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The Utilities Sector continues to encounter numerous fundamental challenges. Electricity demand continues to be stagnant in most parts of America, particularly residential demand, which has remained flat since 2006. This stagnation in demand is hurting companies while they also have to spend more capital to advance their systems. These heavy expenditures, when spread over low growth consumption, will lead to input cost increases, resulting in depressed margins and financial difficulties.
Wholesale power producers are also having difficulties in the face of the demand to offset low power prices and the rapid expansion of renewable energy. These combined challenges are prompting companies to reconsider existing strategies and think about new business models. Consequently, many companies continue to close coal and some nuclear plants. Entergy (NYSE:ETR), Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK), Edison International (NYSE:EIX) and Dominion (NYSE:D) have shut down nuclear plants in the face of these headwinds that are having an effect industry-wide.
Taking this turbulent environment into consideration, I have picked NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE), a company rising to meet challenges and generating steady growth. When researching companies, I keep my focus on its dividend stability by analyzing how their business plans, financial situations, and future prospects are likely to sustain dividends. This is how I approached NEE. I will also look at its peers group: and PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL) and Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC).
How NextEra Energy is a Safe Investment
NextEra Energy's operating performance is driven primarily by its two subsidiaries, Florida Power & Light Company [FPL] and NextEra Energy Resources [NEER]. FPL is one of the largest rate-regulated electric utilities in the U.S., serving about 4.6 million customers in Florida. NEER, jointly with affiliated entities, is the largest generator of renewable energy provided by the wind and sun in North America. So far, its development program and other initiatives to enhance productivity and reduce business costs are working.
At FPL, aggressive investment in the business is improving consistency, lowering fuel costs, reducing emissions, and enhancing the value proposition for its customers. FPL's average regulatory capital employed for the full year stands at $2.9 billion. In 2013, FPL effectively completed extended power upgrades to two nuclear facilities in Florida, making them the largest U.S. nuclear upgrade investments in history and adding 500 megawatts (MW) of clean, zero-emission generation to the FPL fleet. FPL continues to improve the electric grid with its Energy Smart Florida program. Further, the company has initiated a storm-hardening program to strengthen its infrastructure. Its modernized Cape Canaveral facility started operations, and the company is working on modernization of the Riviera Beach facility which is expected to schedule an in-service date in the second quarter of 2014. The construction of a modernized facility for the Port Everglades plant is underway as well, with an expected in-service date by mid-2016.
The company is also making more investments at NEER. NextEra Energy Resources increased around 375 MW of new U.S. and Canadian wind capacity to its account in 2013, boosting the overall size of the wind portfolio to 10,210 MW. In 2013, the company reached its highest level of wind production at almost 30 million megawatt hours of generation. NEER expects to bring around 2,000 and 2,500 MW of new contracted U.S. wind projects between now and 2015, of which 1,425 MW are already in place and running.
With its aggressive investment strategy to improve production, NextEra Energy is looking to generate 5% to 7% growth in 2014, and their recent year's result and investments justify these future projections. At the end of the 2013, NEE's net income was standing at $2.1 billion, an increase over the past year of $1.9 billion. For the full year o 2014, NEE is looking to generate EPS in the range of $5.05 to $5.45. Based on a payout ratio of 54% and predicted 5-7% growth in income, NextEra Energy's current dividend growth rate is sustainable.
I do not recommend investors initiate a position when the stock is trading at all time highs. Instead, investors must wait for any dip in the price before initiating a position. I do believe that holding a stock at this level can generate big profits and the company has solid growth plans in place to sustain its returns.
Where PPL stands
PPL Corporation is an energy and utility holding company that, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the generation and marketing of electricity in the northeastern and western parts of the U.S., as well as in the delivery of electricity to Pennsylvania and the U.K. With a diversified business model, its strategy is to optimize energy supply margins and mitigate near-term volatility in both earnings and cash flows. More explicitly, the company's strategy is to optimize value from its marketing portfolios remain highly competitive.
To do this, PPL is matching energy supplies with load-under contracts of different durations in conjunction with creditworthy counterparts. This enhances profits while efficiently managing exposure to energy and fuel price instability, operational risk and counterpart credit risk. With this strategy, the company has been generating strong top and bottom-line growth. On average, its revenue growth is about 18.2%, while the industry average remains at 1.6% over the past three years. The company has demonstrated this trend again in the recent year by generating earnings from ongoing operations of $1.59 billion, or $2.45 per share, that exceeded its forecasted range of $2.30 to $2.40 per share, on top of 2012 earnings from ongoing operations of $1.42 billion. The continued strong performance of its regulated business segments and its expectations for sustainable growth allowed the company to increase dividends to $0.3725 per share which takes the new annualized dividend to $1.49 from $1.47 per share.
