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By PETER H. MILLIKEN
Fifty years ago, John H. Glenn Jr. soared into worldwide fame as the first American to orbit the Earth.
The Mahoning Valley was closely linked to that Feb. 20, 1962, event, and to the 1974 launch of Glenn's 24-year career as a U.S. senator from Ohio.
After Glenn's five-hour solo flight and Atlantic Ocean splashdown, Mahoning Valley native David D. Bell, a Navy boatswain's mate, hoisted the Friendship 7 capsule with Glenn inside aboard the destroyer Noa and was the first to greet him.
"Nice going, Col. Glenn. Glad to have you back. I'm from Ohio, too," Bell recalled telling Glenn.
"Thanks a million. Never was so glad to see anything in my life as this ship," Glenn replied.
Bell recalled that conversation in a Vindicator interview just before Sen. Glenn's return to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998.
Born in Campbell and raised in Struthers, Bell returned to the Valley and resided in Youngstown from 1988 until his death in March 2009 at 82.
Friendship 7 is on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washingon, D.C.
"There was a lot of nervous anxiety about where he was going and how this was going to end and whether it would end in a tragedy," recalled Youngstown Atty. Paul Dutton, who watched the 1962 flight on TV at Cardinal Mooney High School, where he was then a sophomore.
"It was chilling. ... No American ever did that before," recalled Tom Humphries, president of the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber, who watched the historic flight on TV at The Rayen School, where he was a senior.
"I remember sitting on the edge of the seat watching it," Humphries said.
The anxiety surrounding Glenn's flight was heightened by a warning signal showing the space capsule's heat shield, which would protect Glenn during his
fiery re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, might not be properly secured.
In the hope of securing that critical shield, flight director Chris Kraft decided to keep the normally discharged retro-rocket assembly in place during re-entry, causing Glenn to exclaim, "That's a real fireball outside!" as burning retro-rocket fragments flew by him during re-entry.
Parents pried their children from TV sets, as all three networks featured live early-morning countdown coverage, and sent them to school, where the children continued to see and hear the coverage of the often-postponed three-orbit flight, which was launched at 9:47 a.m.
With Mahoning Valley residents glued to their radios and TVs, calls to
normally busy local telephone switchboards slowed to a trickle, and a crowd gathered inside and outside a West Boardman Street jewelry shop to hear live radio coverage of the flight, The Vindicator reported.
The flight was a major milestone in the space race with the Soviet Union, in which then-President John F. Kennedy had committed the United States to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.
That promise was fulfilled in July 1969, when Ohioan Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. walked on the moon.
"It was a rallying point for the whole country," Humphries said of the space program and Glenn's pioneering flight.
"It was a morale booster for the country," he added.
"It inspired me to inspire the students," said George D. Beelen, a retired Youngstown State University history professor, who listened to radio coverage of the flight at Poland Seminary High School, where he then taught history.
"That was, I think, an exhilarating time in that John Kennedy was just elected in 1960 ... and then on the heels of that, the president challenging us to go to the moon in 10 years. And then, with John Glenn's orbital flight, that was kind of a heady, exciting time," recalled Beelen, of Canfield, who is also a former
Austintown Township
In conjunction with the space race, schools intensified their math and science curricula, Dutton recalled.
"We took great pride in the fact that John Glenn was from Ohio and was one of us in this endeavor," Dutton said of Glenn, now 90, of New Concord.
Dutton and Beelen became co-chairmen of the Mahoning County campaign in Glenn's first successful U.S. Senate race in 1974.
"From that flight, many of us felt that, here was a true, courageous human being," Beelen said.
"John Glenn seemed to be the all-American, clean-cut, good human being," Dutton recalled. "We were idealistic. We believed in him," he said, adding that Glenn was a hero, both as a World War II and Korean War combat pilot and as an astronaut.
After Glenn's primary victory, the roles of Beelen and Dutton expanded to running Glenn's general election campaign in most of northeast Ohio.
Dutton and Beelen delivered 77.9 percent of Mahoning County's general election vote for Glenn — the greatest majority for Glenn in all 88 Ohio counties, Dutton said, adding that Glenn acknowledged this in a handwritten congratulatory letter.
As a U.S. senator, Glenn was always accessible to his constituents, Dutton said.
Glenn was an influential supporter of the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy — a $100 million federally funded effort to help the Mahoning Valley recover from the closing of its major steel mills between 1977 and 1980 and to preserve the remainder of its manufacturing base.
"He took the lead in preserving and really enlarging the Air Force reserve base in Vienna," Dutton said of Glenn.
"He was really for labor values and the values of the Valley," Beelen said, referring to the senator's support for organized labor.
Dutton was the Northeast Ohio coordinator for Glenn's unsuccessful 1984 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In that effort, Dutton helped coordinate a campaign fundraiser at Mr. Anthony's that drew 1,200 attendees and raised more than $250,000, he recalled.
As a senator, Glenn would generate spontaneous applause from crowds assembled to hear him speak as soon as he appeared in the doorway and long before his presence was announced into a microphone.
The senator was effective in communicating one-to-one with his constituents and in speaking to groups of 100 to 200 people, Dutton said.
However, Glenn's presidential ambitions fell victim to television-driven national electoral politics, Dutton observed.
"His forté wasn't giving a speech on television, and I think he was a victim of the electronic media," Dutton explained.
"When you were looking for sound bites or short sentences with quotable quotes, that wasn't his strong suit," Dutton added.
"John Glenn was not a great speaker," Beelen acknowledged. However, he added: "When you met him and you talked to him personally, you were just overwhelmed with the decency of the man," and with his intelligence.
When Dutton was chairman of the Ohio Board of Regents, he strongly supported the creation and funding of Ohio State University's John Glenn School of Public Affairs in 1998. The Board of Regents provided the startup money, which Ohio State matched, Dutton recalled.
Glenn said in a recent Columbus Dispatch interview from his office at the school that he hopes the school bearing his name will inspire students to pursue public service and political activism.
What a shame we are not the nation we were 50 years ago.
The great nation that once believed nothing was impossible and our goals and dreams could be accomplished.
When a young president challenged us to land a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth we did it in less than a decade and the whole world marveled at Americas greatness.
Traveling to the moon and back became almost common place by the 70s.
The next generation of manned sapce flight ushered in the Space Shuttle Program.
The most high tech,complicated machines ever built in the history of the planet.
Like the Apollo Program America suffered set backs and tragedy but continued to move forward.
Some have argued that manned space flight is to expensive but consider the numerous benefits all due to our space programs.
The things we take for granted today such as the home computer,our cell phones and life saving medical technology,automotive technology and so much more are all the direct results of Americas manned space flight programs.
And now with the last space shuttle flight in the history books we have no plans,dreams or goals for mans' return to space.
Americans are told it's to expensive and we simply can't afford it.
While we squander our resources on war and military adventures,foreign aid to countries who hate us and pray for our destruction daily,govt.bailouts to Wall Street,the mega banks and large corporations ect all with no return,no benefit to the American people.
