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Abandoned vehicle. 11:57 a.m. 0 block of Via De La Mesa. An older, beige Mercedes with a towel over the window had been at the location since Saturday.
Hit and run parked car report. 11:40 a.m. Antonio Parkway and Via Honesto. A hit and run accident was reported in a church parking lot.
Suspicious person/circumstance. 12:06 a.m. 0 block of El Canto. A person wearing a black hoodie in the pool area was making noise at the trash bin or doing something with the furniture.
Suspicious person/circumstance. 9:51 p.m. 0 block of Escarlata. A caller wanted deputies to contact her sister about threats made by the owner of the house that her father is living in. The owner had called the caller's sister and said he was going to show up at the house with a gun and shoot everybody. The sister didn't want anyone contacting the father about the threats because he was unaware of them and is old and frail.
Suspicious person/circumstance. 9:17 p.m. Santa Margarita Parkway and Antonio Parkway. A caller wanted deputies to check for an 18- to 20-year-old man in a dark sweatshirt who was walking around the parking lot looking agitated and looking into vehicles.
Annoying phone call. 7:01 p.m. 200 block of Aliento. A man reported that his ex-girlfriend was calling him and his new wife nonstop.
Vandalism report. 4:22 p.m. 31800 block of Wagon Wheel Lane. A woman reported that her house was egged Saturday.
Disturbance. 1:26 p.m. 100 block of Timbre. A caller reported that the upstairs neighbor was banging on the floor and walls causing her property to shake and things to fall off the wall.
Hit and run parked car. 8:24 p.m. Aventura and Avenida Empresa. A man, who was with an off duty sergeant, reported that someone just hit a vehicle and fled on foot.
Disturbance. 6:58 p.m. 22400 block of Alma Aldea. A woman reported that the down stairs neighbor was knocking on her door and yelling because they were upset that the woman's washing machine was leaking into their apartment.
Disturbance. 6:58 p.m. 22400 block of Alma Aldea. Three men were fighting near the main entrance. No weapons were seen.
Disturbance-music or party. 3:49 a.m. 0 block of Rabano. A loud party, with several people on the patio smoking drugs, was reported.
Disturbance. 2:46 a.m. 0 block of Via Amistosa. A woman reported that a muscle built tattoo artist was trying to beat up her brother.
Investigate person down. 4:42 p.m. La Promesa and Alma Aldea. A caller reported that a homeless man fell down and hasn't gotten up.
Suspicious person/circumstance. 3:26 p.m. Santa Margarita Parkway and Antonio Parkway. A caller reported that a man with a green T-shirt and a dog on a leash was carrying a rifle inside a trash bag.
Municipal code violations. 1:23 p.m. 0 block of Sendero. A resident was dumping carpet cleaner down the drain.
Indecent exposure. 10:52 a.m. 31400 block of Santa Margarita Parkway. A caller reported a 40-year-old man behind the old liquor store.
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72 and 36 Cell Greenhouse Kits
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An easy way to start seeds indoors!
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Grow perfect seedlings every time with our original Burpee Greenhouse Kit. Each cell measures approximately 1.5" (w) by 1.5" (l) and 2"(h), are perfect for starting any herb, flower or vegetable. Tested and approved by Burpee experts.
36-Cell Kit measures 10"(w) x 10"(l), while the 76-Cell Kit measures 10"(w) x 20"(l). Both include:
Planting Tray (2 36 cell trays for 72 cell kit)
Watering Tray
36 72 Burpee Super Growing Pellets
Clear Greenhouse Dome
Plant-O-Grams (diagram charts 2 for 72 cell kit)
6 4" Plant Markers
1 oz. Espoma Organic Fertilizer
Expert Tip: Place Super Growing Pellets flat-side down, and add warm water slowly for maximum expansion.
Recommended for use with 9" x 19.5" Seedlings Heat Mat.
36-Cell Kit measures 10"(w) x 10"(l), while the 76-Cell Kit measures 10"(w) x 20"(l). Both include:
Expert Tip: Place Super Growing Pellets flat-side down, and add warm water slowly for maximum expansion.
Recommended for use with 9" x 19.5" Seedlings Heat Mat.
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72 and 36 Cell Greenhouse Kits is rated out of 5 by 25.
Rated 1 out of 5 by Saspriggins from Did not grow My pellets did not grow after reapplying warm water a second time and waiting 24 hours. Approximately 4 pellets expanded.
