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Let your soul rejoice in the thirteen-acre park surrounding the villa. The landmarks of Tuscany are everywhere: olive trees, cypresses, lemon trees in traditional terracotta pots, lavender, herbs and a jasmine scent that enchants the surrounding. And of course the roses, blooming in the most ancient and delicate colors.
Enjoy every special moment of the day, from a breakfast in the garden to a magical candlelight dinner under the stars in the divine gazebo.


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When Harpoon Brewery opened in 1987 on the South Boston Waterfront, aesthetics were an afterthought. The loading docks of a working brewery matched those of neighboring businesses. Getting folks to come to the neighborhood at all — to a beer factory in particular — was not a goal.
Now, the country's eighth-largest craft brewer wants you to pull up a stool and stay awhile. Harpoon recently underwent a $3.5 million renovation to better accommodate visitors who have flocked to the brewery.
A new European-style beer hall will cap a revamped visitors center, scheduled to open on Feb. 1. The Harpoon facility is the latest addition to the revitalized waterfront's growing roster of attractions, just blocks away from the Bank of America Pavilion and a host of new restaurants.
A pour of beer will sell for $5.75 at the Harpoon hall. Patrons will be able to choose from 20 tap offerings, including pilot batches. They can also take beer home in "growlers," 64-ounce glass jugs filled by a state-of-the-art filling machine from Austria that allows the beer to keep for weeks.
Harpoon's beer hall will sell hand-rolled pretzels on site, but no other food offerings.
"We're very careful, because we don't want people to think we're opening a competing restaurant," said Dan Kenary, a Harpoon cofounder.
The new Harpoon visitors center is something cofounder Rich Doyle never thought he'd see on his little slab of Northern Avenue.
"This is so far-fetched from where we were I couldn't even relate to it [in 1987]," said Doyle. "We had 87,000 people visit the brewery last year. I had no clue about that when we started. You have to grow into that."
The scope of Harpoon's growth has been substantial. In 2012, 193,000 barrels were brewed onsite and at the company's second brewery in Windsor, Vt. Next to those original loading docks, shiny new tanks in the parking lot have more than tripled the brewery's production from 60,000 barrels just a few years ago.
Despite the growth, Harpoon remains a much smaller competitor to the city's best-known craft brewer, the Boston Beer Co. The company that makes Sam Adams and other brews shipped 778,000 barrels in just three months over last summer.
As it happens, Boston Beer's headquarters is located only blocks away from the Harpoon brewery and its new center. Visitors to Boston Beer Co.'s Jamaica Plain brewery can sample beer in small groups, but there is no dedicated bar.
Doyle and Kenary drew inspiration for the new Harpoon facility from beer halls they visited on trips to Germany over the last two decades. They wanted to build a room where patrons could sip good beer and easily start up conversations.
Large windows draw natural light onto long, communal tables made from fallen Vermont butternut trees. A bar in the center of the room divides the space, which offers views of the bones of the brewery on one side and of Boston Harbor on the other.
The 6,000-square-foot facility will be pouring beer for a maximum of 300 people, pending approval by the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission. A catwalk will form the new tour route and allow visitors to quickly transition from beer hall to factory and back to beer hall.
"The process of brewing beer and enjoying beer are brought together beautifully," said Charlie Storey, Harpoon's project manager for the visitor center. Studio Luz was hired to design the space, which replaces a tasting room on the other side of the building that wasn't designed to host the crowds that tour the brewery now.
Doyle said opening something onsite has been a goal for 10 years or more. The company had even considered building a beer hall down the street, before the site of the new center became available three years ago.
Harpoon also has a new $2.5 million canning line on the way, a nod to the rapidly acceptable notion that quality beer not only can, but should, break free of the bottle. Oskar Blues, an award-winning Colorado brewery, has been brewing all its beer in cans since 2002. Harpoon canned its summer beer last year but did so off-site, trucking the beer to Matt Brewing Co. in Utica, N.Y. The company would like to can other beers and expand its canned offerings into tailgating season.
"You can stack twice as many cans in a cooler," said Kenary.
The beer itself has also changed at Harpoon. Harpoon's flagship IPA was once revolutionary but now falls in the middle of the bitterness spectrum in an increasingly extreme beer market. Harpoon IPA is still Doyle's favorite beer, but he and Kenary have put their names on "Rich and Dan's Rye IPA," owing to the increasing popularity of the style. The beer is drier, spicier, and more bitter than the flagship brew. Harpoon's "100 Barrel Series" turns out small batches of recipes selected by individual brewers and brewed only one time.
That variety has both complicated the day-to-day operations of Harpoon and kept the brewery on trend with the explosion of the craft industry. There are currently 44 breweries in Massachusetts, with about 20 more in planning stages, according to Kristen Sykes, executive director of the Massachusetts Brewer's Guild.
"This has become one of the best places in the world to drink local beer, and Harpoon has played a leading role in that," said Sykes.
Gary Dzen can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeGaryDzen.

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In defining payroll, we generally follow the guidelines of Medicare wage reporting. There are some differences between Medicare and BWC, which include the construction industry, corporate officer wages, and payments by sole proprietors and partnerships to family members. Employers should report payroll to the reporting period in which it is paid, which may differ from when it is earned.
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have implemented changes in the payroll reporting requirements to help ease the economic impact of the COVID-19 state of emergency on the Ohio Business Community.
- Employers with operational staff teleworking may report payroll to the class code 8871-Clerical Telecommuter during the declared State of Emergency. The employer must contact BWC and request classification code 8871-Clerical Telecommuter to be added in their policy. The employer is required to record, track, and document the wages associated with the operational employees teleworking for premium audit purposes. To have class code 8871 added to your policy, please send your request including your policy number to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 1-800-644-6292. Clerical staff currently reported to class code 8810-Clerical shall remain reported to class code 8810.
- An exclusion to this revision involves employees working from home and performing the same duties/tasks for the employer. The employer will continue reporting those wages to the employee's assigned operational classification code. Additionally, operational employees working periodically at the business location but being paid a full wage must report all wages to the employee's regular classification code.
- For example: the employer manufactures surgical masks. The employees have been sent home with the equipment and materials to continue to sew these masks to meet customer demands. These employees are not 8871 Clerical teleworking employees. The classification assigned to these employees remains 2501-Cloth, canvas and related products manufacturing. The exposures for the employees do not change.
- The amount of payment made by employers to their employees while at home not performing any work for the period of COVID-19 pandemic are not reportable as wages to BWC.
- The temporary revision to the class code assignment rule only applies during the time of Governor DeWine's "Stay at home" order, which was initiated on March 15, 2020. The employer is to return to normal reporting guidelines once the state of emergency has ended or if the operational employee(s) return to performing their previous job duties.
**Important: Effective April 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020, wages paid by employers under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act for sick leave related to COVID-19 and leave time to care for a child whose school or child care provider is closed or unavailable for COVID-19 related reasons, are not reportable to BWC. Please maintain records based on Ohio Medicare wages to present if audited.
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- Payments to spot labor - We consider individuals who perform work within a business' normal operation as spot labor. For example, a plumber needs short-term help with a job. He finds someone to help and pays the helper cash. The person works within the business' normal operation. Remuneration/payments to these individuals are reportable to the appropriate classification code based on the work.
*Premiums for life insurance over 50k not reportable to BWC.
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Baidu profit rose 60 percent in Q3
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China's largest search engine, Baidu, said on Tuesday its net profit for the third quarter increased by 59.8 percent year over year on continued growth from advertising customers and improvements made to draw revenue from its online ad services.
Baidu said for the third quarter ending Sept. 30, the company's net profit reached 3.01 billion yuan (US$478 million), growing from the 1.88 billion yuan reported in the same period a year earlier.
The company's revenue for the quarter reached 6.25 billion yuan, a year-over-year increase of 49.7 percent. The growth met the lower end of Baidu's original projections for the quarter, which estimated that revenue would increase by between 49.6 percent and 53.5 percent.