PPL's operating cash flows are not providing cover to dividend payments due to massive capital expenditures. However, managing payout ratio of around 59%, its dividends look safe. Further, PPL looks undervalued to me as its stock is trading at only 12 time-to-earnings while the industry average is at 20.0. Overall, with its diversified business model, solid business strategy and strong top and bottom line growth, I believe PPL Corporation has the ability to sustain dividends.
Where Exelon Stands
Exelon Corp. is a utility services holding company engaged, through its subsidiaries ComEd, PECO and BGE, in the generation and energy delivery businesses. Exelon recently reduced its quarterly dividend by 41% to 0.31/share. The company reduced its dividend in order to make more payments and to lower debt levels. Obviously, divided cuts are not appreciated by investors, and this situation is no exception. The company's stock dipped to the lowest levels at the end of 2013. However, the stock has begun to exhibit some momentum and in the last month alone, it gained 10%. Exelon posted solid growth in earnings for the full year despite the challenging environment and the company is looking to generate operating earnings of $2.25 to $2.55 per share. I believe Exelon can prove to be a solid pick for patient investors as the company has solid upside potential and it is well-set to generate steady growth in earnings.
In conclusion
Though the industry has been encountering many challenges which forced companies to make massive investments in growth opportunities, NextEra Energy is one of the best companies operating in this industry. The company's recent investments set strong footprints for the future growth.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Sometimes people throw watermelons off thirty-story buildings just to see what they look like on impact (if you've ever watched David Letterman, you know what I mean). In response to that dark human desire to wreak havoc and watch disasters unfold before our eyes, a blogger over at fsckin w/ linux has recorded a video of the dreaded rm -rf command in action.
I've known for a long time to stay away from the short, sweet and simple "rm -rf /" command. It deletes every file on any writable filesystem mounted by a *nix system, but what exactly happens if you do run it?
Now you can find out! This was actually quite fun to watch — it has a catchy soundtrack.
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Selena has been at TechRepublic since 2002. She is currently a Senior Editor with a background in technical writing, editing, and research. She edits Data Center, Linux and Open Source, Apple in the Enterprise, The Enterprise Cloud, Web Designer, and IT Security blogs.

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The Cleveland Indians signed Nick Swisher to a four-year, $56 million deal on Sunday with a vesting option for a fifth season. Cleveland was the only serious suitor for Swisher, who preferred to play for a large market team like the Yankees, Angels, or Dodgers, but none had a spot for him in their budget this winter. Swisher will essentially be replacing Shin-Soo Choo, who was dealt to the Reds last week, in the Indians lineup and will join an outfield that includes Michael Brantley and the newly-acquired Drew Stubbs. If you essentially look at the situation as Cleveland upgrading from Shoo to Swisher, the team makes a substantial gain in power while losing some speed. Swisher has never failed to hit 20 homers in a season over his career, has walked at a double digit rate in all but one season of his career, and has never really dealt with any serious injury issues. In contrast, Choo has just two 20 homer seasons in his career and has played just three non-injury shortened seasons, but has four seasons in his career with as many stolen bases (12) as Swisher has in his entire career. But even with Choo staying healthy last year, the Indians didn't have a credible power threat in the lineup. No Indians player hit 20 homers, and they've added two (Swisher and Mark Reynolds) that did in 2012. By also inking Swisher to a relatively affordable four-year deal, the Indians retain some flexibility in moving him if things begin to go pear-shaped quickly. The return they got for Choo (essentially, Stubbs and Trevor Bauer) was impressive considering his injury-plagued 2011 and his lack of power in 2012. If Swisher can continue to put together the seasons he has in recent memory, the Indians could easily spin him off to another team for prospects if the team doesn't gel like they're expecting in 2013 and 2014. Another potential advantage to the signing is Swisher's experience at first base. With Reynolds signed for just 2013, the Indians could move Swisher to first in 2014 if his defense deteriorates in the outfield to the point where he needs to shift to the infield. Or hell, they could even throw him in at first and let Reynolds DH some of the time this year, as the team still doesn't have a solid option there after finally walking away from Travis Hafner. After having some questions about Cleveland's offseason after the Winter Meetings ended, I'm a little more optimistic about what the Indians have done going into the new year. They've upgraded the offense with Swisher and Reynolds and upgraded the pitching staff with Bauer, while really just giving up