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Meet Anna Ardin she is the Swedish woman who accused Wikileaks funder Julian Assange of sexual embarrassment, not wearing a condom, very confusing this is, but wouldn't you like to find out who is Anna? What does she do for a living? How did she met Mr. Assange? Don't miss the photos and terrific videos below.
By this time you all know that Wikileaks founder has been arrested in London after he turned himself in. The charges? Well, rape, sexual harassment and sexual assault. His accusers? For now we know of two Swedish women Sofia Wilen and our girl Anna Ardin. The confusing part is another girl we just know by the name Jessica aka pink sweater girl at the seminar in Enkoping, but we thought that girl was Wilen unless her full name is Jessica Sofia or the other way around Huh…. any clues?
According to reports Anna and the other girl went to Klara police station in Stockholm on August 20th, to search for information about forcing someone to get HIV tested, Why?
According to Anna Ardin, when Wikileaks Mister was in Sweden in August she was press spokesperson and secretary at the Christian Association in Sweden, known as the Swedish Association of Christian Social Democrats who organized the event for him. She allowed him to stay at her apartment since she was going to be away and because his location was meant to remain unknown.
Anna came back a day earlier, but she was okay with him staying there with her. One thing lead to another, dinner, blah, blah, blah, back to her place and together in bed, everything was fine except for the fact that his condom broke (so Anna says).
He left for the seminar where he allegedly met this pink sweater girl, (Jessica or Sofia) with whom he allegedly slept with using a condom. He allegedly refused to wear one the following morning. These two Pink sweater and Anna spoke on the phone about their sexual adventures with Assange, both were worried about unprotected sex–their mission was to force him to get an HIV test. If that was so, then why are there rape accusations against him?
It was reported that Anna Ardin planned a party at her place after the so called attack took place, she sent tweets from her phone and texted on her phone that she was in the company of "the world's coolest smartest people, it's amazing!" After she became aware of how these could prove him as innocent she tried to destroyed them, but she couldn't and and in what seems like a lame revenge technique, she released an article about how to get back at cheating boyfriends.
"Sometimes It Is Difficult To Go On Without Some Kind of payback. As a Human Being You Should Be Able to Understand that. In this case I was very upset with a forms fiancé WHO betrayed me for a longtime. My revenge at That point consisted in posting this translation.
Now this post hock gotten Many good Christians to cast spells on me, told me That I am mentally insane and said That Because I am a "Revenge" The whole world speed The Right To Get Their Revenge on me. I Think That Is sad, but i hope That this global states over this blog post Will Cause a lot of people to think again over Their own need for revenge, And The Way They Treat Their fellow humans. Anna responded when her Christianity was in questioned due to her revenge plan
The Herald Sun reported that same type of messages were on Sofia's. Both accepted having consensual sex and neither accused him of rape.
In Sweden not wearing a condom is punishable for two years in prison for rape. A sexual molestation charge is for not agreed with Ardin about wearing a condom, one of them (they are in their 20's while the other in her 30's said at the time of the accusations on August. See Anna Ardin's picture here.
"The responsibility for what happened to me and the other girl lies with a man who has a twisted attitude to women and a problem taking no for an answer".
Media had been investigating their case very closely, they come to the conclusion that both Anna and the other girl made everything up, by going to the police searching for advice, they knew their case was going to turn into rape, but her tweets and texts seemed like she was having the time of her life next to a man she idolized, maybe the fact that he slept with another woman the next day got her jealous and upset, she is now in the middle east, but Wilden is nowhere to be found, if they are found of making up the alleged rape story they could end in jail. Check it out, we found this.
Penal Code Chapter 15, 7 § A person who, otherwise than in 6 §, with prosecutors, police or other authority falsely testifies of a criminal act, provides compromising circumstances, or denies acquitting or mitigating circumstances, shall be found guilty, if authority review such a case, of false accusation to imprisonment not exceeding two years or, if the crime is petty, to a fine or imprisonment not exceeding six months.
What exactly do we know about Anna Ardin or Anna Bernardin? She was born in Visby, she is 31 years old. Before working for the Brotherhood Government she used to work as a research assistant at university in Sweden, on her personal blog she describes herself as Is a political scientist, communicator, entrepreneur and freelance writer with specific knowledge in faith & politics, gender issues, feminism and Latin America. She got her major from the Department of Government at Uppsala University where she also was an Equity manager at Uppsala Student Union, she was awarded with the 2007 SFS Equal prize. for her thesis about the Cuban Government.
What do you think of Anna Ardin? Have any additional information about her you'd like to share? Check out the photos and video below.


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Dwight Howard speaks to TMZ about rehab and Magic
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Dwight Howard was just taking a walk fresh out of rehab for the day in L.A. when a TMZ reporter caught him on the street.
Howard was kind enough to speak about his rehab and to address some of the more vicious rumors regarding his dedication to the Orlando Magic.
He said he has spoken to Stan Van Gundy regularly and he does wish he could be with the team during their playoff run. (If you can call it that)
Howard is on a mission to repair his tarnished image after the tumultuous "Dwightmare" he and the Magic endured this season. Howard even added the "All we got is us" Magic rallying cry at the end of the interview.
He has made some mistakes this season.
OK he has made A LOT of mistakes this season but he cares about the guys on his team and that should count for something.
His teammates have already forgiven him. Look for Howard to be back in the good graces of the fans and media next season.
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April 26th, 2011, 8:00 am by MARCIA C. SMITH/THE REGISTERAngels senior advisor Bill Stoneman, who had the longest and most successful tenure in club history as vice president and general manager from 1999 to 2007, will be tossing out the ceremonial first pitch for the Angels game on Wednesday at 4:05 p.m. against Oakland.
Stoneman is making a relief appearance, stepping in on short notice for former Angels shortstop Ricky Adams (1982-83), who needed to reschedule due to illness.
A former pitcher who concluded his eight-year career in the majors with the Angels (1974), Stoneman is credited as a chief architect of the 2002 World Series champion Angels. He appointed Mike Scioscia as manager in 1999 and was instrumental in acquiring World Series-winning second baseman Adam Kennedy and shortstop David Eckstein. He also landed 2004 AL MVP Vladimir Guerrero and 2005 Cy Young winning Bartolo Colon.
Stoneman's appearance will complete this homestand's honorary Angels alumni first pitchers who return to the ballpark -- or hop out of the front office -- to help celebration the team's 50th anniversary. This homestand featured 2002 World Series winning closer Troy Percival (Angels career leader in games), Hall of Famer Rod Carew, All-Star catcher Bob Boone, All-Star pitcher Chuck Finley (Angels career leader in starts with 379; innings pitched with 2,675; and victories with 165) and Angels utility player and broadcaster Rex Hudler.
For Tuesday's Angels game against Oakland, Moose Stubing will get the ceremonial duties. The outfielder and first baseman spent his lone major league season with the Angels (1967), seeing action as a pinch hitter in five games, getting five at-bats and striking out four times. He later served as an Angels manager (1988), coach and scout.
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Bringing Multiphysics into Architecture
Edmund Dickinson January 7, 2015
Architects cannot just be artists. A new building must not only be aesthetically pleasing but also structurally sound. In the design of modern buildings, great attention is paid to concepts such as environmental comfort and energy efficiency. With a range of physical problems to address in the transition from a building's concept to a completed design, the 21st century architect may turn to multiphysics software.
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In the past, I've received regular requests for the ability to check the view factors used by COMSOL Multiphysics. How accurate are they? What is the impact of a given parameter (mesh size, radiation resolution, etc.) on their accuracy? Good news: Version 5.0 provides new operators for postprocessing that correspond to the operators used to generate surface-to-surface equations. Allow me to demonstrate how to compute geometrical view factors.