Baidu has long dominated as China's top search engine and has a 73 percent share of the country's search market, according to data analytics site CNZZ.com. Google's market share has declined ever since the company shut down its China-based search engine in 2010 following disputes with the Chinese government related to cyberattacks and censorship.
However, Baidu has to contend with a new rival in China. Local firm Qihoo 360 launched a new search engine in August that now has a 10 percent share of the market. The search engine from Qihoo 360 briefly caused a controversy after its launch when Qihoo 360's search engine began indexing Web pages for Baidu's online services. This went against Baidu's own robot exclusion protocol, which only gives access to its pages to certain competitors, including Google, MSN and a few others.
In response, Baidu later blocked Qihoo 360 from indexing its sites. Now when a user clicks on a Baidu site in Qihoo 360's search results, the user will automatically be redirected to Baidu's homepage.
For the fourth quarter, Baidu projected its revenue will grow year over year by between 37.6 percent and 41.8 percent.


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The Long Island restaurant empire of Ayhan Hassan, the 'king of kebabs'
To keep track of what's going on at each of his nine Nassau County restaurants, Ayhan Hassan relies on two tools: an iPhone and a yellow legal pad. With the former he communicates with his managers, chefs and suppliers from early morning well into the night. With the latter, he keeps a running list of problems to solve, issues to consider, ideas to develop.
In the 33 years since he opened his first restaurant, Ayhan's Shish Kebab in Port Washington, Hassan, 61, has become one of the most successful restaurateurs on Long Island. He has neither investors nor partners to help him run the 150-person company that feeds thousands of people every week. He credits the appeal of his value-priced, pan-Mediterranean menu, his hardworking managers and his own talent for "keeping teams together, mending fences and getting along with everybody."
Credit also is due to his SUV, which shuttles him from his base in Port Washington (where he lives and has three ventures) to Ayhan's Shish Kebab restaurants in Plainview, Westbury, Rockville Centre, Baldwin, East Meadow and Great Neck. He tries to visit three or four sites every day, and talks to each manager at least once.
His notes from a recent visit to one of the restaurants demonstrate the breadth of his concern: He noticed one employee wearing excessive amounts of jewelry and perfume, another very muscular server had rolled his shirtsleeves above his elbows in a way that Hassan thought might be "intimidating" to patrons. He witnessed one server hesitating when a patron asked if she could order a lunch item for dinner (correct answer: Of course), another serving water with a straw (straws are for soda) and lemon (an affectation). Chairs wobbled, a compressor made banging sounds, in the cooler at the coffee station were four open cartons of milk.
After he reviews the previous day's problems, Hassan turns to his kebab-centric menu, the document that must simultaneously reassure customers they are getting what they expect, entice them with new offerings and, above all, offer value. All 45 main courses on the dinner menu cost less than $26, the vast majority less than $20.
"He gives you a lot for your money," said Dean Kois, chief financial officer of Reststar Hospitality Group, which owns six restaurants on Long Island, including La P'tite Framboise, down the street from Fish Kebab in Port Washington, and Brasserie Cassis, a few doors up from Shish Kebab in Plainview. "It's good food, it's made on the premises, and it's not Italian. Mediterranean is a cuisine that you just don't find a lot of on Long Island."
Hassan is adamant about value. Every main course comes with rice and vegetable and is preceded by a generous salad. "People love that if they come here, they order an entree, they get a meal."
Longtime Port Washington resident Beverly Hazelkorn figures she's been an Ayhan customer almost from Day One. "He's always tweaking the menu a little bit, but not too much," she said. "He always has new specials, new promotions. He'll add a dish, and if it works, he'll keep it. But he never messes with the basics -- the kebabs, the whole fish, the Greek salad, the hummus, the bread and the dip."
She admits that she and her family "weren't all that familiar with this kind of food until Ayhan came along. I don't know that we'd even seen a kebab on Long Island." More than culinary innovation, she attributes his success to good food, good prices and his personal touch. "He's always a visible presence in the restaurants, always coming over to chat, always so nice."
Hassan starts virtually every morning with a cup of coffee in the dining room of Mediterranean Marketplace & Café. The Marketplace, his third project, is at the intersection of Main Street and Shore Road in Port Washington, a site marked by a street sign that reads "Ayhan's Corner" as well as a bench, erected in 2002 by the Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington, "to honor Ayhan, who lives the American dream."
Two doors up the street is Ayhan's Shish Kebab, his first restaurant, which he and his then-wife opened in 1980. Across the street is Ayhan's Fish Kebab, opened in 1990, the same year they divorced. (The couple have two grown children.) The Marketplace, opened in 1996, sells prepared foods and imported Mediterranean groceries and also boasts a dining room with a spectacular view of Manhasset Bay.
"There's something about this view," he said, "the water, the houses, the hills -- it always reminds me of Kyrenia, and it's a blessing to look at it every day." Kyrenia is a historic port city in Cyprus, across the island from Paphos, where Hassan was born in 1952 to a Turkish family.
After attending school in Greece, he signed on to a Greek tanker and "zigzagged around the ocean" for three years. It was in Long Beach, Calif., that he met a fellow who said he had a cousin working at a diner on Long Island.
And so, 19-year-old Hassan became a busboy at the Tally Ho Diner on Route 110. He worked at the Syosset House Diner, Link's Log Cabin in Centerport and Mediterranean Snack Bar in Huntington (which, he believes, served the first kebabs on Long Island) before deciding to go out on his own.
At his restaurants, Hassan's cooking draws on Cypriot, Turkish, Greek, Armenian, Arab and Israeli influences. The centerpiece of his kitchen -- and of his empire -- is the kebab. "Meat just looks better on a kebab," he said, "and for some reason, it tastes better, too."
When Shish Kebab opened in 1980, Hassan and his staff had a lot of explaining to do: What was a kebab? What was a gyro? What was pita? "Even yogurt got questions," he recalled. Over the next 16 years, he converted Port Washington to the cult of kebabs, and in 1999, he opened, somewhat apprehensively, a very large space in the Plainview Shopping Centre. His fears were unfounded. "The minute we opened," he recalled, "people were lining up. Hundreds of them."
After Plainview, Hassan ventured south to Rockville Centre. A year later, in May 2001, an outbreak of shigellosis was traced to his restaurants. The Nassau Health Department eventually confirmed more than 100 cases of the nondeadly bacterial infection, including 15 of Hassan's employees. Hassan was slapped with three lawsuits (later, he says, settled by his insurance company out of court).
"It was like a brick fell on my head," he recalled.
Hassan said it took business about a year to rebound.
Over the next decade, he opened restaurants in Westbury, Baldwin and Great Neck. So as not to compete with Baldwin, he converted the nearby Rockville Centre location to an Ayhan's Pita Express ("slightly smaller portions, smaller price, more takeout") and, with his sister, he opened a second Pita Express last year in East Meadow.
Beverly Hazelkorn remembers those first weeks after the health-scare news broke. "He didn't say, 'It wasn't my fault.' He said, 'I'm going to fix it.' People knew him, they cared about him and they decided to give him a chance." She paused. "And time proved him right."


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5 Great Comeback Stocks
These companies are putting a troubled past behind them. The stocks are risky, but they offer big opportunities.
Everybody loves a good rags-to-riches story — particularly when buying into the story makes you rich, too. But when investors consider a riches-to-rags (and back again) story, the Horatio Alger tale takes on a cautionary tone.
Buying turnaround stocks is a tricky business. That's because companies that have had near-death experiences invariably did something terribly wrong. Whether they stumbled because of poor planning, strategic missteps or too much debt, investors can be justifiably nervous about entrusting their hard-earned cash to these companies.
Traditional yardsticks can mislead. Where price-earnings ratios are usually a key measure of a stock's value, they're largely meaningless with turnaround stocks. That's because many of these companies are losing money, so there's no earnings to plug into the ratio. Others have started posting profits, but at the early stages of the turnaround (when the investment potential is best), earnings are likely to be so modest that P/Es can seem astronomical even when the stock is relatively cheap based on the potential for profit growth.