And if anyone believes it's a good idea for America to allow the Chinese to take the lead in space flight and the state of the art technology involved with it they obviously have no clue what's at risk or at stake for the future of America.
America was built by the dreamers,the doers and those who accomplished the impossible.
Are we still that same nation today ?
John Kennedy took us to task by saying we will land a man on the moon by 1969. I am retired from the Air Force as a flyer and I was inspired by my first flight with my uncle and by living by an air force base only made me want to fly even more. I lived in Warren all my life and would drive by the base and see the planes taking off as we went to my uncles farm near by or to my aunt and uncles restaraunt in front of the airport. Sometimes my dad would park on the side of the road so we could watch the planes take off and land. I ended up out there joining Civil Air Patrol then into the Air Force joining the 910th TAG. The base has been a good thing for our community as is OHIO has been to military. ALthough I am not a fan of John Glenn politically his flight made history and I'm glad he was the one chosen to make the flight. Its to bad we have someone calling himself a president has no intrest in our space program or the military. We again are going to take a backseat to yet another area we should be excelling in.


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Keira Knightley is ready to party – with her cast and crew of Atonement, which topped the list of Golden Globe nominees on Thursday, with seven nods, including one for herself and another for her leading man, James McAvoy, as well as for the WWII drama itself, as best picture.
"It's just so exciting that we've got nominated in so many categories," the British actress, 22, tells the Associated Press. "There's such a big group of us that can get to go together. It will be a real celebration for the film. It will be a wonderful night."
Atonement's supporting actress nominee Saoirse Ronan is all of 13 years old. The Dublin-born teen, currently in Pennsylvania to shoot her new movie The Lovely Bones, tells PEOPLE: "I started doing films two years ago [but] I never expected anything like this would happen. It's really lovely."
Staying Grounded
Regarding any career advice Knightley might have given her, Ronan says, "When we were in Venice [for the film festival], she let my dad know that there was going to be a lot of events and that I should keep myself grounded, and I think that's the best advice that anyone in Keira's position can give you."
Scottish actor McAvoy, 28, for whom Atonement provides a star-making role, says in a statement, "It's a huge thrill to see [the film] embraced by the" Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Depp 'Super-Flattered'
Of his nomination for the musical (yes, he sings!) Sweeney Todd, Johnny Depp, 44, says, "What an honor to even be mentioned alongside such a talented bunch. Very excited for Tim and Helena and the film!" he said, in reference to fellow nominees, director Tim Burton and costar Helena Bonham Carter. As for himself, Depp said he's "super-flattered and immensely thankful."
Viggo Mortensen was also nominated for his dramatic leading role, in Eastern Promises. Congratulating his leading man, the film's director, David Cronenberg, said, "For me, there was only one actor who could powerfully convey the lead character Nikolai's many subtleties." The nomination for the 49-year-old actor is, according to Cronenberg, "perfect and exciting."
Not that all is merry and bright in Hollywood. With the strike by the Writers' Guild of America now more than a month old, and with no solution yet in sight, Grey's Anatomy nominee Katherine Heigl, 29, tells Entertainment Tonight, "I'm not crossing the picket line – not unless I'm contractually obliged to do so – which [with] the Golden Globes I'm not."
The Globes are due to be broadcast over NBC on Jan. 13.

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(San Diego, Calif.) -- The University of San Diego is proud to announce Fowler Park and Cunningham Field has been awarded LEED ® Silver Certification for New Construction and Major Renovations. The LEED rating system, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is the foremost program for buildings, homes and communities that are designed, constructed, maintained and operated for improved environmental and human health performance.
"Buildings are a prime example of how human systems integrate with natural systems," said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council. "The University of San Diego Fowler Park project efficiently uses our natural resources and makes an immediate, positive impact on our planet, which will tremendously benefit future generations to come."
Fowler Park -- named in honor of San Diego Padres Executive Chairman and USD Board of Trustees Chairperson Ron Fowler and his wife, Alexis, who generously gave the lead gift -- is a dream come true for a baseball program that has been one of the top NCAA Division I teams on the west coast the past decade. The $13.8 million project, which was constructed in just 38 weeks, greatly enhances the architecture, facilities, amenities, and overall baseball experience for the USD Toreros.
"LEED Certification was one of our project goals from the very start of the design process," stated Josh Lawrence, USD Associate Director of Athletics for Facilities and Operations. "Achieving LEED Silver is another wonderful example of the collaborative work that the University of San Diego and it's partners, Populous and Turner Construction, were able achieve while delivering an outstanding facility."
Populous, the ballpark's architect, and Turner Construction made Fowler Park's beautiful layout and design possible. Completed in February 2013, the state-of-the-art ballpark is more than just a playing field. Highlights of the facility include a grand entry archway detailed in 16th century Spanish Renaissance architecture that connects the ballpark with nearby campus architecture. This leads fans onto the McGee Family Entry Deck which gives spectators a spectacular view of the entire ballpark, and once inside the park, fans never lose sight of the playing field.
Fowler Park has 1,700 permanent seat-backs, but can be expanded to hold 3,000 fans with designed temporary seating areas. The majority of seating sections have only 14 rows, providing fans with excellent and intimate sightlines no matter where they are in the ballpark. All seats are protected by a Dyneema Backstop Netting that is supported on wire from foul pole to foul pole and provides an unobstructed view for all spectators.
This, along with a 25'x16' digital ICG scoreboard, a state-of-the-art green Musco Lighting System with eight light standards, and sunken team dugouts, makes Fowler Park equipped to host NCAA Regionals and Super Regionals. The state-of-the-art clubhouse for players and coaches that rivals MLB standards, includes a spacious locker room, player study lounge, coaches' offices, athletic training room, conference room, soft-toss area and mud room.
Additionally, there are two luxury suites with high end finishes and indoor/outdoor seating, a press box area for radio/TV/game operations, public restrooms, concessions and ticket office. The Torero Deck, which sits on top of the clubhouse, has a synthetic turf miniature baseball field for kids to run around on during the contests. With views to the west of Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean, it is also a fabulous spot for receptions and group gatherings.
USD selected Turner Construction Company to manage the construction of Fowler Park partly due to its commitment to green building. Turner was ranked by Engineering News-Record as the top construction firm in the nation for Green Building. Fowler Park and Cunningham Field was constructed with local and recycled materials, low-flow plumbing fixtures, and a sustainable site design.
Fowler Park and Cunningham Field achieved LEED certification for implementing practical and measurable strategies and solutions aimed at achieving high performance in: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.
- Paula Morreale, from USD's Office of Sustainability, contributed to this release.
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Reynald Seznec CEO, Thales Alenia Space
Reynald Seznec succeeded Pascale Sourisse as CEO of Thales Alenia Space in May 2008, taking over a company with a strong backlog that included the next-generation constellation for Globalstar. He quickly added an order from O3b to Thales' projects, but as the global economy took a downturn, Seznec has had to cope with building the business at a time when spending on satellite projects may be slowing down.