Choo's final year of control and adding to a payroll that doesn't have a lot of sizable commitments for 2013. Even with Swisher's $14 million being added, the Indians are at just $38 million in payroll for this season, though they still have seven players to deal with in arbitration. By my math, Cleveland is looking at about $22 million in raises to those seven players, putting their payroll at $60 million, $5 million less than it was in 2012. If the team can trade closer Chris Perez and/or shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, they'll have even more financial flexibility to potentially go after a starting pitcher. The Indians probably aren't a contender in 2013 despite the Swisher signing, but they're not in a bad spot for 2014 with just Reynolds (and a couple of relievers, Joe Smith and Matt Albers) hitting free agency after the season. This signing kind of reminds me of Washington's signing of Jayson Werth a couple of winters ago, but the Swisher signing appears to be a lot more favorable to the Indians than the Werth signing has been thusfar to the Nationals. [follow]
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text: Super Slow-Motion Fireworks Explosions: The Best Way to Love America (Updated)Brian Barrett7/01/11 10:00am38EditPromoteGo to permalinkIn the timeless battle between fireworks and food, there's only ever been one clear winner: those of us who get to watch them meet at a gloriously slowed down 2,000 frames per second. Jell-O! Mayo! Egg! All exploded for our pleasure, compliments of PopSci.


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"Save America's Treasures" has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington's tent.
65% of Americans don't know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
The "Teaching American History" grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
40% of Americans can't identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
"There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country," John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
The "We the People Program," which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
From her chaplain's diary comes this graphic story of the final sea battle of America's famous frigate
Several years ago the Indiana University family voted to collect fines from professors who parked overtime on the campus. The money raised was turned over to the University library to buy additions to its special collections. Among the first purchases made, for the University's War of 1812 Collection, was the manuscript journal which served as the basis for the story which is printed here.Read more »
Too many of our wonderful historic ships have been lost, but funds recently appropriated by Congress will help to see a major part of our history belayed—tied down, secure.
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It was a bright day for the Republic, that afternoon of May 15, 1815, when the U.S.S. Constitution victoriously dropped anchor oil the Battery at New York. Of all the gala homecomings that Castle Clinton's low brown walls would witness in the next century and a half, none would be charged with more patriotic fervor. Read more »
So roared Captain Isaac Hull as Old Ironsides closed in mortal combat with the British frigate Guerrière. On the accuracy of his prediction hung all of America's naval prestige in 1812
July 16, 1812: The United States of America had been at war with Great Britain for twenty-eight days. The American frigate Constitution , 44 guns, was at sea, on a passage from Washington, where she had refitted, to New York. There she was to join the squadron of Commodore John Rodgers, to cruise against British commerce.
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The Longer Women Are Obese, Higher Their Risk Of CancerThe study, published in PLOS Medicine journal Tuesday, is reportedly the first to examine the link between obesity duration and cancer risk in a large group of women.
15.5 Million Americans Are Cancer SurvivorsAs of Jan. 1, 2016, more than 15.5 million Americans have a history of cancer; in 2026, this number will reach more than 20 million.
Women Over 50 Need Sunshine To Avoid CancerHigher levels of vitamin D in the blood is associated with a reduced risk of cancer in women over the age of 55.
Walking Is More Important Than You May ThinkLace up your shoes, get on your feet, and take a step toward a healthier life April 6, National Walking Day.
Eating Before Bedtime May Up Risk Of Breast Cancer RecurrenceLonger fasting times at night may protect women against the recurrence of breast cancer: study.
Searching 'Junk' DNA To Find A Gene That Prevents CancerA strand of non-coding RNA — transcribed from a stretch of junk DNA — prevents cells from turning cancerous: study.
Breast Cancer Rates Stable, Except Among Black And Asian WomenBreast cancer rates among African-American women match those of white women, yet rates among Asian women have increased dramatically.
Minority Women Don't Get The Breast Cancer Treatment They DeserveBlack women are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer later and receive inappropriate treatment when compared to white women.
The Taller You Are, The Higher Your Cancer RiskFor every 10-centimeter increase in height, cancer risk increases by 18 percent in women and 11 percent in men: study.