Spectacular rewards. Yet, if you buy one of these stocks before other investors realize that the company has rounded the corner, the rewards can be spectacular. "These are stocks that have been beaten up by the market. Because they've been burned, a lot of investors hate them," says George Putnam, editor of the Turnaround Letter, a Quincy, Mass.–based publication that focuses on corporate comebacks. But sentiment can change quickly, pushing stocks back up, says Putnam. "As investors see the results improve, they pile back in."
The story of U.S. Airways (symbol LCC) illustrates both the risks and the rewards of turnarounds. Investors who bought into the "turnaround" of U.S. Air in 2003, when it emerged from its first Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, lost everything when the company used the bankruptcy code to reorganize again just a year later.
The outcome was different a few years later. In mid 2009, just as the Great Recession was ending, bond-ratings analysts at Standard & Poor's looked at U.S. Air's tepid cash flow and put the company on its credit-watch list. Investors, well aware that U.S. Air had gone into bankruptcy reorganization twice before, frantically dumped the shares. By July, the stock was selling for just $2 a share. But this time, U.S. Air was beginning to benefit from a turnaround in the industry and wasn't failing. The company is now merging with American Airlines, and its stock sells for $17.09 — up nearly 900% from its nadir.
To profit from a turnaround stock, you must first understand what caused the company's woes and then determine whether the steps taken are likely to solve them, says Ronald Sussman, chairman of the Turnaround Management Association, a trade group representing turnaround experts. You can't assume that a company is out of the woods just because it completed a corporate reorganization, got a new credit line or brought in new executives, he says. When the problems are complex, the solutions often are, too. It's hard to know whether systemic issues are solved.
For example, investors were sold on the potential turnaround of J.C. Penney (symbol JCP) when Apple store guru Ron Johnson was hired two years ago to revive the Plano, Tx.–based retailer, and the stock rose nearly 50%. But Penney still struggles to capitalize on fast-moving fashion trends in a hotly competitive market. Johnson was canned in April, and Penney shares are back to their pre-Johnson doldrums.
Five to bet on.
Because of the risks, experts caution investors never to gamble heavily on one turnaround stock. Still, these five turnaround tales are worth considering.
1. Atlanta-based Beazer Homes (BZH) was dealt heavy blows by the real estate crash and credit crunch. "The company was near death. It had liquidity issues, balance-sheet issues, and the housing market was moribund," says UBS analyst David Goldberg. When Beazer first started bleeding red ink in 2007, it brought in a new chief financial officer, Allan Merrill, to fix the balance sheet and secure the financing the company needed to survive. But declining real estate values and bad debts remained so threatening that Beazer's stock slid as low as $1.25 a share in the spring of 2009. In 2011, Beazer fired its CEO and gave Merrill the top job. He's been cutting costs and making operations more efficient ever since. After six full years of losses, Beazer now expects a profitable second half in 2013. The stock sells for $19.72, but rising home sales — and sales prices — makes Goldberg believe Beazer shares could pop another 30% over the next year. (Share prices are as of June 19). (Editor's note: Concerns about rising interest rates have hit home-building stocks, including Beazer, since the publication of this column. However, unless rates rise substantially, they're unlikely to kill the market for new homes. Mortgage rates are still low by historical standards, and realtors say many buyers are paying with cash.)
2. Chiquita Brands International (CQB) has many of the qualities that Putnam likes to see in a turnaround — a strong brand name, a new CEO and a growing market, thanks to increasing worldwide interest in healthy foods. In 2012, Chiquita brought in CEO Edward Lonergan, a turnaround expert with a consumer-products background. But even before, the company had been cutting costs by tossing its avocado and grape operations, moving its headquarters to cheaper digs and laying off workers. Now focused solely on bananas, healthy snacks and salads, Chiquita posted a $2 million (5 cents per share) profit in the first quarter of 2013 versus an $11 million (24 cents per share) loss during the same period a year ago. Early this year, Chiquita refinanced most of its debt, extending maturities to 2021, which gives the Charlotte, N.C., company time to complete the restructuring plan. Putnam thinks the stock, currently $10.83, is a buy at prices under $12 a share.
3. Groupon (GRPN) is now just one of a several outfits pushing daily deals to fatigued customers, but Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia is convinced that the Chicago-based marketplace is back on the right track. When Groupon first sold shares to the public in November of 2011, investors thought the company's future was so bright that they bid the stock up more than 50%, to $31, on the first day of trading. But the company's expenses grew faster than revenues and an increasing number of competitors started offering daily deals. Groupon's shares went into a tailspin, finally bottoming last November at $2.63.
In February, Groupon dumped chief executive Andrew Mason and started looking for a new CEO. Meanwhile, investment banker Eric Lefkofsky and board member Ted Leonsis are running the company and have been telling analysts that they believe Groupon's revenues will eventually grow to $100 billion. Groupon is still losing money (after costs), but with recent improvements in sales and income from its core business, Bhatia thinks the stock, currently $7.73, could reach $9 within a year.
4. MGIC Investment Corp. (MTG) was one of the many mortgage insurers crushed by the bill for millions of foreclosed homes in the last recession. With nearly $5.3 billion in cumulative losses since 2007, the Milwaukee-based mortgage insurer was forced to raise capital in both 2010 and 2013. Today, although the firm continues to lose money, charge-offs and delinquent loans are declining. As one of the industry's few survivors, MGIC will be able to become a dominant — and profitable — player once losses evaporate, Putnam thinks. With real estate recovering, the stock, now $6.36, could go to $12 or $15, he thinks, if MGIC succeeds in turning the business around.
5. Rite Aid (RAD) become one of the nation's largest drugstore chains, with 4,623 stores in 31 states, through acquistions. But the company borrowed heavily to finance those purchases and struggled to integrate the new operations with the old. The ill-timed purchase of the Brooks and Eckerd chain in 2007 nearly was Rite Aid's undoing. In the following five years, the company lost a cumulative $5.4 billion and its stock slipped from $6 to as low as 20 cents.
Now, instead of adding stores, Rite Aid is shedding locations and attempting to make the stores it owns more profitable. In the fiscal year that ended March 2, the company posted its first annual profit since 2006 — 12 cents per share. Still heavily burdened with debt, Rite Aid remains a risky bet, says Putnam. But the greater risk also portends a potentially greater payoff. At $3.11, the stock's market value is about 10% of revenues, while key competitors CVS and Walgreens sell for 0.6 and 0.7 times sales, respectively. Putnam believes that if management can continue the turnaround, Rite Aid's share discount will narrow, and that could cause the stock price to double or triple in value over the next few years.


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Cape Dorset, Nunavut Territory, Canada
Qaqaq Ashoona was born in an outpost camp called Ikirasak, and lived on the land as a hunter well into his teenage years. At this time, he settled in Cape Dorset, but frequently moved back to live out on the land in camps for extended periods. Qaqaq began carving around 1953. No longer able to survive through hunting and trapping exclusively, Qaqaq soon started carving as a means to support his family. Taking his boat to mine his own stone, Qaqaq did much of his carving at his outpost camp, and took great care with detail for each sculpture, using only hand tools to carve.*
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Five years after it began airing interviews with death row inmates about to be executed, a controversial Chinese reality TV show has gotten the axe.
"Interviews Before Execution" took a while to catch the attention of the West, despite being a huge hit in central China's Henan province — and when it did, it caught plenty of flak from Westerners who thought it exploitative and cruel.
This week, China's state-run television station Legal TV Channel pulled the show, citing "internal problems," though the program had routinely attracted 40 million viewers.
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News from around the country and around the globe
The show, which mostly focused on those convicted of gruesome murders, was intended to deter violent crime, the Daily Mail reported, with interviewees picked based on how teachable their cases were.
During the interviews, some of them conducted just minutes before the subject was executed, the show's host Ding Yu often fielded personal secrets from the inmates, promised to convey messages to their families and weighed in on the correctness of the conviction, BBC News reported.
But even though the show is being taken off the air, its making has been spotlighted in a documentary exploring its making. Both the BBC and PBS International own the rights to it, and one BBC channel plans to air it next week.
