text: Live in Amsterdam (1984) Knitting Factory Records CD - Digital Album - MP3 - Digital Album - Lossless - Quantity This variant is currently sold out M.O.P (Movement Of The People) Political Statement Number 1: Despite the diabolic manner in which the military regime, in their transition to civil rule programme, eliminated young political movements from contesting the 1979 general elections in Nigeria, Fela continued the struggle in the name of his unregistered party—the Movement Of The People (MOP). He made political statements critical of the military and their civilian successors. Movement Of The People Political Statement 1 is one such stated opinion. In his habitual sarcastic manner, Fela starts the song saying: "Before they turn us into monkey with tail Let us hear some important things! That our governments is hiding from us—we will expose them" Delving into some history, he says: "..we have to talk about long time ago", referring to the history of Eko (Lagos), before the arrival of the British colonial administration. How the British used their 'divide and rule' tactics to gain a foot-hold in the coastal regions, thus paving the way for their eventual colonization of the entire country. Thus came the so-called 'trading' companies: United Trading Company (UAC), John Holt Company, etc., whose sole interest were to exploit the African people and their natural resources. To ensure their absolute control, the British like all other colonialist, started to recruit some of the natives into their forces. Thus began the military and police institutions, who were trained to brutalize and suppress all forms of decent and oppositions. Unlike the United States, where the military institution provides poor families the possibility of an education, those who took up military careers in colonial times England were mostly 'never do wells', students whose school grades were below the average mark. These are the quality of me that made up the colonial forces. Fela reminds his listener that before the arrival of colonial administration, there were no police and army institutions in the African society. Whenever there was war, all the able bodied men and sometimes women volunteered to defend the nation while the wars lasts. As soon as the war is over, the warring men and women, went back to their respective jobs. This is unlike the institutions created by the colonial administration – with soldiers and police gallivanting around, doing the dirty works of their employers. The colonial administration started the police college and army schools to brainwash their new recruits, condemning the authentic traditions of the people, as savage and encouraging them to look up to the culture of the colonizers as superior. Fela says we should ask ourselves what is government? For him, government and the governed should have a father-son relationship, with mutual love and concern for the welfare of both parties, as their main focus. However, in Africa, there is no father-son relationship between the government and the governed. Instead what we have, are men who like to lord it over the masses. Hence, when such government officials appear in public places, they are surrounded by their police and army. For Fela, this is an alienation. In conclusion, he says if those in government think first of the welfare of their citizens, they won't need all that security to move around among their own people. You Give Me Shit I Give You Shit: In this song Fela is addressing Africans and the Diaspora to stop playing 'the second fiddle in life'. Using a discussion between him and a European businessman to make his point he says: 'hear the discussion between European and myself..!' saying the European is attempting to show how important and well connected his is in Africa, and talks of having so many companies with a lot of black people working for him. How this European claims to be a friend of all African heads of state, how he was at a dinner last night with the president of Nigeria. To make the European tell more, Fela says he offered the man the last 'joint' marijuana in his pocket, which further let-loose the European's tongue. After his long narrative, Fela decides to ask if in Europe and America, any black man could have the same opportunity as he does in Africa: 'If black people own companies in Europe like he does in Africa? If black people can easily be invited to dinner with any European leader—just like that? He points to 'negritude' and colonial mentality as the cause of African inferiority complex. For Fela, there is a problem of leadership in Africa as Africans don't like to do things for their own folks. He says he feels vexed that Africans in the twentieth century are still slaves of the system. For him it is time to stand firm: 'anybody that gives us shit will get shit'. Custom Check Point: In 1884-1885, colonial powers met in Berlin to divide and share Africa among themselves. With this Balkanization, artificial borders were created to separate African people. With independence, most of the nations still respect and adhere to the frontiers created from colonial times. Custom Check Point is Fela's criticism of the system that still respects these artificial boundaries separating African people. Tracing the cultural, linguistic and traditional unity of Africa people to an origin of one motherhood. Fela describes the men of customs and excise as human who have been put in place to do the dirty works of those who want to keep Africans apart. He advises them to pack-up and allow our people to travel freely among sister nations. Cut down the barriers! Custom she kia kia kia! He asks them to hurry-up and get out of the way. - Mabinuori Kayode Idowu


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It's time for some pretty weather. With the drought in Texas, last week's Halloween Nor'easter, and a tornado in Oklahoma, the weather has been downright nasty. It's time for a change.
Fortunately, that's what is going to happen. We are due for two to three years of extremely beautiful space weather. Prepare for aurora borealis, the "Northern Lights."
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We are approaching the peak of a sunspot cycle. Source: NASA
Here is how space weather works. The sun goes through roughly 11-year-long cycles of activity. Until fairly recently, the sun was unusually quiet. Then, last year it began to wake up. The surface began to swarm with sun spots and magnetic fields within Sol began to snap and splatter heated gas into space. By now, over a hundred sun spots a day are swirling on the solar surface.
There are always some gases radiating out from the sun. (It's called the solar wind.) However, during the peak of the sunspot cycle, things really get crazy. Most of the gas on the sun's surface gets blown out into space during the three years around the cycle's maximum.
When the sun's ionized gas particles hit the Earth's upper atmosphere, the collisions produce energy and dazzling sheets of light. Source: NASA
Fortunately the Earth's atmosphere protects us from most of the impact. The sun's ionized gas particles slam the upper atmosphere. When these ions hit some of the molecules in the air, the energy releases colors, green, red and, on rare occasions, blue. (Different molecules can produce different frequencies of light.) The Earth's magnetic field guides these energy flows, filling the sky with glowing curtains and ribbons of light.
Some of these solar storms are large enough to cause some problems for satellites and power grids. We have a 25 nation organization that monitors solar activity and issues warnings so that operators can take protective steps. Most storms, however, merely produce glorious lights and occasional radio static.
The auroras borealis tend to be confined to northern latitudes, spectacular shows for Canadians, Alaskans and Vikings. However, during this phase of the sun spot cycle, the storms tend to be stronger and can be seen further south. Two weeks ago, on October 24, a brilliant red aurora was seen as far south as Arkansas. Some lightshows reached the Caribbean. One show in the 1800s was so bright that people in the Northeast could read newspapers by its light.
Last October, a rare red aurora was seen as far south as Arkansas. Source: NASA
For the next three years, the northern skies will be filled with giant light shows. It is space weather at its finest. And, even better, after a solar storm you don't have to shovel the driveway.
Evelyn Browning Garriss doesn't just blog about the weather forecast; she provides insight on WHY extreme weather is happening--and a heads up on weather to watch out for. A historical climatologist, Evelyn blogs about weather history, interesting facts about the weather, and upcoming climate events that affect your life--from farming to your grocery bill. Every week, we look forward to another great weather column from Evelyn. We encourage our weather watchers to post their comments and questions--and tell us what they think!