Shift Work May Be Linked To Cancer, But It's Necessary In A Modern WorldA new study in mice provides evidence that irregular sleep patterns may lead to cancer, suggesting night work may be especially harmful to at-risk women.
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i have had my blackberry bold for around 8 weeks now. I went shopping yesterday and put my mobile in my handbag it had a bumper case on. When i went to take my phone out of my handbag to use it the screen was cracked. Its still in full working order and hasnt got any other mark on it. I dont think it should have happend after 8 weeks of having it and i dont think it is unresonable or reckless to put a mobile in a handbag so im thinking it maybe had a fault in the screen. its on contract ith o2 and am not sure what to do nxt. will it still be under warrenty???
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Any external damage that was caused to the device due to use is not under warranty.
It is taken under warranty only if there is a manufacturing defect.
Though I doubt that your device will be covered under warranty, you may go to the nearest official blackberry or your service providers service center and check with them.
ok thanks, so if i hav to buy a new screen how much do they cost and would it be better to go through blackberry or o2?
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I dont really have an accurate figure. But it should be around a 100$
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If clean, renewable, community energy continues to expand, the arguments to restart nuclear power plants and build new coal power plants will no longer hold sway in Fukushima.
Over a span of decades, hundreds of thousands of pounds of C-8 was dumped by DuPont into the Ohio River, where it found its way into the area's drinking water.
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Alexandria, VA – Today, four Iraqi victims tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison urged a federal district court to reject attempts by private military contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc. (CACI) to have their lawsuit for the contractor's role in their torture dismissed. Attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued the case on behalf of their clients.
US military investigators determined that in 2004 CACI's employees participated in "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses" of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The district court's 2013 dismissal of the case was overturned in June by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that torture survivors could sue a US corporation involved in torture and other war crimes in US courts under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). CACI now argues that the question of whether it can be held accountable for its established role in the torture is a "political question" unreviewable by the courts. The district court rejected CACI's initial effort to have the case dismissed as a political question in 2009.
According to the old joke, an 800-pound gorilla sleeps anywhere it wants to. When it comes to the expansion of Too Big To Fail institutions in this country, we now have more than one 800-pound gorilla in the room, and all of them have been gaining weight rapidly since 2007. Far from being tamed in their appetites and slimmed down in their corpulence by remedial legislation, these institutions have been engaged in a financial binge of almost breathless proportions.
To learn more about the five largest financial institutions and their effect on the US Financial System checkout the infographic below created by New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Mary O'Callaghan, an 18-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, will stand trial in mid February of this year for the July 2012 death of 33-year old Aleasia Thomas. Charged with Abuse Under Color of Authority, O'Callaghan possibly faces a maximum of one year in county jail and/or a fine of $10,000 if convicted.
Thomas left her two small children at the 77th Street Division of the Los Angeles Police Department around 2 a.m. the morning of July 22, 2012. The children reportedly had a note with them that said their grandmother should be called.
Last night, members of The Chicago Light Brigade, Project NIA, and Chicago Torture Justice Memorials gathered with friends and allies outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's house to demand reparations for acts of torture committed by former police Commander Jon Burge and his "midnight crew." An ordinance that would provide $20 million in compensation to Burge's victims has the support of the majority of the city council, but as a matter of political convenience, the measure has been left to languish in the Finance Committee.
Listening to Garett Reppenhagen describe how he felt the first time he shot someone is like listening to an addict talk about their first time injecting heroin. "I leveled my M-4, put him in my iron sights, and took three shots. One of them hit him center mass and he went down in the middle of the road. I had this instant sense of satisfaction, overwhelming excitement and pride. It was really kind of an ecstatic feeling that I had."
I had just seen the film American Sniper, the revisionist history popcorn propaganda piece of myth making and nationalistic war porn being sold to us by Bradley Cooper, Clint Eastwood, and screenwriter Jason Hall an apolitical character study. I wanted to talk with an actual American Sniper, and Garett was generous enough to pick up the phone.
Washington, DC – A large and ideologically diverse coalition of civic organizations called upon (PDF) Congress today to approve the "Strengthen House Floor Integrity Resolution," sponsored by US Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-N.H.), that would end a special privilege enjoyed by former lawmakers who are now registered lobbyists: access to the US House floor during ceremonial events.