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No matter how much you refine the mesh at that corner in your geometry, the electromagnetic field that you are computing never seems to settle on a converged value. Is that a problem? If so, what can you do about it? Read on to find out.
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Have you been interested in learning how to create fillets on 3D designs or how to generate shell approximations of imported geometric objects? The latest version of the COMSOL Multiphysics® software includes the new Design Module, which provides these and other tools for easier and more advanced geometric modeling. This optional add-on also includes interoperability tools for the import and export of CAD designs. Let's take a look in more detail at what you can do with these new features.
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Whenever you are modeling the geometry that you will use for your COMSOL Multiphysics analysis, either with the native CAD creations tools in the COMSOL software or using another CAD system, you may end up with a geometry that has more features than you really need. Here, we will look at a set of features called Virtual Operations that will let you quickly and easily simplify any CAD data in preparation for modeling and meshing.
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The CAD Import Module, Design Module, and the LiveLink™ products for CAD include tools for repairing and preparing a geometry for simulation. They are powerful additions to the geometric modeling capabilities of COMSOL Multiphysics. Let's discuss how these tools work and when to apply them.
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There are two aspects of home brewing: the culinary side and the engineering one. Many beer lovers start brewing either to improve a recipe, try to clone their favorite beer, or even simply just to see how it works. After brewing a few batches, however, it turns out that the brewing process can also be very challenging from an engineering point of view.
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Billions of dollars are spent each year in the U.S. to repair corrosion damage. To help reduce the high cost of corrosion, engineers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C. are using multiphysics simulation to gain a better understanding of the fundamental mechanism. A successful research outcome at NRL will establish the correlation between metal microstructure, corrosion, and mechanical strength. Material designers could then develop stronger, corrosion-resistant materials using this new information.
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In the 2012 edition of Multiphysics Simulation, we featured an article about modeling spinal cord stimulation to determine the effect that scar tissue can have on electrical current distribution during the treatment of chronic pain. Recently, the full-length paper by Beth Israel Deaconess researchers Jeffrey Arle, Kris Carlson, Longzhi Mei, and Jay Shils was published in the journal Neuromodulation.
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In order to carry astronauts safely beyond earth's atmosphere to where they can explore outer space, spacecraft must provide a very important chemical mixture: breathable air. Given the limits on space and weight for a manned shuttle, the systems flying aboard the craft must revitalize the air inside rather than carry the full amount needed for a mission. With this in mind, a team at NASA has developed an approach to atmosphere revitalization that relies on water adsorption.
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This is Part 3 of a blog series on how to handle selections and entity numbers when using LiveLink™ for MATLAB® and the COMSOL® Application Programming Interface (API). In this section, I'll discuss how the internal handling of selections and entity numbers in COMSOL Multiphysics® simulation software is performed and how you can utilize these methods when setting up your own models.
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Brought up in Ashfield in Sydneys west Geraldine Brooks' fertile imagination had her creating foreign countries out of backyard flower beds, writing to pen pals in distant lands and discovering her first case of lust for books.
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Her first foreign reporting job she says was covering the races at the Sydney Morning Herald but as the Middle Eastern bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal she covered brutal wars and conflicts for years at one stage ending up in gaol in Nigeria after being mistaken for a French spy. A cheerful person who is drawn to the dark side of war, a fiercely shy child who was desperate to become a journalist, she will tell us how she spent her life facing and overcoming her worst fears, including recently breast cancer. Now she is one of the worlds most respected authors and has spent this last week celebrating her prize with champagne. Geraldine Brooks: I think after the lovely kind of heady frenzy of the kind of the past few days subsides, Ill just have to get my backside back in the seat and finish the book that Im working on now which you know Im really engrossed in, you know, thats been my preoccupation for the last many months. Julia Baird: Well looks lets talk about your childhood in Australia. You grew up in Bland Street, Ashfield which I think youve called the vast middle ground of Australian life. At school you were brought up by nuns and at home by a Mum and parents who believed in you passionately. What were those years like?Geraldine Brooks: It was a fantastic childhood. I mean it was really just full of imagination. You know we lived in a federation house with a big backyard you know with a veggie garden and all the accoutrements of Sydney suburban life and a high grey fence and we just you know kids moved over those high grey fences in a clock and youre just out in the garden all day. There wasnt a lot of organised stuff. You made your own games up and I was a solitary child in some ways and I had this amazing imaginary life that my mother encouraged. She taught me how to make up stories and act them out very early in my life and so I would be out there pretending that the backyard were various countries and making up fates of the people that occupied them and it was really good. It wasnt, we didnt have the kind of glossy material goodies that so many people in Sydney have now. You know the beautiful stainless steel kitchens and all that sort of stuff, it was laminex and lino but it was a wonderful backdrop to have a very happy childhood against. Julia Baird: Its interesting youre talking about your imaginary life. You were obviously a child who had a very vivid imagination. You loved Enid Blyton, you must have spent a lot of time daydreaming.Geraldine Brooks: Yes, it was a bit more active than daydreaming. It was you know pretty when I look back on it now I put it into third person, with he says and she says and stuff so it was kind of proto-storytelling I think. When I look back at it from a distance, at the time it was just the game I played in the backyard but yes, there was something going on there. Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house. You mentioned Enid Blyton and I actually remember reading The Valley of Adventureand absolutely loving it and then I saw in the kids pages of The Sun Herald of the classified ads that somebody had the whole series of books for sale and it seemed like an exorbitant price to me but I mentioned it to my parents and much to my astonishment they showed that books were in that special class of things like food and clothes that you found money for and so these books arrived and I lay them out on the floor and I had this kind of strange feeling Id never had before. I kind of flushed and my heart was beating and my throat was kind of tight and I didnt know, I didnt have a word for this feeling, you know I was nine at the time that this was happening and it was probably about six years before I felt it again and by then I knew what to call it. It was in very different circumstances and the word I had for it was lust but I think that the fact that my first physical desire was for books was probably a product of my upbringing and also a predictor of the future. Julia Baird: You also suffered from illness as a child for a couple of years, didnt you?Geraldine Brooks: I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around Id get it and Id generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.Julia Baird: Do you think that had an ongoing impact on you, being isolated from your school?Geraldine Brooks: I loved being away from school. I didnt really fancy school that much when I was little, it wasnt until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my Mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests. So it was a kind of unofficial kind of home schooling a lot of what happened between the ages of about 5 and 9 and the only thing that I think suffered were my mathematical abilities. They never really got back up.Julia Baird: Doesnt seem to have caused a problem later in life!Geraldine Brooks: Yes well you havent seen my chequebook.Julia Baird: Youve also described yourself as someone who was excruciatingly shy, who used to cross the street to avoid talking to people but you then found yourself drawn to a profession which is riddled with extroverts which was journalism, how did that happen?Geraldine Brooks: It wasnt my whole childhood that was like that by any means. My early childhood I was apparently extremely loquacious and would bore the pants off anybody who stood still long enough but then I had that kind of adolescent self doubt and I kind of withdrew and was petrified and I heard somebody say, Find what it is that you fear and then go and do it and thats the only way out of it. So I guess I was drawn to journalism because it was a way of fighting that fear and I found when I was working for The Sydney Morning Herald that it wasnt really me it was this greater thing, the newspaper. So it didnt matter that I was jumping in a press conference or door stopping because that was The Herald