Date published: 2017-02-08
Rated 1 out of 5 by John Vangorder from Worst purchase ever Bought this kit to start growing my own sets after a long bout of bad health. I remember when I used to purchase Burpee products exclusively for my gardens. No more. Soil cylinders have been soaking for 24 hours with no expansion. Barely 1/3 of pod is full,not enough to plant a radish in, if I could penetrate the cylinder. The wicking setup looks like a great idea and I always had good luck with domes to germinate. I will try a competitors soil-less medium and hop for the best at this point. Such a disappointment from a formerly proud company
Date published: 2017-02-03
Rated 5 out of 5 by dave360 from The Best for Starting Seeds! I have been using these for five years now and I think they are truly great. I think this is the first review I have ever written for anything, at least that I can recall, but I was so surprised by all the negative reviews that I felt I needed to add my input. I pour near-boiling water from a tea kettle over the pellets (flat side down) and they pretty much all expand instantly. I use enough to get them to puff up, then go back through with a fork to fluff/mix/redistribute/level the growing mix, then add a little more water to hit any dry spots and saturate everything well. I have never had the problems others are complaining of. The mix is sterile, doesn't easily mold, and has a great success rate. The seedlings are easy to remove and transplant to paper cups once they get going. I start tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants primarily. I like the small size of the cells as it lets me fit a lot of seedlings into a small area. I keep them on a table in the sun during the day and on the mantle at night. I have found this to work better than trying to keep them out of sunlight while germinating. I usually get these at Tractor Supply, but I decided to look online to see if I could just order a case of the pellets and re-use the plastic trays/covers. I have not had anywhere near the success with other similar products for germinating seeds.
Date published: 2016-03-20
Rated 3 out of 5 by Fox Fyr from Resuable if careful To make this system work best, I dump all the growing mix in a large plastic container, then add water and mix until everything expands, and then spoon the growing medium back into the individual cells. Otherwise, the growing medium does not expand properly. With proper care, I can reuse the cells next year with other growing mix. The self watering feature is great as long as you lift the pots to pour in additional water. It cannot, however, hold a lot of weight. I tried repotting my seedlings into large pots and then setting the pots on the self-watering capillary mat but the weight of the pots crushed the plastic supports. Still using them this year for seed starts but looking for a stronger self-watering system.
Date published: 2016-02-22
Rated 5 out of 5 by PNK1 from Used these for years and reuse them every winter I've used every type on the market and these worked great for me every time. I use to tear them up or leave them out and they would get damaged. Now I clean them a store and they last. But they alway's do good on my plants but many others do to.
Date published: 2016-01-29
Rated 1 out of 5 by DTAUB from Terrible product This is the first time I used this seed starting kit and it will be my last! I lost a whole season of plants because of them. I only wish I had read the reviews before I bought. I've been starting my own plants for many years with another brand product and have never had an issue. Everything the previous posters said about these kits is true. The main issue was that I had extremely poor germination and growth. I know my seeds were good. Those that did germinate did not grow well. I finally resorted to transplanting the few plants that germinated into another medium and then they grew, but by then it was too late to save my season. I had to buy started plants, and I don't like to do that. Not only was I out the plants, but also the money I paid for seed and for the four 36 cell kits I had bought. Needless to say I am extremely disappointed and will never buy another starter kit from Burpee again.
Date published: 2015-11-25
Rated 2 out of 5 by juicelee from Meh Out of the 72 cells, I think about 2, maybe 3 actually expanded...Kind of a disappointment. I left a bunch of warm water inside the tray with the hopes that they might expand overnight, and I went ahead and sowed my seeds anyways. Worst case scenario, I have to resow in the same plastic container with a bag of potting soil or some root plugs
Date published: 2015-03-27
Rated 1 out of 5 by Ruby from Pettets hard as BRICKS! Yesterday I purchased the 72 Cell Greenhouse Kit. It has been over 24 hours and the dirt "bricks" are still that, "bricks". Even after soaking them overnight, they have only expanded about 25%. I have used this system in the past with great results, but something is very wrong here. I dug the packaging out of the trash and watched the video suggested on the package and make sure there I had done it right. When I pick them up I can break it into a couple of layers, but I can't even stick a fork or a paring knife into the pellet. Needless to say, I think I got a bad batch if there's such a thing. Wish I had read the reviews. I guess I'm not the only one. What a waste of time and money.
Date published: 2015-03-04

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We publish many YouTube videos and I'm tired of using individual people to promote them with mixed results. Therefore it's time to invest in creating (or buying existing) software that will do the job.
I would like someone to build (or sell me an existing) WORKING YouTube software application that can send a minimum of 100,000 views a day to any YouTube video I choose.
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A Companion to Analysis: A Second First and First Second Course in Analysis
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Many students acquire knowledge of a large number of theorems and methods of calculus without being able to say how they work together. This book provides those students with the coherent account that they need. A Companion to Analysis explains the problems that must be resolved in order to procure a rigorous development of the calculus and shows the student how to deal with those problems. Starting with the real line, the book moves on to finite-dimensional spaces and then tometric spaces. Readers who work through this text will be ready for courses such as measure theory, functional analysis, complex analysis, and differential geometry. Moreover, they will be well on the road that leads from mathematics student to mathematician. With this book, well-known author ThomasKorner provides able and hard-working students a great text for independent study or for an advanced undergraduate or first-level graduate course. It includes many stimulating exercises. An appendix contains a large number of accessible but non-routine problems that will help students advance their knowledge and improve their technique.
