proposed Grand Tour mission, discovering volcanoes on the moon Io and taking close-up views of Saturn's gorgeous rings before flying out of the solar system. Voyager 2 was meant to follow more or less the same trajectory but, in a moment of awesomeness, NASA mission control decided to extend its mission and travel on to Uranus and Neptune, becoming the first and only spacecraft to do so. Both robots continue to receive commands and beam back data 35 years after they were launched. Voyager 1 is currently entering interstellar space, becoming the farthest manmade object in history. Image: Jupiter's Great Red Spot, as seen by Voyager 1. NASA


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Like a Virgin by Madonna is featured in The Power of Madonna, the fifteenth episode of Season One. It is sung by Emma and Will, Finn and Santana, and Jesse and Rachel.
The song shows Finn, Emma, and Rachel being unsure about losing their virginity and Santana, Will, and Jesse trying to convince the other to go through with it. Rachel and Jesse are in Rachel's room, Santana and Finn are in a motel room, and Will and Emma are at Will's house. This song is a dream sequence, as Finn and Santana are later revealed to be the only ones to go through with their plans (Finn losing his virginity, but Rachel and Emma keeping theirs).
Rachel (with Jesse):
I made it through the wilderness
Somehow I made it through
I (didn't know how lost I was until I found you)
Emma and Will:
I was beat, incomplete
I'd been had
I was sad and blue
Jesse and Rachel:
But you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
Shiny and new
Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Finn, Jesse, Rachel, and Santana:
Like a virgin
When your heart beats
Next to mine
Gonna give you all my love, boy
My fear is fading fast
Rachel with Jesse:
Been saving it all for you,
Cause only love can last
Emma and Will:
You're so fine and you're mine
Make me strong
Yeah, you make me bold
Rachel with Jesse:
Oh, your love thawed out
Yeah, your love thawed out
What was scared and cold
Finn, Jesse, Will, Rachel, Santana, and Emma (Santana):
Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time (Hey, yeah)
Like a virgin
With your heartbeat
Next to mine
Finn, Jesse, and Will (Emma and Rachel):
Ooh (Woah)
Ooh (Santana: Woah, oh, oh) (Woah)
Ooh (Santana: Yeah, yeah, yeah) (Woah)
Ooh (Santana: Woah-oh)
You're so fine and you're mine
Santana with Finn:
I'll be yours
Till the end of time
Cause you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
I've nothing to hide
Finn, Jesse, Will, Rachel, and Emma (Santana):
Like a virgin (You make me feel like a virgin)
Touched for the very first time (Oh, baby)
Finn, Jesse, Will, Rachel, Santana, and Emma:
Like a virgin
When your heart beats
Next to mine
Like a virgin
Finn and Rachel (Santana):
Ooh, ooh, like a virgin (Hey)
Finn and Rachel (with Santana):
Feels (so good inside)
Jesse (Santana):
When you hold me (When you hold me)
When your heart beats (Finn: When your heart beats)
When you love me (When you love me, baby)
Finn and Rachel:
Oh-oh, woah
Finn, Rachel, and Santana (Santana):
Woah, oh, oh (Yeah)
Finn and Rachel:
Oh, oh, yeah
Finn, Jesse, Will, Rachel, Santana, and Emma (Santana):
(Oh) Like a virgin
- During the recording session for this song, the producers had each singer sing the entire song so they would be able to edit the song in any way they pleased.
- Finn is the only one who actually lost his virginity after this number.
- During the episode, there are several scenes in which some people performed others' lines.
- This is the first of two songs in which Emma and Finn both sing a solo. The other was The Scientist in the episode The Break-Up
- In one of the angles with Jesse and Rachel, you can see Lea Michele's tattoo on her left shoulder.
- When Santana in straddling Finn, you can see Naya Rivera's neck tattoo.


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Great condition of very good boat Moody 62 DSe
Year built 2012
One fully decked
Red genaker
hydraulic gangway
Engine 150hp
Four bladed folding propeller
Electrical circuits: 24V, 220V
Generator Fischer Panda 12kW
Electric winches
4 cabin version
teak deck
Red hull
Aluminium mast with 3 spreaders
Raymarine E120, Radar, GPS, chart plotter, sounder, camera FLIR, VHF 240E,
Electric furling mainsail to boom
2 electric furlers of staysails
bow and stern thrusters
12 life vests
Call me any time for more information
The Moody Decksaloon "one level living" concept is a unique approach in modern yacht design. To discover it, simply open the sliding doors and enjoy a 360 degree view from the living area and the spacious cockpit all on the same level. The large cockpit with its standard cockpit table and the open
deck aft is ideal for spending time with family and friends. Welcome on board.