According to ABC News, China executes an estimated 1,000 people every year — far more than any other country. Its death row inmates can be executed within a week of their convictions.


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Did you hear the one about funny feminists?
Check the repartee between New York Times columnist Gail Collins and writer Stacy Schiff, author of the forthcoming "Cleopatra: A Life", in Wednesday's Opinionator column. They wax feminist about everything from Mama Grizzlies to Manolos, and give us a chuckle or two along the way. Funny, stand-up style, in a true story kinda way. Here's a taste:
Gail Collins: I can't resist the temptation to talk about women in politics even though I know we should be counterintuitive and debate the use of drones in antiterrorism operations.
Stacy Schiff: We can do that next time. Besides, I'm not sure topics divide neatly along gender lines when the individual tackling missile defense systems, nuclear nonproliferation and the Middle East is someone who once made national news with a chocolate chip cookie recipe.
True, that. (Google Hillary and cookies and you get 668,000 hits) Now, onto Grizzlies:
Gail Collins: One thing I've been surprised by during the current election season is the ongoing argument over whether Sarah Palin or her Mama Grizzly candidates could be regarded as feminists. Can I tell you how amazing it is to hear anybody fighting for the title?
Stacy Schiff: It is a word that can clear a room, isn't it? Maybe only "bedbugs" does so faster.
Let's hit shoes:
Gail Collins: Every time I go on a speaking tour I get questions from sad middle-aged women who want to know why their daughters all insist they aren't feminists. They might be planning to devote their lives to healing fistula victims in Somalia, but they won't let anyone call them feminists because they think it means being anti-man, or wearing unattractive shoes.
Stacy Schiff: Partly the word has been deliberately sullied, like "liberal" and "progressive." It spells man-hating, militant, and, especially, no Manolos.
If it makes you feel better, I just texted my 17-year-old to ask if she considered herself a feminist. "If by feminism, you mean equality," she answers, "then yes." It's not a word that appeals, because her generation thinks the work has been done. They've been reading articles about the End of Men. Somehow the news that men who work full-time make on average 23 percent more than women do seems to have escaped them.
And back to the Grizzlies:
Gail Collins: Do you think the Mama Grizzlies really can be feminists? I don't think you can throw a woman out of the club because she voted against the stimulus bill. But if feminism simply means supporting equal rights and equal opportunities for women, I don't see how a feminist can be opposed to government programs that provide poor working mothers with quality child care.
Stacy Schiff: Exactly. The issue is no longer first-rate intellect, or first-rate temperament, but first-rate opportunity. Which is where the Mama Grizzly business really falls down.
An actual grizzly mom is a single mom. She lends a whole new definition to full-time homemaker. If Dad shows up it's probably to eat the kids. What Mama Grizzly wouldn't believe in school lunches, health insurance and quality childcare? Who's going to look after the kids while she's off hunting? It's really, really clever to put this powerful vocabulary — pit bulls and grizzlies — in the service of disempowering people. Kind of like death panels in reverse.
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.


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It's Dina Lohan's mantra.
She was in New York yesterday promoting the Shoe-Han. See I don't have much faith in mankind. Some idiots WILL actually buy this sh-t. After all, there are f-cking losers out there who are also buying Ebola Paris Hilton's lame sh-t.
People suck.
So ss you'd expect, Dina was asked at the event about Michael Lohan's shocking "revelation" that their daughter Lindsay is addicted to prescription drugs. Needless to say, Dina denied it all and also discredited her ex husband claiming that Lilo has been estranged from him for years, that he knows nothing of their lives.
Fair point, I guess, but Lindsay's first call was to Michael Lohan when her house was broken into a few weeks ago, remember? He then immediately contacted the press. It's an optional estrangement depending on what he's saying, you know?
As for how Lilo's been handling widespread dismissal of her Ungaro collection, typical Dina, in defence of her child, decided to rape the English language:
"The critics can say whatever they want, but Lindsay is a genius."
Genius must mean something else in Long Island.
Naturally, Dina was eager to steer the conversation back in her own corner. After all, it's always about her. The exploitation, the parent pimp, it's always been in service of her own desires.
Which is why Dina kept yapping yesterday about how Lindsay will be involved in designing these Shoe-Hans. Of course. Squeeze out every f-cking drop. Squeeze it while your firstborn hurtles towards rock bottom accompanied by a minor.
Remember that old hag Ali Lohan, though you may have forgotten, is only 16. And she's gallivanting across Europe with her crank ass of a junkie sister. And Dina is too busy selling shoes to care. She didn't care when Lindsay was the same age living on her own at the Chateau Marmont. Why would she start now?
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HDMI Over CAT5/CAT6 Extender with Power Over Cable - 165 ft (50m)
Extend HDMI® up to 165ft (50m) over Cat5e/6 cabling with Power over Cable to Receiver
Product ID: ST121SHD50
- Power Over Cable allows a single power source to operate the Transmitter and Receiver
- Supports Cat5e or Cat6 Ethernet cabling (50m)
- No software/drivers required
- Supports HD resolutions up to 1080p (1920x1080)
- Includes transmitter (local) and receiver (remote) units
The ST121SHD50 HDMI® over Cat5e/Cat6 Video Extender kit lets you extend HDMI video and audio by up to 165 feet (50 Meters) over dual Cat5e cables or dual Cat6 cables. For added versatility the kit features Power Over Cable and only requires a single power adapter that can be connected to either the Transmitter or Receiver.
With support for High-Definition resolutions of up to 1920x1080 / 1080p and the accompanying digital audio, this cost-effective HD extender can easily be installed using new or existing Ethernet infrastructure wiring. For a convenient plug-and-play installation, the HDMI extender features built-in EDID monitor emulation, which ensures native resolution and maximum compatibility with your display or projector.
For added flexibility and convenience, HDMI cables up to 32ft (10m) can be connected to both the local and remote units, which lets you extend your HDMI signal to even further distances.
The HDMI extender kit offers a point-to-point digital signage solution right out of the box, including both local transmitter and remote receiver units, along with optional hardware that lets you mount the units as needed. Plus, with Power Over Cable, you can easily extend an HDMI signal in areas where access to power outlets is limited.
This product is TAA compliant and backed by a Startech.com 2-year warranty with free lifetime technical support.
- Extend HDMI when power outlets are limited, with only a single power adapter required at either the Transmitter or Receiver using Power Over Cable
- Place the display in a convenient viewing area, while the system equipment is placed elsewhere in a clean and secure environment
- Optimize placement of digital signage in healthcare, education, retail, and government facilities
The StarTech.com Advantage
- Requires only a single power adapter that can be connected to either the Transmitter or Receiver
- Cost-effective HDMI extension through non-proprietary network cabling
- Clean, professional installation, using optional mounting hardware (included)
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Technical Specifications
|Warranty Information
|2 Years
|Cat 5 UTP or better
|General Specifications
|Maximum Distances - (1080i only)
CAT5E (stranded) - 40m (130 ft)
CAT5E (solid) - 50m (165 ft)
CAT6 (stranded or solid) - 50m (165 ft)
|Max Distance
|50 m / 165 ft
|Maximum Digital Resolutions
|1080p / 1920x1080
|Supported Resolutions
- Cat6 (stranded or solid) - up to 50m
- Cat5e (solid) - up to 50m
- Cat5e (stranded) - up to 40m
- Cat6 (solid or stranded) - up to 40m
- Cat5 (solid) - up to 20m
- Cat5 (stranded) - up to 16m
See product manual for further details
|Wide Screen Supported
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|1 - HDMI (19 pin) Female
|2 - RJ-45 Female
|Remote Unit Connectors
|1 - HDMI (19 pin) Female
|2 - RJ-45 Female
|Special Notes / Requirements
|This extender requires two CAT5 cables for the entire distance of your cable run.
|The extender does not work through Ethernet equipment, such as switches or routers.
|LED Indicators
|1 - Power
|Center Tip Polarity
|Input Current
|Input Voltage
|Output Current
|Output Voltage
|Plug Type
|Power Consumption (In Watts)
|Power Source
|AC Adapter Included
|0% - 80 %
|Operating Temperature
|0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)
|Storage Temperature
|-10°C to 60°C (14°F to 115°F)
|Physical Characteristics
|Product Height
|2.1 cm [0.8 in]
|Product Length
|80 mm [3.1 in]
|Product Width
|51 mm [2 in]
|Weight of Product
|314 g [11.1 oz]
|Packaging Information
|Package Height
|65 mm [2.6 in]
|Package Length
|23.7 cm [9.3 in]
|Package Width
|15.7 cm [6.2 in]
|Shipping (Package) Weight
|935 g [33 oz]
|What's in the Box
|Included in Package
|1 - HDMI over CAT5e/6 UTP transmitter
|1 - HDMI over CAT5e/6 UTP receiver
|1 - universal power adapter (NA / EU / UK / AU)
|2 - mounting brackets
|2 - foot pad set
|1 - instruction manual
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Frequently Asked Questions
Before You Buy
You should only use video converters and extenders if it is absolutely necessary to do so. In many cases, most video converters and extenders are not necessary if you purchase the correct cable.