Still, Thales has added some key contracts to its list in the first half of 2009. In February, the company captured a contract, along with Astrium, to build and deliver Arabsat 5C and Arabsat 6B to Arabsat, one of the Middle East's top satellite operators. Astrium, the leading partner, will supply its Eurostar E3000 platforms and integrate the satellites, while Thales Alenia Space will design and build the communications payloads. Just 24 hours later, Thales announced a deal with Russian satellite operator Gazprom Space Systems to deliver two Yamal-400 new-generation communications satellites. As prime contractor, Thales will be responsible for design, manufacture, testing and turnkey delivery of Yamal-401 and Yamal-402 satellites as well as for the associated ground segment deployment for a scheduled 2011 launch.
In March, Thales won a deal with Eutelsat to manufacture its W3C satellite. Thales will be in charge of the design, manufacturing, test and delivery of the satellite. Planned for a launch third quarter 2011, W3C will provide broadcast and telecommunications services over Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
But perhaps the biggest win for Thales came in late March, when Coface, France's export credit agency, said it would provide Globalstar $574 million that would be used to fund Globalstar's next-generation satellite fleet being manufactured by Thales
Seznec is confident that Thales can maintain this momentum into the second half of the year and discusses his ambitions for the remainder of 2009 as well the key contracts the company is targeting.
VIA SATELLITE: We are in the middle of a global economic downturn. Do you think this will impact the number of satellite orders we will see in 2009?
SEZNEC: I wish I had a crystal ball. At this time, we are confident, but at the same time vigilant. So why are we confident? We think in real terms, the demand is still there. A first and obvious reason is that we are in the first part of a renewal cycle. Many of the satellites that are in orbit today need to be replaced and this is happening. This cycle is supposed to last until 2012. The second point is about the demand. The end-user demand is still there, because new applications such as HDTV or triple play are driving the market right now. Satellite is a must for these applications over large territories. New infrastructure needs exist from new operators and emerging nations. There are new commercial business models, which are being developed and appearing on the market. All of this sustains the demand.
VIA SATELLITE: What is the worst-case scenario in this economic climate?
SEZNEC: So where could the crisis come from? It could come from the difficulty to finance the projects. The weakest segments would be the smaller operators, possibly the constellations. That is why we are vigilant. In terms of the number of satellite orders in 2009, I think there is some kind of consensus between the players to say that this year, it will not decrease that much. Before the crisis became obvious, everyone would have bet on a solid 25-plus satellites. Now maybe it is somewhere between 20 and 25 satellites.
VIA SATELLITE: Do you expect 2009 to be a better year financially than 2008?
SEZNEC: We have had a very good start to the year. We are building on this. We are confident. I am rather cautious about my predictions, but I would expect 2009 would be at least as good a year as 2008.
VIA SATELLITE: In the Middle East we are seeing new operators such as SmartSat and Yahsat emerge. Will we see other new operators emerge during this time?
SEZNEC: The question just does not relate to the Middle East. We see new operators in many other regions. In Asia, you have ABS, which already operates one satellite and they want to purchase another one. ProtoStar is another one. You have ViaSat which has become a satellite owner. There is O3b, which is planning to offer new broadband services to that part of the world which is not being served by other means.
It is something healthy that there is the emergence of new operators in many places of the world. A question is will they find the right level of financing from the market. They will obviously need this to acquire space assets. We can maybe help. We play a role indirectly, because where there are credit export agencies such as Coface in France. This is a strong tool to help new entrants getting funded. This makes the banking system feel more secure, but we are using the existing systems to help facilitate the needs of our customers.
VIA SATELLITE: What is your take on Globalstar and how the operator secured its financing? How much influence did Thales Alenia Space have on this situation?
SEZNEC: Coface, which is the French export credit agency, is not a bank. It brings a guarantee, but beyond that, for financing to be secure, there is a need to have a bank. This is what is being put in the case specifically for Globalstar, but not only Globalstar. It is not a financing by the French government. It is a guarantee by a body, Coface, and then there is a loan brought by a bank on commercial terms.
So how can we help in these situations? We have a knowledge of how it works. We know how to structure files, how to help support it and so on. That is what we do. We can support the customer in terms of putting together his own financial engineering. Globalstar is not the only case. The Yamal satellite for Gazprom is of the same nature. We have the ability to put together a financing scheme to help us win contracts. This is why we are happily supporting customers to this effect.
We cannot do miracles, but we can support our customers. Most of the Globalstar activity we have done is in France. The sale of the Globalstar satellites is considered an export from France. It is Coface's job to support export deals. The link is just that one. There is no other link.
VIA SATELLITE: What percentage of revenues will you derive from the telecoms and commercial market and how is this changing compared to previous years?
SEZNEC: It changes but not in a systematic way. We want to keep a balance in what we do in the institutional market and what we do on the commercial market. In 2008, on the commercial market, we generated 43 percent of our revenues. Defence and security were responsible for 20 percent of our revenues, and the institutional market was 35 percent. My wish is that we keep this kind of balance in the next few years.
This is maybe a difference between us and our U.S. competitors. We have to do well in both the commercial telecoms and institutional arenas. Success in the telecoms side is a driver for competitiveness for the institutional side. However, what we do in the institutional field is also a driver for innovation, research and development, which helps in developing the telecoms sector.
VIA SATELLITE: What impact will President Obama's stimulus plan as well as the European Union Economic Recovery Plan have on the satellite industry?
SEZNEC: In terms of Europe, when I look at the Institutional market, the budget was decided at the Ministerial Conference which took place in November last year. The budget for the next three years has already been decided. The best support that the European authorities can give to the space industry in Europe is that they execute these budgets in a swift and timely manner, nothing more. That is the situation in Europe.
As I understand, in the United States, there is a renewed emphasis for meteorology and climate. This has been expressed by NOAA (the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and NASA. This will potentially allow us to propose payloads in the fields where we have assets such as altimetry. The other point is the intention to develop a strong broadband infrastructure across the United States. This would probably drive the demand in terms of services. This could benefit our own satellites, provided that their satellites are seen as infrastructures, the same as terrestrial infrastructure.
VIA SATELLITE: Are you expecting more orders for dedicated Ka-band satellites in 2009? Do you see this being a lucrative growth market for Thales Alenia Space over the next 12 months?
SEZNEC: My view is that these changes always slow, but there is a trend happening today. Today, we have a couple of opportunities in the pipe in a couple of regions such as North America and the Middle East. So we could see some satellite awards in the next month here, so broadband services will stimulate the need for capacity. We have the technologies and experiences in terms of payloads and system architectures to be used for broadband services. I think it could be a progressive move, and I think we will be part of it.
VIA SATELLITE: Do satellite manufacturers such as Thales Alenia Space have a competitive advantage over U.S. manufacturers due to the impact of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)?
