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Obama's War and Rembrance Day
By Dave Lindorff
With word being leaked out over the weekend that our Nobel Peace Prize President is close to announcing plans to escalate the US troop level in the Afghanistan War by 50%, we are about to have perhaps the ultimate of ironies—a president announcing a big step-up in American war-making on November 11, the day known around much of the Western world as Armistice Day.
While modern Americans might not know it, with all the boom and bombast and mindless flag-waving featured in the military parades popular in today's warrior culture, November 11 was originally established by Congress back in 1919, a year after the day the guns of World War I finally went silent over the blood-drenched fields of Europe in what was once, in a naïve spasm of optimism, referred to as the War to End All Wars. In declaring the national holiday Armistice Day, Congress said it was to be "a day dedicated to the cause of world peace."
Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh?
By Dave Lindorff
Ordinary, average, struggling Americans might be scratching their heads over the news today, as the Labor Department reports that unemployment is up by four-tenths of a percent for the month to a record 10.2%, fully three-tenths of a percent higher than economists had been forecasting, and stocks do what? Rise by a quarter of a percent!
What's going on here?
Well, the tube analysts are quick to say, unemployment figures are a "lagging" indicator. That is, employment generally lags the overall economy, with layoffs coming after a recession kicks in, and hiring waiting until a recovery is well underway.
British Break Up Several Bailed-Out Banks
British break up several bailed-out banks
Some want U.S. to follow suit to increase financial competition | Washington Post
The British government announced Tuesday that it will break up parts of major financial institutions bailed out by taxpayers, highlighting a growing divide across the Atlantic over how to deal with the massive banks that were partially nationalized during the height of the financial crisis.
The British government -- spurred on by European regulators -- is forcing the Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Northern Rock to sell off parts of their operations. The Europeans are calling for more and smaller banks to increase competition and eliminate the threat posed by banks so large that they must be rescued by taxpayers, no matter how they conducted their business, in order to avoid damaging the global financial system.
The move to downsize some of Britain's largest banks comes as U.S. politicians are debating whether American banks should also be required to shrink. Read more.
America the Betrayed
America the Betrayed
By Richard Cook
...Whitman a hero to the Beatniks of the 1950s who tried to rediscover an authentic American voice in the streets and on the roads and highways of this great land. The spirit of Whitman was surely present through the rebellion of the 1960s, when America's young men and women rose up and fought the Establishment to stop the Vietnam War and bring civil rights to racial minorities.
The Establishment fought back with a vengeance and, through the most egregious betrayal in history, reduced the world's greatest industrial democracy to the pathetic shadow of its former self we are today.
The first thing the Establishment did was destroy the industrial job base by shipping millions of good jobs to China and other Third World nations, where slave laborers could be forced to churn out consumer products at a fraction of the cost of similar work done by American workers. Read more.
2010 Looms: Democrats Crash and Burn in Virginia and New Jersey
By Dave Lindorff
It would be easy to read too much into the few statewide races that were decided last night, but I think it's fair to say that the results in New Jersey and Virginia, where Republican gubernatorial candidates won--in New Jersey's case knocking off a well-funded Democratic incumbent--that the results were a blow to the Barack Obama/Rahm Emanuel strategy of playing to the right, of avoiding confrontation in Congress and of ignoring the progressive voters whose enthusiasm and effort back in the 2008 campaign put Obama in office.
Our Out-of-Whack Economy and the Happy Talk Propagandists
By Dave Lindorff
If you listen to the happy-talk folks at Treasury and the Fed, and on the tube, you'd think things had finally turned a corner. The economy grew at a 3.5% annualized rate in the third quarter ended September 30. "The Economy is Back in Gear" shouted the headline on an article by CNN senior writer Chris Isadore. "The recession ended unofficially in September," said a reporter on NPR.
PBS Frontline Reports on the Hidden History of the Worst Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression
Not Too Big to Jail - Protest in Chicago
Not Too Big to Jail - Protest in Chicago
Last week, we got a slew of submissions to our "Foundation for Reform" paper! Consensus starts to crack. We just need to keep building the momentum.
So, have you heard about what promises to be the largest protests against the banks yet - Showdown in Chicago on October 25th? All ANWF members who want to go and need more details should contact us. As much as we can, we need to show up! We expect thousands of people to show, we hope you will too. The protest is being organized by dozens of organizations, including ANWF, and will take place outside of the American Bankers Association's annual meeting. You can help at this critical moment, find rides, organize a contingent and go. We'll help you meet up with other ANWF members. We'll have even more info for you next week, but the time to make a decision about going is now.
Our friends at the Center for Media and Democracy recently started working on bank reform too with a new go-to site for updates on the fight: www.BanksterUSA.org. Their "Action Center" is a hotbed of popular campaigning on the crisis, helping us to ramp up the campaign to demand the Federal Reserve fix what's broken (see the ANWF petition):
Fight the Big Boys on Wall Street at www.BanksterUSA.org.
Center for Media & Democracy Fights the Big Boys on Wall Street with "BanksterUSA.org"
"Fight the Big Boys on Wall Street at www.BanksterUSA.org
The Banksters have pulled off the biggest heist of all time. They have crashed the global economy, throwing 7.5 million Americans out of work, emptying retirement and college funds and forcing many into hardship and homelessness. Yet they continue to be rewarded with trillions of taxpayer dollars that underwrite their Bankster bonuses, they prey upon the vulnerable with ballooning bank fees and macabre investment schemes such as "death bonds" and their taxpayer-subsidized lobbyists swarm Capitol Hill to prevent the passage of any meaningful reform of the financial system.
The Smackdown Starts Now
This fall is a critical time. Congress is now taking up a series of bills to restore confidence in the financial sector. If you want to rein in the Banksters and if you think America deserves better than a "boom and bail" economy, you need to muscle up and weigh in. Only you can tell Congress to prioritize the interests of Main Street over the interests of Wall Street.
Bust the Banksters at BanksterUSA
www.BanksterUSA.org is the go-to site for updates on the financial services re-regulation fights in Congress and for progressive netroots campaigning against the big boys on Wall Street.
Our "Action Center" is a hotbed of popular campaigning on the crisis.
We know that it is wrong that a full year since the Wall Street meltdown no employee of any major American bank or blue chip financial institution is behind bars. Compare this to the Savings and Loan crisis 20 years ago. No less than 1,852 S&L officials were prosecuted and 1,072 were jailed.
Our motto? Too big to fail, but not too big for jail! Click here to email the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI and tell them to get cracking!
Administration Refutes Geithner and Summers' Approval of BofA-Merrill Merger
Administration Refutes Geithner and Summers' Approval of BofA-Merrill Merger
Internal Bank Documents Show Obama Aides Were 'On Board'
By Matthew Jaffe | ABC News
"The Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger was the outcome of a collaborative effort orchestrated by Ken Lewis, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Larry Summers," Bardella said in a statement. "As a result of this collaboration, the taxpayers ended up footing the bill so Bank of America didn't have to absorb Merrill's losses." ...
In January, when the Obama administration took over, Summers became National Economic Council director and Geithner replaced Henry Paulson as Treasury secretary.
During last year's transition period between presidential regimes, Obama economic aides Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers signed off on the Bush administration's deal to bail out Bank of America if it finalized its merger with ailing investment bank Merrill Lynch, according to bank documents obtained Tuesday by ABC News.
However, both the White House and Treasury today disputed that Summers and Geithner ever agreed to any financial decisions made during this time period.
"Mr. Summers received occasional briefings by Federal Reserve officials during the transition, but he did not make, review, or approve decisions regarding financial institutions during that time," White House spokesman Matthew Vogel said in a statement. Read more.