The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, approved by Congress in the wake of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, applied a ban on access to the House floor for lobbyists to members-turned-lobbyists as well. However, an exemption in both House and Senate rules allows members-turned-lobbyists to access the floor during "ceremonial" events, such as the State of the Union address. At this year's State of the Union address, at least one former member-turned-lobbyist was prominently featured on national television visiting with colleagues and networking throughout the floor of the House.
Part I - The Historical Precedent
In the spring of 1793, France, then at war with Great Britain, sent a new ambassador to the United States. His name was Edmond Charles Genet (aka Citizen Genet). His instructions were to undermine the neutral position President George Washington had taken in the conflict. To this end Genet, who had the backing of anti-British elements within the American population, went about subverting peace by commissioning American ships to act as privateers against British commercial vessels. He also tried to provoke hostilities between Americans living along the western borders and the Spaniards (then allies of Great Britain) in Florida and Louisiana. This meddling in the internal affairs of the United States was quickly recognized as dangerous, and Washington demanded that France recall Genet.
If you have ever read Edgar Allen Poe's gruesome stories you may recall feelings of horror like those which made me, still a youngster, cringe and shudder. I have similar feelings when I hear of bloodthirsty, barely-hidden "concerts" by German "Neo-Nazis", which too often lead to violence against subjects of their hatred: hippy-type leftist youngsters called "ticks" (their vocabulary), but above all people with other accents, clothes or skin colors.
Such groups, present all over the map, seem strongest in southeastern Saxony, northeastern Mecklenburg and the western Ruhr region, all areas plagued by unemployment, especially among young people.
Washington DC - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is providing $330 million of financing to aid Ebola-impacted countries. The plan includes $170 million of debt relief and grant-like aid for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The new plan also expands a debt relief facility previously used to cancel debt after Haiti's 2010 earthquake. The new expanded facility, the Catastrophe Containment Relief Trust (CCR), is now a permanent debt relief facility for the world's poorest countries when they experience shocks such as epidemics or natural disasters.
"This aid is so vital for the countries affected by Ebola," said Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of the religious anti-poverty organization Jubilee USA Network. "Now we have a permanent debt relief vehicle for when the poorest countries face certain crises. Essentially, a global social safety net is now in place to protect the least developed countries when they experience disasters."
Washington, D.C. – Reforming the flow of money into politics and revitalizing democracy requires a new framework: a focus on enhancing political opportunity, concludes a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and New America. Such a principle would both engage the public and lead to the creation of policy proposals that are both effective and achievable.


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"You know, art can be something which can really disempower people, or it can be a vehicle which can empower people."
"I took the image of Masha Bruskina from one of the most famous series of photographs of World War II. It shows a young woman, and others- Russian partisans who were victims of the Gestapo. They were not tried- just as it seems to be with our prisoners in Guantanamo. I have been so moved by that photograph and, knowing what it was, I have used it a lot."
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into the
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+ In the section above, we have run 'forrest seed' in an empty directory. If you + have an existing codebase which you wish to add Forrest docs to, run 'forrest + seed' in your project base directory, and the Forrest doc structure will be + grafted onto your project. ++
+ If your project already has XML documentation, it may be easier to tell + Forrest where it lives, rather than rearrange your project directories to + accommodate Forrest. This can be done by editing forrest.properties. Consult + the Changing the layout section for + more details. ++
+ Having seeded a project with template docs, you will now want to customize it + to your project's needs. Here we will deal with configuring the skin, and + changing the project layout. +
- In the section above, we have run 'forrest seed' in an empty directory. If you - have an existing codebase which you wish to add Forrest docs to, run 'forrest - seed' in your project base directory, and the Forrest doc structure will be - grafted onto your project. --
- Having seeded a project with template docs, you will now want to customize it
- to your project's needs. Most Forrest skins can be customized through a single
- XML file,
src/documentation/skinconf.xml, which (minus its DTD)
- looks like this:
+ Most Forrest skins can be customized through a single XML file,
src/documentation/skinconf.xml, which (minus its DTD) looks
+ like this:
- Now you can start adding content of your own, in - src/documentation/content/xdocs. --
- Whenever adding a new file, you should add an entry to that directory's
book.xml file. book.xml is like a site index, and is rendered as
- the vertical column of links in the default skin. Each directory below xdocs/
- should have it's own book.xml, with links suitably adjusted. Have a look at
- Forrest's own xdocs for an example.
- The
tabs.xml file is used to produce the 'tabs' in the top-left
- corner of the default skin. Tabs allow users to quickly just to sections of
- your site. Again, consult Forrest's own docs for a usage example.