SEZNEC: Any rule that is in place in the United States and would be applicable to us, we would totally respect the way we do today. If these rules change, we will adapt to them. That is purely on the U.S. side. Do we have a competitive advantage due to that? Frankly speaking, I am a little bit skeptical. In the last years, the competitive advantages of the different players changes quite fast, depending on other factors, such as currency, for example. Anyhow, when I am in the United States and talk to my U.S. suppliers and competitors, I hear that some of the vendors of equipment and components have to face difficulties when selling their stuff in Europe because of the ITAR rules. In fact, the point is, these ITAR rules are applicable to every industry, us and our own suppliers in Europe. There is some kind of malicious equalization of these export control systems, but I do not see this as a major driver in terms of competitiveness.
VIA SATELLITE: Is that situation likely to change?
SEZNEC: I am European. It is not for me to expect the rules to change. There is a renewed interest by many of the players involved in the industry to revisit the issues. There are a lot of discussions happening right now in the United States, but at the end of the day, they will decide.
VIA SATELLITE: Do you see the satellite manufacturing landscape changing over the next 12 months? What are the major challenges for Thales Alenia Space to grow the business?
SEZNEC: We have some key prospects in front of us. There are some high profile bids in place. Iridium is one. Meteosat, third generation, is another one. Galileo is another one. We have Sicral 2 in Italy and Athena Fidus, which are key prospects for us.
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Released: Jun 01st, 1997
Running Time: 106
Directors: Tom Elliott, Teri Driver
Company: VCA Platinum Plus
Cast: Sid Deuce, Frank Towers, Stephanie Swift, Tony Tedeschi, Sophia Ferrari, Misty Rain, Erica Roberts, Caressa Savage, Micki Lynn, AlexXx Knight, Kia, Skyla Woods, Nikki Sinn, Gina Rome, Tatiana (I)
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After being transported to some alter-existence amid archival WWII footage, Tedeschi comes upon an orgy, led by a deity with a blue horse's head, favoring Ferrari first with a plunge in her puss and a stiff poke in her pooter.
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With AIFMD taking effect, non-EU alternative investment fund managers should be aware of a new regime governing their marketing of such funds into the EU—the AIFMD's private placement overlay.
On 22 July, the deadline passed for EU[1] member states to implement the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) into local law. Member states that met the deadline include the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Those that missed the deadline must continue to progress towards implementation. AIFMD establishes an EU-wide harmonised framework for monitoring and supervising risks posed by alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs)[2] and the alternative investment funds (AIFs)[3] they manage.[4] AIFMD requires the authorisation of AIFMs and contains provisions relating to how AIFMs conduct their business, transparency, and marketing. In return, AIFMD confers on an authorised AIFM both a pan-EU managing passport and a pan-EU marketing passport. It also regulates the marketing of AIFs in the EU by non-EU AIFMs.
The path to implementation has been long, with the first version of the draft directive published in April 2009. Following a protracted negotiation phase at the EU level, the final and heavily amended text of the directive entered into force on 21 July 2011.
AIFMD applies to EU AIFMs who
EU AIFMs are subject to the full rigour of AIFMD from 22 July 2013, subject to a transitional regime for AIFMs existing before 22 July 2013. These AIFMs have until 22 July 2014 to apply for authorisation under AIFMD and to continue to market AIFs in the EU under national private placement regimes (NPPRs). Once authorised under AIFMD, EU AIFMs may only market EU AIFs[7] in the EU using the passport. EU AIFMs may market non-EU AIFs (including EU feeder AIFs with a non-EU master AIF) in the EU under NPPRs until at least 2018 and may be given passports in 2015.
AIFMD applies extraterritorially to non-EU AIFMs who market AIFs to EU professional investors. From Q3/Q4 2015, non-EU AIFMs who manage EU AIFs will be required to be authorised under AIFMD in their chosen member states of reference in 2015, whether or not they market to EU professional investors.
Non-EU AIFMs may be given a passport to market AIFs to EU professional investors in 2015. If so, non-EU AIFMs who wish to use the passport must be authorised under AIFMD in their chosen member states of reference and must comply with the various regulatory requirements that authorisation implies, including those relating to financial resources, disclosure and transparency, limits on leverage, the appointment of a depositary, and remuneration. If the passports are provided, it will be the first time an EU single-market directive has granted non-EU-based businesses pan-EU passports.
Non-EU AIFMs managing non-EU AIFs and not marketing them in the EU are not subject to AIFMD.
There are a number of exemptions from AIFMD, including the following:
Marketing of Non-EU AIFs in the EU by Non-EU AIFMs
Non-EU AIFMs may continue to market AIFs in the EU under NPPRs from 22 July 2013[9] to at least 2018, subject to the AIFMD private placement overlay (PPO), which comprises the following:
AIFMD allows member states to impose stricter requirements for private placement in addition to those mandated under AIFMD. NPPRs may be abolished in 2018, leaving only the passport route to marketing AIFs to EU professional investors for both EU and non-EU AIFMs.
Transparency Requirements
Annual Report
Non-EU AIFMs must provide an annual report for each AIF they market in the EU. The annual report must be made available to the regulator in each target member state and must be provided to EU investors on request. Audited annual reports must be made available no later than six months from the end of the financial year. The annual report must contain the following, amongst other things:
Disclosure to Investors
Mandatory pre-sale disclosures to investors include the following:
Mandatory periodic post-sale disclosures to investors cover the following:
Additional disclosures are required in the case of AIFs' employing leverage.
Reporting to Regulators
For each AIF they market in the EU, AIFMs must regularly report on the following to regulators:
The reporting frequency is dependent on the size of the assets under management and varies between quarterly, half-yearly, and annually.
Private Equity Requirements
Investments in Unlisted Companies
Competent authorities must be notified of the proportion of voting rights held by an AIF in unlisted companies that have their registered office in the EU when the proportion reaches or crosses the thresholds of 10%, 20%, 30%, 50%, and 75%. When an AIF acquires, individually or jointly, control over an unlisted company, the AIFM managing the AIF must notify the following entities.
Asset Stripping
AIFMD imposes restrictions on distributions (including dividends and interest on shares), capital reductions, share redemptions, or purchases of own shares by "controlled" portfolio companies during the first two years of ownership. An AIFM cannot facilitate, support, or instruct any of the above actions and must use its best efforts to prevent them.
Cooperation Agreements
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has already approved 38 agreements on behalf of the 31 EU national regulators, with authorities from Albania, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Dubai, Emirates, Hong Kong, India, Isle of Man, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Labuan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Pakistan, Republic of Srpska, Singapore, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, and the United States. In the United States, agreement has been reached separately with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. ESMA is still negotiating with the regulator in China.
Summary of Routes to EU Investors for Non-EU AIFMs
After 21 July 2013, non-EU AIFMs may consider the following options for reaching EU investors:
Other Impacts of AIFMD on US Investment Advisers (and Other Non-EU AIFMs)
US Sub-Advisers (Discretionary) to EU AIFMs
An EU AIFM who wishes to delegate to a US sub-adviser must satisfy the following conditions:
There is concern that the rules on delegation will require non-EU AIFMs to comply with the remuneration provisions of AIFMD.