Epoxy build with prepreg, fibreglass fabrics, epoxy-vacuum bagged, corecell TM foam
Carbon fibre chain plates
Epoxy E-Glass with UD reinforcements
Warranty 2 years on GRP below waterline
Integrated hull windows
Standard colour: painted from colour card with classic waterline, other colours as option painted
White Deck built in fibreglass and epoxy super structure
Thermal and sound insulated
Solid 8 mm laid Teak deck on side deck, seats, cockpit floor
Unique full perimeter bulwark complete with ss handrail, offering all round protection with special boarding gates in bulwark
Deck Equipment
Two seperate helmsman positions aft of leisure cockpit
Winches situated adjacent to steering position
Free walk trough to leisure cockpit
Large leisure gast cockpit
Large fixed cockpit table with optional fridge
Cockpit lockers
Drinks holders
Self draining cockpit
Special washboard and drain system in front of the large sliding s.s. and glass sliding doors
Dedicated deck storage for liferaft
Dedicated dinghy garage
Dedicated side deck folding side gates with boarding steps
Dedicated gas locker inide deck
Fixed stem head fitting with anchor roller and second mooring roller
40kg Delta type anchor with 60 m / 13 mm chain
Self draining anchor locker
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Basic Leader Formula - A.J. McClane's
AJ provides this simple rule of thumb for leaders - 60/20/20
meaning that the butt = 60%, taper = 20%, tippet = 20% of overall length;
Butt compounded once again 60/40 of length,
tippet compounded into two or three sections,
tippet solid.
Therefore, for a 9 foot SWFF flats leader with 12# flourocarbon I use: 38" of 30#, 25" of 25#, 11" of 20#, 11" of 15#, 22" of 12# flouro.
For sinking lines and bigger flies I use 40# butt and taper down to 15# tippet.
Long summer - same as flats but with three-part taper down to 10# or 8# tippet
Winter sinktip leaders of 4-5' in length similar to SWFF sinking w/ 40# butt down to 15# or 12#
Dry line - 20# butt full compound down to 6# for streamers and 4# for larger dries, 3# or 2# for midges, etc.
These are all rough overviews using maxima spools in sucessive line strengths, which makes up the bulk of my leader strategy.
Anything fancier or finer I buy.
What about you?
RE:Basic Leader Formula - A.J. McClane's
Juro, this all to complicated for me.. I use tippet contruction for trout and other freash water, but for years my striper contruction is a 10 to 12 inch butt section pemenently attatched to the fly line (usually 30 pound test or more) and then a loop upon which I will attach my mono from a spool. five to six feet of 15 (or 16 or 17) pound test or 20 pound test. Thats it, If it's cut or whatever, I will just take off more on the spool. I can't say it has lessened my luck and is a speedy way to get back into the action. On the flats my initial section would be longer. I have even worked the tippet down to 3 or 4 feet in heavy or rip surf conditions.
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For salty fish, I agree with John. A single piece of 16lb. mono or fluro attached to a short butt is all I ever use. I have been having problems with tailing loops, but perhaps that is more a casting stroke problem than a leader problem?
For trout, I've been buying tapered leaders and replacing the tippet as needed, but I'll try the 60/20/20 formula come spring.
RE:Basic Leader Formula - A.J. McClane's
Following L.Kreh's very simple formula, I like a 3-piece butt section with each piece half the length of the previous section and a 2' tippet.
9 ft. leader:
4 feet of .024
2 feet of .021
1 foot of .017
2 feet of fluorocarben tippet, 12lb.
RE:Basic Leader Formula - A.J. McClane's
For trout or panfish in water without weeds:
44"-25# 22"-20#, 11"-12#, 6"-8#, 6"-5# then 30" of either 5X or 6X. This works out to ~ 10 feet Like Juro, all the lines are Maxima.
In weedy waters, or if I dont feel like tying a leader, I buy a 7.5' 3 or 4X leader, cut off 15-18" of the tippet and tie on a 5 or 6 X tippet ~ 30" long.
I've used some shorter leaders, for small streams, based on George Harvey's formulas that worked well but I can't find the formulas.
For salt water, where I am a beginner, I've used 36"-40#, 18"-30# , 12"-25#, 9"-20# and 6"-15# with a Perfection loop to which I attach a 12# tippet which has a Bimini- surgeons loop combo. A packet of pre tied tippets stays in my bag to minimize time spent tying knots on the water.
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RE:Basic Leader Formula - A.J. McClane's
Why has no one mentioned the leader butt in relation to the tip diameter of the flyline in use?
Trey Combs in "Steelhead Fly Fishing and Flies" says "The butt section is a continuation of the fly line taper by having a stiffness approximately that of the fly line tip."
Joan Wulff (Fly Casting Techniques) says, "The tip end of a fly line will range from about .042 in heavy lines (#10) to perhaps .025 for the very light ones. Use material for the butt section of your leader that is roughly two-thirds of the fly line's diameter. If you don't have a micrometer, use, as a guide:
.021 for lines #4 and 5
.023 for lines #6 and 7
.027 for lines #8 and 9"
A 40# butt of Maxima is .024. According to Joan Wulff that would be about right for a 7 weight line. Has anyone tried larger butts than 40#?