- Images usually go in src/documentation/resources/images/. The default sitemap
- maps this directory to
images/, so image tags will typically look
- like <figure src="images/project-logo.png" alt="Project Logo"/>
- Armed with only the techniques described above, it is quite easy to generate a - basic Forrest site. This section deals with more advanced customizations and - techniques that can make Forrest development much easier. --
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For a simple site, Forrest's default directory layout may seem rather cumbersome. Forrest allows you to place files anywhere you want in your @@ -397,20 +366,513 @@
- In comparison to simpler tools like Anakia, - Cocoon's command-line mode (and hence Forrest) is painfully slow. --
- As the dream list notes, Forrest was - originally intended to be used for dynamic sites, and the Cocoon crawler used - only to create static snapshots for mirroring. --
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Saturated Fat 40.7 g203.5%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 161 mg53.7%
Sodium 3120.8 mg130%
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How This Shitty Jet Could Provide 23 Years of Free College for Everyone|
One failed jet vs. providing higher education to two generations.
$1.45 trillion is a lot of money. That's the estimated total cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which can't even fire its own gun until 2019 due to software issues. It's also the estimated cost of providing tuition-free public higher education for every student in the US until 2039. Which one would you choose?
The F-35 is the epitome of Pentagon waste and cronyism. The US has already spent roughly $400 billion on the jet, made by top defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The Pentagon has already promised to buy 2,443 jets for the Air Force, Navy, and Marines in an effort to "modernize" the current fleet of fighter jets.
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Along with weapons issues, the F-35 can't even fly — its fleet was grounded for month in June of 2014 after engine malfunctions resulting in the jet catching fire before takeoff. Since 2007, the F-35 has been grounded 13 times due to takeoff issues. In 2008, the RAND corporation tested the F-35 in a simulated air battle with China, and graded the F-35's performance as "double-inferior," warning in its report that the F-35 "can't turn, can't climb, can't run."
To truly illustrate the astonishing waste behind the F-35, this interview with Pierre Sprey, the man who designed the F-16 fighter jet, reveals the inefficiency and stupidity that led to the F-35 project:
On the other hand, the estimated cost of tuition-free college for all US students enrolled in public colleges and universities is approximately $62 billion, when accounting for all tuition dollars paid at those schools. That's actually $7 billion less than the federal government spent on federal aid programs for college students in 2013. If we were to do away with the F-35 program, completely revamp the way our government funds higher education, and start from scratch, we could allocate $62 billion in funding for tuition-free college every year for the next 23 years.
That education would also pay for itself over time, providing additional financial resources as a new crop of highly-skilled graduates enter the workforce. Those graduates would be free from having to make monthly payments on student debt, allowing them to have more disposable income to spend in local economies. And as economists have consistently shown, more money circulating in local economies means more demand for local businesses, which means more jobs created.
The choice is clear — free college makes a hell of a lot more sense than an expensive jet that doesn't work.
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|Finely chopped onion
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Paul Blackburn's Proensa may not be the ideal place to start for someone interested in a historical, contextual understanding of the culture of the troubadours of Occitan, but as an entry into the poetry itself – almost surely the best way to start the subject – wow. Blackburn's enthralling 1978 anthology gives us the glorious thing itself: a chronological arrangement of nearly 100 selections from 30 poets culled from the more than 2,000 works, by over 400 11th – 13th century troubadours, that have survived to the present. Proensa also includes a brief introduction, the vidas (lives) and razos (reasons) that make up the poets' extant biographical material, a helpful bibliography and some 50 pages of endnotes nearly as entertaining as the poems. For basic knowledge of how the tradition came about, what the troubadours did, as well as definitions of the vers, cansos, tensos, sirventes, partimen, albas, coblas, estampinas and other poetic forms they used, one may need to search beyond the book. But small matter: as an introduction to the poetry, Proensa is exciting, the kind of work that could initiate a life-long interest or ignite a scholarly career.
Blackburn's selections range across an astonishing variety of the themes, styles, and even personalities of his songsters. The image of the troubadour strumming a lute beneath a beloved's window goes right out the window as one encounters the timid and the bold, the sincere and flippant, the romantic and the lecherous (often in the same person), kings and orphans, monks and married couples, even the trobairitz, the female troubadours, one of many paths Blackburn leaves for further investigation.