not Geraldine.Julia Baird: So what did you learn from those early days in journalism, you know starting out a cadet at The Sydney Morning Herald?Geraldine Brooks: I was really happy when I got the job and I was assigned to the sports desk which I now consider my first foreign assignment because I knew nothing about sport and I cared less but it was kind of one of those very menial jobs in journalism where youre basically dealing with data, numbers from the races, odds and things like that and making sure that the records are accurately kept and it gave me a great respect for fact because in those days those weird distant pre-internet days the rural bookmakers would pay out on The Herald results in the early edition so if you made a mistake I knew Id be terminated first by The Herald and later by some disgruntled rural bookie.Julia Baird: Well look after working at The Herald and I think also The National Times you moved to the US on a scholarship to study journalism at Colombia University where you then applied for an internship at The Wall Street Journal ending up in the Cleveland bureau. Did you ever think then that you would end up working as a foreign correspondent in a place like the Middle East?Geraldine Brooks: Well you know what the scholarship that I got was named Sir Greg Shackleton who was of course the reporter who was killed in East Timor by the Indonesian military during the invasion and I hadnt really thought about being a foreign correspondent but I got that wonderful scholarship to Columbia because his wife Shirley had agitated to get it together because it had been an ambition of his to do the masters degree at Colombia and so when I went down to Melbourne for the award of the scholarship. They showed the tapes of Gregs last work and it was just, there was something about it that clicked in my head and said, My God, thats what reporting should be. Its bearing witness and inserting yourself in situations like this where you know civilians are under the boot of oppressors and so forth. And so it was in the back of my mind when I went to Columbia, it still didnt but again it was one of those things where you can have an idea like that but for it to come to pass a lot of really strange and remarkable things had to happen. So Columbia was great, I met two men who were very important in my life there. One of them I married, my fellow student, Johnny Horwitz and the other one was the recruiter for The Wall Street Journal. And so blow me down, they hired me and then I went out to Cleveland Ohio to the bureau that they had there and it was pretty fascinating covering the mid west because its not some place that people who come to America generally spend a lot of time. They tend to wash up on the East Coast or the West Coast.Julia Baird: So it was another foreign posting like the sports desk at The Herald.Geraldine Brooks: Yes, thats it!Julia Baird: Well when you were given the job of bureau chief in the Middle East as what youve called a Fireman going to the hot spots, you know the worst places at the worst times Geraldine Brooks: Yes well sadly thats all the Middle East has is hot spots. You know so the first year was terrible, I didnt know what I was doing, I was completely unqualified for the job. I couldnt figure out how to do it because it wasnt like reporting in Australia or the US where I mean its fine if you want to do the top down interviews, the head of state interviews, you know The Wall Street Journal could usually get in to see the Amir of this or that but I dont personally have a lot of time for that kind of reporting because Heads of State dont really say anything thats very true or useful to journalists so I like to report from the bottom. Up the street, you know, I think you can learn more sitting in a kitchen than you can in some gilded salon. So it was very hard at first because d go about it the way Id go about it in Sydney, youd go into a pub and youd sit down with, you know, miners or whoever and you know you just talk but in the Middle East there was so little public space for a woman. So it wasnt going so very well until about a year into it and my Egyptian news assistant turned up for work one day fully veiled and shed been this kind of modern western Egyptian yuppie and I guess it was the quest to understand why she had adopted orthodox Islamic dress that sort of started me off on understanding what it was that I could do in the Middle East that was going to be useful. And that was talk to the women and report the stories of the region through womens eyes.Julia Baird: Which hadnt really been done before.Geraldine Brooks: People you know thought, women are oppressed and theyre segregated and blah blah blah so they cant be that important and theyd overlooked this incredible avenue to understanding and I found that once I started reporting through the women it was much more socially acceptable in those cultures to seek an interview with women. So I would talk to Kamanis daughter or Rastin Janais daughter and through them then Id be reintroduced to the male elite but in a much more socially acceptable way.Julia Baird: You did report on war and conflict for many years in Bosnia, Somalia and Eritrea and of all the things that you saw, what has stayed with you?Geraldine Brooks: I thought in some ways you know the best and worst experiences of my reporting career happened during the Kurdish uprising after the first Gulf War because it was almost miraculous getting in there.I managed to get in there on a raft across the Tigres River with some Kurdish guerrillas and got to see these people seizing their freedom as the uprising kind of swept the region and they were able to liberate the security prisons and talk to each other about the truth of what had been going on there. Go back to Halabtra and unearth the dead that they hadnt even been allowed to bury, theyd all been piled into mass graves after Saddam used poison gas there. And so that was incredible just being there at that moment when people are seizing their freedom and then it all turned completely sour when George Bush the first allowed Saddam to use his helicopter gun ships and the first thing he did was fly north to crush the Shiites and I was there in the middle of all that and saw the most appalling bloodshed firing on civilians and thousands and thousands of civilians you know trying to get away and going up mines mountain passes to try and get into Turkey or Iran, it was just horrible. Julia Baird: Does seeing these kinds of things, does it change the way that you think about people?Geraldine Brooks: Well the thing I learned is that theres infinite variety of that. You know, you will see the most incredible acts of kindness and youll see the most despicable brutalities so human beings are capable of finding their best off or their worst off in a crisis and thats something that Im always fascinated by and still really exploring through fiction.Julia Baird: Youve talked before about the time when you were arrested in Nigeria in 1994 when you were working as a reporter and I think they thought you were working as a spy Geraldine Brooks: French spy which I thought was absolutely hilarious because you know my Sydney schoolgirl French is pretty bad!Julia Baird: Youve said that when you were lying on the concrete floor of your gaol listening to the mosquitoes buzzing around you, you thought, If I get out of there alive, I want to have a child. Geraldine Brooks: It wasnt as dramatic as if I get out of there alive, it was more like, How long are they going to keep me and you know, Im in my late thirties, they havent blown it here, I hope they dont keep me seven years like Kerry Anderson. So it was all these thoughts and it was kind of like that cartoon I forgot to get pregnant, you know. It was kind of clarifying and then when they booted me out of the country after three days and so yes I went home and greeted Tony with more than usual enthusiasm.Julia Baird: Did he know what was going on or did he think its pretty good when my wife gets thrown into gaol occasionally!Geraldine Brooks: Ive never questioned him about that but you know I did come home that if we were ever going to start a family wed better get cracking on it.Julia Baird: So it was when you were pregnant with your son Nathanial that you wrote the book Foreign Correspondence. Was there something about being pregnant that got your creative juices flowing?Geraldine Brooks: No but I needed a new gig because Id left The Journal at that point so I was going to write another piece of non-fiction and my Dad had been very ill and Id been going back through his papers and among his papers I found that hed kept for me all my pen pals letters. And this was a pretty big pile of letters from kids in Israel and Arab kids and American and a girl in France and I had thought about these people a lot, particularly when I was in Israel when Id see some Israeli reservists and same thing with the Arab guy. I would see Palestinians and wonder if one of them was this guy but I didnt have any way to find them until I came across this stash of letters and then I had their old addresses and so I could go and find them.Julia Baird: You seem to be such a natural and cheerful writer. Youve spoken often about how much you love it, do you ever find it to be a difficult process?Geraldine Brooks: Its hard, its not that its not hard but its such a privilege to actually have people want to read what you want to write. So you know I am kind of disgustingly happy about it and I know thats kind of an obnoxious position to take but I just feel really lucky every morning when I get my coffee and go up and sit down there and Ive got the freedom to imagine and you know express and so many people in the world never have that freedom either because of the circumstances of their life or because of their education or because they live in a environment repressive place where youre just not free to think. So it just feels awfully good to me. Julia Baird: Youve said your current book which has been such a success March about the experiences of the father of the March family in Little Women who was a Chaplin in the American Civil War was triggered by an interest in the whole issue of what happens to idealists at war