The Wall Street Economic Death Squad
$140 billion! Record Payday for Wall Street
Goldman Sachs 2009 Bonuses Could Buy Insurance for 1.7 Million Families
50 Million Americans Live in Poverty
By David DeGraw | Amped Status
The facts are that $30,000 per person is unaccounted for - that's $30,000 for every man, woman and child in the US - which means if you have a family of five, your family has lost $150,000 to Goldman Sachs.
Paraphrasing a very insightful quote: 'The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Goldman Sachs, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such a magnitude entails is left out of the mainstream media, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.'
The American middle class, once the only effective counter weight to Wall Street greed, has been decimated. Over 25 million people, in what was the US middle class, are now in full-blown crisis mode and urgently need to increase their income. Read more.
Bay Area Trade Unionists Protest Afghanistan War On 8th Anniversary
On October 17, 2009 on the 8th anniversary of the attack on Afghanistan Bay area trade unionists spoke out against the continuing US war in Afghanistan and wars in Iraq and around the world. Trade unionists included Betty Olson-Jones, president of Oakland Education Association and Jack Heyman, Executive Board ILWU Local 10.
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How the Servant Became a Predator: Finance's Five Fatal Flaws
How the Servant Became a Predator: Finance's Five Fatal Flaws
By William K. Black | Huffington Post
What exactly is the function of the financial sector in our society? Simply this: Its sole function is supplying capital efficiently to aid the real economy. The financial sector is a tool to help those that make real tools, not an end in itself. But five fatal flaws in the financial sector's current structure have created a monster that drains the real economy, promotes fraud and corruption, threatens democracy, and causes recurrent, intensifying crises.
1. The financial sector harms the real economy.
2. The financial sector produces recurrent, intensifying economic crises here and abroad.
3. The financial sector's predation is so extraordinary that it now drives the upper one percent of our nation's income distribution and has driven much of the increase in our grotesque income inequality.
4. The financial sector's predation and its leading role in committing and aiding and abetting accounting control fraud combine to:...
5. The CEOs of the largest financial firms are so powerful that they pose a critical risk to the financial sector, the real economy, and our democracy. Read more.
Reviewing Danny Schechter's The Crime of Our Time
Reviewing Danny Schechter's The Crime of Our Time
By Stephen Lendman
Danny Schechter is a media activist, critic, independent filmmaker, and TV producer as well as an author of 10 books and lecturer on media issues. Some call him "The News Dissector," and that's the name of his popular blog on media issues. He's also the co-founder of Media Channel.org that covers the "political, cultural and social impacts of the media," and provides information unavailable in the mainstream.
Schechter's books include The More You Watch The Less You Know, Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, and his newest and subject of this review, The Crime of Our Time: Was the Economic Collapse "Indeed, Criminal?"
As a form of economic terrorism, indeed so says Schechter and many others. Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, writes: Schechter "establishes the crime's elements, identifies the players, and exposes the weapons that have turned free markets into vehicles for mass manipulation and control."
More still, according to former high-level government and Wall Street insider Catherine Austin Fitts in describing a "financial coup d'etat" that includes inflating multiple market bubbles, pump and dump schemes, naked short selling, precious metals price suppression, and active market intervention by Washington and the Fed that lets powerful insiders game the system, commit massive fraud, and be able to transfer trillions of public wealth to themselves, then get open-ended bailouts when the inevitable crisis surfaces.
In his last book, Plunder, Schechter deconstructed one element of the economy's financialization - the outlandish amounts subprime lending, instrumental in inflating the housing bubble and the economic crisis that followed.
The Crime of Our Time is his latest attempt to explain "the financial collapse as a crime story (and) the high status white-collar crooks" who wreak havoc on "the lives of hundreds of millions worldwide." He quotes from author and labor activist Jonathan Tasini in his new book, The Audacity of Greed, saying:
"Over the past quarter century, we have lived through the greatest looting of wealth in human history." While an elite few profited hugely, "the vast majority of citizens have lived through a period of falling wages, disappearing pensions, and dwindling bank accounts, all of which led to the personal debt crisis that lies at the root of the current financial meltdown."
The fallout cost millions of Americans their jobs, homes, savings, and futures, the result of a Washington - Wall Street criminal cabal and their scandalous conspiracy against the US public. In the Crime of Our Time, Schechter, once again, does a superb job explaining it astutely, thoroughly, and clearly.
Capitalism: An Apathy Story
Capitalism: An Apathy Story
By Cindy Sheehan
This Thursday, in a move that would make Baron von Louis Rothschild blush with shame (or burst with pride), Goldman Sachs will announce that it is more than doubling its bonus pool: from 11 billion in 2007 to 23 billion in 2008.
I always thought the concept of the "Welfare Queen" was eliminated during the Clinton Regime (where his SecTreas was a former chair of G S) however, Goldman Sachs has received billions of dollars in taxpayer welfare and supposedly paid that back, except for the 13 billion that was funneled through AIG to Goldman through loan guarantees.
Well, wouldn't it be hunky dory if every loan we consumers took out from these banksters came with a guarantee that if we failed, our government would pay our loans off?
Don't Fail, or Reward Success
Don't Fail, or Reward Success
By Andrew Ross Sorkin | NY Times
"Compensation continues to generate controversy and anger," Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, said last month. "And, in many respects, much of it is understandable and appropriate."
On Thursday, Mr. Blankfein and his colleagues will likely be subject to some of that anger when Goldman reports its third-quarter results — and discloses the latest tally of just how much its employees will probably take home for their work this year. By most analyst estimates, the annual bonus pool will swell to more than $23 billion. In its second quarter, Goldman disclosed it had put aside $11.4 billion for the first half of the year.
"The absolute size of compensation payouts will rise significantly," Keith Horowitz, an analyst at Citigroup, wrote in a note to clients two weeks ago.
To put that $23 billion bonus pool number in perspective, it is the most Goldman Sachs has accumulated for bonuses in its history — twice as much as in 2008. And it is doing so while memories are still fresh that just a year ago taxpayers had to step in when Wall Street, and even Goldman, were facing a run on the bank.
So should we be upset about the bonuses? Is this a problem? Viscerally, it can be infuriating to watch Goldman executives gobble up piles of money, especially when the government — an overused euphemism for taxpayers — had helped support the firm. It hasn't been forgotten that the government gave Goldman $10 billion in bailout cash — which it has since returned and said it never needed. And don't forget the cheap financing it now gets as a bank holding company. Read more.
Absurdity upon Absurdity
Absurdity upon Absurdity
By Michael Collins | Smirking Chimp
The health care debate and general political climate compound absurdity upon absurdity.
First we're told that our health care is only worth the time and effort if the remedy has no negative impact on the budget. No deficits allowed. The deficit risk defines your chances for health and longevity.
At the same time, we see that Wall Street failures and the overseas war effort are not held to the same standard on deficits spending.
The federal government has committed $23 trillion dollars to prop up Wall Street's failed financial institutions. That's a fantasy figure and clearly deficit-friendly since it's twice the 2008 Gross Domestic Product of the United States.
On Tuesday of this week a smaller amount was offered up for the 2010 expenditures on the Iraq war and the expanded efforts in Afghanistan. The $128 billion was approved without a Congressional Budget Office analysis (note the absence of a link for "CBO Cost Estimates"). Since we're already over budget for 2010, this is also in the deficit column.
It's all right to run huge deficits to bailout Wall Street crooks and to wage deadly wars but it's not all right to even think about a deficit when it comes to preserving the health and lives of citizens.
The second absurdity concerns priorities. A rational approach to national policy would place citizen health care well above both Wall Street welfare and endless wars on any list of priorities. But that wouldn't do much good with the current legislative approach.
A political victory amounts to a loss for the public. Why?