What are your opinions of the above?
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Actually the 60/20/20 leader configuration was originally formulated by Charles Ritz not AJ McClane.
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Mike -
Thanks for the clarification... I read the formula as "provided" in his epic book, but didn't know who originated it. So... tell me more about Charles Ritz!
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In your reply is the key for the butt section, Stiffness. It's not the diameter of the butt section that is most important, it's the stiffness. It should be the same as the flyline. This helps the energy transfer smoothly from flyline into the leader for turnover of the fly.
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Here is a snippet:
CHARLES RITZ ON FLY CASTING : An article by Charles Ritz
contained in THE WISE FISHERMAN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA. 1951
Charley Ritz, best know for his charming autobiography A FLY FISHER'S LIFE is the author of a sixteen page article on fly casting in this A.J. McClane encyclopedia. This was written in the heyday of the cane rod by a man engaged in the production and sale of high end cane rods during the moments when he was not tending his holdings in the luxury hotel industry or fishing with celebrities.
The rest of the article is at:
He was a pretty amazing man. Being rich he had a lot of time to devote to his passion. He is mentioned in many of my, errr ... ummmm.... 'old' books. He was a true fly fishing pioneer in the spirit of Lee Wulff and Joe Brooks.
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Mike - that's fascinating! It sounds like this man is *the* Ritz(?). I am compelled to read more on this man... thanks for the ref url, I'll enjoy digging into this. I actually know the article you refer to in AJ's book, I can see the illustrations in my head.
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Last year I started playing around with a section of braided mono running line blind spliced with small loops at each end. The splices overlap and the loops are treated with Zap-a-gap for stiffness to elininate hinging. With loop to loop connections it quickly attaches to the fly line and to the leader. Total length is about 24" and the stiffness seems to aid in energy transfer for turning over larger flies. Very durable and fairly easy to put together. Seems to work best when the water is not gin clear... Tight-lines!
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Still looking for all of the information I can get, I finally thought of Mike Conner who, I have learned, is a font of good fly fishing advice. I asked for information on leaders specific to spey rods.
With his permission, I am including his entire response for your comment/experimentation. Here it is, I look forward to your comments:
"Hi John,
I use long ( up to twenty five feet ) leaders with butts which are about 3/4
of the size of the line tip. I also use some furled leaders which match the
tip size exactly.
It really depends on how stiff the leader material is at the butt. If the
material you are using for the leader butt is a lot stiffer than the
fly-line, then you should reduce the diameter until it is about right. If
it is softer, then increase the diameter. The object of the exercise is to
get a smooth power transfer, and this will only occur if the leader and line
are about the same stiffness, more or less irrespective of diameter.
One way to test this is to connect a leader butt to the line tip with a
needle knot, and holding the line and leader in each hand about three inches
away from the knot, ( less for softer materials), simply bend the two
materials into a semi-circle, if the arc of the semi-circle is correct, ( a
circular arc ! ), then the materials are well matched. If the knot
"hinges" or one side of the arc is out of shape, then the material is
unsuitable, or the wrong diameter. If the fly-line side is out of shape,
you need softer material, or lesser diameter, and if the butt side is out of
shape, then you need stiffer material or larger diameter.
Fly-lines vary considerably in their stiffness, and also in their tip
diameters, and so your only choice is to experiment until you find the right
butt material to suit your line. Normal nylon will usually work OK when it
is 2/3 diameter of the tip. Hard nylon will have to be less, and softer
nylon more.
Direct measurement with a micrometer is not a lot of use, as it is indeed
the stiffness which is important.
For very long leaders I have had great success with furled leader butts. You
can obtain instructions on making these here:
It is certainly worth the trouble. The leaders are much better, last a long
time, and may be custom built to your purposes. They are very much better
than braided leaders. You can also make them of a variety of materials for
various applications.
Regards and tight lines!
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Thanks dude! I'm working on a whole pack of DBH model templates that I'll hopefully have up soon. I kinda half-assed the recent ones cuz I wanted them done in time. The new ones will be much better. :D
You're awesome bro! I certainly hope it does. Thanks for all the support man!!
Thanx for the nice comments, means alot coming from a great designer like you.
Hey again thx for the advice I did a Jumbo print and put in my comments, come on by and let me know if thats what you were looking for. Again great designs keep up the great work, I look foward to seeing more.
Thanks, appreciated it !
Yeah its not really their logo, but there still could be a problem. heres a link to the gerber logo:
Thx for the comment on my Visual Sound2. Jumbo print huh, so like the whole shirt top to bottom? Maybe loose the wings, well thx again nice designs by the way!
hi bud, hope u are fine?! chEErs, mike
My design is in the running for the 10k contest, link here
I would really appreciate the votes or at the very least some comments on my work.
thanks for your kind words and your vote!