The above regime will take effect when an EU AIFM becomes authorised under AIFMD. Up to 21 July 2014, the effective dates may vary depending on national implementation of the transitional arrangements. In the UK, the regime will not take effect until 22 July 2014 unless a UK AIFM becomes authorised under AIFMD before then. Other member states may follow the UK or instead require compliance with the regime on a "best efforts" basis throughout the transitional period.
US Advisers Delegating to EU Sub-Advisers (Discretionary)
US managers of AIFs investing in Europe through an EU sub-adviser must consider the issue carefully, with particular reference to costs, and should note the following:
UK Implementation of AIFMD
The UK government transposed AIFMD into national law before the July 22 deadline. The majority of AIFMD provisions, particularly those applicable to AIFMs, were implemented via rules of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which succeeded the Financial Services Authority on 1 April 2013. UK government regulations were used to amend primary and secondary legislation and supplement FCA's powers as the UK regulator of AIFMs.
Exercising its discretion in favour of a lighter touch, the UK government chose
UK Regime Governing Marketing of AIFs in the UK by Non-EU AIFMs
A non-EU AIFM must give written notification to FCA before marketing an AIF managed by it. The notification must include a statement confirming that the following conditions have been met:
A non-EU small AIFM must give written notification to FCA before marketing an AIF managed by it. The notification must include a statement confirming that the following conditions have been met:
In order to enable the FCA to monitor systemic risks effectively, the non-EU small AIFM must provide FCA with such information as the FCA directs on the main instruments in which it trades and the principal exposures and most important concentrations of the AIFs that it manages.
On 29 April 2013, the UK government announced a significant change in its approach to the implementation of the transitional arrangements under AIFMD, applying them not only to UK AIFMs existing before 22 July 2013 but also to existing non-UK EU AIFMs and existing non-EU AIFMs. A non-EU AIFM who marketed an AIF in any member state before 22 July 2013 will be able to rely on the transitional arrangements to continue marketing that AIF after that date in the UK for up to 12 months, expiring on 21 July 2014, without any requirement for compliance with the PPO or the notification process described above. Also, such a transitional AIFM will be able to market in the UK any AIF that is launched after that date until 21 July 2014.
[1]. In this LawFlash, "EU" refers to the 28 member states of the European Union, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway. The formal name for that grouping is the "European Economic Area".
[2]. "AIFM" means a legal person whose regular business is managing one or more AIFs.
[3]. "AIF" means a collective investment undertaking, including investment compartments thereof, which raises capital from a number of investors with a view to investing it in accordance with a defined investment policy for the benefit of those investors and which is not a UCITS fund. This definition will cover most hedge funds, private equity funds, private funds investing in other alternative asset classes, fund of funds, and US-registered mutual funds.
[4] "Managing AIFs" means performing at least portfolio management or risk-management functions.
[5]. "Marketing" means "a direct or indirect offering or placement at the initiative of the AIFM or on behalf of the AIFM of units or shares of an AIF it manages to or with investors domiciled or with a registered office in the [EU]".
[6]. A professional investor is an investor who is considered to be a professional client or who may, on request, be treated as a professional client within the meaning of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, Annex II Directive 2004/39/EC (MiFID).
[7]. EU AIFs are AIFs that are either (a) authorised or registered in a member state or (b) have their registered office and/or head office in a member state.
[8]. Broadly, small AIFMs are AIFMs who manage portfolios of AIFs whose total assets across all the AIFs they manage (a) do not exceed €500 million, where the portfolios of AIFs consist of AIFs that are unleveraged and have no redemption rights exercisable for five years from the date of initial investment in each AIF, or (b) do not exceed €100 million, including any assets acquired through use of leverage.
[9]. This date is subject to national implementation of the drafted transitional provision in article 61(1) of AIFMD, which may vary and should be checked beforehand. The transitional period expires on 21 July 2014.
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Released: Dec 01st, 1997
Running Time: 78
Directors: John T Bone, John T. Bone
Company: Amazing Pictures
Distribution Companies: Metro Distributors
Cast: Delicious, Summer Collins, Kyle Stone (straight), Dave Hardman, Candy Apples, Candy Vegas, Jack Hammer
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: All-Sex
Summer Collins has been sent to write a bio of music mogul Mr. Fatfuck, known to porn fans as Ron Jeremy. He lives in his studio with assorted musicians and groupies, and Collins immediately sets teeth on edge when she won't fuck any musician who asks her. She eventually gets reamed by Dave Hardman and Colt Steele in a climactic scene that includes proficient ball licking, cocksucking, mish, cowgirl, two d.p.'s and a double facial.
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Derived from the work Donk. While a Donk is a black girls ass the Wonk is a white girls ass. Usually large in size.
"Dudee your girl may have a Donk, but my girl has a Wonk"
"Im jealous man" Wonks = better than Donk
"Im jealous man" Wonks = better than Donk
od uživatele Thestrubeman 31. leden 2011
When a heavy-set female (or one with large, natural breasts) is on her back, topless (mostly during sexual activity) and her tits "wonk" or droop to the sides; nipples facing in opposite directions. (left and right instead of straight up)
"Her tits are so huge and sloppy, whenever I'm on top of her fucking her, they wonk to the sides."
see: wonking, wonky.
see: wonking, wonky.
od uživatele cep922 28. září 2009
A term made up by intellectuals to label thier immense knowledge of a subject. Really, its just another word used by intellectuals so they can massage thier ego, among other things, in a group setting.
I am such a policy wonk. If you like, I can wonk you off while we talk policy.
od uživatele habracadabra 15. květen 2008
To describe something that isn't quite right, slightly off or not working properly
That picture is on the wonk/ the minigun is on the wonk/ my brains are on the wonk. Originates from darkest, most remote parts of Suffolk (u.k) where everyone and everything is said to be'on the wonk'.And with very good reason.
od uživatele chris 16. leden 2004
a utility noun used to describe many situations
he is a wonk
she has got a wonk on
shut up stop being a wonk.
she has got a wonk on
shut up stop being a wonk.
od uživatele seth the jew 23. březen 2009
To hit someone on the head, but in a non-hostile more childish fashion.
The boy got wonked on the head by his girlfriend for saying pussy.
od uživatele Scott 27. srpen 2004
Someone who professes to know a lot about something although they have no real-world qualifications. Used most often in regards to politics. It may be a well-schooled person, but one who has no real-world experience. I don't know why this is on UrbanDictionary since it's already in Webster's.
"The President is heading toward war despite protests among the political wonks."
"Even the most enlightened music wonks still can't understand why rap is a $100 billion industry."
"Even the most enlightened music wonks still can't understand why rap is a $100 billion industry."
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To evaluate the effect of surgical approach and adjuvant therapy on patients with carcinoma of the esophagus and/or cardia.
Retrospective analysis of 157 consecutive patients who underwent esophagectomy.
A private university medical center and its affiliated community hospital.