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On "My Car Story" we're in Rosemont IL at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals on 11-20-14. We're looking at a 1974 Pontiac GTO with factory White paint. The car's Owner is Jody Traylor. He's had the car since 2012. As the last year for a while of GTO's Jody shares how the car's design and features are taken from a combination of GM cars at the time. Today, the cars rarity make it pretty cool! ENJOY!


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Skip to comments.Two Americans Have Now Been Diagnosed With Ebola in Record Outbreak (more details)
Posted on 07/28/2014 3:02:10 AM PDT by Wage Slave
Seven hundred are dead in West Africa, victims of an out-of-control outbreakand now two American health-care workers there have contracted the disease, says a colleague.
At least two Americans are now infected with the Ebola virus, part of an out of control outbreak that the World Health Organization is calling the worst on record.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
"Writebol was in charge of the decontamination wash-down station that was used in the ELWA center, now a 20-bed unit in Monrovia dedicated to treating Ebola patients. According to Isaacs, her exposure may have occurred when a local worker in the unit contracted the disease but continued to work; this individual, whose name was not disclosed, died of Ebola over the weekend."
Well, ain't that just grand! Here's betting that the MSM (but not FOX) will even mention this. Has there ever been Ebola outbreak in the states before? What other things do these kids have that can kill us all? Jee whiz.
There was an outbreak confined to monkeys in Reston Virginia. That one was airborne but did not infect humans. At least that's the only outbreak that we have knowledge of.
Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up
The two Americans with ebola are in Africa, just fyi.
Question: Does Ebola eventually "burn itself out" over time as the infection spreads? Does it become less virulent? I thought I had read that somewhere but I'm no epidemiologist.
This strain is known as Zaire and is the most virulent.
contagious from 3 to 21 days. very high mortality and very contagious and VERY easy to hop the ocean and spread here (one 10hr plane trip)
especially as we invite every diseased ridden moocher on the planet
when kids start dying from these diseases... THAT'S when the people will rise up and demand the blood of those that set it in motion. we just have to insure they remember this was orchestrated by 0bama and crew
This outbreak is odd. It seems to have happened near to or even inside urban areas. This is not the way Ebola has spread before in Africa.
This is almost like a trial run in Africa before purposefully turning it loose elsewhere, say in Europe, or the USA.
Thank you for the info and the chart.
Infections burn themselves out when they can't spread effectively anymore.
So, if it has a high fatality rate, it runs out of victims and dies out, at least temporarily.
If the weather changes and gets colder (assuming that is a risk factor) or people are able to stop new infections by stopping whatever behavior put them at risk, or if they find a vaccine, it may die out, at least temporarily.
If people are able to slows the spread in any way, it may die out, at least temporarily.
In this specific case, this strain of Ebola is slightly less likely to kill victims than other/previous strains. Some strains/instances have had a 90% fatality rate. This time, is reported to be closer to 60% or so.
This is bad, from the standpoint of how long the period of ongoing infection can last. If it quickly killed more people, those people would be less able to spread it.
Additionally, this time, it isn't just in rural areas. It is in large, heavily populated cities. This is bad for obvious reasons - more people, closer together, easier routes of infection.
I have read that some previous Ebola infections have died out around October, due to cooler weather. October is a long way away.
I would very much like to see a ban on travel out of the area until the infection has stopped. Why this hasn't happened, I can only guess.
Reston DID infect humans, but it was asymptomatic in humans. It killed monkeys, but was harmless to humans.
It was airborne and humans DID get it.
I am getting increasingly concerned that we may be seeing at least partial airborne transmission.
very frightening to see how good their precautions were, and they still got sick. one article said three nurses have died as well.
And don't believe those facts haven't been lost on our adversaries around the world; find a few dozen people who have been exposed to the disease, and set them up with fake passports, visas, etc. All of the world's major intelligence services have forgery units that can produce phony travel documents; money could be supplied through various cut-out "charity" organizations. Option two is getting them to the southern border and let them walk across—Barry will give them free transportation to the destination of their choice.
If they go the "airport route," their handlers could arrange flights into JFK, O'Hare, Hartsfield, LAX. Breeze through customs and they'll be start circulating in urban areas in a matter of hours after arrival. The pandemic will begin less than three weeks later and there will be very little we can do about it—except bury the dead.
2 people in Lagos have been hospitalized. 21 million population!!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I wonder what the real number of ill/dead is. Not saying that authorities are lying - they simply don't know. They can't know.
When there is a death from Ebola in a clinic or hospital, the family cannot have the body for burial due to the contagious nature of the corpse. This understandably upsets the families greatly.
So, people are often not bringing their loved ones in when they are ill, and are handling the burials in secret. The bodies are in turn infecting others. Anyone who says they know the number of dead can't really know.
Workers and officials, blamed by panicked populations for spreading the virus, have been threatened with knives, stones and machetes, their vehicles sometimes surrounded by hostile mobs. Log barriers across narrow dirt roads block medical teams from reaching villages where the virus is suspected. Sick and dead villagers, cut off from help, are infecting others.
it's amazing how few understand how it works
Thanks for the correction. I read the book years ago. Scary.