Hello it's been a while since I got some work done but I Just posted a fresh piece of artwork after several months of moving around and getting settled back in to the creative feel. Have a look if you got the time. Thanks
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thank you sooooo much for support it means a lot!
thanks for the support and kind words. your gorilla shirt is sick.
Thanks IA. You don't need luck for the gorilla, already 31 votes! But good luck anyways!
Thank you for pointing that out, I had no idea the concept had been explored :(
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KABUL (Reuters) - Few companies showed up to Afghanistan's fresh appeal for investment in its vast mineral wealth on Sunday, apparently deterred by trouble plaguing two of its largest projects and allowing small firms to emerge as the main contenders.
The Mines Ministry pleaded to a handful of local and foreign firms to bid on a near billion dollar cement tender, luring interest with attractive terms like free currency conversions and 100 percent capital repatriation.
Hopes are pinned on Afghanistan's trillion dollar wealth in resources weaning the country off international aid, but early attempts to unlock its potential have hit serious setbacks.
These appeared to have deterred major international firms from attending - leaving the path open to small investors with unconventional backgrounds, prepared to take on deteriorating security and uncertainty ahead of next year's election.
Afghanistan has been at war for decades. It is now trying to inject life into attempts to negotiate an end to an Islamist Taliban insurgency as most NATO combat troops prepare to pull out by the end of 2014, leaving the country to handle its own security.
"Too many big international companies are too afraid about what is going to happen after 2014,"said Tom Watts, a director at SJH Group and former British paratrooper who served in Iraq.
"They're sat on their backfoot waiting to see what happens... Let's bring it on, all three concessions, let's have them all."
To reassure potential suitors, Mines Minister Wahidullah Shahrani announced the opening of the near billion dollar cement tender and also marked the publication of first official guide to investment in Afghanistan.
"This information will be sufficient to give first-hand information on whatever an investor requires to make the decision to come to Afghanistan," Shahrani said.
Sharani said international experts had been called in to ensure the terms would be favorable to investors. Nodding to fears about corruption in a country that routinely ranks among the most corrupt in the world, the minister promised the tender would be conducted in a "very transparent and clean manner".
Afghanistan's unruly territory holds large deposits of gold, copper, iron ore and oil, as well as lithium and rare earths used in high-tech manufacturing.
Chinese firms have scrambled to access its wealth but both of the country's most important ventures are at a standstill. In Amu Darya, oil production has stopped because there is no deal in place to refine it.
At Mes Aynak, the Chinese consortium has demanded a review of a landmark $3 billion deal to produce copper in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan imports virtually all of its cement at the cost of around $1 billion a year, making it the second largest drain on its cash after fuel.
If the three cement plants tendered start up as hoped over the next few years, they could eventually supply all of the country's needs, according to officials at the event.
A second prospective investor, an Afghan doctor turned business manager, said he was also undeterred by the Chinese troubles.
"Cement is a very good investment, demand is high and there are a lot of new projects," said Dr Mohammad Shafiq, a senior manager for a group of companies including Griffin Ltd, based in Yemen.
Editing by Nick Macfie


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I'm gonna share something very intimate about me today. You are going to see a very private part of me paraded in various poses and contortions. MY MOUTH LA!! Teeheehee.
For the longest time, I was unsatisfied with my smile. I knew what I didn't like, but didn't know how to fix them, or if fixing them was even possible.
6 things I didn't like about my (old) smile:
1. Misaligned teeth
I had braces when I was 18, those super ugly metal ones that no matter how colorful and luminous I chose my bands to be, remained UGLY.
Not to mention painful and uncomfortable! Ulcers were a constant thing throughout the agonizing 3.5 years that I wore them. I remember having to wear these tiny elastics to improve the bite of my upper and lower jaws. There were bands, hooks, wires, brackets in my mouth and I always had food stuck in between and everywhere else.
Not pretty.
Ah, the price to be paid for not having naturally straight teeth! Mine were all over the place, some hiding behind one another, some growing like cactuses reaching out for the sun. Lol.
During the period when I was wearing braces, I don't think I had that many suitors. WAHAHA.
My teeth were pretty straight after that but one day my retainers disappeared. I asked my dentist if I should make new ones and he said "Nah, it's alright. Some natural crookedness will make your teeth look nicer". Whuuutt…?? WORST ADVICE EVER. =.=
2. Yellow Teeth
I don't smoke, I don't take coffee or tea, not even coke. I just had yellow teeth. =(
OH GAWD. I would never have had to courage to post all these photos of my unsightly teeth if not for the fortunate fact that they do NOT look like that anymore.
3. Receding Lower Gums
When I ate ice cream or any cold stuff, my lower teeth hurt.
This sensitivity was caused by receding gums, causing teeth to be exposed more than necessarily. The exposure was caused by having my teeth 'bent inwards' to close up the gaps from having 4 teeth removed for the braces. My mouth is too small to accommodate that many teeth so they had to be extracted.