The following table lists the maximum length of cable for common video standards.
|Video standard
|Maximum length
|50 ft. (15.2m)
|50 ft. (15.2m)
|50 ft. (15.2m)
|200 ft. (71m)
Note: StarTech.com offers cables longer than what is listed above, including active cables, which typically include built-in active signal boosters that allow for longer cables. Active cables are specifically designed to exceed the suggested maximum lengths and are tested at the listed specifications (for example, the maximum listed resolution).
Video adapters
Video adapters passively adapt a cable from one connector type to another. Video adapters do not change the signal type, or change the video standard.
Examples of common applications for adapters include the following:
DVI-I to VGA
RCA to BNC
Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort
Couplers (female to female, or male to male)
Note: You can use a coupler to extend a cable for a short distance. However, each coupler that you use can introduce signal loss, which degrades the signal quality.
Video converters
Video converters actively process and change the signal type from one video standard and convert it to another standard. They are typically used to convert digital to analog and vice versa, but can be used to convert a digital signal to another digital video standard (for example, HDMI to DisplayPort).
Video converters work over short distances from the source to the destination: up to 15 feet or 3 meters.
Video extenders
Video extenders convert an input signal to a higher voltage for transmission over longer distances and then convert the input signal back to the original video standard. The input and the output signal will match on a video extender, as the same video standard is maintained end-to-end. If a cable is extended with adapters or converters, the signal quality degrades.
Note: For more information on using a video adapter or converter with a video extender, see the following FAQ: http://www.startech.com/faq/video_signal_converters_convert_then_extend.
If you need to use a video extender with a video adapter or converter, you should position the adapter or converter as close to the video source as possible. For example, if you need to take a VGA signal from a computer and send it 200 feet to an HDMI® projector, you should convert the signal from VGA to HDMI and use an HDMI extender.
Note: For more information on when to use cables or extenders, see the following FAQ: http://www.startech.com/faq/video_signal_converters_when_to_convert.
Yes, this video extender works with set-top boxes, provided the set-top box meets the following requirements:
- The set-top box must be High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) compliant.
- The set-top box must support devices being connected between the video source and display. If the set-top box requires a direct cable connection between the video source and display, it won't work with this video extender.
No, this device is designed to be a point-to-point solution using networking cabling only.
This device outputs HDMI video signals. If you have a display or video destination that uses another type of video connection, there are ways that you can convert the video signal or connection. These options are outlined below and organized by the target connection.
When you consider whether to convert an HDMI video signal to another connection type, it is important to know if the media that is being converted from the HDMI video connection is protected by High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). If the media is protected by HDCP, you cannot convert to analog video connections because they do not support HDCP. You may experience this issue when you use devices like Blu-ray players, DVD players, and certain gaming consoles.
|Target connection
|HDMI to VGA: https://www.startech.com/AV/Converters/Video/?filter_AVINPUT=HDMI&filter_AVOUTPUT=VGA.
HDMI to DVI: https://www.startech.com/Cables/Audio-Video/HDMI/HDMI-to-DVI/.
|HDMI to DisplayPort: https://www.startech.com/AV/Converters/Video/?filter_AVINPUT=HDMI&filter_AVOUTPUT=DisplayPort.
This device has an HDMI input port. If you have a video source that uses another video connection, there are options available to convert the video signal or connection. These options will be outlined below for each video source connection.
Source Connection
VGA to HDMI: https://www.startech.com/AV/Converters/Video/?filter_AVINPUT=VGA&filter_AVOUTPUT=HDMI.
DVI to HDMI video converters: https://www.startech.com/Cables/Audio-Video/Video-Adapter/HDMI-Cable-Adapters/.
DVI to HDMI video cables: https://www.startech.com/Cables/Audio-Video/HDMI/HDMI-to-DVI/.
DisplayPort to HDMI passive converters: https://www.startech.com/AV/Displayport-Converters/DP-HDMI/?filter_CONVERTTYPE=Passive.
DisplayPort to HDMI active converters: https://www.startech.com/AV/Displayport-Converters/DP-HDMI/?filter_CONVERTTYPE=Active.
DisplayPort Passive and Active Conversions
The converter that you require depends on the type of DisplayPort video source that you are using. For more information about converting DisplayPort video signals, refer to the following FAQ: https://www.startech.com/faq/DisplayPort_Converter_DP_Multi_Mode.
There are a few things you'll want to take care of before you deploy your new video extender in your setup.
It's important to make sure you have everything you will need ahead of time. These items are listed below.
- Transmitter
- Receiver
- Video source
- Display
- Video cables
- (Optional) Ethernet or fiber cables
- (Optional) Power adapter(s)
It's also important to test everything in a simplified setup ahead of time to make sure everything works and that you understand how it works.
In order to set up your video extender, complete the following:
- Position your video transmitter near your video source.
- Connect the video output from your video source to the video transmitter.
- (Optional) Connect the power adapter to the video transmitter.
Note: Not all video extenders require external power, or require external power on both ends. Refer to the manual for more information.
- Position your video receiver near your display.
- Connect the video output from your video receiver to your display.
- (Optional) Connect the power adapter to the video receiver.
- If using a wired video extender, connect your network cabling between the video transmitter and the video receiver.
- (Optional) If you are extending anything else supported by your video extender connect those devices to the transmitter and receiver.
- (Optional) If you are using a wireless extender, there may be a sync button you need to press to pair the transmitter and receiver.
Now that you have set up your video extender, you can check that everything is working. You should be able to see your video source's output on the display connected to the video receiver.
If at this point you have further questions regarding a Startech.com video extender, contact our technical support team for further assistance.
To get the highest quality signal from your source to your display when you use an HDMI extender, do the following:
Make sure that the HDMI versions of the source, extender, and destination are compatible. For example, if you require 3D support, make sure that all of the devices can support 3D over HDMI.
Use the least amount of adapters, splitters, or converters as possible. Each device that you use in your setup creates additional points of potential failure and creates more steps for an HDCP key to hop through, which may cause issues with older displays. For more information on HDCP, refer to the following FAQ: http://www.startech.com/faq/video_signal_converters_HDCP.
Use an HDMI extender that exceeds the requirements of the setup. For example, if you need to extend the signal 200 feet, it is best to use an extender capable of more than 200 feet.
Make sure that all of the CAT 5/6 runs are as straight as possible, with the least amount of coiling.
Make sure that all of the patches, wall jacks, and cables use the highest possible CAT specification, (for example, CAT 6), and were tested to conform to the standard.
Use patches, wall jacks, and cables with the same pin configuration. For more information on T568A versus T568B wiring, refer to the following FAQ: http://www.startech.com/faq/network_cables_a_vs_b_pinout.
Keep the cabling away from sources of high noise.
Make sure that you use adequate electrical grounding in your setup.
- The power adapter may not be connected at the correct unit or may not be connected at all. Please check your product manual to see where your power adapter has to be positioned.
- An adapter to another video signal may be connected to the Transmitter or Receiver unit. Please avoid any converters for the initial setup.