The current legislation delays help for the uninsured for years. It limits the "public option" to those without health insurance. It does little or nothing to contain rising health care costs for in the near term. And it ignores prescription medication -- a major factor in out-of-control costs. Read more.
Have Banks No Shame?
Have Banks No Shame?
By Joe Nocera | NY Times | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com
"All they need to do is enforce the regulations already on the books," one top banker told me recently. (Like all top bankers these days, he would speak only anonymously, fearing the wrath of the Treasury.)
What's more — and this is the part that is really unbelievable — they insist that bankers weren't the cause of the financial crisis. The entities that were peddling all those awful subprime mortgages were the nonbanks — the mortgage originators and mortgage brokers — who were almost entirely unregulated. "We have no objection to them regulating the nonregulated firms," said Camden R. Fine, the president of the Independent Community Bankers of America.
Well, of course, he doesn't. If the bankers can persuade Congress to change this agency's mission so that it only regulates the nonbanks — something they are trying to do, and which Mr. Frank insists will not be successful — they will have succeeded in putting sand in the engine of their nonbank competitors.
A few months ago, I asked Simon Johnson, the former International Monetary Fund economist, now a prominent critic of the banking industry, what he thought the banks owed the country after all the government bailouts.
"They can't pay what they owe!" he began angrily. Then he paused, collected his thoughts and started over: "Tim Geithner saved them on terms extremely favorable to the banks. They should support all of his proposed reforms."
Mr. Johnson continued, "What gets me is that the banks have continued to oppose consumer protection. How can they be opposed to consumer protection as defined by a man who is the most favorable Treasury secretary they have had in a generation? If he has decided that this is what they need, what moral right do they have to oppose it? It is unconscionable."
I couldn't have said it better myself. Read more.
Step Up To Mike's Challenge!
by Linda Milazzo
Our great buddy Mike is angry. For the past twenty years, Michael Moore, our everyday hero, has worked hard for us. He's documented sadistic acts against us by industry and government. He's exposed case after case of devious schemes that robbed us of our homes and our jobs, sent our children to war, and sacrificed our health. He's given us irrefutable proof that our leaders lied us to war, our insurers denied us care, and our lenders deceived us into hopelessness and destitution.
Mike's been our teacher, our ally and our devoted friend. Few people in recent memory have worked harder to inform us - ALL OF US - of the inhumanity and greed that are decaying our nation, which we perpetuate through apathy and inertia.
Are We Witnessing the Demise of the Dollar?
Are We Witnessing the Demise of the Dollar?
Report Suggests Dollar Could Be Replaced, But Officials Deny Any Move in Offing
By Matthew Jaffe | ABC News
"If you are the average Joe, you should definitely be worried because if the U.S. dollar loses its status it is going to mean higher borrowing costs for the U.S. government, which will mean the average Joe will have to pay higher taxes, the U.S. government will spend less on services, and there will be higher interest rates -- or some combination of the above."
Is the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency in jeopardy? How are U.S. officials responding? And should the average American be worried?
A report in The Independent newspaper today, citing Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, said that Gulf Arab countries -- joined by China, Russia, Japan and France -- are planning to move away from pricing oil in dollars to using an array of currencies including the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, the euro, gold, and a new unified currency in the Gulf Co-operation Council including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, and Qatar. Read more.
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Crooked Contractors
Pentagon Fraud and the ACORN Standard | Press Release
The Senate last night passed an amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that would require the Department of Defense to calculate how much the Pentagon pays companies that committed fraud.
The measure, added to a defense appropriations bill, also would make the Pentagon recommend how to penalize contractors that repeatedly cheated the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars....According to the nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight, the three largest government contractors – Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman – all have a history riddled with fraud and other illegal behavior. Altogether, the three companies engaged in 109 instances of misconduct since 1995, and were fined $2.9 billion. How were they punished? In one year alone, the big-three pocketed $77 billion in government contracts in 2007. Read more.
They Lied: Watchdog Says Treasury and Fed Knew Bailed-Out Banks Were Not 'Healthy'
They Lied: Watchdog Says Treasury and Fed Knew Bailed-Out Banks Were Not 'Healthy'
Before the $700B Bailout, Senior Government Officials Had Financial Concerns About Nine Bank Institutions Receiving TARP Funds
By Matthew Jaffe | ABC News
The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve lied to the American public last fall when they said that the first nine banks to receive government bailout funds were healthy, a government watchdog states in a new report released today.
Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), says that despite multiple statements on Oct. 14 of last year that these nine banks were healthy and only receiving government funds for the good of the country's economy, federal officials knew otherwise.
"Contemporaneous reports and officials' statements to SIGTARP during this audit indicate that there were concerns about the health of several of the nine institutions at that time and, as detailed in this report, that their overall selection was far more a result of the officials' belief in their importance to a system that was viewed as being vulnerable to collapse than concerns about their individual health and viability," Barofsky says. Read more.
Kucinich Urges Treasury to Strengthen Re-remic Oversight
Kucinich Urges Treasury to Strengthen Re-remic Oversight | Press Release
Washington. D.C. (October 1, 2009) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to address the potential threat to the financial system posed by resecuritization of existing residential mortgage backed securities, informally referred to as 're-remic.' Congressman Kucinich recently brought the matter to the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission and uncovered that only $50 million of a $664 billion market is overseen by the SEC.
The Re-remic process takes previously issued residential mortgage backed securities and collateralized debt obligations whose value has deteriorated considerably, and repackages them into larger, more complex financial instruments in an attempt to create investment-grade products once again. Investors and analysts alike have stated concerns that re-remics could be used to hide toxic assets and manipulate capital requirements. In the letter, Kucinich called on Secretary Geithner to create a stronger regulatory framework to ensure that financial institutions are not continuing practices that led the financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008.
The full text of the letter follows:
Michael Moore: Free Screenings Tonight of "Capitalism" for the Jobless and Homeless in America's Hardest Hit Cities
Free Screenings Tonight of "Capitalism" for the Jobless and Homeless in America's Hardest Hit Cities
Plus Local Benefit Premieres All Across the Country
Michael Moore wrote:
We're just one day away from the widest opening I've ever had for any of my movies. Tomorrow, Friday, October 2nd, "Capitalism: A Love Story" opens on over a thousand screens across the United States, a record for an independent documentary.
This follows last weekend's limited opening in New York and L.A. where "Capitalism" set the box office record for the highest per screen average of ANY movie released so far this year. Not just any documentary -- any MOVIE! It was, as the studio said, a good indicator of just how well the movie may do when it goes wide this weekend. I sincerely hope they're right because I believe deeply in this film.
To kick off the national release of "Capitalism: A Love Story," I've asked the studio to offer a number of screenings in the nation's hardest hit cities -- the ones with the highest unemployment rates and highest foreclosure rates -- where those who've lost their jobs or who are in foreclosure (or have already been evicted) may attend my film free of charge. They've agreed, and so tonight (Thursday), the night before our opening day, ten cities will grant you free admission if you have fallen on hard times. The list of theaters and cities is below. You don't need to bring any "proof" of your situation -- just show up -- it's the honor system, no questions asked.
|Las Vegas, Nevada
|Phoenix, Arizona
|Fresno, California
|Saginaw, Michigan
|Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina
|Tampa / St. Petersburg, Florida
|Elkhart, Indiana
|Baltimore, Maryland
|Cleveland, Ohio
|Peoria, Illinois
- Miami, Florida, Benefiting: Take Back the Land
- Madison, Wisconsin, Benefiting: Union Cab / Isthmus Engineering
- San Francisco, California, Benefiting: US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
- Chicago, Illinois, Benefiting: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
- Grass Valley, California, Benefiting: KVMR
Kucinich: 'Is Wall Street Headed for Collapse?'