By the way, I have 8 teeth less than most people – 4 extracted for braces, 4 wisdom.
4. Ugly Crown
The condition of my receding gums deteriorated so much that I couldn't eat chocolate without wincing in pain. Yes, CHOCOLATE.
That was it. I HAD to seek help.
So I went to a dentist near my house and he pasted something over one tooth (the one that caused the most pain) and called it a day. It did improve the sensitivity, but left me with an ugly-looking tooth. Look at the above picture showing an abnormally long tooth on the left – that's the crown. That picture also shows the slight crookedness of the lower teeth.
Update: This has been solved with Gum Grafting Surgery. 🙂
5. Uneven Gum Line
6. Hidden Smile
As mentioned, my teeth were all moved inwards to accommodate the lesser numbers and close the gaps. So not only did my gums suffer, the irony of having straight teeth was that my smile got brought backwards and 'hidden'.
I decided to do something about it.
I really wanted to have a smile that would allow me to smile my widest and happiest on my wedding day without feeling self-conscious about having a crooked smile. Yes, a wedding is such a huge motivator to looking good. It's made me start to work out too! HOHO!
I did my research and after hearing and reading plenty of positive reviews about Orchard Scotts Dental (OSD), I had my first consultation with Dr Jerry Lim.
Instead of just agreeing to whatever the patient – me – (blindly) asked for >> Invisalign <<, Dr Jerry asked if I've heard about Veneers and a Smile Makeover. I was like 'Whuuut?'.
I was initially interested in Invisalign because I'd been seeing promotional posters and ads everywhere recently and thought that might be a solution to fixing my misaligned teeth, and probably some whitening kit to get rid of the yellowness.
I had never heard about Veneers nor Smile Makeovers so was excited to hear more about them!
Visit 1 – Consultation & Analysis
I only knew about my 'withdrawn' or 'hidden' smile after that consultation. No wonder no matter how wide I used to smile, it didn't have that kind of beaming effect.
Dr Jerry explained to me what's a Smile Makeover (aka Dentamorphosis. *whispers "It's morphin' time!"*). It's essentially like having a makeover, you know, with changes to your hair and makeup and clothing highly customized for what fits YOU.
So a Smile Makeover means making highly customized changes to your smile, changes made specially for you, according to your face shape, facial proportions, size of your mouth, desired shade, and so on.
Invisalign would be great for people with very crooked teeth, but mine were not that bad so Invisalign would ultimately not give me that kind of 'beaming smile' I yearned for.
To do all that I wanted, Dr Jerry said Veneers would make me realize my dream. I will talk about Veneers in Part 2.
I really appreciate that Dr Jerry didn't just go "Okie you want Invisalign? Yes, we have Invisalign. Come, sit down, we shall give you what you asked for".
Instead, he listened to what I truly envisioned and conveyed the appropriate procedure in layman's terms so that I could understand and make an informed decision.
Visit 2 – Smile Trial
During the last visit they took a mould of my teeth to make a set for the Smile Trial, to see if I liked the effect of a brighter and wider smile. This was me wearing the trial teeth.
It was hard going back to my old smile after that. And it made me even more determined to complete my Smile Makeover.
We took another mould for the actual veneers.
By the way, I love watching the videos played on the tv at the reception area. My eyes are forever transfixed on these real people sharing real stories on how their new smiles have changed their lives – better oral hygiene, a brightened appearance, greater confidence in talking to others, improved general well-being. It's so amazing how a better smile can bring such huge improvements to a person's life.
Oh yes, the lighting at the reception area is always excellent. Please take plenty of selfies there if you ever want to try their dental services. The first picture of this post was taken at the reception area. ^_^*
Couldn't wait to get rid of this…
and this…
This is a comparison of my actual teeth (before) and the trial veneers made for the Smile Trial (after).
Because they're not real veneers, just a sample to let me feel the fit and picture the final result, they don't look all that real. You probably can't tell from these pictures, but they are more plasticky, slippery and fake-looking than the real deal (which you will see in My Smile Makeover At Orchard Scotts Dental – Part 2!).
This is Dr Jerry! I've seen pleeeeennty of dentists my whole life and I must say Dr Jerry really is my favorite dentist. =) Always so cheerful and friendly, I actually look forward to going to a dentist << I cannot believe I would ever say that.
Visit 3 – Laser Gum Recontouring
I was REALLY excited to get started on the makeover.
I felt like I was undergoing a life-changing transformation, like those participants in reality shows, and after a few weeks they strut down the runway to a madly applauding audience. Hahaha! I bet you'll applaud for me when you read my next post where you'll see just how much my smile has improved.
No, 'improved' would do it injustice. More like, 'perfected'. Heh.
The first thing we did for the makeover was to make my upper gums more aligned. Before that, let me take a mandatory selfie. BAHAHA!