- The Cat 5 or 6 cable coming from the transmitter or receiver unit may be connected to a network switch. Some of our video extenders will work in this configuration, but others will not. Please check your product manual to see if your model can be used connected to an IP network. For the initial setup, avoid connecting the Cat 5 or 6 cables to any network switch, hub, or router.
- The category of Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cables may not meet StarTech.com's requirements. Ensure at least Cat 5, 5e, or six cables are used, and they have eight wires. Some Cat 5 cables only have four wires. If using Cat 6 cables, be aware they have more twists per foot, so you may have to use shorter cable lengths if using Cat 6 cabling between your video extenders.
- Bundling up the UTP cabling connected to the extenders can cause crosstalk, which will prevent the video signal from showing on the display. Unwrapping the cable should resolve this issue.
- Please check to see if your model has an adjustable Gain dial on the remote unit.
- If it does, use it to adjust the color until it is acceptable.
- Replace the VGA cable with a higher quality cable like StarTech.com's MXT101MMHQ.
When you troubleshoot issues with a video extender, there are some quick tests that you can complete to rule out potential problems. You can test to make sure that the following components are working correctly and are not the source of the issue:
Video and Ethernet cables
Video extender
Video source (such as a DVD player or computer)
Video destination (such as a monitor or projector)
Note: When you are testing setup components, you should avoid using video adapters. For example, if you are converting a VGA source to HDMI for use with an HDMI extender, you should use an HDMI source when you test the components.
To test your setup components, try the following:
Use the cable, video extender, video source, and video destination in another setup to see if the problem is with the components or the setup.
Use a different cable, video extender, video source, and video destination in your setup to see if the problem persists. Ideally, you should test a component that you know works in another setup.
When you test your cables, it is recommended that you do the following:
Test each cable individually.
Use short cables when you are testing.
When you test the video source and video destination, it is recommended that you do the following:
Remove the video extender from your setup and test to make sure that the video source and video destination work together without the video extender.
Test to make sure that the video source and video destination work together at the resolution that you want to use.
Note: In order for your setup to work properly, the video source, extender, and destination all need to support the resolution that you are using.
Compliance and Safety
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Safety Measures
- If product has an exposed circuit board, do not touch the product under power.
- If Class 1 Laser Product. Laser radiation is present when the system is open.
- Wiring terminations should not be made with the product and/or electric lines under power.
- Product installation and/or mounting should be completed by a certified professional as per the local safety and building code guidelines.
- Cables (including power and charging cables) should be placed and routed to avoid creating electric, tripping or safety hazards.
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For me, if somebody really wants to make the artificial distinction between push and pipeline that is fine. The template world is so small and I have spent too much time quibbling about this topic in the past. I think the following two concepts frame the debate in more of the light of what it actually is about:
Mini-language vs Variable-swapping-only - This is probably what the debate is about. Where really does the display formatting logic belong? Does it belong in the template with the rest of the display information, or does display formatting logic belong outside of the template. Without a mini-language you have to "push" the display formatting from the perl code. With a mini-language the template can "pull" data it needs.
My chosen template system is better than that "other" template system - It is so easy to be religious about things that are trivial and insignificant, so we let ourselves be. We focus so much on an arbitrary core set of ideas, and we go so far as to treat them as absolutes, that we fail to see the merits of just about anything else. Perhaps we need a name for this system - something such as developer religio-mytopia.
I apologize that this appears here in your node. I just find my self participating in a many lists (perl and non-perl) lately where developers argue a point as if the entire world's outcome was based upon it (only slight hyperbole here). The world of Perl Templating or even General Templating is so small but we treat it like it is the end-all-be-all. Please use what is best for you. Evangelize it even. But artificial distinctions and false absolutes don't help clear things up.
This thread didn't start with the explicit intent of pushing Push over Pipeline, but it seems to have the implied intent, and subsequent replies have only strengthened this argument.Still ++ for listing the systems that fall into this particular genre.
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Over the winter, when your outdoor garden has little to boast about, the greenery inside your home lifts spirits and keeps the air fresh. But believe it or not, even if a plant lives in a pot indoors, it remains aware of the seasons.
Houseplants deal with winter much the same as outdoor varieties. Although their colors stay bright, indoor plants essentially go to sleep. Here's how to provide the best care for your ficus, ferns, and philodendrons until the weather warms:
Limit watering, pay attention. Plants that are dormant do not require as much water as growing plants do during spring and summer. Use a finger to check the soil and give your plants a good soaking whenever the soil is dry.
Try a new window. If your plants pass the summer in one window, you might place them near another for the winter. Or give the window glass a wash, inside and out, in order to let in a little more light.
No food necessary. You may be inclined to fertilize to encourage growth, but your plants won't be interested until the days get longer and the sun gets stronger. Start back with weekly feedings to give your plants a boost closer to spring.
Give them a dusting. Wipe down any dusty leaves with a soft cloth dipped in water. Left alone, dust can prevent your plant from fully absorbing the nutrients it needs from the environment.
A little humidity goes a long way. Your plant may not be as thirsty now, but that doesn't mean it appreciates the dry air. Mist frequently and put tropical plants on a tray of rocks with a small amount of water.
For more on winter gatrdening, consider:
5 (Nearly) Kill-Proof Houseplants
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Arguably no genre of music lends itself to the widescreen, to the vast palette of emotions, as Americana. Think of the evocative imagery of small town America captured by Woody Guthrie as he took country music back to its folkiest roots or of the epic storytelling of Bruce Springsteen that Christopher Nolan can be envious of. Think of the emotional punches to the gut delivered by Uncle Tupelo or of the sheer sonic wizardry of their later incarnation, Wilco. In short, when it comes to Americana and alt. country music there is no excuse for bands to feel the weight of history upon their shoulders rather than fly down an endless road with unfettered ambition.
Over the dozen years since their inception, Arizona's Calexico have made a decent fist of this. Their sprawling 2003 album Feast of Wire saw them stretch the boundaries of their sound to incorporate flavours and spices from a range of genres and there's hitherto been an ill-disguised and pleasing endeavour throughout the band's discography never to make the same record twice.
Of course, the ideal of Americana I talked about in the opening to this review is more than slightly obfuscated by rose-tinted glasses, and seventh album Algiers is perhaps the first suggestion that Calexico are not immune from the inherent limited nature of its scope. The majority of tracks here are lightly strummed acoustic guitar interjected by short shards of electric guitar/piano ('Fortune Teller', the mistitled opener 'Epic') or they're lightly picked acoustic guitar ditties interjected by short shards of electric guitar/piano ('Maybe on Monday', 'Better and Better', 'Hush'). Think Damien Rice moves to New Orleans... and then splash some cold water on your face.
Algiers is still though recognisably a Calexico album, which will undoubtedly please their many admirers. There are still hints of ambition abound, but in every case they seem forced. The Spanish-language 'No te Veyas' ('Don't Go' apparently, but like Bob Loblaw, Yo no hablo español) comes across as cheesy enough that it might well have appeared in a deleted scene from The Expendables 2 where Sly and Co. don comedy moustaches and sombreros to infiltrate a gang of ne'er-do-wells. Elsewhere the album's title track sounds like a fake plastic version of something from the Vicky Cristina Barcelona soundtrack, and at the nadir 'Sinner in the Sea' pulls in barroom blues and meringue rhythms and farts them into the title music from Sex and the City.
The mid-western ensemble's music has never been unpleasant, and so it almost goes without saying that there's nothing really wrong with or bad about this album; 'Para' is a decent and intriguing track that aptly sounds like 'Paranoid Android' with a whole load of bits thrown out and played drunk in a New Orleans bar. Still, it feels more like an interlude here, an oasis in a dustbowl of ideas. Not a bad album, just a boring one.
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I am relieved to announce that this book thingie has been edited and shipped back to the publisher. Next step is some arcane process called "typesetting".
The best thing about it: I really, really love editors. They have a skill that they apply well, and they make everything twinkle sninily that they touch. I wish I could take this one and make her copy edit all my blog posts from now on (even though she'd probably correct "sninily" and tell me I have to explain these weird terms.)