and what happens to ideals at war. Its an interesting thing while you were writing about Mr Marchs struggles the drum beats of war were kind of sounding around you as we kind of marched towards Iraq and you supported the invasion of Iraq.Geraldine Brooks: Well it wasnt quite as clear cut as that but thought that there was a case that could be made on humanitarian grounds because of what Id seen in Iraq, the incredible fear that Saddams regime had instilled and the brutalities of the mass graves and security prisons. So being against intervention was kind of saying that youre for leaving the status quo and also I knew that the economic sanctions were brutal and you know theyd been going on for so long and were having a horrible affect on Iraqi civilians who had no choice in this matter. They had not selected the tyrant that you were stuck with and so I felt that you could make a moral case on you know human rights grounds for an intervention but you know I was not confident that the Bush administration would have the seriousness of purpose to do it and that unfortunately turned out to be just to right.Julia Baird: Well its Anzac Day in Australia this week which youre probably is a ritual which is growing very much in popularity here despite all those debates and the ambivalence about it in the d1970s about how we should remember war. Whats your own view about Anzac Day?Geraldine Brooks: I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. I know that when I was coming up during the Vietnam War, Anzac Day was a dirty word really because it was something that had been kind of hijacked by very conservative war mongers basically and its kind of wonderful to me that its been seized back by ordinary Australians and it was terrific to watch that unfolding that people could take a stand to honour sacrifice and loss without in any way glorifying what had happened. The opposite is the case in fact; I think its a most stunning reminder about the stupidity and the wastefulness of war.Julia Baird: Does Australia today seem very different to the Australia you grew up in? Geraldine Brooks: Im disappointed that we seem to have we made this kind of giant leap into being ourselves when I was a teenager and in my early twenties. We were much more independent in our position in the world and we were going to do thing that were in Australias interests, not follow blindly the coattails of the foreign powers overseas and we seem to have retreated from that and now its just a mad scramble you know to get under Americas umbrella and to lick George Bushs boots. You know, where did that come from?New Zealands managed to have an independent foreign policy and I havent noticed the sky fall on New Zealand, have you? And just our treatment of refugees you know when I was coming up the Vietnamese boat people were arriving and they came and they were welcomed and yes, there was some racism but overwhelmingly they thought that you know well good on them they got here lets move over and make a bit of room.And now this kind of punitive horror of locking up asylum seekers in these dreadful desert gulags. Its just, you know, its very un-Australian to me.Julia Baird: In one recent trip back home you were diagnosed with breast cancer and had to undergo treatment here. I know you dont like being described as brave but you have talked about it as one less thing to be afraid of. Was it a frightening experience?Geraldine Brooks: Im essentially a very kind of optimistic kind of a person and I had seen the breast screen van in the street where we live in Balmain and thought, Oh you know, I should get a mammogram, its been a while. And you know if that hadnt been there that wonderful public service that we have I kind of would have just let it go and then the cancer would have been much more advanced and you know, who knows. But when I got the call back I thought, this was nothing so you know I went off to the hospital and when they told me that was in fact something I remember this kind of wall of fear coming towards me down the hospital corridor and it was a real kind of effort as well to say, No, you know youre think youre pretty tough, nows your chance to prove it.Julia Baird: In your writing youve often referred to the constancy of the human heart like love and fear. Do you think that westerners too easily forget that human experience is universal?Geraldine Brooks: I think they often doubt it. You know if I had fifty cents for every time someone told me when I was a reporter that some other group was not like us. So it would Palestinians saying it about Israelis, Israelis saying it about Palestinians, black Africans about white, white Africans and about black, they dont care about our kids, theyre not like us they dont want we want. And you know I dont buy it, I dont think its true. I think everybody wants I live and see their kids live.Julia Baird: If theres one thing that you could say to a wide-eyed ten-year-old girl living in Ashfield today much like you were, what would it be?Geraldine Brooks: I think it would be what my Mum said to me which is, You can do anything. And you know I really believe that if you set your mind to it, you know, not without sweat and luck and all those good things but I think a big part of it is knowing what you want and I would say to that girl, Figure out what it is that you want and thats you know, ninety percent of it.
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Tomie: Re-Birth (2001) directed by Takashi Shimizu, stars Miki Sakai (Tomie), Satoshi Tsumabuki (Takumi), Kumiko Endou (Hitomi), Masaya Kikawada (Shun'ichi), Shûgo Oshinari (Hideo), Yutaka Nakajima (Tomoko), Tarô Suwa (Haruo).
This is a Japanese horror movie. It has its roots in a manga by Junji Ito. I will immediately confess my complete and utter lack of knowledge of the manga in question. There's a slew of Tomie movies out there, and this is the first one I've seen. I honestly can't really tell the learned reader what possesses me as I chose movies, let's just say the process is arbitrary at best.
The basic premise of the comic and the movies is that the girl Tomie can make anyone fall in love with her, that she inspires lust and jealousy in those around her, and that she is destined to be killed by those who love her – yet she always comes back. Hence the catchphrase "I will see you later" that she generously litters all around her at pretty much anyone.
This particular narrative starts off with Tomie getting murdered by an artist painting her portrait. She whispers "I love you" in his ear and he promptly stabs her with a trowel. So it goes. Two of his friends show up at the studio moments later and help him bury the girl in the woods. Let's just say it doesn't take.
Tomie comes back to haunt… well, haunt isn't really the word. Plague might suffice. Bug works too. Anyway, she comes back and makes these guys' lives hell until they go all kinds of crazy and kill themselves. The women fare no better. They get possessed, they get what can best be described as ghost-sickness, and then they die.
The body count is high.
Despite all this the pace is slow, the sets are pretty quiet, there's not a lot of gore. It feels to me like the movie makes a conscious effort to keep to decorum in the traditional sense of the word, which means to say even during a dismemberment there is still little to show for it except an artfully expanding pool of blood and Tomie's severed head watching from a bowl.
You probably need to be a fan of the manga and the previous movies to get anything from this. I don't have the cultural references for this, which means that I mostly watch with a tilted head and a slightly scrunched up face thinking "ah, I can see how this could be frightening, in theory." I can make connections to things like Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," but that is not enough.
Personally, I don't mind a slow-paced creeping horror, but it has to have the ability to give me the heebie-jeebies and this just does not do it for me. The slow pacing seems pointless, the pixie-cute girl with the tittering laugh is mostly just annoying, and I don't really understand the interaction between the other players, so I am at a loss as to how to deal with it when it goes out of whack.
This is all probably someone else's cup of sencha, it's just not mine.
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My brother is selling his car.
It is white. It is banged up. It runs and drives. 172,000 miles. There are things wrong with it, like maybe the heater core and maybe head gasket---but he is not a Mechanically inclined and hasn't had a mechanic look at it. It has leather, remote start, sliding sun roof (moon roof? I don't know the difference). Newer starter, newer wheel bearings, new t stat, new serp belt, new wires/plugs, new brake pads and 2 rotors. Anyway, I figure it's worth just a little bit more than what a scrape yard will give for it, and that's why it's listed for $500. Pictures below. He wants to get rid of this thing quick to fund the purchase of a new(er) vehicle. Thanks. Last edited by SweetLeah; February 13th, 2012 at 08:50 AM. |
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There is a rear bumper sitting in my parents garage that goes to this thing. I think it is the same color as the trunk lid. You would think this thing would deflect T & A at the same rate it has attracted dents, but for whatever reason that is not the case. Girls will actually get out of their much nicer vehicle and in to this one--and with out fear of contracting some communicable disease. So that's something. Last edited by SweetLeah; February 8th, 2012 at 09:43 AM. |
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Lot 3564: Demetre Chiparus-Bronze Sculpture-Split Skirt
Sat Oct 22 Live Fine Art Auction
by Art Legacy
October 22, 2016
Chicago, IL, USA
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Description: Demetre Chiparus-Bronze Sculpture- Split Skirt - Demetre Chiparus. In the manner of Chiparus bronze sculpture Split Skirt. The base bears his signature. It has carved bone and has beautiful patina bronze and sits on a 17 black onyx base. Dimensions are 22x17. Includes certificate. This is one of the finest reproductions of Chiparus original sculpture.