Kucinich: 'Is Wall Street Headed for Collapse?'
Questions Repackaging of Complex Financial Instruments, Calls for Additional Hearings
Washington D.C. (September 30, 2009) –Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today questioned whether the U.S. would be headed for another financial crisis if Wall Street continues to sell the same old products, with new names, that got us into trouble in the first place. The former Managing Director of Moody's Investor Service, Mr. Ilya Eric Kolchinsky, agreed there is a danger. The admission came during an Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing examining the role of credit rating agencies in the financial crisis. Following the admission, Kucinich called for further Committee hearings to examine the renamed investment instruments.


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This elegant feline swings along in merry style! Crafted in platinum over sterling silver, this pendant showcases a cat pin/pendant with various round cut 1.4-1.5mm black spinels. The cat's collar and a bow on the tail features 13 round cut 1.5mm pink rhodolite. The cat's tail moves and swings for a delightful style.
From the NYC II® Collection. Made in China. Gemstones will vary in color or patterns. Please allow for these natural variations. All weights pertaining to gemstones, including diamonds, are minimum weights. Additionally, please note that many gemstones are treated to enhance their beauty. Click here for important information about gemstone enhancements and special care requirements.
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Platinum can be used as a finish coating over sterling silver or copper alloys. Its bright, pure luster enhances the brilliance of gemstones and does not discolor or oxidize. Platinum plating is also characterized by its good resistance to surface abrasion, making jewelry pieces more durable against everyday and long-term wear. Over time, platinum plating will wear off and therefore will require re-plating.
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Often referred to as the "Queen of Garnets," rhodolite is the violet-red variety of the garnet family. Its most prized color is a beautiful raspberry, but the gem can also be found in shades of pink, red and wine. The name is derived from the Greek words "rhodon" and "lithos," meaning rose-stone, which connects the gemstone today with the raspberry-pink flower known as the rhododendron.
Rhodolite is a combination of almandine and pyrope garnets. Although it is occasionally found in volcanic rock, the stone is most often found in alluvial deposits in the form of water-worn pebbles. For this reason, large solitaires weighing 5.00ct or more are seldom seen at retail. Most rhodolite is mined in Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. It ranks a 7.5 on the Mohs Scale and is ideal for jewelry.
The ancients wore rhodolites as amulets for protection from injury or death in battles. Modern folklore says rhodolite can help one understand dreams, as well as bring about love and devotion when given as a gift.
The great imposter of gemstone history, many famous rubies have been found to actually be spinels. Perhaps the most famous of which is the Black Prince's Ruby. Once worn by Henry V on his battle helmet, this 170.00ct red spinel is now set in the British Imperial State Crown. Another famous misidentification is the Timur Ruby, a 352.00ct red spinel now owned by Queen Elizabeth. This particular stone is engraved with the names of the Mughal emperors who previously owned it.
History is unclear whether these mistaken identities were merely accidents or clever substitutions of rubies for the less valuable spinels by dishonest jewelers. In Burma, spinel was recognized as a separate gem species in 1587, but the masquerade lasted for hundreds of years after that in most other countries.
Spinel carries a considerable amount of worth not only based on its history, but due to its brilliance and wide range of spectacular colors. When interpreted by the Greek, the word "spinel" means "spark" in reference to its beautiful sparkle. While a rich red is the most common color, spinel can be found in shades of pink, purple, green, brown or black. An exceptional color from Burma is a vivid hot pink with an orange undertone. Spinel can also come in a beautiful blue hue, sometimes called cobalt spinel, but this color is quite rare.
The main obstacle holding back greater recognition for spinel is rarity. Fine spinels are now more rare than the rubies they used to imitate. Strangely, however, they are also more affordable, since too rare can be a drawback because such few people have the opportunity to grow to love them. The most beautiful colors of the stone are mined in Myanmar (formerly Burma), but spinels are also found in Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Russia. They have a hardness of 7.5-8.0 on the Mohs Scale and are traditionally given as a 22nd wedding anniversary gift.

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The story of the Not-Much Man
Is a story that brings no joy,
The poor just call him, 'Rudd the Dud'
The Rich call him 'Kev, our boy!'
The Not-Much Man is wondering
How he can fix the future,
But he's happy to leave us dying now
That's the brutal truth for sure.
The Not-Much Man just says,
'Today is dead and gone,
'It's not my fault the poor won't die out
'Why must they keep living on?'
The Not-Much Man is cretinous
He's such a hopeless case,
He'll let the pensioners die of hunger
To feed the greedy Master Race.
The Not-Much Man is lying
About the state of Australia,
He isn't man enough to admit
After six months he's a failure.
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Philip Roberts, Melbourne, Australia
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The Air Berlin flight was delayed for several hours but landed safely at Munich yesterday morning.
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Level crossing tragedy prompts calls for urgent safety upgrade
Broadcast: 06/08/2004
Reporter: Kate Arnott
MARIAH DEACON, PARAMEDIC: It was quite surreal to see it all. It was like it was in slow motion and definitely something I won't forget. We felt quite helpless sitting there not being able to do anything and unfortunately they weren't able to get out of the way.
ANN ANTONIO: We're not here to blame anyone. It's already happened. But please do something about it.
KATE ARNOTT, REPORTER: For Anthony, Rolando Junior and Ann Antonio the shock is still setting in. Their parents and a family friend were on their way to work yesterday morning when a train travelling at 100km/hr slammed into their car on a level crossing. Witnesses say they were trapped between the boom gates and got caught in the congestion of an earlier accident.
ASIP DEMIRI, ST ALBANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: I spend no less than an hour or two on a day to day basis without a miss on this issue. We even led a protest to the front of Parliament House. We handed over more than 20,000 signatures to the State Government. And nothing ever gets done.
KATE ARNOTT: For 20 years, local resident and trader, Asip Demiri says he's been warning successive State Governments about dangerous level crossings in the St Albans area. The local community was shocked by yesterday's accident but not surprised. Residents and traders say minor accidents and near misses are common. And with 250 gate closures a day, motorists are becoming increasingly impatient with congestion.
LOCAL ST ALBANS RESIDENT 1: You have your gaps between your boom gates and they just go right through the middle of the boom gates.
LOCAL ST ALBANS RESIDENT 2: Traffic sometimes on this road here, it's banked up on the next street so it's really bad.
KATE ARNOTT: The local council is angry there haven't been any major improvements to the crossing in ten years, despite more and more cars travelling through the suburb.
SAM TABBAN, BRIMBANK CITY COUNCIL: We've got the Sunshine Hospital on this side. We've got a new estate, Cairnlea, we've got the university up the road, and it opens from St Albans to Deer Park so it's a major intersection.
KATE ARNOTT: Three years ago, the Government developed a strategy to reduce congestion in St Albans. An underpass at Furlong Road was proposed, but work on that wasn't planned for at least a decade with other level crossings taking priority.
SAM TABBAN: It's a joke. How many people are going to get killed before they do something about it?
ASIP DEMIRI: Oh, they know it's dangerous, they agree with that but should they do anything? It means spending money in St Albans which is a safe Labor seat.
KATE ARNOTT: In the last state budget there was $30 million for an underpass further up the line at Taylors Road which the Government says will take pressure off the Furlong Road crossing.
ERIC WIGGLESWORTH, MONASH UNIVERSITY ACCIDENT RESEARCH: I would prefer to see an ongoing increase in the amount of funding rather than a one-off gift to patch up the problem. It won't be enough.
KATE ARNOTT: Just 1.5km up the line, there's another level crossing which locals say is even more dangerous.