This is one wild and shaggy, vivacious, rich and constantly surprising set of poems. The selections demonstrate a great deal of self-reflexivity, authorial intrusion, experimentalism with style, use of double-entendre and a particular attention to and even debate about poetic construction: a constant reminder that there's little new under the sun. For example, with Blackburn's earliest poet, Guillem IX, one turns the page and runs smack into an 11th century Jerry Seinfeld:
I shall make a vers about
downright nothing, not
about myself or youth or love
or anyone.
I wrote it horseback dead asleep
while riding in the sun.
Guillem goes on to aim his apostrophe, as courtly troubadours are wont to do, to a lady - but to whom exactly?
I have a friend, I don't know who
for I have never seen her. So
she treats me neither well nor ill,
I do not say I blame her.
These are by and large composers proud of their work but who nonetheless don't take themselves too seriously. One finds a frequent combination of bombast and self-mockery. Marcabru, one of the more renowned of the poets, begins a poem:
Now here this!
How our song
betters itself,
always at thrust
how, following his distinct grasp, Marcabru
knows how to weave
subject and theme,
to so accord the vers that no man can
pluck from the line
a word.
But in a subsequent verse Marcabru views himself more as channeler, suggesting that the poet's aim lies in the etymological origin of "troubadour" from the verb trobar, or "to find" as much as to create the ideal sound and sense of his composition:
He knows not from whence it moves
who made the vers and dances it.
Marcabru has made the dance
but does not know who started it.
The wide renown of these poets, the degree to which they played off of one another's work, as well as the vital way in which the tradition of trobar resulted from such interactions get reflected in many of the poems. The Monk of Montaudon, for instance, offers a series of strophes devoted to assessing (and largely dismissing) the work of each of the Monk's troubadour rivals, such as the hapless
En Tremolet, the catalan who
makes his tunes so easy and plain
and his songs too, but
he's nothing: combs
his hair on top as if he had some
thirty years he's wanted to make albas
and's made nothing but the grimiest smut.
A playfully competitive awareness of the need for criticism also frequently appears, as in another of Marcabru's poems:
No doubt at all,
I'll take him on as critic,
who'll call the meaning, in my song,
of each word,
who's analytic, who
can see the structure of the vers unfold.
I know it'll sound absurd, but
I'm often doubtful and go wrong myself
in the explication of an obscure word.
Arnaut Daniel, another poet, offers his own self-reflexive example of the craft of composition that many troubadours bring within their poems:
On this gay and slender tune I put and polish words and plane
and when I've passed the file they'll be
precise and firm.
In terms of subject matter, the poems range widely. While some of the vidas hint at the religious schisms and holy crusades going on at the time, the poems seldom dwell on religious themes, or at least of those that indicate devotion. Guillem IX, in a poem of leave-taking, expresses an ambiguous attitude towards God more concerned with being bereft of worldly pleasures than with any promise of Paradise:
Gaily I lived. Now God no longer cares for it:
being half-dead, even I no longer desire it.
All ceremony quit, all loving habit:
if God love me, whatever comes, I welcome it.
Friends, at my demise come do me honor:
since I've taken my pleasure all over the neighborhood.
All gracious show I leave, joys of love and table,
two kinds of grey fur, also sable.
Even The Monk of Montaudon is not nearly as pious as his name might suggest. Finding himself in Paradise, Montaudon converses with the Lord, who wants the monk to stop wasting away in a monastery and go off to fight in His name. But citing the example of a king who pursued such a course, the monk objects:
'Why'd You let him be put in prison?
Now the Saracen fleet under full
sail makes headway – you ignore it –
and if it makes rendezvous in Acre
the Turks will make short work of that!
Anyone would have to be an idiot
to follow YOU into battle.'
The great majority of Blackburn's poets, however, aim their poems at loves near and far, since paying court is central to entire troubadour tradition. Proensa contains no shortage of seductive (and usually hyperbolic) appeals. But by and large, the plaintive and melancholic strains quickly turn, sometimes in the same strophe, to outright lust.
Thus Pere Vidal can write more or less purely:
Lady cure me, don't
stand and watch me die, a Lazarus,
of this sweet sickness.
My running away from it's no good.
My eyes play tricks.
When I leave
I see your beauty before me upon all the roads,
can neither go
nor go back.
May I die accused in hell
if I had the whole world, but lacked
and things stood well.
The poet Cadenet, more typically, brings things down to earth:
I've never seen any
horizontal lover
who liked dawn.