Condition Report: This is in excellent condition.
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Trimble | Lassen iQ GPS Module | Protel | |
(none) | Compact Flash IDE Connector | Protel | |
Linx Technologies | RF transmitters, RF receivers and USB transcievers | Protel | |
Spark Fun Electronics | Old SFE Footprint Library | Protel | |
Spark Fun Electronics | Updated Eagle SFE Footprint Library | Eagle | |
Cypress | PSoC microcontrollers | Protel, Eagle | |
Microchip | PIC microcontrollers | gEDA ? ORCAD ? | |
Atmel | Atmel AVR | Protel (dead link) | |
Philips | ARM microcontrollers in LQFP-48 package | Eagle | |
Various | Sarang: Many Protel libraries from Altium | Protel | |
Misc. | Variety of footprints for gEDA/PCB | PCB Protel |
gEDA Symbols and footprints
- un-tested gEDA symbols and footprints
- All of these Symbols are heavy symbols. gEDA has already provided most of the above symbols in light format for us to modify. The above symbols include more information than normal to save some time instead of configuring each symbol every time you use them.
- Darryl Harmon's footprint generator for geda/pcb:
Other footprint libraries
"Open Symbol Project" with Mark Whitis "The Open Symbol Project aims to create an open collection of schematic symbols and PCB footprints released under a license that does not interfere with use in either commercial or free projects. ... can easily be modified to accommodate various design rules."
What can we do to help the Open Symbol Project?
PCB123 Libraries includes some footprint libraries (and a gallery of PCBs).
See also the SFE Footprint Library Eagle.
"John Luciani's gEDA/PCB Library"
A collection of footprints for use with the gEDA/PCB program. Also on the site are a variety of scripts to build footprints and automate PCB layout tasks.
QFN footprints
I'm a little intimidated by these little QFN packages. Alas, I've been asked to use a chip that doesn't have any alternative package.
"QFN/SON PCB Attachment Application Report: SLUA271"
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Saturday, May 24
18th annual Sea Coast Relay - The 18th annual Sea Coast Relay, presented by the Southeast Road Runners, will take place Saturday, May 24. This five-stage relay will being at the Lena Beach Picnic Area at 9 a.m., 9:30 a.m. or 10 a.m. depending on the speed of the team. The relay covers 23 miles along coastal roads, ending at University of Alaska Southeast admit the UAS Community Days festivities and Juneau Jazz and Classics music. One-to-five member teams can register at Pavitt Health and Fitness, either JRC/The Alaska Club location or the Nugget Alaskan Outfitter. Registration deadline is May 21. Info: Sherry Tamone, 321-8599, email@example.com.
USTA Recreation Coach Workshop - There will be a United States Tennis Association Recreation Coach Workshop on Saturday, May 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the JRC/The Alaska Club valley location. The on-court workshop is for anyone interested in learning to teach youth and adult tennis players at a recreational level. Tennis experience not required. Cost is $25 for online registration and $35 for same-day registration. Info: Mona Yarnall, 789-2181 x323, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1578917
Friday-Sunday, June 6-8
Minda Chamberlin Memorial Softball Tournament - The Minda Chamberlin memorial Softball Tournament will take place June 6-8 in Juneau. The registration deadline is Friday, May 16 and the cost is $250. Rules and regulations are available at www.juneausoftball.com. Info: Lorri, 463-3633.
33rd annual Rainball Tournament registration deadline - The Juneau Softball Association will hold registration for its Rainball Tournament until 5 p.m. on May 23. The tournament will be June 20-22. Registration is $250. Forms can be found online at www.juneausoftball.com or at the JSA office, 923 Glacier Ave. For more information, call Lorri at 463-3633 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Lowtide Ladies Golf Association - The Lowtide Ladies Golf Association is for women interested in playing golf. Beginners are welcome. Clubs and carts can be rented at the course. Play will be every Thursday at 6 p.m. through August 28. Golfers should contact the course if weather is questionable. Info: Mendenhall Golf Course, 789-1221, Donna Schultz, 789-3996 or Lynne Gregg, 790-1960.
Tuesday Night Best Ball Golf League - This fun golf competition is for men and women of all skills. Every person is selected to a team to compete for points in a best-ball format. Players pay greens fees and a $5 weekly entry fee. Prizes are awarded at season's end. Register at Mendenhall Golf or just join on any Tuesday night. Start time is 6 p.m. Info: Mike Strasser, 463-1252.
Juneau Parks and Recreation youth outdoor soccer, start smart and Thunder Mountain sports camps registration - Registration is underway at the Juneau Parks and Recreation office, online, fax, and at the Zach Gordon Youth Center. Info: Parks and Rec, 586-5226, email@example.com, www.juneau.org/parkrec/youth/youthsports.php.
Ultimate Frisbee Players of Southeast Alaska - The Ultimate Frisbee Players of Southeast Alaska will hold league play will take place 9-11 p.m. Wednesdays and 7-9 p.m. Sundays in May at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Field at 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays and Sundays in June. The league is open to players off all ages and ability levels. Info: David Job, 586-3845 or Andy White, 957-2985, email@example.com.
Capital City Soccer League - The Capital City Soccer League will be hosting a number of leagues this season:
Open adult soccer - CCSL will hold open soccer on Sundays May 11, 18, 25 and June 8 and 15 from 5-7 p.m. On Wednesdays June 4 and 11 will be from 6-8 p.m. and from 7-9 pm. on June 18. Games will take place at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Field.
Men's Competitive League - This division runs June through September and is for experienced players ages 15 and up. Teams are sponsored by local businesses and there will be no draft this year.
Women's Competitive League - This league runs August through September and is for experienced players ages 15 and up. Sponsor fee is $400 and player fee is $40.
Co-ed Masters - This is a pick-up league for players over 30. Experience varies. Games are played April through June and September through October. Fee is $20 and referees are not provided. Spring games will be played at the turf field by Juneau-Douglas High School.
Classic Women's League - This league is for new women players and experienced players who do not want to play in a competitive league. Games run from June to September. This is a great league for players who have never played before but want to learn. Fee is $50. For players ages 15 and up.
7-a-side Tournament - The annual 7-a-side tourney will take place in Juneau. This double-elimination tourney features 30-minute games. Individuals are placed randomly on teams with at least three members of each gender. Participation is open to players 16 and up of all skill levels. Games are at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park.
Info: CCSL, 523-9196, www.juneausoccer.com.
Gastineau Channel Little League registration - The Gastineau Channel Little League is happy to announce that online registration is now available for those wishing to register their kids for the 2008 baseball, softball or teeball season. To register online, go to www.eteamz.com/gcllak or call 635-3416. Info: Gastineau Channel Little League, 635-3416.
JDHS turf field available - The turf field by Juneau-Douglas High School is available for community use. The charge for reserving the field is $5 per hour for non-profit youth groups, $10 per hour for non-profit adult groups and $15 per hour for all other groups. Individuals and groups are asked to keep food, drink, gum and animals off the field. Info: Community Schools at 523-1773.