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How effective are Teach for America teachers? It's a question that the organization's critics and fans alike have been trying to answer for years. …
A new study by the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (a part of the United States Department of Education) will encourage TFA supporters. The first large-scale random assignment study of TFA secondary math teachers, it found that the TFA teachers were more effective than other instructors at their schools.
Teach for America is a great initiative.
The study included 4,573 students at middle and high schools across the country. In the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years, researchers randomly assigned the students in each school to similar math courses–some were taught by TFA teachers, and others or by teachers who entered teaching through traditional or other, less selective alternative programs. The students with TFA teachers performed better on end-of-year exams than their peers in similar courses taught by other teachers. The bump in their test scores is equivalent to an additional 2.6 months of school for the average student nationwide.
That's pretty significant for an average difference.
The study also seemed to disprove the common criticism that, because TFA teachers only sign on for two years of teaching, they do not gain the experience necessary to become effective teachers. The study found that TFA teachers were more effective than both novice and experienced teachers from other certification programs. Students of TFA teachers in their first three years of teaching scored 0.08 standard deviations higher than students of other teachers in their first three years of teaching and 0.07 standard deviations higher than students of other teachers with more than three years of experience teaching.
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The iPad has a lot of potential as a secondary media device. It's not going to replace that nice plasma in your living room, but if you're out on the deck, in your office, or in the kitchen and you need some entertainment, it just might do the trick. That is, as long as there's content to watch on it.
According to the New York Times, that content is on the way. Hulu is working on an iPad app that will allow users to catch up on their favorite TV shows right on the nice portable screen. The only downside is that you might end up having to pay for it. Hulu has been wrestling with the idea of a subscription based service model for a while now, and it seems like the iPad may be the first place it gets tested. Earlier speculation was that Hulu subscribers would get access to more content, but it now seems that subscriptions could also enable remote viewing. There aren't any solid details yet on the planned service, and the question of using the iPad as a WiFi enabled device versus using it as a mobile device on a 3G network is still a bit of a puzzler. Netflix seems to be running into trouble when trying to license their content for mobile devices, and there's a chance that Hulu may run into the same problem. |


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Last year, I had the pleasure of reading Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry, which took the concept of a zombie plague and put it in the hands of a group of terrorists. Joe Ledger was the hero recruited to take on the shambling, infected dead and find a way to stop them as part of the Department of Military Sciences (DMS) – a super-secret group of highly-trained and resourceful individuals tasked to take out the threats the normal police or military forces of the United States can't handle.
Now Maberry has managed to take evil to a whole new level with The Dragon Factory. Not only does the terror fit in a timebox of one week, it merges cutting-edge genetics and biological science with the eugenics goal of the Nazis of World War II as they strived to create a "master race."
Consider what would happen if the cloning experiments described in Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil had the technological tools and expertise of today. Now multiply that by a factor of 1000. As Dragon progresses, the depths of depravity and layers of pure evil reveal themselves to be imaginative, inspiring, and horrific all at the same time.
On one side you have the beautiful Jakoby Twins – brilliant, elusive, perfect albino twins engaged in creating genetic mash-ups of existing creatures to form monsters and mercenaries capable of wanton destruction at the drop of a hat. On the other side, you have their father — Cyrus Jakoby — striving to not only create the Nazi Master Race, but rid the world of impurities as Adolph Hitler began to do during his reign of terror.
Between those two factions we find a race against a doomsday clock (called the "Extinction Clock") nobody knows about until it's almost too late, while Joe Ledger and his friends fight against the odds to save the world from the depths of depravity and madness. Ledger fights the evil on his own terms – but is the sacrifice too high this time?
Honestly, I love it when novels manage to work in not only artifacts of the present, but the echoes of history that are far too often forgotten. Maberry does both in spades while putting you on a heck of a rollercoaster ride. And don't worry – there's lots of gunfire, knife fights, and grenades to go around.
Though there is some serious science embedded in the pages of The Dragon Factory, I never found myself bogged down anywhere. His explanations were simple enough to keep the plot moving and the action hardly ever let up. Even the occasional love scene rarely slowed the novel's pace. Merging the dangers of genetic and biological manipulation with the unfathomable evil of the plans for the Nazi Master Race was a brilliant yet terrifying reminder that humankind is capable of truly beautiful and horrible things.
Maberry has written multiple novels, magazine articles, and plays while also teaching writing. I don't know where he finds all the time. His novels include Ghost Road Blues, which won the Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006, Dead Man's Song, Bad Moon Rising, and Patient Zero, which was recently optioned for television. And when he's not writing novels, he writes for several Marvel comics, including The Black Panther and other heroes including Wolverine, Spider-Man, The Punisher, and others.
If you like fast, intelligent action thrillers, I can highly recommend Jonathan Maberry's The Dragon Factory to be on your list of books to read. And if you haven't read Patient Zero, I'd encourage you to pick that up as well. They're both fast reads with some serious crunch. I can hardly wait to see what's next for Joe Ledger – and I'd love to see Patient Zero done well on television!
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A flood of top-end properties are hitting the market as businesspeople seek to leave France before stiff tax hikes hit, real estate agents and financial advisers say.
"It's nearly a general panic. Some 400 to 500 residences worth more than 1 million euros [US$1.3 million] have come onto the Paris market," said managers at Daniel Feau, a real-estate broker that specializes in high-end property.
While it is not yet on the scale of the exodus of rich French after the election of Socialist former president Francois Mitterrand in 1981, real estate agents said, the tax plans of France's new Socialist President Francois Hollande are having a noticeable effect.
While the Socialists' plan to raise the tax rate to 75 percent on income above 1 million euros per year has generated the most headlines, a sharp increase in taxes on capital gains from the sales of stock and company stakes is pushing most people to leave, according Didier Bugeon, head of the wealth manager Equance.
French entrepreneurs have complained vociferously against a proposal in the Socialist's budget for next year to increase the capital gains tax on sales of company stakes, which they argue will kill the market for innovative start-up companies in France.
Entrepreneurs in the high-tech sector in particular often invest their own money and take low salaries in the hope they can later sell the company for a large sum.
They say a stiff increase in capital gains tax would remove incentives to do this in France. They also argue that capital has already been taxed several times in the making.
The government has since backtracked, and French Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac pledged on Friday to return to the status quo when someone who has created a company seeks to sell it later.
French officials are looking for ways to reduce the country's excessive public deficit and debt, and Hollande won election on a platform of making the wealthy carry more of the load.
Bugeon said he was seeing start-up entrepreneurs looking to move their headquarters out of France and taking their families with them.
With the Internet "it is now possible to work in any corner of the world and come and spend one week a month in France," said Thibault de Saint Vincent, president of Barnes France, the principal competitor to Daniel Feau.
Daniel Feau agreed that the profile of those who are leaving has changed, from the idle rich to "managers of major international corporations, entrepreneurs and investors much younger than previously who are scared of the marginal tax rate of 62.21 percent on sales of stock."
The head of the French employers federation Medef, Laurence Parisot, has complained recently of emerging "anti-enterprise racism" in France.
No one is certain if the rush to the exit will continue, but Daniel Feau noted: "Nobody until now believed that the capital gains on shares would be taxed so high."
It is not only the Paris region, more offers are coming onto the market in other areas of the country as well, the realtors added.
The preferred destinations of those leaving are London, New York and Geneva, as well as Canada, Israel and Singapore, said Laurent Demeure, head of Coldwell Banker France.
He said that Brussels remains a favorite of those older, who have already sold their business interests, and are looking to benefit from Belgium's lighter taxation of trusts to pass on inheritances to their children.