ASIP DEMIRI: We see it all the time. You come and spend a day at the Main Road crossing over there and you see at least 15, 20 times a day where a car is stuck, bang smack in the middle of the tracks.
KATE ARNOTT: This crossing has sparked numerous protests over the years, but the Transport Minister has always dismissed undergrounding here as too expensive. Safety engineer, George Rechnitzer says it's time for innovative solutions. He's proposed an air bag system for trains. Using research on energy absorbing systems from the US, Mr Rechnitzer says an air bag would only take a second to inflate, giving the train driver enough time to react.
DR GEORGE RECHNITZER, SAFETY ENGINEER: We would expect very little damage to the car actually with an appropriately designed air bag and the car would be accelerated at a reasonable rate that's within injury tolerance. So I'd expect little damage to the car from that impact and as a consequence, the way the car would be accelerated similarly an occupant, hopefully, would have relatively minor injuries.
KATE ARNOTT: Mr Rechnitzer is seeking funding for a detailed design study from the State and Federal Governments.
ERIC WIGGLESWORTH: There are likely to be more trains, there are certainly going to be faster trains and there are certainly going to be heavier trains and faster and heavier means it's even more difficult for them to stop and it is inevitable, that unless we intervene now there will be an increase and a continuation of these sorts of tragic accidents in the future.


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Thanks for the link. Very help[ful!
Judy, it looks great. I am going to give something new a try. I guess the worse that could happen is that I have to take it out. It would not be the first time. I will post a picture once I get going. Thanks!
Lori:I guess the worse that could happen is that I have to take it out.
i would use it as a learning experience, but i wouldn't take it out.
gini in north idaho
I am with you. I rarely take out quilting stitches. The only time I have removed them is if the tension is really messed up. That is just more trouble than it is worth.
Vinton, Virginia
Thanks to everyone for their advice. I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who gets nervous when they go to quilt their top. Finally there is a place that I can get great advice.
I am with you. I rarely take out quilting stitches. The only time I have removed them is if the tension is really messed up. That is just more trouble than it is worth.
You're so right Nana. I'm working on MQ 3 today and I don't like it. I tried taking out some of the stitches then decided to just continue. I've got two rows of blocks done and I still don't feel better about it. I've stopped for the night.
Marge P:Practice, Practice, Practice is what we have to do and just relax and try and go with the flow. Meandering is very pretty on most quilts so don't beat yourself up if you do a lot of it.
I totally agree, nothing beats practice and the more you do it the easier it gets.
Life is like a quilt...bits & pieces, joy & sorrow, stitched with love
The main thing is to relax! I know. easier said than done. When I start on a new quilt I find myself tensing up and the more tense I get, the more jilted and unsteady my quilting becomes. I make myself concentrate on breathing and relaxing my shoulders and the quilting seems to come along well enough. I see improvement with every quilt.
I also tend to get wired about my designs not being consistent. You might want to check out Pam Clarke's website. She has some pretty cool templates that I use with pouncing chalk that are basically lines that give me a reference for my designs.
Check out the free motion quilt group here. There I posted the author and title of a book called Follow along the lines. Or something similar. Also you could draw your designs on tracing paper, pin, and quilt that way then tear slowly away. Or you could draw your design using a washable or removable tracing pen or someting and then quilt along that. :) Good luck.


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by John Ryan
Serves 4 to 6
I picked this recipe up from a magazine several years ago. They called it a strata. I liked the recipe, but didn't like calling it a strata. I mean, what's a strata? So I took to calling it a crouton casserole and the name stuck. Like flannel sheets, crouton casserole doesn't sound sexy, but wait until you try it. Cold winter mornings won't be the same.
You need...
About 2 hours
1 huge mixing bowl
A couple smaller mixing bowls
1 or 2 baking dishes that will hold a combined 9 to 10 cups
350 degree F. oven
4 cups cubed, quasi-dried out bread (3/4-inch cubes)
1 medium onion, sliced
1 big bell pepper, sliced
12 ounces mushrooms, quartered (about 3 cups)
Oil or butter
6 eggs
2 cups milk
1-1/2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
2 cups grated cheddar cheese (approximately 8 ounces)
1. Cut up about 4 cups of bread and spread it out on a couple cookie sheets the night before. You don't want the cubes crunchy hard, but you don't want them mushy soft either.
2. In the morning, turn your oven on to 350 degrees F. Then start sautéing the onion, pepper and mushrooms in stages in oil or butter until they are soft and a little brown. Dump them into a large mixing bowl as they are done.
3. As the vegetables cook, stir the eggs, milk, mustard, salt, and pepper in another mixing bowl and set aside.
4. When all the vegetables are done, stir the cubed bread with the vegetables, then stir in about half the grated cheese and spread the mixture in a baking dish (or dishes). Pour the milk mixture over the bread and vegetables and scatter the remaining cheese over the top. Don't cover. Bake until a knife comes out of the center clean, about 1-1/4 hours. The exact time will depend on how deep your baking dish is. A clue: When the casserole is done, the middle gets puffy.
John Ryan
Both chef and musician, John Ryan wrote the Just Good Food blog from 1996 through 2001.
This page created November 1999
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Panasonic announces Lumix G Vario 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II ASPH Mega OIS
CP+ 2013: Panasonic has announced the Lumix G Vario 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II Asph. Mega O.I.S - its latest affordable kit lens for Micro Four Thirds mirrorless cameras. The 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II is the company's fourth variable aperture standard zoom (following the 14-45mm, original 14-42mm and 14-42mm power zoom), and gains two aspherical elements to help make the lens smaller than the existing version. The 14-42mm II will be available as a kit option with both the DMC-GF5 and DMC-G5 in most markets.
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LUMIX G VARIO 14-42 mm / F3.5-5.6 II ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S.
Panasonic is pleased to announce a new compact standard zoom lens LUMIX G VARIO 14-42mm / F3.5-5.6 II ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. for LUMIX G based on the Micro Four Thirds System standard. LUMIX G VARIO 14-42mm / F3.5-5.6 II ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. offers a versatile zoom range of 14-42 mm (35 mm camera equivalent: 28-84 mm) suitable for a wide range of situations from landscape to portrait. Comprising of 9 elements in 8 groups, the lens system adopts 2 aspherical lenses to achieve further reduction of both size and weight yet maintaining its high optical performance at entire zoom range. The inner focus system driven by a stepping motor assures astonishing comfort to take maximum advantage of high speed contrast AF system and in video recording.
Panasonic's MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer) makes it easy to shoot super clear shots even at tele end or in low-lit situations by suppressing the blur caused by a hand shake.
With its minimum focus distance of 0.2 m (14-20 mm) / 0.3 m (21-42 mm) even at full zoom, the new lens provides a maximum photographic magnification of 0.17x (35 mm camera equivalent: 0.34x). 7 aperture blades consists a circular aperture diaphragm and produces an attractive smoothness in out-of-focus areas even shooting at large aperture.
The new LUMIX G VARIO 14-42mm / F3.5-5.6 II ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. for LUMIX G is refined in its external design to offer metallic color options of black and silver to offer stylish look on the digital single lens mirrorless (DSLM) cameras of LUMIX G in shooting creative snapshots.
Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-42mm F3.-5-5.6 II ASPH Mega O.I.S specifications
|Principal specifications
|Lens type
|Zoom lens
|Max Format size
|Focal length
|14–42 mm
|Image stabilization
|Yes (Mega OIS)
|Lens mount
|Micro Four Thirds
|Maximum aperture
|Minimum aperture
|Aperture ring
|Number of diaphragm blades
|Aperture notes
|Circular aperture
|Special elements / coatings
|2 aspherical lenses
|Minimum focus
|0.20 m (7.87″)
|Maximum magnification
|Motor type
|Stepper motor
|Full time manual
|Focus method
|Distance scale
|DoF scale
|110 g (0.24 lb)
|56 mm (2.2″)
|49 mm (1.93″)
|Black and silver
|Power zoom
|Zoom lock
|Filter thread
|46.0 mm
|Filter notes
|Does not rotate on focusing
|Hood supplied
|Hood product code
|Tripod collar
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Hi Guys, I am planning to buy GX7 now and this will be my first camera purchase beyond point and shoot. I am deciding between two 14-42mm lenses, the G Vario II (Mega OIS) and the G X Vario (Power OIS). Although I like the size of the G X, I think it is older then the G Vario II. Please tell me which one I should get and why. I am planning to have only one lens for the time being while I improve my photography skills. Thanks
Seems like a sensible update that brings Panasonic in line with the best selling point for micro 4/3 - SMALL cameras that take ok pictures. The old Panasonic 14-42, being both ok-to-crappy and large, de-emphasized one of the main reasons why people check the system out in the first place. Of course folks who want a small-to-medium camera that takes great pics can always spend extra on primes and a better zoom.
The collapsible X zoom does not compete with the 14-42 kit. It fills the same medium-market niche as the 14-45, where the collapsible zoom is ok-and-very-small (plus video) while the 14-45 is largish-but-very-good. Assuming that Panasonic holds the line with its optics, this registers as a big plus over the last 14-42.
Of course if the optics are any worse then, well, ech.
M4/3 haters are everywhere it seems, or at least plenty on DP review.
The GH1, GH2, GH3 and others by Panasonic and the critically acclaimed Olympus OMD and PENs take pictures on par with their larger APS-C counterparts. This is not debatable.
The statement that m4/3 are "SMALL cameras that take ok pictures" is asinine.
and asiten, and asieleven, and asitwelve...
Wonder if it will be worse than previous, tho its hard challenge to beat such cr*p of lens. :D
Last time Panny did kit lens "right" was original 14-45 for G1/GH1. And even that had some serious reservations.. (distortion/sh*tload of CA).
They should ask Leica how to do proper kit lens (14-50mm f2.8 - 3.5 for 4/3 was their design).
the 20mm pancake was a kit lens and it is fantastic.
Sorry to inform you that comparable lenses to the Panasonic 12-35mm CONSTANT f2.8 are much costlier than the $1300 that Panasonic is charging.
AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED (2.9x). $1,900
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM $2,025
You should know what you are talking about prior to making ridiculous statements.
And who says that bigger lenses cost more to make? Another uninformed statement.
I understand that this is an internal focusing lens. However, is it an internal zoom lens(like the 35-100mm F2.8) as well? Does the barrel extend when you zoom?
The picture does not make it clear whether it extends when you zoom or not.
it extends, but minimally (5 mm or so)
It's a shame there's not an image of it extended.
You can see it extended and compared with the 14-42 here:
It's just assmall as the X zoom (2 mm longer) and has internal focusing. Lens mount, plastic?
How many gazillion lenses in the 14-42(5) mm range are they going to release?
What about a 9-18 mm update?
I think this is a great step! The existing 14-42 doesn't have a great reputation, the power-zoom 14-42X has a wildly variable reputation, the original 14-45 has an excellent reputation but you can't buy a new Lumix camera with that lens on anymore.
IF this new one goes back to the great optical and QC standards of the 1st 14-45 then everyone will be happier and there will be less "why my photos shakey?" threads.
I agree, although I suspect IQ will be roughly on par with that of the previous 14-42mm. Still it has a lot more going for it than the piece of glass it's replacing.
How many slow "normal" zooms do we need for m4/3? This is about 4 from Pany and about 4 from Oly now? Sigh ...
It is a kit lens; panasonic is not going to bundle a olympus kit lens on any G series cameras!
so, there are only 2 kit lenses from panasonic
PZ - high end pancake
the new 14-42 - low and kit lens
of course there are 2 more lenses in the same range:
14-45 - mid end lens
12-35 - high end lens
I actually agree that panasonic should combine 14-42 and 14-45 and offer a cheap but with 14-45 like IQ kit lens
Let's see if the new 14-42 kit is going to make the 14-45 discountinued
Its not. you can still buy it... but its not being kitted with anything. its been long gone
If its better then the old then why not... It would be nice if it at least matched the old 14-45 lens.
Agreed. If the image quality of this new lens at least matches the 14-45mm, I'd gladly make the trade just for the internal focusing alone.
It is a kit lens! It is always good to have version II of kit lens as most people will own it, especially beginner
This is a good upgrade of the existing one
- smaller (easy to spot from the picture)
- lighter (160g -> 110g, almost 1/3 lighter)
- shorter (63mm -> 49mm)
- standard 46mm filter size
- 12 elements + 1 asph glasses -> 9 elements + 2 asph glasses
- Plastic Mount -> Metal mount
- Minimum focus: 0.3m -> 0.2m
- Color / finishing seem better than the old one
I think it is a good upgrade!!!!
From what I've read, its actually a metalized plastic mount.
Another one nobody needed...
Bundled with GF5 and G5? So it is going to be another SKUs for the kits, right? GF5 is kind of old and outdated, aren't they discontinued it already, or was it for the older SKU?
No of course not. But if it get the IQ back to the original 14-45mm, then why not. You've already got an F2.8 zoom if you want one, most consumers buy the kit lens with a body. So if this is an improved version of the 14-42 and will be bundled with future Panasonic bodies, then why not. I'm sure there is a few dozen other lenses here that people will want but why not make your basic lens offering better too; Start people out with higher quality images. I may be making some assumptions with this lens, but Panasonic has made good zooms in the past, I'm sure this one will be more than acceptable on G, GX, and GF series bodies.
Yes of course we were. An updated version of the previous lackluster kit lens was always going to be a welcome upgrade. This is great news for anyone purchasing future Pany m43 cameras.


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This is your resource to discuss support topics with your peers, and learn from each other.
No, you put the number in the registration process where it asks for your mobile provider in the form.
Let me know about the battery.
PIN: C0001B7B4 Display/Scan Bar Code
PIN: C0005A9AA Display/Scan Bar Code
I dont remember putting my phone number ever, but then now I went back to the register form and noticed that my browser would autofill the form and place my mobile number against "My Mobile Provider" and that explains it. I would have never known that if it was not for you. So thanks for point that out in the first place. Really appreciate that.
I will update you about the battery. I will run the trick tonight when I reach home and will see if my blackberry survives.
The trick did not work. This is what I did. Plugged my phone to wall charger. Removed the battery. The phone red-led started and after some time a cross appeard on the screen indicating "No bettery". Then I put the battery.
Today morning when I woke up, I read the news for 2-3 minutes and may be 4-5 mins of youtube. When I logged into facebook after that, within 4-5 secs, the phone died with no warning.
On my way to office, 30mins drive, it recharged completely. Interesting, at the traffic signal, I checked to see the charging level and in front of my eyes, the battery level went from yellow (10-20%) level to fully charged.
Well, it if is a 'fake' battery, not OEM, I'd call that a hardware problem.
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PIN: C0005A9AA Display/Scan Bar Code
Well, the old and new battery looks exactly the name with the RIM tradmark (Made in China). Its interesting that I could not find behaviour difference between new and old battery.
One thing is very consistent. During rechange, the charging level stays below 15%[yellow color] for quite sometime (20-30 mins) and then it just goes to 100% so fast.
During discharge, I have never seen it going below 50% ever. This is the second consistency. Looks like I only have few options. Give my battery to someone who has a bold and try out. It difficult to find one, because BB people dont like to do things like this :-) like kids.
Well, let's assume the battery is OEM and not fake.