The worst thing: this book has been moldering at the publishers for so long that I really felt this terrible urge to rewrite the whole thing from the ground up…an act both temporally impossible and contradictory, because then it would take even longer to get out.
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National Guard trucks rolled into this city on the Hudson River to deliver ready-to-eat meals and other supplies and to evacuate young professionals and other residents who decided that after two days stranded by floodwaters, they wanted out.
The mayor issued an appeal for people to bring boats to City Hall to help take people from their condo high-rises, brownstones and other homes as an increasing number of calls came in from people asking to be evacuated.
"We are doing what we can but we really need more help," said the mayor's spokesman, Juan Melli.
Hoboken is a compact, one-square-mile city of 50,000 with many narrow streets that still retains its working-class grit, but also has come to be known as a great place for young professional families, including workers on Wall Street just across the river in Manhattan.
Samuel Scott Cornish, 34, who lives with his wife, Katie, and newborn son, Jack, in a luxury apartment complex on the border of Hoboken and Jersey City, said he was told to move his Subaru to a different area inside his building's garage for safety before the storm, only to discover it floating in water.
Superstorm Sandy sent the raging Hudson overflowing its banks into their building at least a quarter-mile away. The garage is now filled with water-soaked cars, including a BMW floating upside down in a deep rampway full of water.
Cornish said the storm itself was initially a bonding period with neighbors he once only nodded hello to at their doors — and now considers friends.
Many downtown streets still have 2 to 4 feet of water and are nearly impassable.
But now that Cornish and others have been able to get outside their homes and see a bit of dry sidewalk for the first time in days, folks are realizing the full scope of the damage and are getting antsy.
Cornish was deciding Wednesday whether to evacuate to his parents' house in Summit, where they have no power.
"I'm debating, no power and a colder house in Summit, or stick it out here with some auxiliary power that will only last until the building runs out of diesel," he said.
In Cornish's building, the generators gave them auxiliary power only in the hallways. He said doors were open and neighbors were sharing; some had refrigerators plugged in the hallway or worked on laptops.
At one condo building where power remains out, residents decided to celebrate Halloween on Wednesday afternoon.
Kathy Zucker, the condo president, said she had three children under the age of 6.
"They are going a little stir crazy," she said, "but they are hanging in there."
Zucker said children would be going door to door in Halloween costumes at 1 p.m.
Around the city late Wednesday morning, people in hipster glasses and designer rain boots swept up mud-caked front sidewalks clogged with debris as National Guard trucks rolled through the area. Others got around with their legs wrapped in garbage bags.
Payloaders had been used to get people out for medical emergencies, but Melli said the streets are so narrow they can get stuck.
P.J. Molski, a 25-year-old graphic designer who lives in Hoboken, said his place is dry but his car, which he left parked on a flooded street, won't start.
Almost every basement apartment he has seen in the small city, which makes the most of its housing stock, is flooded, he said. The mayor had asked residents of those units to evacuate Sunday.
"There are just pumps going all over the city of people trying to get the water out of their basement apartments," he said.


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The Rock could score a minor league baseball team
Public hearing to be held Thursday at Franklin City Hall
Plans have been drawn up for a proposed baseball stadium that could score a minor league team in Franklin.
Taxpayers living there are being asked to fund the $10 million facility.
The Rock sports complex is hoping to add a stadium that seats more than 3,000 people. It's all part of a plan to attract more families and a professional baseball team.
But the timeline is tight and before construction begins, taxpayers need to sign off.
"I think it's about 140 acres all together, the back-drop is Whitnall Park," said Franklin Mayor Thomas Taylor.
The $17 million stadium would be home to a new professional team from the independent Frontier League, which often feeds players to the major league.
Mike Zimmerman, a Franklin native and lover of baseball, has invested $10 million into The Rock sports complex.
Zimmerman said the deal with the Frontier League is done, but where it lands depends on taxpayer approval.
"I got my application in and they accepted it two weeks ago, pending the stadium deal ... so we need a stadium still, and I still need to send my check in, so once those two things happen, we are good to go," Zimmerman said.
Zimmerman said the economic benefit to the city would be in the millions, but not everyone is on board.
Joy Dragnis-Zingales lives across the street from the proposed sports complex and said several neighbors are planning to move because of it.
"We continue to have the lights shine in our bedroom, until 10:30 (or) 11:30 at night, a lot of noise complaints as well," she said.
A public hearing on the project is planned Thursday at 7:00 p.m. at Franklin City Hall
A planning commission meeting to review the finances of the project is set for Thursday.
To secure a Frontier League team, everything needs to be in place before the 2015 season.


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Hello GMAT-eers. Our friends at the Graduate Management Admission Council have released two brand new full-length practice tests. This is exciting news for any prospective GMAT taker, as now you have four complete diagnostic tests for your use. So let's take a look at GMATPrep® Exam Pack 1.
The installation process was relatively quick and easy. If you don't already have one, you have to create an account at mba.com and log on to the mba.com store. After paying the $39.99, the Exam Pack is just a simple download. It is important to note that you must have the free GMATPrep® software installed on your computer for the Exam Pack to open. The final step is opening up the Exam Pack and inputting the eleven digit activation code, which was emailed to you through your mba.com account. Now you are ready to tackle your two new tests.
Exam Pack 1 consists of two Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) exams that follow the exact same format of the actual GMAT. The only minor differences have to do with instructional and transitional pages being untimed on the practice test. After the initial instructional pages, you are given thirty minutes to complete your Analytical Writing Assessment, followed by an optional break. Subsequent to the break, there is the new Integrated Reasoning section, consisting of 12 questions in 30 minutes. Just like on the real GMAT, these first two sections do not utilize the CAT format. The last two sections, Quantitative and Verbal, do use the CAT scoring system.
As expected, the two tests in Exam Pack 1 are nearly identical to the previous two practice tests available through GMAC and reflect the content areas and distribution of question types typical of the GMAT. There are, however, a few subtle differences. The Quantitative section especially presented no surprises in content, format, or distribution of question types. As usual, about 57% of the section was Problem Solving and 43% Data Sufficiency. The chart below lists the most frequent content areas.
|Number Properties/Divisibility
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(Note that since the Quantitative section uses CAT scoring, question types can vary for each student and test.)
Number Properties are often the most tested concept, as is the case here. However, this Quantitative section seemed to have an above average number of Statistics questions. Probability was the second most tested concept, and there were additional questions testing Overlapping Groups, Combination/Permutation, and Standard Deviation.
The biggest difference between Exam Pack 1, previous actual exams I've taken, and the two free GMATPrep tests came in the Verbal section. The breakdown of question types was within the normal range: 41% Sentence Completions, 32% Reading Comprehension, and 27% Critical Reasoning. (The same note must be made about the CAT scoring of the Verbal section varying question type.) However, the concepts tested in Sentence Completion questions and Critical Reasoning questions deviated from their usual frequencies. Idioms used to be one of most regularly tested concepts, but they occurred less often on this exam in favor of questions testing the comprehensibility of sentence (this is consistent with what we've been hearing from GMAC for several years now, so it's not a big surprise). In Critical Reasoning, the central focus was on "Main Point" questions, which represented 45% of the total. "Evaluate" type questions have continued their rise in popularity, as they were tied with "Strengthening" questions as the second most frequent. There were no "Paradox" or "Bolded-Phrase" type questions at all. This is most likely due to a combination of de-emphasis of these concepts by GMAC and the item (question) selection criteria utilized by the CAT algorithm. Additionally, there was a new Critical Reasoning question type which required you to assess a logical flaw in a discussion.
Despite the fact that Exam Pack 1 makes no significant departures from its predecessor, its impact is remarkable. It doubles the number of complete official practice CAT style tests available, making it an invaluable tool in giving a realistic gauge of your current level of preparedness. These tests can and should be used as diagnostics to measure your progress during your course of study for the GMAT. They can show you where you are already strong, and point you to additional areas where further study is necessary. Use them as guideposts for your review of concepts and strategies. On a more fundamental level, the more practice tests you take, the more familiar you will be with the test overall. Since these tests are by GMAC, they are the closest approximation to the real thing. The more experience you have with practice tests, the less likely you are to be thrown off by something on test day. After all, smart practice makes perfect.