I spent 7 months in Mexico, part of last year and part of this year. I saw a couple of storefront businesses selling fake US identification.
They had signs up and everything....just blatantly selling it.
From what I've heard usually ebola starts in the Jungle from an unidentified source... caves? bats? spiders? Then moves to a village. It has a ninety percent fatality rate.
This outbreak was different. It started around the same time in three different cities and has a 60 percent fatality rate. It might be a variation on the original... a mutation. Or maybe these early reports were wrong...
btw, it might already be too late to stop it from getting here
the doctor's wife came home within the last week... just before he started showing symptoms.
which means... they were together while he was contagious.
have no fear, they are not under quarantine....
The photo in the linked article shows the American physician (Dr. Brantley), wearing full protective gear while treating Ebola patients last year. Either he got careless (highly unlikely); his protective gear failed, or the outbreak is much more widespread and Brantley was exposed in a location that was presumed safe.
Medical quarantines are one of the most effective—and cheapest—public health tools. But today are are rarely used, to avoid offending a particular group or interrupting international travel.
"... or Brantley was exposed in a location that was presumed safe."
That would go along with the account of the doctor in post 1 that contracted it from a collegue that was not as careful as she was within the "hot" zone.
Funny you should ask whether there has been an Ebola outbreak before in the US.
There has.
In Reston, VA, a lab full of monkeys came down with an unbelieveably aggressive strain of Ebola and died within about 5 days. The strain was labeled 'Ebola Reston', and it scared the crap out of the CDC. It was a strain that only affected primates, and it was an airborne version of the virus.
I can't remember the year, but it was a big deal, and it stayed very much out of the press.
If you google Ebola Reston, you'll likely find something about it.
There hasn't been a human outbreak in the US yet.
What kids? What Ebola outbreak in the US?
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Still well over 600,000 new unemployed workers:
First-time filing for state unemployment benefits fell in the latest week, a possible sign that the worst of the recession may be over.
For the week ended April 25, initial claims fell 14,000 to 631,000.
It marked the lowest level for first time claims in two weeks.
MarketWatch theorizes that this is good news, because it's not as bad as the numbers from the last two weeks.
Like losing a foot is not as bad as losing a leg, I guess.
Will Bunch turns one well: "wanker-banker."
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H/T Susan for the link.
Republican Economic Theory reductio ad absurdum: Victimize the Victim Dept. Darryl Pease on the proposal in Florida that applicants for unemployment pee in a cup and pay for the bathroom privileges:
Q. But we're in the worst recession in decades! Is it really a wise time to force people who've been laid off, through no fault of their own, to prove they're not drug addicts?
A. Wise is such a relative term. Remember, many states – like Florida – are running low on unemployment funds. That's why the bill's sponsor proposed that jobless folks pay the $30 cost of the mandatory drug tests. That way, it's not an unfunded mandate.
Q. You're making this up, right? Are these lawmakers smoking crack?
A. Oh, no. As counterintuitive as their plans sound, these legislators are really the only ones who are facing up to the fact that we have a serious unemployment problem.
Q. C'mon. Who doesn't know that?
A. I don't mean the jobless rate. I'm referring to the unemployed themselves. They're always caterwauling for unemployment checks, job training and – well – jobs. It's time we take a stand.
The Virginia State Police attempt to justify their existence by painting the Hampton Roads area (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton, Chesapeake–historically centers of slightly to the right of center moderation, making them "liberal" by Virginia standards) as a hotbed for potential terrorist recruitment because (gasp!) it has colleges and military. (Including two "historically black" colleges and Regents University, which hasn't been around long enough to be historically anything, but was created by Pat Robertson.)
Yeah. Right. Paranoia based on prejudice does not make for security.
In a small Swiss village, there was a conceited and overbearing banker. The villagers loathed and detested him for his dogmatic egotism, but they kowtowed to him because, well, he ran the only bank in the village and they all depended on his good will.
One day, a farmer came to the banker accompanied by his son, a bespectacled, furtive-looking little boy of about twelve.
"How may I help you," boomed the banker.
"Well, sir, it's my son. I don't know what direction he will take in his life."
"Easy," said the banker. "Have him wait in the outer room."
The farmer complied.
"Now," said the banker, "here's what we'll do. We'll put this loaf of bread, this Bible, and this bottle of wine on the desk. Then we shall hide in the closet. No doubt your son will get impatient and come into the office. We'll observe what he does: if he picks up the loaf of bread, he will enter the trades; if he picks up the Bible, he will become a man of the cloth. If he picks up the wine–well, there's trouble ahead . . . ."
The farmer nodded and the two of them hid in the closet and peered through the crack of the slightly-opened door.
After a short time, the office door opened slowly. The child looked stealthily around the room, then darted to the desk, where he stuck the loaf of bread under one arm, the Bible under the other one, then grabbed the bottle of wine and fled.