The first rule of these Li-Ion batteries is not to consistently drain them below 15%. That kills or shortens the overall battery life quicker than normal. And yes, it is fact that charging from say ~5% to ~15% can take a while. Top off the battery during the day for 15 minutes when you can.
So, back to my instructions earlier last month. You did this "powered on and connected to charger" battery pull 3-4 times over the 3-4 days and you never noticed a difference in the charging behavior or drain?
PIN: C0001B7B4 Display/Scan Bar Code
PIN: C0005A9AA Display/Scan Bar Code
Thats correct. I have tried your steps several times of the last few weeks. I also noticed there are two variations and have tried both:
1. Pull the battery. Plug BB into wall charger --> a red LED lights up --> then put the battery in when the red-LED is stil lit up.
2. Pull the battery. Plug BB into wall charger --> a red LED lights up --> wait for some time --> BB shows a sign that indicates no bettery --> red LED goes off ---> the put in the battery.
Ok, sorry I couldn't help you. This, as I described, has worked in the past. I am not sure why your's is different.
PIN: C0001B7B4 Display/Scan Bar Code
PIN: C0005A9AA Display/Scan Bar Code
Hi,thankyou for this but it wont let me open the link on how to reset the blackberry battery meter, could you help?


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shipping a soft top
I live in Florida were I am using my hard top and my soft top is in Minnesota. I want to transport the soft from MN to FL. Are there any suggestions. It is very large even folded down. Is just boxing up and mailing UPS a good idea or should I hire a mover to drive it down (but that would be very expensive)? Thanks
Take it apart, it's still gonna be pretty big, but the less assembled it is, the smaller the package you can ship it in...
The factory top has bows that do NOT break down in the middle, so the bows can be too big to ship UPS/Fedex.
The aftermarket tops, and the MOPAR replacement tops, have bows that separate in the middle, and they can usually easily be put into a box and shipped UPS.
So if you have a factory top, there isn't a great option. You may need to box it as best you can, and take it to a freight company for shipping. Sometimes if you can deliver it to, and pick it up at, a freight yard, commercial shipping is not too expensive.
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Pros: Although each manufacturer tweaks its cards a little, this one should not be too different from other GTX 780 in terms of performance. And performance is really good. I didn't experience any problem playing games at 2560x1080. Some games, however, are not optimized for this resolution but that's not the card's fault. The main question is how quiet are the fans. I would say that the fans are relatively quiet when idling. All I can hear is my case fan. Based on the one game I played, I would also rate the cards' fans as quiet. They don't seem to spin that much faster when playing a game (or the fans are very quiet even at high speed).
Cons: Nothing to really complain about. I feel some heat when playing games. This is kind of annoying in summer but my guess is that other GTX 780 would generate as much heat. Necessary evil.
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Cons: A critical factor for HTPCs is noise. This thing is not silent. The fan however is extremely quiet and I haven't noticed it from the couch. Actually, I first thought that it was dead silent but when I came close to plug a USB stick I clearly heard the fan. I was very surprised as I didn't expect to hear the fan. But again, it's very quiet. The only reason why I'm mentioning this is for those interested in having this NUC on all the time in a bedroom. As quiet as it is, you will hear the fan. You should, however, keep in mind that in my case the fan may have been slightly louder than normal because I was playing videos.
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Although seven individuals related to the JBoss platform make up the core group of Bloomington, Minn.-based Core Developers Network, Fleury said JBoss LLC lost only two people to the new company. "There were two guys from the JBoss Group," that left, Fleury said. "One of the guys wanted to be partner, but hed only been there eight months."However, JBoss remains an interesting example of how open-source technology can be commercialized. The company has been in an ongoing skirmish with Sun Microsystems Inc. over whether it should be allowed to call the JBoss application server a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server when the software has not proven compliance through Suns testing process. Fleury has said the cost of the J2EE compliance test suite is prohibitive for his company. This has been a sore point with Sun. Yet, he said if the new Core Developers Network opts to pay to certify JBosswhich will be the source of much of the companys services revenuehe would welcome it. "If somebody certifies JBoss and I dont have to pay for it, Im happy," he said. Yet, in spite of being dismissive of the new Core group, Fleurys JBoss Group LLC may have more to be concerned about than he lets on. According to its Web site, the new group has developers who are expert in 11 software skill areas including JBoss. But Fleury said he sees little in the way of potential competition from the upstart. "They are a copy cat of our model," he said. "But they [the defectors] were not involved in the business and they were disgruntled. They also were not the sharpest ones" in the bunch, he added. "Its a very simple equation," Core Developers spokesman said. "We have a skill set and they have a skill set. Competition is a good thing. We believe the more people working on JBoss the better." Observers said the groups departure from JBoss LLC and the formation of the new companyall last weekwas timed intentionally so as to coincide with JavaOne and JBoss Two. Yet, the new companys spokesman would only say that Core Developers will be at JavaOne "launching the company and talking to people interested in working with us. Its nice that its around JavaOne."
In effect, Fleury said he is only losing two developersDain Sundstrom and David Jencks. "The impact in the project is zero. We lost two out of 90 read/write guys," he said. "And the two had six customers out of 175 to 200 we now have. And no customers are dropping their JBoss contracts."
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USMNT and Seattle Sounders star Clint Dempsey says he is cleared to play again
It's been almost six months since Clint Dempsey last played in a competitive game of soccer. In that span, his Seattle Sounders won MLS Cup without him, and the United States men's national team he once captained lived through a coaching change and a disastrous start to the final round of World CupFC Yahoo
Klinsmann's goalkeeper son named to US under-20 team
Jonathan Klinsmann, the son of fired US national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann, has been called into the American squad for the North American regional under-20 championship tournament. The younger Klinsmann, a goalkeeper for the University of California, was among five college players in the lineup,AFP
Bruce Arena has complicated job pulling together USMNT's World Cup qualifying roster
Arena has 40 or so players in mind for the next USMNT camp in March. The January camp did not make things simpler for Bruce Arena. If anything, it muddled up the picture he was trying to draw in his head about his United States men's national team and what shape it would take for the all-importantFC Yahoo
US drops to 29th in FIFA rankings as Argentina holds 1st
ZURICH (AP) -- The United State dropped one spot to 29th in the FIFA rankings following its first two games under coach Bruce Arena, and African champion Cameroon moved up 29 places to 33rd.The Associated Press
Morris fires USA to football friendly win over Jamaica
Jordan Morris struck in the 59th minute to lift the United States to a 1-0 friendly victory over Jamaica, the first victory of Bruce Arena's second spell as coach of the US men's football team. Arena returned to the job after Jurgen Klinsmann was sacked in November in the wake of two World CupAFP
Seven USMNT players who helped their cause in January camp
The United States men's national team's annual January camp has slogged to its conclusion. It crescendoed with friendlies against Serbia and Jamaica that were, well, not exactly high points. The Serbia game, in San Diego, was all the players' first in well over a month, if not two or three.FC Yahoo
USMNT beats Jamaica in friendly for first win of Second Bruce Arena Era
Morris ended the USMNT goal drought. It wasn't a victory for the ages exactly, but the United States men's national team notched its first win of 2017 with a 1-0 result against Jamaica on Friday, closing out January camp on a high note thanks to Jordan Morris's second-half goal. After the AmericansFC Yahoo
Bruce Arena criticizes USMNT predecessor Jurgen Klinsmann in interview
Bruce Arena, however, is a singularly blunt and honest man, and he's at a point in his life where he doesn't much care to mince his words. In a new Sports Illustrated profile, Arena was even more honest than usual, taking several swings at his predecessor and his methods. First, he went after the teamFC Yahoo