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I thought after attending the stinkfest Date Movie and the painful Ultraviolet in consecutive weeks I would finally enjoy a movie in V for Vendetta. How cruel the gods of entertainment truly are. If I were to watch this film again, I would sneak a sleeping pill about a half an hour beforehand, enjoy the first explosion in the opening scene, sleep through the middle then have someone wake me up for the final explosion. Explosion, nap, explosion; maybe then I wouldn't have objected so much to having put forth money to see this film. That wasn't a spoiler either, as we know from the trailers what the ending of the film shall be.
Natalie Portman plays Evey Hammond, a Londoner who works for the state sanctioned television network. It's a London with obvious Orwellian rules regarding behavior, and Evey is caught after curfew by some non-uniformed enforcement officers who are preparing to rape her. V, played by Hugo Weaving, intervenes and incapacitates the men before they can harm Evey. He's wearing the mask of Guy Fawkes, an anti-Protestant terrorist from the seventeenth century who tried to kill off the Protestant government of England by blowing up the Parliamentary building in London.
Soon enough, Evey Hammond is knee deep with V and is forced into hiding after helping V take over a television network. I guess there's some plot in the movie, since we need to understand how we get from the beginning explosion to the ending explosion. Fascists are involved, evil pharmaceutical corporations are involved, as well as hypocritical priests, and I think they even kill off a Rush Limbaugh-type character in the mix. The message the film sends about the evils of conservatism (of which I personally am one) is heavy throughout the film. It's an unfair caricature for sure.
The obvious political message of the movie could be forgiven if it were simply a better film. Natalie Portman's performance is unbearable. It's hard to believe you're in London when the main protagonist can't maintain a British accent. Portman feels almost lifeless in her role. I guess that can be understood when you realize the other protagonist is a guy trying to act through a mask. Hugo Weaving does his best; however it only takes a short while to be completely frustrated by the mask. Not only do we never see any facial expression, Weaving's voice is muffled and difficult to listen to behind the mask. Eventually it's simply easier to give up trying to pay attention to the dialogue.
Not that the dialogue is bad. There are some wonderful soliloquies and exchanges in the film. Some. V is put forth as an extremely witty and verbose former actor who delivers theatrical performances as he's starting the revolution. Those exchanges disappear about twenty minutes into the film.
There are some action sequences in the movie. V carries around long daggers with which he fights. The expectation of these sequences is very high considering the magnificent history the Wachowski brothers have had in special effects and cinematography with their Matrix trilogy. However, all the action sequences (excepting the explosions at the beginning and ending of the film) come off as flat and uninteresting. The special effects are lackluster. Huge disappointment.
V for Vendetta is an over-hyped movie with occasional brilliance in dialogue combined with lazy special effects, tired action sequences, fatigued performances, plot holes, slow pace and a weak script. Take a pass and save yourself the time and money.
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Magazine: Summer 2009
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Based on an investigation of the performance of 80 software development projects with varying levels of dispersion — members in different cities, countries or continents — this article asserts that virtual teams offer tremendous opportunities despite their greater managerial challenges. In fact, dispersed teams outperformed their colocated counterparts when they had the appropriate processes in place. Those processes can be classified in two categories: task-related and socio-emotional.


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Welcome To New York! Rangers Announce Alain Vigneault As New Head CoachOne week after Alain Vigneault emerged as the leading coaching candidate, the New York Rangers hired him on Friday to replace the fired John Tortorella. Vigneault agreed to a five-year contract.
Brad Richards' Future With Rangers In DoubtBrad Richards would like to continue his career with the New York Rangers. That decision was his two summers ago, but now it is out of his hands.
In 0-3 Hole, Rangers Focusing On First Step Against BruinsAny kind of comeback now starts with Game 4 in New York. Three teams have recovered from an 0-3 hole to win an NHL series.
Rangers Have Opportunity To Set Tone Of Series In Game 1Silverman: The Rangers have an opportunity in Game 1 to set the tone of the series. The Bruins are still in the clouds after their seventh-game miracle comeback vs. Toronto.
Here We Go Again: Monzo's Rangers-Capitals Playoff PreviewWhat would playoff hockey be without the Rangers playing the Capitals?


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Continuing our new series of posts from our jewelry experts, this week Brilliant Earth jewelry specialist Jeanne Marie Martineau shares her love of bezel set solitaire engagement rings:
Dreaming of and drooling over next week's turkey and pie, I had to remind myself that this cornucopia of coma-inducing food is a celebration of giving thanks. As a jewelry specialist and lover, I'm thankful for jewelry – and rings especially. A ring is one of the most personal pieces of jewelry. Only you see it up close, every day. Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely an earrings and necklace girl, but other people get to see those more than I do!
Ring styles are ever-changing and constantly borrowing from the past. From original Victorian right hand stunners to pavé diamond stacking bands I am thankful for them all. But the ring style I am the most thankful for, my number one go-to, is the bezel set solitaire ring.
A bezel setting completely surrounds the gem's girdle (its widest point) with a thin precious metal band to create a perfectly smooth edge and keep the gem completely secure. Even though I don't rock climb, lift weights, or mountain bike, I'm busy and active, constantly using my hands and beating them up doing the smallest of tasks! So I love the peace of mind that my gemstone is set in there for good. Another advantage of a bezel setting is no prongs. That's right, no catching on things! Your hair, gloves, tights and sweaters are safe!
So those are just the practical reasons to love a bezel set solitaire, on to the reason that gets to the heart of jewelry in general: aesthetics. A single bezel-set gem on your hand is a remarkably striking look. It's modern, clean, elegant and a phenomenal way to display vibrant gems!
Bezel set solitaires play both engagement ring and right hand ring roles flawlessly. Simple modifications like metal finish, gem placement, and fancy gem shapes give each bezel set solitaire its own distinct style. High polish, matte, or brushed, on a ring with more visible metal than others, metal finish is an important part of the bezel set solitaire's look.
Since Brilliant Earth crafts its rings with recycled precious metals and ethically sourced gems, and donates 5% of profits going to communities impacted by the jewelry industry, a Brilliant Earth bezel set solitaire has style, structure, and soul!