Dr Jerry taking some measurements. I love how meticulous Dr Jerry is in everything that he does. While you're lying there feeling all vulnerable with your mouth wide open, your senses seem to be more attuned to everything that is going one, like every nudge and prod is magnified.
Having been in and out of numerous dental clinics my whole life, I really can tell when the dentist really cares about your well-being and wants the best for you.
(By the way, I was wearing the Lioele Volume & Curling Mascara. Love it!)
Laser Gum Recontouring, as the name already implies, is the correcting of uneven or excessive gumlines with laser.
My gums cover a large portion of my teeth, especially on the right, making the teeth look smaller. Larger teeth make one look more youthful and healthy.
I asked if it meant having some of my gums removed coz how else do you correct an uneven gumline without removal, right? Dr Jerry said yes, but it's done with laser which is much less invasive than practices of the past. Traditionally dentists really used a knife to shave off excess gums. Shave+gum+knife = @[email protected]""
Here we go. The pink light is the laser. How pretty! (The pink light, I mean, certainly not me in this pose)
I didn't feel a single thing throughout the whole procedure, just saw a lot of things going in and out of my mouth, and some smoke. Cool.
As you would have seen from previous pictures, my right gumline was much lower than the right, causing the slanted gumline, so more work was done on the right.
Let's compare the appearance of my gumline before Laser Gum Recontouring and after.
Teeth still very YELLOW-YELLOW-DIRTY-FELLOW, but you can see that the gumline is much more even!
A full face comparison so you can see just how much my smile improved with only Laser Gum Recontouring.
To be honest, before I started on my smile makeover journey, I always hated and avoided taking frontal shots because I was conscious about baring my slanted gumline and uneven-looking teeth to the camera. Right portraits were totally out because it was the uglier side with the yellower teeth and uneven gumline.
Right after I saw myself in the mirror for the very first time after the Gum Recontouring, I was like 'You wanna take my picture? HELL YEAH, BRING IT ON!!'. =D
Can you see just how much my smile improved in one session?
Dr Jerry said a nice smile is when the teeth and a smooth gumline show when you smile and follow the curve of the lips. That day, I felt like my enhanced smile improved my overall appearance by 60%.
I'm so glad to live in this era of laser treatments and equipment. There was hardly any bleeding (I can't imagine the horrifying bloodshed from having gums shaved off with a knife in the past), everything was done in a jiffy and the healing time took less than a week.
I really wanted to share my Smile Makeover with you guys much earlier. The Laser Gum Recontouring was actually done in May 2013, but SHIT HAPPENED, and I just couldn't bring myself to talk about my teeth when I was fighting battles called How-To-Make-My-Skin-Heal and Time-Wasting-Legal-Nonsense.
When I got better, I returned to Orchard Scotts Dental to continue on my Smile Makeover journey and was touched to know that everyone at the clinic was so concerned about me.
If you are interested to know more about Laser Gum Recontouring, or Invisalign, or a Smile Makeoever, or anything dental-related, please don't ask me. HAHAHA! No, really, I don't want to dish out advice I am not confident of giving. Ask me what kind of eyeshadow brushes a beginner should start with, I can rattle on easily, but dental-related, please pick up the phone and give them a call, okie? =)
Orchard Scotts Dental
501 Orchard Road
Wheelock Place #05-08
Singapore 238880
Contact No.
t. +65 6732 9939
+65 8223 6334 (emergency)
f. +65 6732 6883
My journey continues in the next post, so I'll see you soon!
Actually you can ask me questions, you know like: Were you able to eat after the Gum Contouring? Why did you have an uneven gumline? Where did you get your hair done? Lol.
Oh, I just realized my hair looked different in all three visits. From black+pink highlights to >> whole head purple to >> brown base+purple highlights. Always LOVE how my stylist Weng from Salon Vim manages to transform my hair! =D
Okie bye! Tune in again soon! *muack*!
Smile Makeover Series
My Smile Makeover At Orchard Scotts Dental – Part 1
My Smile Makeover At Orchard Scotts Dental – Part 2
Gum Grafting Surgery To Prevent Further Gum Recession And Reduce Gum Sensitivity


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News from the world of Maths
An "electric atomosphere" is not what you expect at a maths lecture. But it is what prevailed when Andrew Wiles announced his proof of a 350-year-old-old problem, Fermat's last theorem, exactly 20 years ago.
Alan Turing was a mathematician and WWII code breaker who was convicted of homosexuality in the 1950s, chemically castrated as a result, died young in mysterious circumstances and still hasn't received all the recognition
he deserves. His life clearly makes great material for a play — but a musical? We talk to the directors and lead actor of The Universal Machine.
Deciding who is to blame and who should pay for the financial crisis will be a hot topic at the G8 next week. Financial mathematics received a lot of bad press in the aftermath of the crunch and many believe that it was the popularity of mathematical models – often borrowed from physics — that put the financial system at risk. But now models borrowed from biology are helping us understand how this risk might be reduced.