Before the banker could speak, these words escaped the farmer's mouth:
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A judge has overturned the money laundering convictions of two people accused of running a moonshine operation in Pittsylvania County.
Citiing a U.S. Supreme Court decision, U.S. District Judge James Turk ruled Monday that revenue from an illegal operation that's used to support the activity can't be considered proceeds for the purpose of money laundering.
Information and advice from the Mayo Clnic in the April 28, 2009, issue.
H/T Susan for the link.
The Republican Party used to have room for moderates. They were right-of-center, sure, but, they could reason, be reasoned with, and, when appropriate, compromise for the good of the nation.
Not any more.
The Wayward Episcopalian on the Specter party switch. The whole post is worth reading, but this is the clincher:
When I say I'm a fan of balanced government, I assume that both the parties in question are rational, respectable entities. That's just not the case right now, given the state of the current Republican Party. Go ahead, smash them. Hopefully the phoenix that arises from the ashes would be something with moderates like David Brooks and the moderate Maine duo on its left and respectful conservatives like Chuck Hagel, Lindsay Graham, and Mike Huckabee on its right, with the authoritarian fundamentalist right-wing stuck in a third-party lurch. This is unlikely, but there's no way I'm going to settle for giving Eric Cantor and Sarah Palin a dominant voice. Until the GOP gets its act together, bring on the Arlen Specters.
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Kinsei High School is famous for its academic excellence. It is infamous for its 90% gay or bi student population. Kunihisa Imaizumi is a cute, homophobic freshman surrounded by a sea of aggressive, gay men. Unable to deal with the increasingly bold advances of his classmates, he appoints his friend Ryuhei as his "knight in shining armor" to keep his suitors at bay. But Ryuhei feels more like a fox guarding the hen house as he falls more in love with Kunihisa each day. It is only a matter of time before Ryuhei can't keep his growing affection and raging hormones at bay.
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Nanaimo mayor leaves meeting day after conciliatory speech to council
Nanaimo Mayor Bill McKay spoke on the importance of council working together on behalf of the city and looked forward to the entire council "finding the wisdom to forgive" and moving forward, during a public address Monday.
By Tuesday he had left an in-camera meeting, no longer prepared to meet behind closed doors without a lawyer present.
In an interview with the News Bulletin, McKay said he wants to move on and tried to be positive in his speech Monday, but the situation hasn't gotten any better.
The expression of non-confidence, or call for resignation, is also still on the table, according to several city councillors.
Seven of eight councillors, with the exception of Diane Brennan, expressed non-confidence in the mayor this month and called for his resignation. In a statement, released through the City of Nanaimo last week, councillors alleged poor attendance at council meetings, attempts to remove the city's chief administrative officer from an interim position, and "threats to dissolve council."
McKay denies threatening to dissolve council, but said he had serious concerns about Tracy Samra's conduct as interim CAO, knowing council would be in a situation at some point where it would consider her for the full-time job. He also has concerns about the hiring process, which he said was abridged, adding "we did not follow process."
He also pointed out that if he's gone one day, he could be counted as missing up to three meetings because of an open meeting, regularly scheduled meeting and in-camera meeting that can happen on the same day.
According to the mayor, the Integrity Group situation is a large part of the issue council faces today. The consultant was hired by the mayor last year to help council get along and city administration is currently seeking more information about the money spent.
McKay said the bill should just be paid instead of every line item being nitpicked. He said when he gives answers, it's like being in a cross-examination in a court room and says council should get on with life.
Council should work as a team, he said, but for months now there's been "two teams, two rosters and two coaches and when you are in competitive sports you start to understand that you destroy the other team. That's where we're at," he said.
McKay said he believes council can move on, but it needs a referee, like an independent third party, to help.
Coun. Wendy Pratt, contacted after the mayor's speech Monday, didn't want to comment on whether the issue is over but did say she's "really hopeful we're going to be able to address all the issues that are facing council and coming together as a council." She said she wants to wait and see how things unfold.
"What the mayor did last night was what he felt he could do, what he could say, and so we'll have to wait and see whether or not that is enough to move us forward in the right direction."
Asked if the mayor's statement was enough and if city council is moving forward, Coun. Ian Thorpe said other issues still need to be dealt with.
He would not say what those are, but referred to the in-camera meeting Tuesday afternoon where those issues would be discussed – and which McKay walked out of.
"To me, the call was a wake-up call, a vote of non-confidence," he said. "I think that's certainly still out there."
Coun. Jerry Hong called the mayor's statement a start, but also said it's all words and councillors are waiting for previous demands to be cleared up.
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We can be cynical as easily as we like over the fast-tracking of Gary Neville into the hierarchy of the England team. We can ask if, for example, you were the new manager Roy Hodgson, would you rather have Red Nev at your side in the potential maelstrom of the European Championship – or lurking in a TV studio dreaming up the kind of line that hit David Luiz like an assassin's bullet?