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Are Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez segueing back into a romance?
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So, you know how Selena Gomez canceled her Australian tour a few weeks ago so she could "spend some time on myself in order to be the best person I can be"? Things may not be going exactly according to plan, because she's spending some of that hard-earned time in the company of her ex-boyfriend, Justin Bieber.
On Thursday, the former flames were snapped riding Segways around Bieber's gated community in Calabasas, Calif.
In addition to the scientifically proven fact that no one looks anything but ridiculous riding on a Segway, the pair didn't do much to impress the neighbors.
"Shoutout to @justinbieber for holding up all the traffic in the Oaks. Grow up," tweeted one eyewitness, adding, "Thanks to @justinbieber told us to [bleep] off, and his bodyguards blocked the road. … Gotta admit, I was kinda starstruck by @selenagomez but @justinbieber ruined the moment."
Chimed in another, "Bieber and Selena cussed me out while riding segways in the middle of the street because we couldn't drive around his security detail."
Justin, 19, and Selena, 21, called it quits around this time last year after a rumored blowout fight during a Mexican getaway. Although there were several reunions in the months after the split, Bieber's bad behavior escalated without Gomez, from partying, speeding, bucket peeing and monkey abandonment to spitting at neighbors, paparazzi scuffling, a purported brothel visit and self-esteem-crushing insults to female fans.
But the split wasn't all bad news.
"I wrote the best music once my heart was broken," he said in a Dec. 18 interview. "[The breakup] affected us, especially when we are in front of so many people. It's such a public thing. It's just hard for the both of us. But you know, she's a great woman. I love her to this day … I think we're going to be the greatest friends."
At the time, the Biebs admitted they weren't on speaking terms. But there's nothing like a slow ride on a dorky conveyance device to win back a young woman's heart.
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Finance Manager, Wholesale
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Job Description
The objective is to provide financial support for the Wholesale business from both a financial planning & analysis and controlling function. The Manager will play a key part:
- Developing and preparing monthly financial packages
- Analyzing monthly financial results
- Collaborating with the finance team and various cross functional business partners to develop the annual budget process, reforecasts, and strategic plan.
- Controlling the Full P&L, inclusive of Sales, Margin, Production Variances, and Expenses.
The manager will be reporting to the Senior Manager of Wholesale & Licensing FP&A, but working very closelywith several finance team members, including the VP of Finance and the CFO. The role enjoys high visibility to upper management; therefore the candidate must have excellent interpersonal, communication, andbusiness soft skills in addition to strong technical acumen.
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Refine, analyze and integrate the financial statements P&L of Wholesale divisions.
- Be actively involved in the annual budgeting and forecasting (annual budget, reforecasts, & strategic plan) of Wholesale divisions.
- Develop and prepare monthly financial packages for business reviews highlighting sales, gross margin and expenses variances to Budgets, Forecast, & LY.
- Provide input on the P&L budget and forecast received from department heads and constantly identify financial risk and opportunities.
- Recommendations for improving business processes, including the development of KPIs.
- Create standardized reports that provide accurate and timely data to the business including up-to-date information regarding actual versus forecasted performance
- Analyze reporting processes and systems and proactively develop options for impacting financial result
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- Provide consistent feedback and keep senior management updated through proactive monitoring of key issues.
- Coordinate regularly with all wholesale divisions to ensure proper representation of business activities and to make sure all internal reporting deadlines are met in a timely manner.
- Bachelors in Business Administration, Finance. MBA, a plus
- 5-8 years experience in Financial Planning & Analysis in corporate role.
- Experience in luxury goods/fashion industry leader preferred. Wholesale experience highly preferred.
- Strong P&L experience required. Inventory and margin analysis a plus.
- Strong knowledge of Excel and Power Point required.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and naturally inquisitive attitude
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-Earn an individual income of more than $200,000 per year or a joint income of $300,000.
-Have a net worth exceeding $1 million either individually or jointly with his/her spouse.
-Be a general partner, executive officer, director or related combination for the issuer of a security being offered.
Though the guidelines are strict, they make for professional, gated communities on certain crowdfunding platforms that are vetted of established figures and verified companies.
4: How it works for Companies
If the raises are only open to accredited investors and are conducted on a platform who is currently in partnership with a registered broker dealer, the size of the raise actually can be anywhere from $100,000 to $5,000,000.
This all means that the average raise will be significantly higher than is typically seen in the reward-based landscape. There will also be a corresponding increase in guidelines and standards that companies have to meet in order to be listed on a platform.
Of course, a company doesn't have to wait until the end of 2013 to raise funds this way. By applying to one of the crowdfunding platforms that are operating with registered broker dealers; entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses can gain access to the gated communities of professional accredited investors who are constantly evaluating new deals.
To make ends meet and have these communities be of high quality and trust for both the ventures raising funds and the accredited investors taking a stake in them, there are a series of documents that are required to be collected for the initial application process. On Onevest, these include, at a minimum:
-Executive Summary
-Term Sheet
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By Rene Marsh and Ben Brumfield
Pulsating light bursts into the cockpit of a plane thousands of feet in the air, filling it with seething brightness, and blinding the pilot and copilot.
What sounds like a cheap reenactment in a hokey UFO reality show has become everyday reality in the United States.
Laser attacks on aircraft occur an average of 11 times a day, the Federal Aviation Administration says.
Powerful handheld lasers are affordable and widespread, and some people are making sport of shining them up into passing aircraft. The trend seems to be catching on.
There were 3,960 such strikes reported last year, the FAA says. That's up from 283 in 2005.
But reporting of these crimes has also caught on, which has contributed to the rise in official numbers.
Still, hundreds of attacks go unreported and remain uncounted.
Perpetrator roundup
The FBI wants them to stop and is offering reward money for tips leading to the pranksters.
And it's making some arrests. Though it takes work to track down the source of the laser, it can be done with a helicopter, a dispatcher and squad cars.
The FBI has posted YouTube video of one such bust.
It has detained mostly teenage boys and men in their 30s, who face a possible five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
And the FBI is not the only one posting a bounty on them.
For the next two months, 11 U.S. cities and San Juan, Puerto Rico, are offering up to $10,000 for information leading to arrests.
Attacks are particularly common in New York and Los Angeles, and they often obstruct the work of the targeted pilots.
"When a laser light flashes across the cockpit, it's about 25% brighter than a flashlight flashing in your face. So what that does is, that can cause temporary incapacitation," said Stephen Woolery, an FBI agent pursuing laser pranksters.
Eye injuries
But the consequences can be much worse than just annoying.
A pilot coming in for a landing at JFK two years ago radioed the tower right after an attack.
"We just got lasered up here," he said. "Two green flashes into the cockpit. It caught the first officer's eye."
A direct hit can burn the cornea, and that has put pilots in the hospital.
So far, no laser strike has been known to cause a pilot to crash an aircraft.
But the FBI fears it is only a matter of time.
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FIRST Unitarian Church of Toledo has moved from its decades-long home to a smaller building in South Toledo. Numerous congregations in the nation's urban centers are facing similar decisions, and the changed face of their neighborhoods is not the main reason for the consideration.
Attendance at First Unitarian dropped from 500 in the 1950s, when it was on Collingwood Boulevard, to about 140. Its new church on Glendale Avenue, the former South Toledo Baptist Church - which also relocated to a smaller building in Maumee - is single story with less than half the area of the three-story building it left.
This is not unusual. Membership at mainline churches has declined, forcing members to make choices that are difficult and often emotionally charged. When they do move, it often leaves hearts broken and relationships severed.
Some, though, like St. Mark's Episcopal, also on Collingwood, are determined to stay put. Likewise, Central United Methodist sold its building and now rents space in Collingwood Presbyterian Church, which is on Collingwood too.
When attendance drops, churches must find ways to cope with rising maintenance and utility costs. First Unitarian's utility bills could be as high as $70,000 a year; one winter month they were $7,000. They expect to save $40,000 at the South End site.
Clearly, changes in neighborhood demographics are not the sole reason urban churches move. Their massive structures were built in the late 19th century or early 20th century when large was the norm. It's a matter of economics, and with fewer people in the pews, it often makes sense to move.
Interestingly, the dilemma mainline churches face typically doesn't affect the nondenominational and mega-churches. Their experiences are the opposite, and some are gaining former members of the mainline congregations.
But since fewer people go to church anyway, mainline church membership is not being replaced. U.S. churches are losing more than a million members a year.
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separation of file has occurred insid buccal canal of upper first premolar when doing filing,,i couldn't remove it by different ways,,,patient is unco_operative &limited mouth opening,,,it's stainless steel file...is it problem to leave the file inside canal &obture at the remaining length?
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File separation is an unfortunate, but normal event to take place when doing a RCT. The best thing is to be straightforward with your patient, explain what happened and your efforts to make iit right. If youre unable to remove the file yourself, you should at least make the effort to have the patient seen by a specialist who will be able to use microscopes and ultrasonics to try to remove the file fragment.
You can obturate then refer to an oral surgeon or endodontist for an apicoectomy and retrofill. Tell the patient that the prognosis is guarded at best and most likely require extraction in the future. If the tooth is symptomatic then extraction graft and implant is the best treatment for excellent long term prognosis
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Enbridge and the Flanagan South Project are going to be the buzz around Moberly for months to come. There have already been many inquires about what is happening on the outer road just north of Walmart Supercenter.
Kevin O'Connor, spokesman for the Flanagan South Project said today Moberly is one of four construction spreads for the pipeline project that will run from Illinois to Oklahoma. A total of seven pump stations will be in operation in various locations along the route.
Michaels Pipeline Construction will have a field office in Moberly at the site just north of Walmart Supercenter. The prep work has begun with a large area of gravel, electricity and office areas brought in.
What will this mean for the Moberly economy? O'Connor said that 50-60% of the people needed for this spread will come into Moberly with the contractors, but since they will need 400-500 workers, there will be the need to hire locally. Campgrounds, motels, housing, dining, and local shopping are all bound to see an increase in activity.
The 36-inch crude oil pipeline construction is set to begin Aug. 7. It will be operational in mid-2014, pumping 600,000 barrels per day.
O'Connor says there is a demand for more heavy crude in the south, and the heavy crude will be coming from Alberta, Canada. The Flanagan South Project will be running beside the Spearhead Pipeline that was constructed in the 1950s, and which carries a lighter crude.
O'Connor says more information will be released to the newspaper at a later date.
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This report describes the typical weather at the Kabul International Airport (Kabul, Afghanistan) weather station over the course of an average January. It is based on the historical records from 2002 to 2012. Earlier records are either unavailable or unreliable.
Kabul has a cold desert climate. The area within 25 mi of this station is covered by shrublands (50%), grasslands (41%), and croplands (8%).
The month of January is characterized by essentially constant daily high temperatures, with daily highs around 43°F throughout the month, exceeding 52°F or dropping below 33°F only one day in ten.
Over the course of January, the length of the day is gradually increasing. The shortest day of the month is January 4 with 9:54 hours of daylight; the longest day is January 31 with 10:27 hours of daylight.
The earliest sunrise is at 6:53am on January 31; the latest sunset is at 5:20pm on January 31; the latest sunrise is at 7:01am on January 11; the earliest sunset is at 4:53pm on January 1.
Daylight savings time (DST) is not observed in 2012.
The median cloud cover ranges from 60% (partly cloudy) to 71% (partly cloudy). The trend is for the sky to be becoming cloudier with the median cloud cover increasing by 9% from the start to the end of the month.
On January 1, the clearest day of the month, the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 33% of the time, and overcast or mostly cloudy 30% of the time.
On January 29, the cloudiest day of the month, the sky is overcast, mostly cloudy, or partly cloudy 44% of the time, and clear or mostly clear 20% of the time.
The probability that precipitation will be observed at this location varies throughout the month. Precipitation is most likely around January 29, occurring in 33% of days. Precipitation is least likely around January 2, occurring in 23% of days.
Throughout January, the most common forms of precipitation are moderate snow, light snow, and light rain.
Moderate snow is the most severe precipitation observed during 40% of those days with precipitation. It is most likely around January 22, when it is observed during 13% of all days.
Light snow is the most severe precipitation observed during 27% of those days with precipitation. It is most likely around January 24, when it is observed during 9% of all days.
Light rain is the most severe precipitation observed during 13% of those days with precipitation. It is most likely around January 29, when it is observed during 5% of all days.
The likelihood of snow falling is highest around January 28, occurring in 24% of days.
Either snow rarely accumulates at this location in January or snow depth measurements are unavailable or unreliable.
The relative humidity typically ranges from 33% (comfortable) to 85% (very humid) over the course of a typical January, rarely dropping below 14% (very dry) and reaching as high as 99% (very humid).
The air is driest around January 2, at which time the relative humidity drops below 42% (comfortable) three days out of four; it is most humid around January 31, rising above 77% (humid) three days out of four.
Dew point is often a better measure of how comfortable a person will find the weather than relative humidity because it more directly relates to whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid.
Over the course of a typical January, the dew point typically varies from 11°F (dry) to 25°F (dry) and is rarely below -2°F (dry) or above 34°F (dry).
Over the course of January typical wind speeds vary from 0 mph to 9 mph (calm to gentle breeze), rarely exceeding 13 mph (moderate breeze).
The highest average wind speed of 5 mph (light breeze) occurs around January 17, at which time the average daily maximum wind speed is 9 mph (gentle breeze).
The lowest average wind speed of 4 mph (light breeze) occurs around January 1, at which time the average daily maximum wind speed is 8 mph (gentle breeze).