After taking the test we attempted to go back in and review the answers, however, none of the questions were saved. In fact we could not retrieve any data on the test. We emailed GMAC and this was the response:
Unfortunately, there is a known bug in the GMATPrep software which has caused this issue and at this point, your score is not recoverable. To prevent this from occurring in future, please un-install the current version of GMATPrep installed on your machine. If you have history data (exam scores, practice question sessions etc.) that you want to carry into the new install, make sure you click [No] when asked if you want the uninstall process to remove all data. Then download and install the latest version (v 2.2.315) which is available for download on mba.com: www.mba.com/gmatprep . You will should be able to activate your Exam pack without any issues.
It seems that if you plan to use Exam Pack 1 you should uninstall your current copy of GMATPrep and upgrade to the current version on MBA.com.
Good luck!


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SBS Designs hits Mainline Electronics, w/Louie Vega, Kenny Dope & Todd Terry
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This past monday Mainline had a Vinyl only throw down party at the store in queens.
Louie Vega called me sun afternoon to ask me to take apart of it and said Shorty its jus a throw down and wld be alot of fun like the old days you shld be there, I said yea ill go, Then he said gr8 & bring the SP-1 Tube Device & Iso-Q2 to get some hype on the line with locals let Frank check it out for the store, he said i wld bring mine but all my SBS Designs gear were shipped to FL for WMC, I said ok no prob. I also brang turntable boxes i built with floating suspension so feedback wld not be an issue.
Some reps from mackie and rcf were there, said they knew how the jbl product normally sounded, but with your SBS Designs product on them, it really made them sound amazing and warm, Frank from mainline also said rt away i notice the JBL product sounded more refined and alot warmer, these pieces kick butt.
ALOT of faces I havent seen in yrs was a wicked throw down, My friend Angel Moraes warmed it up nice. Angel had alot of great things to say about the Iso-Q2 & SP-1 Tube Device.
Kenny Dope did a 45 vinyl set playing breaks cutting it up on a Urei with floating turntables flawless.
Louie introduced his EOL album on Vinyl and it was mastered amazing & Todd Terry played a killer classics set.
Frank at mainline said this will be a monthly thing with guys, have round table discussions and jamm. looks like this will be alot of fun.
Frank had a wicked mod on the 1200, led lit platter, all pics can be seen here
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of this KILLER Vynil only night
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Dispute Over BDS Vote: The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Threatens to Sue University of Durham
In July 2019, IAM reported on cases where professional Middle East associations have been taken over by political activists to promote BDS.
One such case pertains to the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES). The 2019 BRISMES Conference, "Joining the Dots: Interdisciplinarity in Middle East Studies," took place at the University of Leeds between 24-26 of June 2019. At the same time, the BRISMES leadership has held its annual general meeting (AGM) which voted in favor of BDS. However, the BRISMES case had a twist, when, the following day, on Jun 27, 2019, the officers of BRISMES have published a notice on the BRISMES website explaining that BRISMES "has not endorsed the academic boycott of Israeli Institutions as advocated by BDS." While the AGM has voted in favor of a boycott, "This vote is not binding on the Society."
According to the BRISMES constitution, "The principal aims of the Society shall be to encourage and promote interest and study in the United Kingdom of the Middle Eastern cultural region from the end of classical antiquity to the present day through the dissemination of information and by the encouragement of co-operation amongst persons and organizations concerned with the scholarly study of the region."
Surely, there is no mention of calls for boycott as part of the association's aims. Also, the constitution determines that no amendments may be made to the "aims" provision "without the prior consent in writing of the Charity Commissioners."
Still, BRISMES claims to be changing. It focuses now on Middle East studies, "in ways that recognize the circumstances of, and express solidarity with, our Palestinian colleagues, whose education, research and scholarship are profoundly impacted by Israeli colonization and occupation."
In response to the officers' announcement that the BDS vote is not binding, Laleh Khalili, an Iranian American professor of International Politics at the Queen Mary University of London, declined an invitation to give the annual lecture at BRISMES. She accused BRISMES of an "attempt to circumvent organizational democracy." Khalili also declared, "I am ashamed... to see that the officers of BRISMES are imperiling the institution. Should their unethical and politically motivated chicanery continue, I will join in with all other current and potential members to boycott the organization." Khalili took it to her social media and wrote, "Friends, if you are members of BRISMES, don't resign yet. You need to stay in to support the activists who are trying to change the organization. If people leave, this will be seen as a victory for the old guard and for their anti-BDS position."
Likewise, Palestinian Nada Elia, an emerita professor of Gender and Global Studies and a member of the Steering Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), described BRISMES move as "underhandedness." She blamed it on "the norm at large and small universities, public and private, as well as various scholarly associations, from Europe to North America." Still, she was optimistic that "the popular discourse" would shift towards an "embrace of justice for all," and "universities will need to listen to their faculty, students and staff. Academic associations will need to respect the decisions of their membership."
Prof. Ilan Pappe, an Israeli BDS activist and a subject of numerous IAM reports, responded on June 30, 2019, on the Facebook page of BRISMES: "yes this is disappointing on the one hand, and i published the version i received from the people who initiated the motion; but Mai Taha got it right: the members are for BDS, the leadership, as in so other cases, is timid. But it is another important step in the right direction."
Shortly after this BDS attempt, the University of Durham decided to pull out from its' BRISMES membership, because of the "events of this past summer and in particular the resolution put forward by BRISMES members to endorse an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions," as well as "the events of the BRISMES Annual General Meeting and the mood of proponents of the resolution."
In response, the BRISMES leadership wrote a fuming letter, threatening the University of Durham with legal action. "We note that there may also be further legal issues arising from breach of contract... By withdrawing administrative services to BRISMES in response to the AGM resolution, the University of Durham may therefore have acted in breach of its legal obligations to uphold freedom of expression and academic freedom." The letter explicitly warned that the "possibly unlawful actions have exposed us to considerable loss and damage." The letter also disclosed how the then-officers resigned from their positions and contacted the Charity Commission for intervention.
Last month, to put more pressure on the University of Durham, the international organization Middle East Studies Association (MESA), wrote the University of Durham a letter, "to express its grave concern," and to argue that the University of Durham withdrawal from BRISMES, "constitutes a violation of their academic freedom." MESA asked the University of Durham to "publicly affirm its commitment" to BRISMES.
The University of Durham has so far not responded to any of these demands. IAM will report on the case as it develops.
American Historical Association Makes the Right Decision
For the second year in a row now, the AHA has resoundingly rejected the proposal of Historians Against War to vote against Israel. Last year they proposed BDS and this year "Protecting the Right to Education in the Occupied Palestinian Territories," by monitoring Israeli actions.
As IAM noted, Historians Against War is a radical neo-Marxist group which uses the colonial paradigm to present Israel as a colonial, apartheid state. The report presented to the AHA was biased on a number of counts, not least because the group violated its mandate to employ objective observers. Instead, most of the task members were either pro-Palestinian activists or faculty whose neo-Marxist, critical scholarship is easy to document.
In its decision, the AHA stated that the report was replete with facts that could not be empirically supported. In plain English, the biases of the authors of the reports led them to create a reality that comported with their view of the conflict.
According to the AHA report below "Opponents responded that academic freedom violations are legion throughout the world and that the AHA is already affiliated with Scholars at Risk, a group that monitors violations of academic freedom globally. Some opponents argued that a "yes" vote would be divisive, to which proponents responded that the Association has taken stands on other controversial matters and survived. Members disagreed over whether the occupation was the signal moral issue of our time, as well as whether the AHA has the capacity to do what the resolution would commit it to."
Opponents noted that the AHA should not get involved in issues outside their field of expertise, and that "We should not turn the AHA into a vehicle for a specific Middle East agenda."
In voting down the BDS proposal the AHA sent a strong signal that professional associations should not get involved in matters that are well outside the scope of their concerns.
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