Comparing the Chelsea defender's work with the meanderings of a schoolboy let loose on a PlayStation was a barb Neville may never surpass in the rest of his broadcasting career but Hodgson, who is already on record with his belief that having the media onside is a key part of the job, may well be happy not to run the risk.
However, even in an age when the massaging of popular opinion has reached industrial levels, there are enough reasons to believe that Neville's long-term appointment is rooted in something other than a reaction to the former Manchester United captain's remarkable rise as one of the game's most influential voices.
The most arresting of them is the possibility that after a club career that brought him eight Premier League titles and a Champions League medal, and one with England that he has already described as the last word in futility, he will be ideally placed to draw from the strength of one side of his experience and transfer at least some of it to the other.
Encouragement to believe this is not diluted by even the most casual review of his performance since putting aside his boots and taking up the microphone.
Whether you agree with everything he says or not, there is certainly no strain in acknowledging an authentic attempt to get to the heart of the game in which he accumulated 85 caps.
He was never England's most accomplished player, nor United's – though Sir Bobby Charlton had no hesitation in inserting him at right-back in the all-time team running back to the Busby Babes – but there was never any shortage of evidence that he cared.
He also, palpably, applied himself to the science of defence, to the point where he became an emergency centre-back of impressive reliability. That he made such demands on himself was evident enough in his performance – and now it is implicit in the criticism he often feels obliged to level at a new generation of defenders.
An early job description for him is that he will be Hodgson's most acute reader of the mood of the England dressing room – a role that might have been weighed in gold two years ago on the high veldt when Fabio Capello and his players engaged in a cultural collision so catastrophic that the manager later confessed that when he looked out on to the field he didn't recognise his own team.
The breakdown could hardly have been more profound. Wayne Rooney spoke of the ineffable boredom of life in an isolated five-star prison, John Terry made not the least miscalculation of his life when he elected himself as the spokesman for a dressing room he could hardly have split more profoundly had he driven a stake into the middle of the floor.
For Neville there is also the much wider perspective of all those false dawns of the Golden Generation. He was playing in Munich when Michael Owen scored his hat-trick and did his cartwheel and some of us were persuaded that Sven Goran Eriksson might just have found the lost chord of the English game.
A few years later he witnessed the full wretched circle in the celebrity circus of Baden-Baden, when old club-mate David Beckham handed back, tearfully and unbidden, the England captaincy.
Neville may then have reflected on the time he made his own run for player power while organising a strike threat on behalf of Rio Ferdinand after he was dropped from the national team while awaiting a disciplinary hearing for failing to take a drugs test.
It will be some time before we know the value of Neville's appointment and any serious clue about where it might lead, but the instinct is strong that it should be welcomed.
If there is a single perception, right or wrong, about the relentless failure of the England team it is that it has not been accompanied by any sense of overwhelming regret by the players involved.
Rooney was aghast that fans should complain so loudly that night in Cape Town when England played so feebly against Algeria and Capello made his terrible confession that he had looked helplessly at the skeleton of a team he had tried to build.
At the very least, indifference will not come so easily in the shadow of Red Nev.
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A Generalized Nash Equilibrium Model of Market Coupling in the European Power System
"Market Coupling" is currently seen as the most advanced market design in the restructuring of the European electricity market. Market Coupling, by construction, introduces what is generally referred to as an incomplete market: it leaves several constraints out of the market and hence avoids pricing them. This may or may not have important consequences in practice depending on the case on hand. Quasi-Variational Inequality problems and the associated Generalized Nash Equilibrium can be used for representing incomplete markets. Recent papers propose methods for finding a set of solutions of Quasi-Variational Inequality problems. We apply one of these methods to a subproblem of market coupling namely the coordination of counter-trading. This problem is an illustration of a more general question encountered, for instance, in hierarchical planning in production management. We first discuss the economic interpretation of the Quasi-Variational Inequality problem. We then apply the algorithmic approach to a set of stylized case studies in order to illustrate the impact of different organizations of counter-trading. The paper emphasizes the structuring of the problem. A companion paper considers the full problem of Market Coupling and counter-trading and presents a more extensive numerical analysis. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
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On the 400-mile drive from Nice across the north Italian plain, shimmering in the heat, we paused only once for a cooling dip in the glittering waters of Lake Garda. As we entered the uplands my spirits began to lift, as always. Five miles from our destination, we got our first view of the mountains – towering pinnacles of bleached rock sprouting from meadows of iridescent green, lit by the dying sun. Like giant monuments to an ancient world, they could not have seemed more alien.
The excitement that seized us that first night round the table of the Posthotel Lamm in Kastelruth was not merely the excitement of getting away on holiday. The hotel, to be sure, was warm and welcoming, and the food prepared by the 26-year-old head chef was remarkable – roast beef with gnocchi, consommé, a sorbet of banana and melon, and a starter of hot goat's cheese and roasted vegetables. And those are just the courses I can remember. By the third night, some of our party – eight friends in search of a sybaritic adventure – pronounced it the best four-star hotel we had stayed in anywhere.