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The amount of sleep one needs can vary for each person. There is a natural sleep-wake cycle that is recommended, by age, in order to ensure that you're getting enough sleep. The table below can help guide you on the amount of sleep that is recommended by age group:
Age | Sleep Requirements |
Newborns (0–2 months) | 16–18 hours |
Infants (3–11 months) | 14–15 hours |
Toddlers (1–3 years) | 12–14 hours |
Preschool-aged children (3–5 years) | 11–12 hours |
School-aged children (5–10 years) | 10–11 hours |
Teenagers (11–17) | 9–10 hours |
Adults | 7–9 hours |
As we progress through these life stages, we need less sleep at night to feel rested, but senior citizens generally need as much sleep as young adults. One conflicting study by the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School suggests that senior citizens may need, on average, 1.5 hours less sleep than younger adults.
This is due, in part, to changing sleep patterns as we age. Older adults are more likely to take longer to fall asleep and are also more likely to wake up during the night, even if they have no history of sleep problems.
Those adults who continue to require 7–9 hours of sleep per night may still note changes in their sleep habits, such as growing tired earlier in the day or more rapid sleep cycles that require more time spent in bed to feel rested.
These changes should be no cause for alarm in older adults, as they do not indicate a sleep disorder and are a part of the aging process. However, doctors recommend napping during the day if you feel tired or your daily activities are affected. The best time of day to nap is after lunch in the early afternoon, around 2 or 3 p.m. Naps should be short — around 10 to 30 minutes — and you should give yourself plenty of time to become alert again before resuming normal activities.
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This is a place for those who still love to have a book in their hands to share and discuss books, reviews, and ideas. The blog is dedicated to Mum who wrote four books and more than fifty stories and other Authors. Mum passed away at 93 without seeking publication. Her books and stories range from Murder/mystery, Suspense and Romance. Her first book was published March 2008 called "Ladies of Class" a Detective, Murder Mystery story. Enjoy fellow readers!
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Olympics hope Nicola Adams beats world No1 to take gold in Bulgaria
PUBLISHED: 16:50 29 February 2012 | UPDATED: 17:11 29 February 2012
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Nicola Adams says she "feels like an unstoppable force" after winning another gold medal at the Stranjda Cup in Bulgaria at the weekend.
The 29-year-old flyweight, who is registered with Haringey Police ABC, has already won the EU Championships and the European Championships in the past year.
And Adams' latest triumph included a victory over the world No1, China's Ren Cancan, strengthening her bid for the biggest gold medal of all at London 2012.
"It was definitely more important to beat her than to win the trophy," said Adams, who will move from No3 to No2 in the world at 51kg when the updated rankings are released.
"She was going to be my goal for the Olympic qualifiers, but I've beaten her early and that only adds to my belief that I can do something special at the Olympics.
"We've got another tournament in the Czech Republic in five weeks time, the Grand Prix, and then it's the Olympic qualifiers in China in May.
"Winning these tournaments is helping a lot. I'm seeing the improvement of being with the Great Britain squad full-time every time I fight now.
"This is a big year and confidence is so important. I used to win silver medals but I'm turning silver into gold now. I feel like an unstoppable force at the moment."
Adams faced Bulgaria's Stoyka Petrova in the preliminary round of the Stranjda Cup at the weekend, losing the first round 4-2 but fighting back to win 10-8.
That set up a crunch clash with the world No1 Cancan, and the pair went into the final round tied at 9-9 – but it was Adams who triumphed 12-11.
The semi-final was much less tense as the Great Britain boxer breezed past Turkey's Derya Aktop 17-3 – and the final was equally emphatic as Adams beat Valeria Calabrese 17-5, delivering a series of head shots in the final round and giving the Italian a standing eight-count.