Dzantik'i Heeni open gym - Community Schools in cooperation with the PEP grant is sponsoring open gyms at Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School on Saturdays from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. for youth in grades 6-12. There is no charge and youth are encouraged to bring a basketball or volleyball. Info: Community Schools, 523-1774.
Zach Gordon Youth Center climbing wall - Climbing wall hours are 5-7 p.m. on Mondays, and 3:30-7 p.m. on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The climbing wall can be used by people of all ages. Climbers age 20-younger climb free, while adults 21-older pay $5 to use the wall. Youth-adult interaction is encouraged, so an adult climbing with a youth pays no fee. Private rental times are available for $25 per hour. Info and scheduling: Zach Gordon Youth Center, 586-2635.
Evening masters swimming program - The Augustus Brown pool hosts a twice-weekly evening masters swimming program. The program will meet from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and is designed to promote and improve the physical and mental well-being of adults age 19 and older. Participants must be able to swim crawlstroke and backstroke. Info: Augustus Brown swim pool, 586-5325.
Basketball/volleyball court rentals available - The Juneau Community Schools program has basketball/volleyball court rental times available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays at Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School. The cost to rent the court is $20 per hour, which must be paid at the time of rental. This is for adult activities only. Info: Juneau Community Schools, 463-1717.
Juneau Department of Parks and Recreation Wednesday and Saturday hikes - For updates on locations of Wednesday and Saturday group hikes, call the Juneau Parks and Recreation Hikes Hotline. Always remember to bring plenty of food and water, wear warm layers of clothing and proper footwear for the hike. No dogs or firearms are allowed. Wednesday hikes are limited to hikers 18 years of age or older. Saturday hikes are open to families, and children must be accompanied by an adult. Info: Juneau Department of Parks and Recreation Hikes Hotline, 586-0428.
Sports in Juneau is a service provided by the Juneau Empire to provide information on upcoming sports and outdoors events in Juneau. It runs when space is available and event notices should arrive at least one week before they are scheduled to take place. All press releases must include a contact name and a phone number that can be released to the public. To submit an item to Sports in Juneau, please fax the info to 1-907-586-3028 or e-mail it to firstname.lastname@example.com. Put the words "Sports in Juneau" in the subject line.
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Ravichandran Ashwin of the Chennai Super Kings has been fined 5% of his match fee for the Level 1 offence of showing dissent at an umpire's decision (Article 2.1.3) in today's match at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai against Kings XI Punjab.
Mr Ashwin admitted the offence and accepted the sanction.
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Focus Features has officially announced that Gus Van Sant's "Promised Land" will be released in 2012 and thus join this year's fast approaching awards season. The film — starring and written by John Krasinski and Matt Damon — will be released in exclusive engagements in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, December 28th, 2012, prior to an expansion in January 2013.
Participant Media co-financed the movie, for which Focus holds worldwide rights. In addition to Damon and Krasinski, the cast of "Promised Land" includes Rosemarie DeWitt ("Rachel Getting Married"), Academy Award nominee Hal Holbrook ("Into the Wild"), Scoot McNairy ("Killing Them Softly"), Titus Welliver ("The Town"), and Academy Award winner Frances McDormand. The screenplay is based on a story by Dave Eggers.
The plot, as described in a press release:
"Mr. Damon plays Steve Butler, a corporate salesman who arrives in a rural town with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (Ms. McDormand). With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company's offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Mr. Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (Mr. Krasinski) who counters Steve both personally and professionally."
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Public Information Notice: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2008 Article IV Consultation with Gabon
September 11, 2008
Public Information Notices (PINs) form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of Article IV consultations with member countries, of its surveillance of developments at the regional level, of post-program monitoring, and of ex post assessments of member countries with longer-term program engagements. PINs are also issued after Executive Board discussions of general policy matters, unless otherwise decided by the Executive Board in a particular case.
September 11, 2008
On July 28, 2008, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Gabon.1
In 2006-07, the economy expanded by 3.4 percent on average. Non-oil growth averaged 5.5 percent, spurred by high international oil prices and domestic demand; oil production recovered in 2007 after a sharp decline in 2006. However, demand pressures and increases in fuel prices led inflation to rise to 5.9 percent by the end of 2007.
Gabon's external position is considered sustainable given current commodity price trends. Buoyant commodity prices produced large surpluses in the external and fiscal accounts, which should allow Gabon to reduce its public debt to 15.6 percent of GDP by end-2008. Gabon also issued its first international bond in the amount of US$1 billion in December 2007 and its first regional bond on the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) market in the amount of CFAF 81.5 billion in January 2008 to prepay most of its Paris Club debt.
Fiscal policy was tightened in 2007 and early 2008, but by less than anticipated. The non-oil primary fiscal deficit dropped from 18.0 percent of non-oil GDP in 2006 to 13.3 percent in 2007-1.7 percentage points less than expected, due to a small shortfall in non-oil revenue and an overrun on non-wage spending. Nevertheless, Gabon recorded a large overall fiscal surplus in 2007 as oil revenue was much higher than projected.
Implementation of the structural reform agenda slowed in the second half of 2007. In particular, fuel prices have not been adjusted since March 2007, and the automatic price adjustment mechanism was not implemented. As a result fuel subsidies may reach 3.3 percent of non-oil GDP in 2008. However, there was notable progress in some areas. Gabon's third report under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative was expanded to cover most oil companies and the mining sector and was published in March 2008. The oil revenue model was also completed, which will strengthen the estimation of current and projected oil receipts.
Looking ahead, the critical challenge facing Gabon is to seize the opportunity provided by high oil prices to place macroeconomic policies on a long-term sustainable path while fostering economic diversification and preparing Gabon for the post-oil era.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors welcomed broad-based growth in nonoil activities, moderate inflation, and the strengthened external position. Directors congratulated the authorities on the successful issuance of Gabon's first Eurobond and the prepayment of Paris Club debt. They regretted that, notwithstanding these positive developments and higher oil revenue, fiscal performance has turned out to be weaker than expected, leading to the delay in completing the second review of the program supported by the Stand-By Arrangement.
Going forward, Directors noted the difficult challenge of stabilizing the economy over the long run while meeting short-term popular demands, arising from increases in import prices for food and fuel. They were encouraged by the authorities' determination to take advantage of the favorable domestic environment and the opportunity provided by higher oil prices to implement the fiscal program. Bolder efforts at fiscal consolidation and structural reforms would be crucial in this regard to mitigate risks to macroeconomic stability and prepare Gabon for the post-oil era.
Directors emphasized that long-term fiscal sustainability depends critically on fiscal discipline and a building-up of government savings. They noted that Gabon's key policy challenge is to strike a judicious balance between preparing for the exhaustion of oil reserves, which requires increasing public savings, and addressing the country's pressing social and infrastructural needs. Directors regretted the delay in the adjustment of retail fuel prices and the resultant surge in fuel subsidies. They encouraged the authorities to initiate, as soon as feasible, a systematic adjustment of fuel prices toward import parity levels combined with well-targeted assistance to the most vulnerable. In response to rising food prices, better-targeted measures should also be adopted in place of the suspension of duties and value-added tax on food imports.
Directors underlined the importance of improving public expenditure management to avoid a recurrence of unplanned spending and raise the quality of public investment. In this context, they encouraged the authorities to prepare medium-term expenditure plans by sector, consistent with the overall macroeconomic framework and the priorities elaborated in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). Restoring the financial viability of the social security system and consolidating quasi-fiscal activities into the budget are among the priorities. In parallel, efforts should be sustained to strengthen revenue administration and transparency, particularly by reducing tax exemptions.