US coach Arena calls Trump travel restrictions 'sad'
US football national team manager Bruce Arena is the latest high-profile coach to criticize President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees and those seeking to enter America from seven majority-Muslim countries. "I think it's sad because one thing we do in our sport is that we are aAFP
Kljestan, Jones exit US camp ahead of Jamaica test
Chicago (AFP) - US midfielders Jermaine Jones and Sacha Kljestan were sent home from the team's training camp a day after the Americans' goal-less draw with Serbia, US coach Bruce Arena announced Monday.AFP
The biggest bright spots of the USMNT's scoreless draw with Serbia
Nagbe, Lletget, Kljestan and Feilhaber showed that creative American midfielders do exist. The American all-Major League Soccer team (sans Jorge Villafana of Liga MX's Santos Laguna) that is missing several key pieces from overseas is just three weeks into its preseason. It was the first game in BruceFC Yahoo
Arena makes US return in USA draw with Serbia
Bruce Arena was denied a triumphant return to US coaching duties Sunday as the Americans played Serbia to a goal-less draw in an international football friendly. A Serbian side with only three players over age 25 gave the Americans all they could handle at San Diego in an evaluation match for domesticAFP
USMNT posts scoreless tie with Serbia in first game of 2017 and second Arena era
Altidore was a focal point for Serbia's defenders. The United States men's national team made a sleepy start to the post-Jurgen Klinsmann era in San Diego on Sunday, playing to a workmanlike 0-0 stalemate against Serbia at Qualcomm Stadium. In Bruce Arena's first game back in charge after a decadeFC Yahoo
USA to host key World Cup qualifier at San Jose
San Jose was named Sunday by the US Soccer Federation as the site of a crucial World Cup qualifier for the bottom-table Americans against Honduras on March 24. It will be the first qualifier in this stint as coach for Arena, 65, who guided the Americans to the 2002 World Cup quarter-finals and in theAFP
US-Honduras World Cup qualifier in San Jose, California
The United States' World Cup qualifier against Honduras on March 24 will be played at Avaya Stadium in San Jose, California. This will be the first competitive match for the Americans since Bruce Arena began his second stint at U.S. coach. Arena replaced Jurgen Klinsmann in November after the AmericansThe Associated Press
Benny Feilhaber ready to make up for lost time with USMNT revival
Feilhaber, 32, last played for the USMNT in 2014. CARSON, Calif. – A confident, young Benny Feilhaber, having already sized up the situation, patiently waited for the ball to fall in front of him. Feilhaber didn't let the ball hit the Soldier Field grass.FC Yahoo
Eyes on World Cup as US coach Arena launches second coming
United States coach Bruce Arena will have his eyes firmly fixed on World Cup qualifying Sunday as he launches the first match of his second stint in charge with a friendly against Serbia. Arena, who returned to the helm last November following the sacking of Jurgen Klinsmann, has only two friendliesAFP
Bruce Arena announces 23-man USMNT roster for Serbia and Jamaica friendlies
After two weeks of training in uncharacteristically rainy Southern California, Bruce Arena whittled down his United States men's national team January camp roster from 29 to 23 players on Friday in preparation for friendlies against Serbia and Jamaica.FC Yahoo
Acosta, Hedges leave US training camp because of injuries
CHICAGO (AP) -- Dallas midfielder Kellyn Acosta and defender Matt Hedges have been dropped from the U.S. national team training camp because of injuries, and Vancouver midfielder Kekuta Manneh has left to join the Whitecaps for preseason training.The Associated Press
Tim Howard's apparent questioning of dual-nationals was naive and short-sighted
Howard walked back his comments about dual-nationals. Tim Howard said some things and then said he didn't mean those things. The longtime United States men's national team and short-time Colorado Rapids goalkeeper told USA Today in an interview published on Wednesday that part of the USMNT's recentFC Yahoo


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Elizabeth Mpofu speaks before 50,000 people at the "we are fed up" demonstration
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(Berlin, Germany, January 20, 2015) Speech of Elizabeth Mpofu, General Coordinator of La Via Campesina, in front of 50000 people at the we are fed up demonstration
My dear friends!
It is a pleasure and an honor for me to be here today in Berlin for this « We are fed up » demonstration. This was such a powerful march!! My name is Elizabeth Mpofu, I come from Zimbabwe, and I am the general coordinator of the international peasant movement called La Via Campesina. I am myself a small-holder farmer. As small farmers in La Via Campesina, from all over the globe, we are calling for Food Sovereignty, meaning, among other things, that we want and we need local food – and not industrialized and standardized food: we need a good quality food produced through indigenous agroecological farming systems, that respect life and the environment. Agroecological farming is the solution to climate change! And not climate smart agriculture!
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Via Campesina solidarity visit to Douro small wine growers
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La Via Campesina visits Douro small wine growers in solidarity with their struggle against exploitation by traders
(Porto, Portugal, 25 November 2014) On November 24th, 2014, following meetings of the LVC International Coordinating Committee (ICC) and the International Operative Secretariat (IOS), a La Via Campesina delegation, comprising 87 participants from 25 countries, visited vineyards owned by family farmers in the demarcated region of the Douro district. This field visit was organized by Confederação Nacional da Agricultura (CNA) and guided by one of its member organisations, AVIDOURO, an association of small wine growers.
According to La Via Campesina member organisation CNA, an association representing Portugese small to medium farmers, the biggest share of the subsidies paid in Portugal, about 70%, is received by only 5% of the farms. The remaining 30% is shared by the other 95% of farms, of which small and medium farms constitute the majority. Small and medium farmers, on the other hand, are heavily taxed.
UAWC Launches Bas Baladi Outlet Store
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For the marketing and selling of local Palestinian cooperatives' products
The Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) launched Bas Baladi outlet store for the marketing and selling of local Palestinian cooperatives' products, in the presence of The District Governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh Laila Ghannam, Ministry of Agriculture Representative Mr. Ibrahim Iktishat and a number of officials, partners, civil society representatives, women cooperatives and farmers. The activity is within SULALAH project. The Project is funded by the European Union (EU) as part of the Food Security Program in the occupied Palestinian territory. It is implemented by UAWC in partnership with Gruppo di Volontariato Civile (GVC), the Palestinian Hydrology Group for Water and Environmental Resources Development (PHG), Qatar Charity, LaoreSardegna, Jericho's Cooperative Association for Livestock Production and Altamerh's Cooperative Association for Livestock Development.
The District Governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh Laila Ghannam and UAWC's General Director Khalid Hidmi pointed at the importance of supporting the productive cooperatives especially the women cooperatives and market them to support the local products and boycott the Israeli goods. The manager of SULALAH project Grace Odeh emphasized that the activity aims to open new markets for the Palestinian farmers' cooperatives that were objected to several production trainings in order to produce according to the Palestinians quality standards. Odeh also highlighted that UAWC has supported many agricultural and livestock cooperatives in marketing their products in local, regional and international markets in the past years.
The World in Crisis: Synthesis of the First Working Day of the World Meeting of Popular Movements
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Rome, October 27th, 2014
Inspired by the contributions of the Italian political activist Antonio Gramsci, on the basis of a pessimistic analysis and an optimistic approach to action, we made the following observations:
- National and international Capital has launched an offensive to take over and privatise natural resources (Biodiversity, Water, Oxygen etc.) This offensive is mainly focused on mining installations and hydro-electric and nuclear power plants, all of which cause very serious problems - such as the destruction of the biomass, climate change, and evictions - as well as impinging directly upon the sovereignty of countries and of peoples.
- Seeds have been privatised and turned into commodities. Genetically modified plants, together with their accompanying toxic chemical inputs that poison and kill our peoples and the natural world, have been forced upon us.