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I'm making some new author business cards, and rather than doing the same old business card thing, I decided to have some fun with it. So I made myself a card as if from a trading card game. And I'd really love some feedback before I order up a thousand or so of them.
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Which photo do you prefer for an author's business card/trading card?
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- Photo #5 (17%, 4 Votes)
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- Photo #3 (8%, 2 Votes)
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Test Day:2013-10-13 SSD Cache
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Date | 2013-10-13 |
Time | all day |
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Website | QA/Fedora_20_test_days |
IRC | #fedora-test-day (webirc) |
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What to test?
Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on bcache based SSD Caching in Fedora 20. Although dm-cache is another SSD caching implementation, today we'll only focus on the bcache implementation.
General test objective
The objective of this Test day is to demonstrate a working Fedora 20 system using bcache. Te be more specific:
- The system boots OK; after booting bcache is operating as expected
- The system updates ("yum update") OK. After updating specifically the kernel the system boots OK.
- The system is bootable when the caching device is disabled.
The bcache implementation of SSD caching is a new feature (since kernel 3.9) and should be considered experimental. The focus of this Test day is to evaluate the alignment of bcache-tools with other relevant Fedora packages to support a good basis for experimenting with SSD caching:
- bcache-tools (version 0-0.14.20130909git or later)
- util-linux (version 2.24-0.1 or later)
- dracut (version 034 or later)
- lvm2 (version 2.02.102-1 or later)
- kernel (version 3.9 or later)
Anaconda support for bcache is expected to be available not until Fedora 21, so this is not in scope for the test day.
In general issues related to the bcache kernel driver are not in scope; SSD caching is not production yet so they should be addressed in the regular development process. This includes performance related issues. Only when the Test day demonstrates a unworkable situation, issues related to the bcache driver in the kernel are in scope on the Test day.
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Development - Kent Overstreet (py1hon)
- Quality Assurance - Igor Gnatenko (ignatenkobrain), Rolf Fokkens (rolffokkens)
External documentation
You can find some relevant documentation at bcache.evilpiepirate.org[[1]].
Prerequisites for the Test Day
There's no "easy way" yet to convert an existing filesystem to a bcache based filesystem: bcache is an additional block layer that writes its own superblock on the underlying block devices. There is a blocks [[2]] tool under development, but for now the only solution is to backup your data some where, recreate your filesystem on a bcache device, and then restore the data.
Another limitation is the fact that bcache is EXPERIMENTAL. Although it works really well in general, you should be careful to store important data on it.
Physical or Virtual
Although performance (of course) is a very important aspect of SSD caching, testing it is not required on the test day. Because of this testing can be done both on physical and virtual hardware, on a true SSD or a HDD. There is however a slight preference to do the testing on real hardware, with a real SSD.
Whenever the terms HDD or SDD are used below, they can be both physical and virtual. The same is true for the terms "system", "CPU", "RAM`and "bootable media".
Hardware & Software requirements
- A fresh system:
* 10GB+ HDD * 2GB+ SSD * 256MB+ RAM * x86 CPU (32bit or 64bit) * internet connection
- bootable media containg (one of):
Fedora 20 Beta TC2 x86_64 netinstall
Fedora 20 Beta TC2 i386 netinstall
Disk partitioning
To prepare for the test cases, it is important to use the following partitioning:
sda: sda1 500MB /boot sda2 2GB /home sda3 2GB / sda4 (>4G) free space (only used when testing in combination with LVM) sdb: sdb1 >2GB (caching device)
sda is (or models) the rotational disk device, sdb is (or models) the solid state disk device.
When using a VM sda may and sdb may be read as vda and vdb.
Other requirements
- Knowledge on how to build physical or virtual machines
- Knowledge on how to use the Linux command line (There's no graphical installer yet)
- A desire to break software
How to test?
Because Anaconda does not support bcache yet, the test may be executed following certain steps: preparation and test case 1 to test case 3. The end result will be a F20 system running its root filesystem on bcache. These steps are merely suggestions, to allow testing in limited time. Of course testers are free to choose other ways of testing. As a suggestion, testers can focus on the following criteria:
- Do the tools to create / manage bcache operate as expected?
- Are your 'bcached' filesystems automatically operational after a reboot?
- Are your 'bcached' filesystems automatically operational after a kernel update?
Each demonstrates the proper allignment of dracut, util-linux, lvm2 (when used), bcache-tools and the kernel.
Preparation: install F20
The first step is to do a minimal install:
- this is the fastest install
- it also saves time when copying the root filesystem during later test cases
- it allows to install other packages later (yum groupinstall) as part of the test activities.
Use bootable media containg
Fedora 20 Beta TC2 x86_64 DVD
Fedora 20 Beta TC2 i386 DVD
Fedora 20 Beta TC2 x86_64 netinstall
Fedora 20 Beta TC2 i386 netinstall to install Fedora 20. This does not contain the most recent packages, so lateron yum update
can be used as a test.
Test Cases
Test case 1.A: /home on bcache (no LVM)
Once your fresh Fedora 20 system is running, we will "move" /home to a bcache device without using LVM.
Step by step instructions are available on this page
Test case 1.B: / on bcache (no LVM)
Now we have a stable system with /home on bcache, we can go forward and have / on bcache without using LVM.
Step by step instructions are available on this page.
Test case 2.A: /home on bcache (LVM)
Once your fresh Fedora 20 system is running, we will "move" /home to a Logical Volume (LVM) on a bcache device. Because of the flexibility that LVM provides the approach is quite different from page 1.A, for example we'll start by using sda4!
Step by step instructions are available on this page
Test case 2.B: / on bcache (LVM)
Now we have a stable system with /home on LVM on bcache, we can go forward and have / on bcache.
Step by step instructions are available on this page
User | IRC nickname |
Kent Overstreet | py1hon |
Igor Gnatenko | ignatenkobrain |
Rolf Fokkens | rolffokkens |
Test Results
If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla usually for the component bcache-tools. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one. For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result line.
User | /home on bcache (no LVM) | / on bcache (no LVM) | /home on bcache (LVM) | / on bcache (LVM) | References |
Sample User | |
Mock tests (optional)
User | mock on bcache (no LVM) | References |
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Oliver Stone: 'I love marijuana and Ecstasy but not cocaine and Prozac'
Moviemaker OLIVER STONE has opened up about his drug use in a candid new magazine interview, revealing he no longer takes anti-depressants but has become a big fan of Ecstasy and the hallucinogenic juice from rubber tree plants.
The Natural Born Killers and Platoon director has never been shy about his drug use and now, in a new article in The Hollywood Reporter, he lists the hallucinogenics he approves off and the hard drugs he avoids.
Stone says, "I believe the grass (marijuana) is God's gift. California makes the best in the world now... All my life I've been doing it, off and on. I can stop marijuana... I'm not addicted. I enjoy it. I also enjoy alcohol.
"Cocaine, I stay away from, but I believe in LSD, mescaline, mushrooms, ayahuasca.
"You ever heard of ayahuasca? It's a very strong juice that comes from the rubber trees. Ecstasy is great, too."
But there's one more prescription drug the director no longer takes - anti-depressant Prozac.
He explains, "I've taken medication, but it doesn't work for me. I'm not a Prozac person anymore; I've already taken too much of that. I feel you have to confront it (depression) on a spiritual basis."


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The fight that had everyone talking from Yokkao 9 in China was Sudsakorn Sor Klinmee vs. Yi Long, a match labeled as Muay Thai vs. Shaolin Gung Fu. Sudsakorn ultimately walked away with the victory, but there are still those who have doubted it. So Yokkao has gone ahead and released the footage from the fight and you can decide for yourself. I don't know, it seems pretty cut and dry to me that Sudsakorn won, what do you think?
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Mayor Bill de Blasio, far left, and Chirlane McCray, far right, sit down with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria "Masha" Alyokhina, former members of Russian protest band Pussy Riot.Credit: Rob Bennett/Mayor's Office
Mayor Bill de Blasio gabbed behind closed doors with former members of feminist Russian protest band Pussy Riot for almost an hour on Friday evening.
De Blasio and wife Chirlane McCray met with Maria "Masha" Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who closing their visit to New York City after performing at an Amnesty International show in Brooklyn.
Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova were two of three Pussy Riot members arrested in 2012 after staging a protest show inside a Russian Church.
Staunch critics of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the pair was freed in December after 21 months in prison. The women embarked on the tour to examine prison systems outside their native country as a means to bring prison reform to Russia. They also performed at Wednesday night's "Bringing Human Rights Home" concert at Brooklyn Barclay's Center, a move that got Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova booted from the band.
Ahead of the sit down, de Blasio described himself as a "tremendous admirer" of Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova for speaking out against oppression. The mayor also promised to facilitate any of the women's future visits to New York City.
"I saw the interviews when they came out of prison and there was an incredibly admirable defiance that they basically made clear that they would speak out even if it meant being imprisoned again," de Blasio said on Friday, calling their work "inspirational."
De Blasio celebrated his own freedom of speech before meeting the Russian duo.
"Can I say Pussy Riot? Yes I can," he said.
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His Aquila performance apparently cemented his reputation as a board director whom a CEO could trust.
Cain was listed as the owner of 23,568 Aquila shares in 2002, when he approved the bonuses.
Cain made $100,000 a year as an Aquila director and $120,000 a year at Hallmark.
The company never recovered from 2001, the best of times and the worst of times for Aquila.
These pronouncements run directly counter to what Richard Green said he learned from what he called the Aquila "collapse."
Possibly he may have used Aquila's version, or that of some unknown translator.
There isn't a horse in the country that can touch Aquila when he is roused.
(Ahijah and Abijah), which has been added from the Greek version of Aquila.
Of Charles's indiscreet escapade in the matter of Aquila nothing was said.
Aquila gave one glance back; then stretched his long lean neck, and settled into a gallop.
eagle, a native of Pontus, by occupation a tent-maker, whom Paul met on his first visit to Corinth (Acts 18:2). Along with his wife Priscilla he had fled from Rome in consequence of a decree (A.D. 50) by Claudius commanding all Jews to leave the city. Paul sojourned with him at Corinth, and they wrought together at their common trade, making Cilician hair-cloth for tents. On Paul's departure from Corinth after eighteen months, Aquila and his wife accompanied him to Ephesus, where they remained, while he proceeded to Syria (Acts 18:18, 26). When they became Christians we are not informed, but in Ephesus they were (1 Cor. 16:19) Paul's "helpers in Christ Jesus." We find them afterwards at Rome (Rom. 16:3), interesting themselves still in the cause of Christ. They are referred to some years after this as being at Ephesus (2 Tim. 4:19). This is the last notice we have of them.