One hundred twenty men and 37 women (mean age, 61.7 years) with carcinoma of the esophagus and/or cardia that was surgically treated between 1978 and 1993.
Three approaches were used for resection: Transhiatal esophagectomy (THE) (n=67), transthoracic esophagectomy (TTE) (n=71), and abdominalonly esophagectomy (AOE) (n=19). Sixty-five patients received adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Main Outcome Measures:
Surgical mortality, morbidity, and survival and the effect of adjuvant therapy.
The overall surgical mortality rate was 7.6%: 12.7% with the TTE, 4.5% with the THE, and 0% with the AOE approach. A significantly increased incidence of adult respiratory distress syndrome (P<.001) and empyema (P<.001) was seen with the TTE approach. The average intraoperative blood loss (P=.08) and the median intensive care unit stay (P=.26) and hospital stay (P=.40) were decreased with the THE and AOE approaches when compared with the TTE approach without significance. The overall median survival time was 17 months, with a 5-year survival rate of 21%. There was no significant difference in survival by pathologic stage between approaches. The addition of adjuvant therapy did not affect the overall median survival time or the 5-year survival rate. Node-positive patients did benefit from adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy, with increased median survival times from 7 to 15 months and a 5-year survival rate from 0% to 15% (P=.01).
The THE and AOE approaches have fewer early complications than does TTE. Both THE and TTE have equal long-term survival rates. Adjuvant therapy provides increased survival to node-positive patients with carcinoma of the esophagus and/or cardia.(Arch Surg. 1995;130:617-624)
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(Un)anticipated Technological Change in an Endogenous Growth Model
This paper examines, numerically, the impact of a negative exogenous shock to marginal productivity (such as ecological government regulation that becomes effective at some point in time) in an endogenous finite time growth model with sluggish reallocation of human capital. The policy can be anticipated or unanticipated by the economic agents, and it can also be announced but not implemented. It turns out that these frictions have very strong long-run effects on consumption and output, and on the optimal allocation of capital and labor in particular. The qualitative properties are closely related to those found in homogenous labor models with positive productivity shocks. The numerical optimization method employed here proved very successful in qualitatively similar problems in engineering but has not yet found its way into macroeconomic models of growth.
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I recently tried to help someone out whose computer crashed (the reason why is not important for now) by recovering the HDD (i.e. remove it from the computer and plug into a docking station to backup the contents), but I'm running into trouble with Windows permissions and ownership.
People always think that because I'm an avid computer programmer and studying mathematics, I should somehow magically know the answers to all everyday computer problems, and it is really hard to convince them that those things are not really related (well they are, but programming and system management are completely different things).
Anyhow, when I plugged the HDD in my docking station and connected it to an other computer (both run Windows Vista, but that is not my choice) the partitions showed up as usual, but when I tried to look through the contents, all partitions were inaccessible (permission denied). I have done this kind of thing before without a problem and the only difference then was that the HDD came from a Windows 7 machine. I figured out that the partitions and their contents still had the old security attributes for the different user accounts set and that somehow Windows was still respecting them. So I tried to add the proper permissions for my local Administrator account with: properties -> security -> edit -> add. I thought that this would recursively set the permissions on all underlying folders and objects, but it did not did the trick, but I could now see the contents of the partitions root at least (sub-directories and objects were still inaccessible).
While I was trying to decide what I would do next, I noticed that there were no object- and folder owners. I do not know exactly what the difference is between owning an object or having the security permissions for an object, but I tried adding ownership to my local user account too, like this: properties -> security -> advanced -> owner -> edit -> apply. And now the problem: halfway while granting ownership to my local user there came a dialog that said that I did not have permissions to change ownership. While investigating what went wrong this time, I noticed two things:
- I could read/write/execute every folder and object that was granted ownership (thus all folders and objects processed until the dialog appeared).
- Where there was 1 GB of free space on the partition, there was now only a few KB. It seemed that the granting of ownership took more than a gigabyte, which seemed way to much for some metadata to me.
I tried exactly the same approach, but then with different partitions and the same happened, except for one partitions where there was 20 GB of free space (no additional space was consumed on that partition).
Any thought about what is going on?


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European Food Research and Technology
, Volume 222, Issue 3, pp 420-424
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Influence of technological practices on biogenic amine contents in red wines
- Pedro J. Martín-ÁlvarezAffiliated withInstituto de Fermentaciones Industriales (CSIC)
- , Ángela MarcobalAffiliated withInstituto de Fermentaciones Industriales (CSIC)
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To investigate the enological factors associated with biogenic amine content in wines, 224 samples of red wine were industrially manufactured. Differences in the amines and corresponding precursor amino acids of these wines due to their producing cellar and vintage were examined. The main effects of some technological procedures in the biogenic amine content of these wines was also described using multifactor analysis of variance. The results of the study indicate that vintage can clearly influence the amine contents of wines. It was also noticed that some enological practices widely used to enhance wine quality, such as the ageing of wine on lees and, mainly, longer grape skin maceration, strongly increased biogenic amine concentration. However, the addition of pectolytic enzymes did not favour the accumulation of any biogenic amine. With this study, it was also possible to conclude that the inoculation of wine with commercial malolactic starters minimises the levels of biogenic amines.
KeywordsWine Biogenic amines Vintage Wine manufacture Technological procedures Amino acids
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- Title
- Influence of technological practices on biogenic amine contents in red wines
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European Food Research and Technology
Volume 222, Issue 3-4 , pp 420-424
- Cover Date
- 2006-02
- 10.1007/s00217-005-0142-7
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- 1438-2377
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- 1438-2385
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- Springer-Verlag
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- Wine
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- Amino acids
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- Pedro J. Martín-Álvarez (1)
- Ángela Marcobal (1)
- Carmen Polo (1)
- M. Victoria Moreno-Arribas (1)
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- 1. Instituto de Fermentaciones Industriales (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006, Madrid, Spain


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Train Time
By Jennifer Vardy Little
Did you know November is National Model Railway Month? Seeing that date on my calendar inspired me to pull out some pictures from our trip over the summer to the Trechothic Creek & Windsor Model Railway.
As moms of boys know, trains are a big part of life with little ones! These trains are handmade, working models that run on fun tracks around the park, so it was my son's dream come true.
For this project, I knew I wanted to do a long title for my two-page layout, but I wanted to do something quickly. Gluing each letter down would have added a long time to my page. So I challenged myself to spend no more than 10 minutes on each page.
I decided the quickest way to do the title I wanted was to create a negative. I pulled out my BoBunny On The Go papers and, using my Cricut Expression 2, figured out where I wanted my title to lay and cut it directly onto the page. Then, I carefully removed my paper from the cutting mat (note: you can easily use other die-cutting machines to cut your papers) so they wouldn't curl. Make sure you save the pieces between your letters, such as the triangle inside the 'A'.
Then, I adhered a strip of paper slightly wider than my cuts to the back of my sheet and placed the cut-out letter pieces (in this case, the triangle in the 'A') on top of it.