A quick and easy way of adding using handshakes.
At 9:59 pm (UK time) on Friday, May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the Moon, its closest approach for at least the next two centuries. And you can also catch a glimpse of the asteroid by the power of the internet.
Is there a perfect voting system? In the 1950s the economist Kenneth Arrow asked himself this question and found that the answer is no, at least in the setting he imagined.
Ben Allanach is a theoretical physicist who has worked at CERN and is interested in something called supersymmetry, which predicts particles that could be dark matter and might be produced in the collisions at CERN. Watch Ben explain it all in this TEDx lecture.
From the makers of Dimensions comes a great free online movie exploring dynamical systems, the butterfly effect and chaos theory by means of stunning visuals accompanied by a beautiful musical score.


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We will silence the violence, we will save our children!
Preventing Violence Begins with Each One of Us
We Make the Following Demands from Each Citizen:
- Whereas, we acknowledge that our community has been unlawfully seized from us while we were silent, and that we have not only the right, but the duty to take it back;
- Whereas, we desire to improve the quality of life of those living in our community and acknowledge that all people deserve to live in a safe, loving and nurturing environment;
- Whereas, violence and abuse in all forms are serious social problems that can be prevented and that everyone must work to end.
- Whereas, as adults we are responsible for providing safety for our children and are called to secure for them their future.
- Whereas, the strength of any community is found in its citizens living and working together in a spirit of cooperation across lines of class, culture, color and creed to develop, rebuild and sustain that community; and by working together, all are enriched.
- Whereas, preventing violence and abuse begins with each one of us as individual stakeholders in our community;
We make the following demands of each citizen of our community.
- We demand that every business that benefits from our patronage, whether uptown, downtown, or here in the community, whether small or large, employ at least one youth part-time or full time this summer.
- We demand that park districts establish attractive quality programming for our youth.
- We demand that every church, mosque or synagogue open its doors for youth, and develop and maintain quality youth programs to draw our young people off the streets. And call them to meet outside before Bible Study and choir rehearsal to create a presence in the community.
- We demand that each citizen commit his/her support to community organizations and faith-based organizations worldng to end all forms of violence.
- We demand that the residents of each block maintain the cleanliness and order of their property and turn on their porch lights at night.
- We demand that each resident take charge of the safety of that block watch and patrol that block, hold outdoor block club meetings and activities for the residents and youth on that block.
- We demand that CAPS hold their meetings outdoors during the summer.
- We demand that every parent provides for and ensures the supervision of their children and enter into partnerships with the schools that their children attend.
- We demand that all schools continue to make adequate yearly progress on strengthening the curriculum and teaching conflict resolution so that our youth become aware of their relationship to each discipline, are able to compete on the world stage and can see themselves and others depicted accurately in history.
- We demand that the violence plaguing our cities be seen as a National Emergency and that Federal financial resources be given to cities for jobs for adults and youth, youth alternatives and strategies to stop the violence.
- We demand that elected officials in Springfield and Washington ban assault weapons and stop the easy access to guns by titling guns like cars.
- We demand that each citizen work collaboratively with the schools in their community to expand programming and improve their capacity to serve the needs of our youth and prepare them to give service to themselves, their families, their communities and society.
- We demand that every parent, teacher, mentor, neighbor and street organization member challenge our fellow community members to recognize that they can be powerful without making others powerless.
- We demand that each member of our community commit to treating one another with dignity and respect.
- We demand that each citizen take a stand and never commit, condone, accept or remain silent about violence.
- We demand that each citizen does that which is necessary and within his/her realm of influence and power to foster a community which is respectful, safe, and fair for all people.
We will silence the violence, we will save our children!
Faith Community of Saint Sabina
Rev. Michael L. Pfleger, Pastor
1210 West 78th Place
Chicago, IL 60620


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Town-hall forums, such as Tuesday's 9 p.m. event, allow a few undecided voters the chance to ask presidential candidates their own questions. If you are ever lucky enough to be picked, here are some tips for asking a good one.