No, what seized our imaginations was the prospect of getting in among those magical mountains (there are strong local beliefs in witches) exploring their valleys, scaling their summits – and then gorging ourselves at day's end. What could be better?
The Dolomites, renowned for their jagged peaks of pale, heavily eroded limestone, are little visited by the British but are popular in summer with Italians from the south taking refuge from the scorching plains.
This was the second outing for our gang, after the Pyrenees last year, walking between three hotels (with luggage carried) around the Sciliar plateau, Europe's highest, covering an area of 50 square miles, ringed by spectacular peaks. Each day there were four options for walks of different lengths and degrees of difficulty, guaranteeing almost permanent debate.
That first night, over glasses of grappa, we were in rebellious mood. None of the walks recommended by Inntravel, our holiday company, looked challenging enough. Encouraged by our barman, we considered striking off on our own to find a lake hidden in the forest which was glorious for swimming. Next morning, grappa-free, it dawned on us that the Inntravel walk we had rejected the previous night did actually include the swimming lake. We took it – about 12 miles circling the plateau through a succession of pretty villages under an azure sky, punctuated by a glorious swim in the lake, and dominated all the way by the Dolomite peaks.
Alles in ordnung (everything in its place) is the defining – and thoroughly unItalian – characteristic of this region. Though technically in north Italy, the Südtirol is ethnically, culturally and gastronomically Austrian. The villages and meadows were immaculate, from the luxuriant window boxes to the neat log piles.
Next day, we climbed the 8,000ft Sciliar and, after rewarding ourselves with brimming bowls of minestrone at the rifugio, we set off across the bleakly beautiful plateau in the direction of the Denti di Terra Rossa. We rounded a crest and entered an extraordinary canyon – the vertigo- inducing path hugging the precipice on one side while, opposite, a grey curtain of folded and fissured rock 1,000ft high hung suspended – like the fabric of creation. As we gaped in awe we had to press ourselves against the wall to make way for two cyclists.
The best was still to come. For our last day, ignoring jibes from some party members about the "tyranny of accomplishment", we tackled the Platt- kofel – a giant slab of rock jutting almost 10,000ft over the side of the plateau, seemingly hanging in space. The route up involved zig-zagging over shale and rock, blindingly white in full sun. At the top we peered gingerly over the edge. Across the canyon, where jackdaws wheeled in the icy wind, columns of rock soared skywards for 3,000ft. It was epic, magnificent, awesome – and terrifying. There was not a lot of room on the summit and columns of walkers were coming and going. We sat, sliced apples and stared at the horizon. We were on top of the world – which is exactly how we felt.
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Employability is a powerful and increasingly dominant word within the universities. Nottingham University is proud to be "ranked in the world top 100 Universities for employability". This is because students are now the main funder of universities. And employability provides the answer to why the £9.250 tuition fees per year are worth it – even if one needs to in-debt oneself for this investment. Consequently, employability services are not only spreading like wildfire but also academic staff is increasingly pressurised to demonstrate in what ways their course facilitates students' employability. For these employability educators the Precarious Workers Brigade just published a book called "Training for Exploitation? Politicising Employability and Reclaiming Education" (a free pdf is available online). The book offers a "critical resource pack to assist teachers and students in deconstructing dominant narratives around work, employability and careers, and explores alternative ways of engaging with work and the economy". In this guest post Vera Weghmann introduces the book by explaining what employability is and why it needs to be politicised.
Thursday, 9 February 2017
Training for Exploitation? Politicising Employability & Reclaiming Education.
Thursday, 5 January 2017
The Class Sentiment of the Precariat: Reflections on social movements in Portugal 2011-2013.
In 2011, analysing new and ever more widely spread practices of informal work Guy Standing made his important intervention announcing the emergence of the precariat as a new class-in-the-making (see The Precariat – a new class agent for transformation?). In this guest post, Florian Butollo critically engages with Standing's claim through an examination of social movements in Portugal between 2011 and 2013. He demonstrates that provided we have a broader and more political understanding of class, these movements can still be understood in class terms, providing us with a better way of thinking about the possibilities of collective resistance against exploitation.
Sunday, 18 December 2016
How the West came to Rule? Challenging Eurocentrism.
The notion of uneven and combined development (U&CD), introduced by Leon Trotsky in his assessment of the Russian political economy and the possibilities of transformation toward communism in the early 20th century, has gained increasing attention within International Relations. In this blog post, I want to engage critically with the recent book How The West Came To Rule (Pluto Press, 2015) by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancioğlu, which draws extensively on U&CD in its analysis of the emergence and spread of capitalism.
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
The Future of UK-China Relations post-Brexit - China as a Hope Project
With Brexit on the horizon, the UK is currently in search for alternative trade agreements, not only with European countries, but also other economies around the world. The emerging market of China plays a key role in this strategy. In this blog post, I will assess the potential and implications of future UK – China relations.