I layered a couple of pieces of On The Go paper on the first page, cropped and adhered my 4" x 6" photos, added some coordinating stickers and some journaling, and then finished it off with a couple of star-shaped brads from my stash.
I repeated the negative title technique on the second page, but this time cut my title on both the top and bottom of the page. I matted my favorite photo and cropped my other two pictures from 4" x 6" to 2 1/2" x 2 1/2". I added Jolee's Boutique Stickers I'd had in my stash for years and called it done. Two pages in less than 20 minutes!
Here are some other ideas for using the negative side of die cuts on your layouts:
- Use the negative to create a fun journaling shape. For example, if you cut a flower, use it as a guide to make your journaling in a fun shape. It's a great way to contrast with your diecut shapes.
- Flip them over! Die cut an image, then flip it over to use the back side of the sheet. Bonus: it will coordinate perfectly!
- Use the negative as a frame for your photos or titles.
- Try masking with the negative of your image. Pull out your favorite spray or die to create a fun design using the negative as a stencil.
- Create a mosaic behind your cut! Go through your scraps and arrange them in a random design behind your negative. It makes a unique embellishment and uses up the bits and pieces you're hesitant to throw out. Alternatively, use other supplies like Washi tape or ribbons.


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Skip to comments.Obama to offer debt relief to Egypt in Mideast speech (while putting US further in debt)
Posted on 05/18/2011 6:44:17 PM PDT by tobyhill
President Barack Obama will unveil an economic aid program for Egypt and Tunisia on Thursday as part of a broad effort to support democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa, U.S. officials said.
Senior advisers to Obama, previewing parts of his speech, said Wednesday the United States would offer debt relief totaling roughly $1 billion "over a few years" to Egypt through a debt swap mechanism that would invest the money to boost youth employment and support entrepreneurs.
Washington would also loan or guarantee loans up to a total of $1 billion through the Overseas Private Investment Corp (OPIC) for Egypt to finance infrastructure development and boost jobs, the officials told reporters on a conference call.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
We can't pinch this turd off fast enough!
borrow $1 billion at 3% and loan it at 1%. At a lost of 2% per billion.
A billion dollars to Jordan as well. (Plus a whole crapload of wheat as a major flood drowns crops here)
"broad effort to support democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa"
How can Islam have "democracy"? Democracy is a product of Western Civilization , the English language and has its own culture and infrastructure born out of law. Now we have Obama parroting them!
But then again, what should we expect from a MB supporter?
"Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
~Barack Hussein Obama
Do his speeches come with a laugh track?
Seriously? He can't get any kind of agreement to curb spending in America. We have reached and exceeded our debt limit set by his Democratic Congress, the Democrats continue to promise nanny state entitlements forever and then demagogue against Conservatives that attempt to get spending under control. His party continuing to rob the public trust in order to gain power over its people and now this idiot faker in the White House has the cajones to increase to the tune of a Billion Dollars aid to countries that hate us.... yes this is certainly his WTF moment...
Please, someone cut his credit card in half.
"Washington would also loan or guarantee loans up to a total of $1 billion through the Overseas Private Investment Corp (OPIC)"
Well..reuters..which is it...a direct loan(which is probably against the OPIC charter) or 'loan guarantees'(which sounds like the failed Fannie and Freddie fiasco). Either way it sucks..but would it be too hard for you reporters to actually do a little research or questioning of this latest theft of the American taxpayer?
Just the facts please!
WTF with this jerk!
While you're in his wallet, slice up his race card too.
Thanks tobyhill. He's going to recognize "Palestine".
NYT LEAD THURSDAY: OBAMA PLANS SURPRISE IN MIDEAST SPEECH.. DEVELOPING... (nothing follows)
Maybe Dems will start seeing the writing on the wall....OBAMA IS A MUSLIM!!
He does seem bent on alienating more and more American voters, huh?
Yeah....and I just heard they released a last tape from Osama praising the uprisings in Egypt....so, I guess we know for sure whose side Obama is on....
And to boot, they are killing Coptic Catholics who protected the rebels in prayer during the so-called protests for democracy. What a miserable muslim weasel we have for POTUS.
What can we expect - his "brethren" - AKA - the Muslim Brotherhood now rule that country, so why not give them debt relief (who's giving the US similar relief?).
Let me get this straight, we borrow money from the Chinese and we give it away. Is it just me or does this sound like a bad idea?
Vote for Scotty McCreery on American Idol TONIGHT.
Make the Libs heads explode!
(The 17 year old singing sensation made the unforgivable mistake of kissing the cross he wears around his neck and singing a song mentioning Jesus. Libs are flaming him all over the net)
As usual, everywhere...the govt skimmers will get the lion's share of that billion.
It is like he has a deck of cards, and all 52 are the race card. And now that the 2012 campaign has started, he is faking his support for our military.
I wish I could wave a magic wand and remove peoples' blinders. I'm afraid that unless (god forbid) someting bad happens, or something from his past comes up and gets MSM attention, he going to win in 2012.
Islam, unlike Japan, Korea, India, has sharia which is it's own all encompassing political ideology that has NO room for any other system. Sharia is supreme.
For them to adopt what we call democracy? Islam would have to fold and that ain't gonna happen.
One huge arse delusional AnointedIdiot! =.=
Dates: Dates are key.........
On the morning of May 19th, an Egyptian air and artillery bombardment began (Box 1 in Map #1). The water tower was hit, and all the water lost, as it was perforated by numerous bullet holes. Cows and other animals were hit and broke loose and fled. Fuel supplies and hay ricks caught fire.