Jaufré Rudel de Blaia may best embody the troubadour's love from afar by addressing himself to a lady from Tripoli he knows only from descriptions shared by traveling pilgrims. According to his Vida, he managed to secure passage on a ship to Tripoli, became deathly ill, yet regained consciousness just long enough to find himself in his beloved's arms before expiring. One of his poems written prior to this sad fate begins, like many of these troubadours' works, by enlisting spring in the service of love:
When the days are long in May
it's good,
soft birdsong from afar
and when the melody leaves me
I remember my love afar.
I've been bent and thoughtful with desire until
hawthorn and flowers & all that song
mean no more to me than snow in winter.
Marcabru begins a poem with a similar evocation of spring:
In April around Easter the streams grow clear
and in the groves, leaves burgeon above the blossoms.
Gentle, with gentle pleasure, gently
pure love comforts me.
However, Marcabru's appeal to the season to create an inviting atmosphere is more typical of these poems, which often quickly decline into rough expressions of disappointment when the hoped-for love is frustrated. A mere nine lines later, Marcabru's tone has changed dramatically:
God down and damn eternally pied love and curse forever
all that it stands for! The drunk at least takes pleasure
in his letch – through if he drink too much
it drains his vigor.
Perhaps the most audacious approach is that of Bertrand de Born, a powerful viscount "who had this habit of stirring up war among the nobles." Though de Born also begins a poem with a paean to spring, he gets right to the heart of things immediately in a way that probably hasn't been improved upon in 800 years: "SPRING IS A JUICE!" And as though to mock the sentimentality of someone like de Blaia, de Born turns the season into an occasion not for love, but for war and conquest:
Pawn your castles, lord,
pawn your towns and cities!
Before you're beat to the draw
unsheath those swords!
Papiols, rejoice and go
with all haste to Oc-e-No
and tell him that we've got too much
damned PEACE down here!
Despite the plethora of proclamations of love, it need hardly be said that women, on the whole, get treated rather poorly in these poems, one moment set upon a pedestal only to be in the next accused of faithlessness, dissembling, and worse, often in the rawest language (as translator, Blackburn does not hold back, observing in a note that "If [raw language] was good enough for the 9th duke of Aquitaine, it's good enough for you"). Surprisingly, though, several of the male troubadours attempt poems from a woman's point of view, or demonstrate that women can give as good as they get. Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, for example, offers a back and forth dialogue between a Provençal suitor and a Genoese lady who isn't having any of it:
YOU THINK you're being courtly, joglar?
What you think you're asking for?
Wouldn't do it anyway, not if I
saw you were going to be hanged and quartered.
A friend of yours? – Look, I'd prefer
better to cut you up instead.
O, very tough luck, Provensal.
Here are some sweet nothings for you:
You cruddy dope, bald-headed asshole!
Think I'd ever love you? Never!
I've even got a husband better
looking. Clear off, you swine!
I don't know you and I'm better off,
I like it fine.
Blackburn, however, reports that the poem may be seen as mocking the woman, "a joke at the expense of the Genoese dialect" (and adds, in one of his typically wry notes, that he first tried to "do the lady's stanzas in a kind of stage Italian-American: 'I'ma goona slitta you throat' etc., it was too embarrassing, and I settled for a tough New Yorkese tone'").
Though at least one of the anonymous selections appears to be from a female troubadour, the only definite example of the trobairitz in the volume is Beatriz de Dia. It's too bad, as more poems like hers would help one from wanting to whack some of these male troubadours over the head with their stringed instruments. In any case, hers is a refreshing perspective:
I have been in heavy thought
over a cavalier I'd had.
I want it clear to everyone
that I've loved him to excess,
and now I see he's left me: pre-
text, I refused him my love.
I seem to be mistaken, then,
as to what was going on,
dressed or in bed.
Needless to say, I found Proensa enchanting, a wonder of marvelous poetic conceits and lines. I've conclude with two passages that demonstrate the poems' tonal range. The first is a rather somber few lines from Aimeric de Belenoi:
The full rich fact remains
that my heart in its clumsiness cannot fulfill.
So I suffer
a pain so great
it should be credited me as feat
having borne, having overborne it.
And finally, I'll leave off with a passage from Peire D'Alvernhe, who seems to sum up the critical, self-deprecating joy to be found in this rich tradition and this delightful book:
My tune is of troubadours who sing variously,
and the worst believe he chants nobly.
I wish they would go somewhere else:
two hundred shepherds
trying to pipe
and not a damn one knows whether the tune
rises or descends.