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Sunday, 13 November 2016
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
Despite the ongoing ramifications of the global economic crisis of 2007/2008, capitalism continues to reap super profits. In his fascinating book Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation and Capitalism's Final Crisis (Monthly Review Press, 2016) John Smith unravels the underlying dynamics of global capitalism. By tracing the production of the T-shirt, the cup of coffee, and the iPhone, he demonstrates how these generate the transfer of enormous surplus value from countries in the Global South to transnational corporations in the North. In this blog post, I will outline several of the key contributions of this book and offer a number of critical reflections.
Thursday, 20 October 2016
The Struggle of organising Migrant Workers
With precarious forms of work increasingly also emerging within the core of industrialised countries in the global economy, the issue of how to organise migrant workers has become an ever more pressing concern. In his talk at Nottingham University on Tuesday, 17 October, Aziz Choudry reported on related challenges, drawing on two of his recently co-edited books, Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2016), together with Adrian Smith, and Just Work? Migrant Workers' Struggles Today (London: Pluto Press, 2015), together with Mondli Hlatshwayo. In this blog post, I will draw out a couple of key insights resulting from Choudry's analysis of a large range of different forms of migrant labour organising.
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Proposals for Alternatives to Neo-liberalism: SIGTUR's Futures Commission.
As a first step, the Futures Commission has now published the booklet Challenging Corporate Capital: Creating an Alternative to Neo-liberalism. It includes proposals for labour and tax justice, a fair trade regime, a democracy-driven, public sector transformation as well as a response to the climate crisis. In this blog post, I will provide brief overviews of the contributions as well as links to the larger versions of the papers, freely available on the website of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Johannesburg/South Africa.
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Greece: Contrasting the views of the EU Institutions and the IMF staff on the outlook of Greek economy and the present bailout programme
Platon Monokroussos, Hellenic Observatory Senior Visiting Fellow & Group Chief Economist, Eurobank Ergasias S.A
Greece Macro Monitor, February, 2017
Researching Housing Exclusion and Homelessness in Southern Europe: Learning Through Comparing Cities and Tracking Policies
Vassilis Arapoglou, Department of Sociology, University of Crete
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'Real' Flexicurity Worlds in action: Evidence from Denmark and Greece
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Yet Another Greco-German Imbalance
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QE for Greece: a necessary precondition for stabilizing investor sentiment and preventing the need for further official sector financing post-2018
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Greece's prospective inclusion in ECB's QE programme: Potential timing, purchasing volumes & market impact- Eurobank Global Markets Research
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Post-Ottoman Coexistence: Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict
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I just came back from Denmark where my client, Better Place, received the INDEX Community design award for creating a complete electric vehicle services system. It was an amazing ceremony and the Danish organizers ran a flawless design gathering both in content and in spirit. I truly enjoyed it!
However, I returned a bit conflicted after talking to many designers and participants from across the globe. There is a feeling of confusion around INDEX's definition of design, and how it reflects current trends in the design world.
Over dinner, Chris Bangle, the former chief of BMW's design group, expressed concern whether any bright idea for solving a social problem, is by definition "design." At a different event, industrial and furniture designer Hella Jongerius suggested to me that a different object—itself an award winner—had 'too little' design. Or does 'design' imply something new or different than before?
Alice Rawsthorn covered the conference for the International Herald Tribune, and had some interesting observations about this "new design," among them the acknowledgement that other factors, such as financial resources and political clout are also necessary for even the most clever design solution to get traction.
Based on this, one may ask few interesting questions:
- Is there truly a "new design" phenomenon?
- Is any idea, whether it's an initiative for social progress or a clever way to market movies, enough to be declared a work of design?
- Can a construct such as a "process," "business plan" or a "system" be work of design?
- Lastly, are these metaphysical constructs always design or is there a threshold of beauty, a rigorous process, or another quality standard that must be met for something to be considered a design? In other words, is a 'business plan' always a form of "new design" or does it have to involve some level of good, "old fashioned" design to be considered more than an ordinary business plan? And, if the latter, what are the requisite elements that would distinguish one from the other?
What do you think? Should "design" be better defined?
[Images: INDEX winners Better Place and Kiva.org]
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Gadi Amit is the president of NewDealDesign LLC, a strategic design studio in San Francisco. Founded in 2000, NDD has worked with such clients as Better Place, Sling Media, Palm, Dell, Microsoft, and Fujitsu, among others, and has won more than 70 design awards. Amit is passionate about creating design that is both socially responsible and generates real world success.


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Why buy school supplies only if they're going to be confiscated at school and redistributed?
According to Neal Boortz, this is the kind of thing that happens often in public schools.
"What happens on that first day of school? Not in all classrooms, but in a huge number of classrooms the teacher will say: 'Okay, everybody. Bring your supplies up here let's put them all in these boxes and then I'll hand them out as the students need them.'"
'What wait these are mine, my mommy and daddy bought these for me, it's my property' — "Not any longer," Boortz said. "You have no private property, this is America. Everyone should have an equal amount of stuff."
"There's a phrase for this," Boortz added: 'From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.'
Karl Marx said that.