Directors noted the staff's assessment that the real effective exchange rate in Gabon is broadly in line with its long-run equilibrium. They considered that, while Gabon has benefited from currently high commodity prices, the volatility of oil prices calls for a prudent borrowing policy to keep debt at a sustainable level. The implementation of an asset and liability management strategy is important in this respect. At the same time, the recent appreciation of the real effective exchange rate heightens the need to expedite structural reform aimed at enhancing external competitiveness.
Directors underscored the importance of improving the business climate and promoting economic diversification and non-oil growth. To this end, particular attention should be given to developing infrastructure, streamlining commercial regulations, and fostering private sector competition, particularly in the banking sector. Directors welcomed the substantial progress being made in privatizing and restructuring public enterprises, and looked forward to their completion. They commended the authorities for their active role in fostering trade liberalization within the CEMAC, including by reducing the common external tariff. Directors encouraged the Gabonese authorities to work with other CEMAC members on implementing the recommendations of the 2006 Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) for the region.
Directors commended the authorities for their efforts to improve governance, notably in the area of oil revenue management. They welcomed in particular the publication of Gabon's third Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative report and the development of the oil revenue model. Directors encouraged the authorities to further reduce reported discrepancies between various accounts of oil revenue, and to enhance the transparency of the operations of the Future Generations Fund.
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |
Projections | ||||||||
(Annual percent change, unless otherwise indicated) | ||||||||
Production, prices, and money |
Real GDP |
1.2 | 5.6 | 4.4 | 6.6 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 1.6 |
Oil |
-9.0 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 11.9 | -2.2 | -5.8 | -5.9 | -6.6 |
Non-oil |
4.9 | 6.2 | 4.4 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.7 |
Consumer prices (average) |
-1.4 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 5.9 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
Terms of trade (deterioration= - ) |
8.9 | 4.4 | 27.2 | 4.3 | -1.3 | -0.2 | -0.6 | -0.4 |
Broad money |
17.4 | 7.2 | 11.0 | 8.6 | 8.2 | 7.2 | 6.1 | 6.0 |
Government operations |
(Percent of GDP, unless otherwise indicated) | |||||||
Overall balance (cash basis) |
8.6 | 7.8 | 12.6 | 14.4 | 13.8 | 12.9 | 11.6 | 10.0 |
Non-oil primary balance (percent of non-oil GDP) |
-18.0 | -13.3 | -11.2 | -9.5 | -7.6 | -6.0 | -6.0 | -6.0 |
Total gross public debt |
44.2 | 44.5 | 22.0 | 17.2 | 15.7 | 13.8 | 12.4 | 12.1 |
External sector |
External current account balance (with official transfers) |
18.7 | 14.8 | 19.9 | 23.2 | 20.5 | 16.2 | 13.3 | 10.1 |
External public debt (including to the Fund) |
32.5 | 34.9 | 13.8 | 11.7 | 11.5 | 10.9 | 10.4 | 10.5 |
Source: Gabonese authorities, and IMF staff estimates and projections. |
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It's a saison infused with pawpaw, a fruit that has a tropical quality and is native to Ohio. Thirsty Dog used a pound of pawpaw for every two barrels of beer, co-owner John Najeway said. The beer is 8.1 percent alcohol by volume.
Saison Pawpaw is draft only. It will be available at the festival -- obviously. It's also on tap now at the Thirsty Dog tasting room, and will be available at select locations throughout Norheast Ohio, Columbus and Perrysburg.
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Today, the Maple Leafs made Mikhail Grabovski their highest paid forward, at least until Phil Kessel is due up for his raise next season, with a five-year, $27.5 million contract extension.
It's safe to say, with a $5.5 million annual salary taken in combination with the long term duration (five years), it cost the Leafs more than we expected to get their number one center under contract. It was rumoured Grabovski wanted Kessel money, which sounded ridiculous given Kessel signed his current deal coming off of a 36-goal season at age 22. Grabovski meanwhile is 28 and does not have a 30-goal season to his name yet, nor will he after this season, barring a scorching hot goal scoring streak to end his season (he sits at 20 goals). He has not broken the 60 point barrier yet in his career, and it's unlikely that will happen this season either, though he would have had a shot if he didn't miss five games to injury.
Let's take a look at each team's highest paid center after the jump.
Team | Center | Salary | Career Production |
Anaheim | Ryan Getzlaf | 5.35 million | 0.93PPG |
Boston | Patrice Bergeron | 5 million | 0.75PPG |
Buffalo | Derek Roy | 4 million | 0.79PPG |
Calgary | Olli Jokinen | 3 million | 0.66PPG |
Carolina | Eric Staal | 8.25 million | 0.90PPG |
Chicago | Jonathan Toews | 6.3 million | 0.89PPG |
Colorado | Paul Statsny | 6.6 million | 0.88PPG |
Columbus | Derek Brassard | 3.2 million | 0.54PPG |
Dallas | Mike Riberio | 5 million | 0.76PPG |
Detroit | Pavel Datsyuk | 6.7 million | 0.98PPG |
Edmonton | Shawn Horcoff | 5.5 million | 0.58PPG |
Florida | Stephen Weiss | 3.1 million | 0.61PPG |
Los Angeles | Anze Kopitar | 6.8 million | 0.90PPG |
Minnesota | Mikko Koivu | 6.75 million | 0.74PPG |
Montreal | Scott Gomez | 7.375 million | 0.76PPG |
Nashville | David Legwand | 4.5 million | 0.59PPG |
New Jersey | Zach Parise (originally a center) | 6 million (pending UFA) | 0.82PPG |
New York Islanders | John Tavares | 5.5 million (starting next) | 0.81PPG |
New York Rangers | Brad Richards | 6.66 million | 0.91PPG |
Ottawa | Jason Spezza | 7 milllion | 1.018PPG |
Philadelphia | Daniel Briere | 6.5 million | 0.79PPG |
Phoenix | Daymond Langkow | 4.5 million | 0.62PPG |
San Jose | Joe Thornton | 7 million | 1 PPG |
Toronto | Mikhail Grabovski | 5.5 million | 0.64PPG |
Vancouver | Henrik Sedin | 6.1 million | 0.84PPG |
Washington | Nicklas Backstrom | 6.7 million | 1.01PPG |
- Every single one of these players has at least one 60+ point season to their name except Derick Brassard, who makes only 3.2 million.
- Production wise, it's safe to say the Leafs are overpaying Mikhail Grabovski and by more than a little.
- In many cases it appears teams got hometown discounts on their highest paid (and in most cases number one) centers, and the Leafs have not been able to gain that luxury with Grabovski.
- Closest comparables in terms of salary are Ryan Getzlaf, Patrice Bergeron, Shawn Horcoff, Mike Ribeiro, John Tavares, and Zach Parise. Bergeron broke 70 points multiple times before signing is current deal. Getzlaf, Ribeiro and Parise (one-year extension) had all broken 80 before theirs. Tavares posted 67 points in 79 games at age 20 before signing his current $5.5 million extension back in September. Obviously Grabovski is in none in these players' leagues, and in terms of production, Grabovski's contract is much closer to Horcoff's in value for the money.
The Leafs can somewhat be excused for overpaying on Grabovski. He poses more value to the Leafs than whatever they could have got for him in a trade at the deadline. He is the Leafs' best two way center and consistently drives possession in the right direction. He has shown he can be a heart and soul player with a dogged determination, willing to take the physical punishment necessary to make a play. It also seems Grabovski will be Carlyle's go-to center in key matchups.