Battle of Yad Mordechai - May 19-24 - About 110 poorly armed defenders of this kibbutz in southern Israel, reinforced at different times by a Palmach platoon and two squads, held off a major and concerted Egyptian attack for five days with two battalions, tanks, artillery and air attacks. Yad Mordechai fell on May 24 and the inhabitants fled. (see Battle of Yad Mordechai)
Ottomans....."On May 5 Mustafa Kemal was appointed inspector general of the 9th Army, and he landed with his chosen staff of fifteen officers and two cipher clerks at Samsun on May 19 and began organizing resistance. Kemal was also in charge of the civil service in the region. In Amasya he met with Rauf Orbay, Ali Fuat Cebesoy, and Refet Bele, and on June 21 they signed the Amasya Protocol that was also accepted by Kazim Karabekir. This call for a national movement was based on the realization that the Istanbul government could not be responsible and that national independence was in danger. They proposed a national committee free of external control to review the situation and make known the peoples desire for justice. They decided to hold a National Congress at Sivas and invited three representatives from each province. This subject was to be kept secret. On June 23 the British government complained to Istanbul, and Mustafa Kemal resigned his commission. Kemal met with a Bolshevik delegation led by Col. Semen Budenny, who provided arms to stem the Armenian expansion in the Caucasus, but Kemal postponed accepting Communist ideology"
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
(April 19-May 19, 1943)
by Mitchell Bard
Death of TE Lawrence
"In 1912 Halide Edib wrote The New Turan (Yeni Turan) about the Pan-Turkish movement. During the Great War she inspected schools in Damascus, Beirut, and Mount Lebanon. She headed a large orphanage of mostly Armenian children, and Cemal ordered her to give them Muslim names despite her concern it would cause a reaction. At meetings of the Committee for Union and Progress (CUP) she met the family doctor Adnan Adivar, and they were married in 1917. She became famous with her bold speech at Sultanahmet Square on May 19, 1919 during the occupation of Izmir. She escaped the British attempt to send her to Malta in 1920, and she went with her husband Adnan to Anatolia to fight in the War of Independence. In 1926 she was accused of treason and escaped with her husband to Europe. They did not return to Turkey until after President Mustafa Kemal died in November 1938. Halide Edibs autobiography was published in English in two volumes as Memoirs in 1926 and The Turkish Ordeal in 1928. She traveled and lectured, teaching at Barnard College in 1931. Gandhi invited her to India in 1935, and she taught in New Delhi. In 1939 she became a professor of English "
"Al Qaeda releases posthumous bin Laden audio recording"
05/19/2011 | 09:16 AM (Cairo)
May 19th Communist Organization
Main article: May 19th Communist Organization
The May 19 Coalition (also variously referred to as the May 19 Communist Coalition, May 19 Communist Organization, and various alternatives of M19CO), was a US-based, self-described revolutionary organization formed by members of the Weather Underground Organization. The group was originally known as the New York chapter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), an organization devoted to legally promoting the causes of the Weather Underground. This was part of Prairie Fire Manifesto change in Weather Underground Organization strategy, which demanded both aboveground mass and clandestine organizations. The role of the clandestine organization would be to build the "consciousness of action" and prepare the way for the development of a people's militia. Concurrently, the role of the mass movement (i.e., above ground Prairie Fire Collective) would include support for, and encouragement of, armed action. Such an alliance would, according to Weather, "help create the 'sea' for the guerrillas to swim in." [13]
1848 - Mexico gives Texas to US, ending the waroo
1848 - Mexico gives Texas to US, ending the war
1879, near noon, New England experience near total darkness that remains unexplained.
Why are we still loaning money to people who hate us?
Obama can call the Saudi's and tell them to take care of this problem...
not sure egypt was ever expected to actually pay this anyway. debt relief of debt that was understood to be unpayble seems to be a way of getting a 2/1 benefit when you give some client state money.
:Hey YO SHOUT OUT TO OBURKHA, UM HOWS THAT KINETIC HUMANITARIAN war GOING FOR YA IN LIBYA...KILLED ENOUGH LATELY?
And just who will get the billion and how much aid will be snuck through tunnels to Hamas?
please bomb the flotillas, pray the USS Cesar Chavez doesn't float, hope to God our pres__ent gets a clue for if he's a two-termer, class warfare will create a civil war( powder dry??)
Borrowing from commies to give to sharia law cultic murderers killing Christians( he makes certain MSM never reports via Soros) and America can't find enough potatos to eat
Golf and play basketball everyday, party with the whiney cop haters( he's oneaka the Mexican speech in LA) beer summit, and off we go watching him ORDER Israel to return to the 1967 lines like he has a clue. He's a little mini me Hitler in his own way.
The ME is getting ready to explode and they are NOT going to be friendly to us no matter how much money we give them. The libs will complain about our defense budget while they fund our enemies defense.
Afghanistan and Iraq are just the tip of the iceberg! Wait and see. The ME is getting ready to explode and we will be sucked in so deep, maybe then the sheeple will realize what this fight is all about.
Can't this man be stopped? Really. It's past time to do something.
Taking money we don't have ...giving it away to enemies, only to put US on the hook for it. He's truly mad.
We have stories today about shortages of electrolytes, which are live saving to critically ill patients, stories of municipalities selling off properties to make up for budget shortfalls, ...yet we're going to give billions away to armed rebel wackos carrying uzis, with Israel as their next stop.
I think MY head is going to explode.
Assuming we ever get anything paid back at that 1% interest rate. I wouldn't hold my breath. But we WILL be paying back that loan at 3% - you can bet on it.
Its not us. Its the muslim in the White House making America pay for his caliphate. The Libyan war? For whatever reason, he stands in the way of that caliphate and is taking the brunt of American forces.
Worst part is Al Qaeda is now our new ally in the war.
Welcome to the new muslim America!
He is an outright DISASTER!!! We have states devastated by Floods, Fire and Tornadoes and he is giving aid to countries that will turn around and stab us in the back in a second........this is traitorous!!!!
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Basically, Banshee currently uses MusicBrainz for CD Ripping, but some albums that I have haven't been in there, but have been in FreeDB, is there a way of making Banshee use FreeDB when I rip CDs?
Currently no freedb extensions for banshee. Here is a list from freedb.org that may help you determine another app to assist your needs.


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Fruity Verse
Annie may know how to rip the poetry out of the bible, but Aesop put the fable back into it.
The Pomegranate and Apple Tree disputed as to which was the most beautiful. When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful tone: "Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from such vain disputings."


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Public Lands
After a long and complex litigation fight, the USFS finally cancelled this illegal timber sale in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.
On May 29th, Federal District Court Magistrate Judge Clarke issued an opinion, finding that, as a matter of law, a Jackson County Ordinance that prohibits the growing of genetically modified ("GE") crops in that County was legal under Oregon law.
Big Public Lands Wins and Farewell to Aubrey Baldwin
10/30/13 - Federal laws are for the birds…and the national rivers! Read about our work protecting national treasures in our latest newsletter.
9/13/13 - KATV (Little Rock) reports on a fundraiser for the lawsuit brought by environmental groups against a hog farm near the Buffalo National River in Arkansas. Earthrise is of counsel on the suit.
8/23/13 - Read the summer edition of our newsletter, Rising Issues, featuring our latest achievements, our summer externs, staff transitions at Earthrise, and more!
6/28/13 - The Mountaineers Foundation has awarded Earthrise Law Center a Community Grant for the second year in a row. The $3,000 grant will support the Oregon Waters initiative.


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I have all the wordpress folders saved, but no database.
Currently, I have a clean installation of WordPress on my root directory.
I also have two other folders in my root directory -- each of which contains wordpress installations for two other completed websites.
I realize not having a database for the website on the root directory makes this project almost impossible. But I have backups of all my pages, images, etc. Is there an easy way to copy over content and piece together what I had to get the site back up and running.
At one point, I attempted to copy over the wp-content folder into a clean installation and then copy over the wp-config.php file into the root. When I access the site, it redirected me to one of the websites that resides in a subfolder on my root. The installation is obviously pointing to the wrong database.
I've created a new clean installation of wordpress on the root. Are there any plugins or other options out there? Since I've got backups of all my content, I'm prepared to try to piece together my old design, but wondering if there's an easy way to accomplish this and not run into conflicts with an existing and unrelated database.


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