Like callers on radio shows, voters at town-hall forums sometimes overexplain themselves. The candidates are fully versed in the issues, so you don't need to give too much detail. That also risks giving them an opening to duck the question. Instead, keep your question short and to the point. "Mr. President, if there were a vacancy in the Supreme Court and you had the opportunity to fill that position today, who would you choose and why?" -- Jonathan Michaelson at the 2004 town hall "How will your tax proposals affect me as a middle-class, 34-year-old single person with no dependents?" -- Lisa Kee at the 2000 town hall "Please state your position on term limits, and, if you are in favor of them, how will you get them enacted?" -- Audience member at the 1992 town hall
Candidates have plenty of practice sparring with reporters, but the town-hall format forces them to respond to everyday voters. Use your biographical background to put the issues into focus. It's harder for a candidate to answer a question about unemployment when talking to a voter without a job, for example. "Mr. President, my mother and sister traveled abroad this summer, and when they got back they talked to us about how shocked they were at the intensity of aggravation that other countries had with how we handled the Iraq situation. Diplomacy is obviously something that we really have to really work on. What is your plan to repair relations with other countries given the current situation?" -- Nikki Washington at the 2004 town hall "Mr. Vice President, in a school district in which I work and in countless others across the nation, we face crumbling school buildings, increased school violence, student apathy, overcrowding, lack of funding, lawsuits, the list goes on. I could mention low teacher pay but I won't. What can you tell me and my fellow American teachers today about your plans for our immediate future?" -- Andrew Kosberg at the 2000 town hall "Ex-smoker for 30 years. About 30 years ago I was a pack-plus a day man. OK? You mentioned a statement -- you said some time ago that you didn't think nicotine was addictive. Would you care to -- are you still holding to that statement, or do you wish to recant or explain yourself?" -- Oscar Delgado at the 1996 town hall
The best questions at town-hall forums come from voters who really understand the issues they're asking about. Avoid asking general questions that are too easy for the candidates to answer with boilerplate. Instead, do some reading on the major issues that you want to ask about so that you can ask a more pointed question. "Should the United States respect Pakistani sovereignty and not pursue al Qaeda terrorists who maintain bases there, or should we ignore their borders and pursue our enemies like we did in Cambodia during the Vietnam War?" -- Katie Hamm at the 2008 town hall "Mr. President, why did you block the reimportation of safer and inexpensive drugs from Canada which would have cut 40 to 60 percent off of the cost?" -- John Horstman at the 2004 town hall "Yesterday, Yassir Arafat said in Palestine that he thinks the key to success in the Middle East is the commitment of Americans. Would you as president send American troops to Israel or the West Bank as peacekeepers?" -- Cecily Kelly at the 1996 town hall
Voters sometimes worry that they need to be careful with their language and phrase their questions using high-minded platitudes. Skip the fancy language and make your point using blunt and even colorful language. (But don't swear!) It will be harder for the candidates to avoid answering if you do. "Since World War II, we have never been asked to sacrifice anything to help our country, except the blood of our heroic men and women. As president, what sacrifices will you ask every American to make to help restore the American dream and to get out of the economic morass that we're now in?" -- Fiora from Chicago, at the 2008 town hall "Senator Kerry, you've stated your concern for the rising cost of health care, yet you chose a vice presidential candidate who has made millions of dollars successfully suing medical professionals. How do you reconcile this with the voters?" -- Norma-Jean Laurent at the 2004 town hall "We've talked a lot tonight about creating jobs. But we have an awful lot of high school graduates who don't know how to read a ruler, who cannot fill out an application for a job. How can we create high paying jobs with the education system we have and what would you do to change it?" -- Audience member at the 1992 town hall
Candidates have topics that they love to discuss, especially the ones that favor them and hurt their opponent. So use your chance to ask a question they'd rather not talk about. Pick a topic where they've been criticized or had to change their position to see how they handle a tough question. "Senator Kerry, after talking with several co-workers and family and friends, I asked the ones who said they were not voting for you, 'Why?' They said that you were too wishy-washy. Do you have a reply for them?" -- Cheryl Otis at the 2004 town hall "My question is concerning you, Mr. Dole. All the controversy regarding your age. How do you feel you can respond to young voices of America today and tomorrow?" -- Melissa Naudin at the 1996 town hall "Would like to know why you object to the Brady handgun bill, if you do object to it. Because in a recent TV ad it showed that the National Rifle Association says that if you are elected, that they will be working out of your office." -- Audience member at the 2000 town hall
During the course of a year-long campaign, candidates are asked lots of questions they expect about the major issues of the day. They have held town hall forums, chatted with reporters and prepped for the debates. Sometimes the best way to learn how they think is to ask an unexpected philosophical question. "President Bush, during the last four years, you have made thousands of decisions that have affected millions of lives. Please give three instances in which you came to realize you had made a wrong decision, and what you did to correct it." -- Linda Grabel at the 2004 town hall "What don't you know and how will you learn it?" -- Peggy from Amherst, N.H., at the 2008 town hall "How can we ... expect the ... three of you to meet our needs, the needs in housing and in crime and you name it, as opposed to the wants of your political spin doctors and your political parties?" -- Audience member at the 1992 town hall


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I knew back in the year 2005 to 2008 time-frame, online poker with mid stakes are profitable to play. I was wondering if one can still make money profitably by playing online poker game?
The reason I ask is, I used to play online poker back in that time frame. And I made good sum of money. I even paid for my engineering degree by playing poker. And then I got busy with my career and moved into my own software development company. But I miss the game so much and planning to return on the online tables. I also thought, it won't hurt to play, if the game is still profitable online. As we don't have any casinos in our country, online gaming portals are only place to go for me.