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an appallingly stupid recipe... rillettes are what you do with leftover scrap meat (duck or pork). i can't even begin to say all that's wrong with this recipe.
The whole point of this recipe is that it is a LOW-FAT hors d'oeuvre. Use the duck fat if you want, but it defeats the purpose of this particular recipe. ;)
Mmm, what a way to cook a corpse!
I would like to echo the comments of the other reviewers -- this is an appalling use of duck and a complete misunderstanding of rillettes. The whole point is to essentially braise and preserve the meat in its own fat. Never, NEVER discard duck fat. Yukon gold potatoes roasted in duck fat are one of the most wonderful things on the planet.
I am stunned that they would suggest discarding duck fat. Duck fat is the most wonderful thing in the world! And adding gelatin? Should not be necessary. I was looking for a good recipe for rillette, but I don't think I shall find it here.
I eat dead things all the time. Liked this very much. Good recipe!
There is no substitute for flavour, and fat is flavour. This recipe is wrong! Use the legs not the breasts (save them for a lovely sauté or pan roasting) render the fat and use to cook the meat and all the bones together. Use less water (1/2 cup max) and a long slow cooking under a layer of duck fat will produce all the gelatin you will need to set a beautiful rillettes. I put the finished mixture in a loaf pan and slice it when set. Wrapped in plastic and frozen they will keep for six months. Put some in ramekins and add a layer of duck fat to seal it and it will keep for 2-3 weeks (not days) until you break into it. Remember this was how meat was preserved in the old days before refrigeration.
I agree with San Fran. What's wrong with the word "carcass"? If you have a problem with dead meat, don't eat it. Me, personally, I tend to like it.
American Heritage defines carcass as: "The dead body of an animal, especially one slaughtered for food." Seems pretty accurate to me. It's also the term used by professionals in the food industry to refer to the bones left. Why eat meat if you can't deal with death?
To the cook from Phoenix: Do you have a better suggestion if you think carcass is not to your liking? How about 'skeleton'.. Really!


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IAAESS (I am an energy system scientist).
These are four of the most prominent *climate* scientists in the world. But not one of them has published a single paper on energy systems (as far as I can see in their online lists of publications). There is a whole field of science concerning integration of intermittent renewables, and these guys have never demonstrated any expertise in this area.
I'm sure all four of them get extremely annoyed when scientists in fields completely unrelated to climate change spout climate skeptic nonsense all over the media (I do too). Now they are guilty of the exact same sin.


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A pitbull puppy was found on the side of a Lee Co. Highway suffering from a gunshot wound to the head, and died this afternoon at a vet clinic near Fort Madison.
It got many residents talking about Lee County's stray dog policies. Lee County Sheriff Jim Sholl explained what their rules are….
"Lee County does not have a humane society or an animal control officer. So when we receive stray dog calls, our first attempt is to possibly contact someone who could rescue that dog for us. If not, Iowa Code allows that a dog be destroyed if its unlicensed and un-tagged. In other words, if it's truly a stray, or if a dog might be vicious towards livestock or humans."
He said his office did receive notice about the puppy that was shot in the face and they're looking into it…
"That will be investigated because this could be an animal cruelty issue, if there wasn't good reason [for shooting it]. Right now, we don't even have a suspect to begin with, but our deputy will initiate the investigation and we'll see where it leads us."
Fort Madison Police Chief Bruce Niggemeyer wants residents to know that those rules are differnt in town. They first attempt the find the owner. If they cannot get a hold of anyone, they will take the animal to Dr. Shannon who is located just outside of Fort Madison. It may then end up at PAW until it can be reunited with it's owner or adopted.


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text: André MalrauxMalraux, André (äNdrāˈ mälrōˈ) [key], 1901–76, French man of letters and political figure. An intellectual with a broad knowledge of archaeology, art history, and anthropology, Malraux led a remarkably adventurous life. He traveled to Indochina looking for Khmer statuary and later visited such locales as Russia, Persia, Afghanistan, Burma, Malaysia, and the United States. He witnessed the struggle in China (1927) between the Communists and Nationalists, described in his novel The Conquerors (1928), helped to organize the Republican air force and commanded a squadron of volunteers in the Spanish civil war, and was a founder of the World League against Anti-Semitism. A French tank commander during World War II, he was captured by the Germans but escaped and became a resistance leader. Malraux served (1945, 1958) as minister of information under Charles de Gaulle. An enthusiastic adherent of de Gaulle, Malraux was later (1959–68) his minister of cultural affairs; as such he was largely responsible for the restoration of many Parisian landmarks, the establishment of the Orchestre de Paris, the funding of various literary works, and the creation of regional art centers. His writings on de Gaulle include Fallen Oaks (1971, tr. 1972). Malraux's outstanding social novels, which reflect the tumult of his time, include La Condition humaine (1933; tr. Man's Fate, 1934), concerning the Shanghai uprisings, and L'Espoir (1938; tr. Man's Hope, 1938), set in Spain during the civil war. Amid violence and political chaos, his heroes struggle to maintain their dignity and humanity. Among his writings on art and civilization are Les Voix du silence (1951; tr. The Voices of Silence, 1953); The Metamorphosis of the Gods (tr. 1960), drawn from several of his works, including Le Musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale (3 vol., 1953–54); and Le Triangle noir (1970), studies of Goya, Laclos, and Saint-Just. In these works Malraux portrays art as an outgrowth of past art rather than a reaction to contemporary stimuli. See his Anti-memoirs (1967, tr. 1968); memoir by C. Malraux (1967); biographies by R. Payne (1970), P. Galante (1971), J. Lacouture (1973, tr. 1976), C. Cate (1997), and O. Todd (2001, tr. 2005); studies by V. M. Horvath (1969), T. J. Kline (1973), W. M. Frohock (1974), H. Bloom, ed. (1988), G. T. Harris (1996), and J. F. Lyotard (2001). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. See more Encyclopedia articles on: French Literature: Biographies |