Perhaps the biggest reason of all the Leafs overpaid for Grabovski is that there probably won't be a better option in unrestricted free agency this off season. Even if a guy like Parise hits the open market, the type of bidding war Burke would have to enter into, and the amount of cap circumvention (by his rules) he'll likely have to perform, would make the Leafs an unlikely candidate to land him. As Grabovski was a pending UFA, to an extent this speaks to how whacked the open market has gotten recently, to the point where Ville Leino can make $4.5 million a season for the next six years. But Grabovski wasn't a UFA yet, and it's unfortunate the Leafs could not get Grabovski signed at a more reasonable price like most teams seem to be able to do when extending the contracts of their top center talent.


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Tipps for learning programming, mathmatics, …
Hi folks,
Every day I have another question and while I am really blown away by this fantastic community, I want to improve my basic knowledge of the foundations needed for this program. Also, I am having so much fun with this, that I might also start programming in the future.
My background is years of doing complex stuff in logics enviroment and a little kontakt scripting. So, I know a little bit about the basics, like variables, midi language, OSC, etc., but in most aspects I am only scratching the surface.
Hence, my question where to start: I will probably only be using max for a year and focus on midi and OSC. I start getting good results, but with more complexity things start getting messy. Is there any tutroials, books or forums you could recommend for a start? I also need to review my knowledge of mathmatics. Highschool is more than a decade ago.
I am learning programming slowly but what I found so far is the maths is not too complicated. There is a lot of basic maths and a few expressions (which u either look up someplace or it is just a long string of simple math). For me at least high maths is not absolutely necessary – more important for me is logical math like thinking that allows me connect it all up in a way that works(is stable), makes sense and uses less objects or cables.
Midi and Osc are control protocols so should require a little less – you most likely would not need audio math or jitter matrices – it's more about logical switching, scaling ranges and counting.
Spend a little time messing around with the zl objects an vexpr and that should pay off pretty quickly.
Again I am not a real programmer so maybe else will come in and say high math is essential but for where i am I now i don't see too much of it – it's all tidied away in objects.
Yeah, that's how I started and still do it. But wouldn't it be helpfull to have some kind of basics book for a programmer? I guess there isn't some sort of bible for that …
I'll check aut your hints. Thank you!
There are lots of papers online which you can download written by Miller Puckette, which go quite in depth on the audio programming side of things, though the maths can get quite difficult in places. The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music is a good one.
There is also Curtis Roads' Computer Music Tutorial which is very useful for learning about how various digital audio components work.
+1 for both those citations
It sounds silly, but a pen and paper are the best programming tools money can buy. Whether you're writing low-level code or patching away in a high-level visual environment like Max, it really helps to start with some simple logic diagrams or flowcharts.
Sketch out a step-by-step procedure to achieve your goal (start with small goals!) and visualise the flow of data. Try to spot potential problems early on – if you've got an outline of an algorithm, test it! Feed it a range of inputs to see if and where it breaks.
Don't worry about maths! Once you get your head around how an algorithm works, and _why_, you won't need to read nightmarish equations to understand what's going on. Invent your own notation if it helps! As long as you take baby steps at every stage, you'll save a lot of time on bug-hunting!
Don't optimise things prematurely; this can lead to all sorts of nightmares. That said, one thing it's worth being aware of from day one is this: never calculate anything more often than is necessary. If you've calculated a value once, stash it somewhere for safekeeping so you don't waste CPU cycles when you next need it.
Oh, and play! IMO you learn the most from those "What the!?!?" moments – they keep you on your toes, so keep trying new things. Just don't do too many things at once – try and keep your "What the!?!?"s in single file :)
you don´t need to fully understand (great) books like "elements of computer music" by richard moore to become a good max programmer. but some slightly advanced maths (say functions) comes handy, and if you want to really raise abstraction and efficiency you´ll get deeper into it on the wings of the particular issue (like shorten algos for massive interpolations or high quality timestretching). i agree with the "paper and pen"-idea as clarity is the most important thing in programming, so i use the [comment]-object as a notepad. it´s just so much about getting the logics straight to the point. therefore in most regular cases it is much more useful to really clarify your basic maths/logical understanding than striving towards anything "higher".
another thing is to not hesitate reprogramming the same stuff over and over again, from the new standard of your knowledge.
some time ago i had pascal and c at school and university, with very good marks, but those didn´t come by institutional education (tbh i wasn´t even there despite doing the exams). it came only by some joyful practise and natural interest.
Wow! Thanks!
Again! This community is the greatest I have ever come across!
The pen and paper clarity thing I already learned in kontakt scripting. It is really important not to get lost. i will check out those books at some time.
My problem is, that for many issues I find a sollution, but I am missing some insight in the vast number of possible objects.
E.g.: Today I needed to store values from 1-16 in three dimensions, so I found the table object to be helpful. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any object, that could store values in three dimensions, so I just created 16 of those tables. Things started to get messy, as I combined these and in the end it worked. However, my patch ended up so complicated, I can barely follow, what I have done … :-)
I am sure I could have achieved the same thing way easier, i just didn't know what object to look for. I guess it will get better with some routine … I hope so!
I hope I don't bore you guys to death with my newbie stuff! :-)
For your 3 dimensional table object, you could probably use a jitter matrix (jit.matrix) to store your data – many people get caught up thinking jitter is just for video, not true!
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Well, we are knee deep in the Whole30, 16 days down, 14 to go! No turning back now. Week 2 was much more tolerable than Week 1. No breakdowns and only minor panic attacks. I kid, I kid. 😉
Both Matt and I are feeling good, we have more energy and aren't really having too many cravings, except for the ever-present chocolate for me. Not sure that will ever go away…and I'm ok with it, because a life without chocolate is a life without living. Let's be honest.
I switched it up a lot this week and made sure to have different meal options – something other than just chicken, veggies, salmon and eggs.
On the menu:
Breakfasts and snacks have pretty much stayed the same: almond butter, apples, berries, dried fruit, nuts, veggies, guacamole, etc. LaraBars have been a saving grace at times too, although they are supposed to be used as more of an emergency food, according to the "rules". I like to have them as a pre-workout option. I usually break off part of it before heading to the gym in the morning. It's a much better option than a hard-boiled egg and/or almonds at 5am. For me, that's less than appetizing. 🙂
Sweet Potato Chili (SO delicious, you won't even miss the beans!) I paired it with kale salad…which isn't as good without the Stevia, I have to admit.
Baked Cod (dipped in egg, covered in almond flour and baked at 400 for about 20min.), paired with avocado and veggies.
Paleo Beef and Broccoli with cauliflower rice
- 1 lb flank steak
- 2 heads broccoli
- 1 small onion, chopped*
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped*
- 3 tbsp coconut aminos
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1/2 tsp ground red pepper
- 1/2-1 tsp crushed red pepper
- salt/pepper
*I used garlic, onion and shallots already chopped from Trader Joe's
Cut broccoli into florets and steam, set aside. Heat the olive oil and saute the garlic/onion for about 1 minute, add the steak and saute until almost cooked through. Add remaining ingredients and stir until combined then mix in the broccoli florets.
Cauliflower Rice
- 1 head cauliflower
- 1/2-1 small onion, chopped
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Cut the cauliflower into florets and pulse in a food processor until it looks like grains of rice. If you don't have a food processor, you can probably use a blender or cheese grater. Saute the onion in the olive oil, add the cauliflower and saute until soft. Add the spices of your choice.
More recipes coming your way soon, including a new breakfast casserole!
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