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Re: Partitioning a list from an index
Guy, what a fun question! You don't make it really clear how you make "6" the priviledged index, so that got me thinking of a solution that takes advantage of Mathematica's "dialog" quality where I might be deciding as I go along which index is the one I want to syncronize to. My solution is somewhat unlikely, as I start by "over partitioning" your list, so that EVERY index appears as the first element in some sublist. And then, at that point, extract every other (or every third) sublist starting from the chosen sublist. BUt again, as I said above this is all in keeping with my interpretation of how I might be playing with this list of numbers. Let width=the size of your desired partitions. In[1] width=3; list1=Range[10]; In[2] p=Partition[list1,width,1] (* "over partition" the list *) Out[2]={{1,2,3},{2,3,4},{3,4,5},{4,5,6},{5,6,7},{6,7,8},{7,8,9},{8,9,10}} In[5]:= pp=Partition[p,width] (* Partition a second time *) Out[5]= {{{1,2,3},{2,3,4},{3,4,5}},{{4,5,6},{5,6,7},{6,7,8}}} (* we can see that 6 appears as the first element in the thrid sublist *) (* so this Part[] command will extract all the appropriate sublists *) (* in my second example below we'll let Position[pp,6] make this observation for us *) In[7]:=pp[[All,3]] Out[7]={{3,4,5},{6,7,8}} (* bigger example -- still looking to align on "6" *) In[9]:= width =4; list1=Range[42]; In[11]:= p=Partition[list1,width,1]; In[12]:= pp=Partition[p,width]; In[13]:= (* we're looking for a 1 as the final element in the values below *) In[14]:= Position[pp,6] Out[14]= {{1,3,4},{1,4,3},{2,1,2},{2,2,1}} In[15]:= (* and now we know we want the second sublist from each *) pp[[All,2]] Out[15]= {{2,3,4,5},{6,7,8,9},{10,11,12,13},{14,15,16,17},{18,19,20,21}, {22,23,24,25},{26,27,28,29},{30,31,32,33},{34,35,36,37}} Cheers, john kiehl On Monday, May 9, 2005 1:46 AM, Guy Israeli <guyi1 at netvision.net.il> wrote: >hello, > >how can partition a list (doesn't have to be with 'Partition') such that the >partition will begin with a specific index? > >like this: > >list1={1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10} > >and i might want to split it to pairs or threes from index 6 for example, so >for threes it will be > >{1,2,{3,4,5},{6,7,8},9,10} > >with or without padding to those that are left, depends on what it is >possible, or maybe put them together or something > >for pairs it will be {1,{2,3},{4,5},{6,7},{8,9},10} >again with or without padding > >thank you very much > >Guy > > >


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There will be little to no changes to the organizational structure of the Town of Sidney, following a review commissioned by mayor and council.
Paragon Strategic Services Ltd. was contracted to perform the review and its contents were recently made public. Much of the process was done in-camera, as it could have affected people's jobs within the municipality.
Chief administrative officer Randy Humble said council asked for the review to see how things were operating, from a third-party perspective.
What the consultants found is that the Town has high expectations from its staff and at all levels the employees are responding well.
The report also shows that there are few redundancies in the departments they assessed (fire, development services, public works and parks).
It also states that if council does want to find savings in any of those areas, it would require adjusting service levels expectations.
"It's a very positive outcome," Humble said of the report. "Mayor and council wanted to make sure that the Town is running efficiently."
Humble added council has accepted the report and its recommendations — essentially that there be no structural changes in any of those four departments.
The only change that did occur, Humbe said, was reclassifying a gardener position with the municipality into an arborist position.
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January 19th, 2012Bucs news forthcoming.
Packers coach Mike McCarthy rips his team's lack of tackling. [NFL]
So Rob Lowe has decided to be Jason La Canfora? What next, Molly Ringwald discussing coaching moves? [Twitter]
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The Blood of His Servants is a remarkable true story. In the whole range of Holocaust literature it stands apart, for it recounts the search by one survivor for the single Nazi murderer of his family—a man who had once been their friend.
In prewar Poland, Bibi Krumholz, the nephew of prosperous Jewish landowners, is befriended by the wealthy Dutchman Pieter Menten. Largely due to Menten's wordly influence, Bibi leaves for Palestine in 1935. In the years before… (more)


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Time to get some more information that I've got lying around and attach it to someone in my tree. I look forward to having more time to do this when we get settled into our new home, but we're genealogists. We do what we can, when we can, and I've got a little time right now as babysit my great niece and she naps peacefully in the next room.
Milton Turnbach was born in 1899. He was the oldest of 8 known children born to Abraham and Mary Turnbach nee Blanchfield: Milton, William, Robert, Mary, 2 unknown (either died young or were stillborn), Elizabeth, and Anna.
I don't know if Milton married or had children, but with a death date from the Social Security Death Index I can grab his obituary when I get back to Pennsylvania. Oh how essential that database is to genealogists!
Milton was my first cousin twice removed and he died on November 23, 1988. He is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania. Rest in peace, Milton.


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December 1962 | Volume 14, Issue 1
For mining involved more than swishing a little gravel and water around in a basin; it was hard, back-straining work. Placer gold, the only kind really known during the gold rush, consists of gold dust and occasional nuggets scattered thinly through sand and gravel (a miner never called it anything but "dirt"). To obtain the gold, it was necessary to wash a great deal of dirt, taking advantage of the fact that gold is about eight times as heavy as sand and will settle to the bottom while the sand is being carried oft by the water. The gold pan, traditional symbol of the miner, was used only in very rich claims or for testing samples of dirt to see whether they were worth working further. In ordinary circumstances, a hopperlike device of wood and perforated sheet iron called a cradle, or rocker, was employed in a two-man operation: while one shoveled in the dirt, the other rocked the device and poured water with a dipper. The dirt was washed through, and the gold was caught in settling pockets.
After 1849, an invention called the long torn was used wherever there was a good supply of running water. It was simply a wooden flume with water running through it; dirt was shoveled in and sluiced through while the gold caught on a slatted bottom. A long torn was worked by several men and could handle four or five times as much dirt per man per day as could a cradle. That meant, of course, that a miner had to shovel four or five times as much dirt into it as he would into a cradle to keep it operating at full efficiency. A man usually had to pay for what he got, even in the gold fields.
The terrain on which the prospectors worked did little to make things easier for them; it was usually difficult. The diggings were chiefly along the tributaries of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, which flowed out of the Sierra Nevada; each river, fork, branch, and creek was eventually followed by prospectors to its source. In the lower foothills the land might be only moderately rocky and hilly at best; near the headwaters rushing streams flowed in the clefts of deep, precipitous gorges whose bottoms were often cluttered with boulders and fallen rocks and choked with jackstraw tangles of dead trees. Even under these conditions, miners persevered at the ever-absorbing task of separating a small amount of gold from a mountain of gravel, and with amazing energy and ingenuity constructed hydraulic works to enable them to move the stream here or there or otherwise exploit it in their search for wealth.
Sometimes these constructions reached the proportions of major engineering works—and were often complete wastes of time and talent. Louise Clappe—"Dame Shirley" she called herself in her letters—who lived with her doctor husband in the mining camps of Indian Bar and Rich Bar on a high fork of the Feather River for a year, wrote of a company of thirteen men who worked from February almost through September on a project to divert a section of the stream so they could mine the bed. It involved building a dam six feet high and three hundred feet long, as well as a flume and other supporting works. Lumber had cost $1,000 and thirty laborers had been hired for nine and a half days; in all, the dam cost $2,000. When the company totaled its take in gold dust at the end of the venture, it amounted to $41.70.
While such experiences were frequent, they were very far from universal, or else a crowd of amateurs would not have been able to take out, between 1848 and 1852, a quarter of a billion dollars' worth of gold, more or less—no one knows exactly how much—before the rich placer deposits began to give out. For a great many men, the gold fields yielded up a very good day's wage for a day's work. But a day's wage was not what started the gold rush and kept it going; the Argonauts came expecting nothing less than a strike that would make them rich overnight. And there were places where the new Eldorado was almost as rich as the wildest stories ever told about it—locations like those at Auburn, where four cart loads of dirt yielded $16,000, and where, during the first delirious days, it was not at all unusual for a man to dig $1,000 to $1,500 worth of gold between dawn and dusk. Even the stories about gold being found at the roots of bushes turned out to be true: a man hunting rabbits near Angel's Camp jammed his ramrod into the roots of a manzanita bush and turned up a piece of gold-bearing quartz; he scratched out $700 worth of gold the rest of the day using the rod, but with better implements gathered $2,000 the next day and $7,000 the third.
There were stories of men digging gold flakes out of cracks in the rock in stream beds with spoons. Three German prospectors taking a short cut home through unexplored country found just such a situation on a high tributary of the Feather River and were reported to have taken out $36,000 in four days without even having to wash any gravel. The story of the find leaked out—miners seemed able to smell a gold strike—and the location, named Rich Bar, was quickly swarming with men. It was so rich that it was agreed that claims should be limited to ten square feet. Single panfuls of dirt here contained $1,500 to $2,000 in gold often enough to be considered almost commonplace; the record for one panful was said to have been $2,900. One company of four men took out $50,000 in a single day.