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S&P Downgrades Five Malaysian Banks; Outlook Negative
Sep 25, 1998, 01:00 ET from Standard & Poor's CreditWire
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard & Poor's today lowered its ratings on five Malaysian banks and affirmed its public information ratings on seven Malaysian banks (see list below). Standard & Poor's also lowered its local currency counterparty credit rating on Malayan Banking Berhad and removed the rating from CreditWatch, where it was placed July 22, 1998 (see list below). The outlook is now negative. The Malaysian banking sector faces increasing economic and industry risk. The domestic economy continues to weaken as evidenced by the negative GDP growth in the last two calendar quarters, soft property sector, and weak stock market (despite a slight rally this month). Government policy actions over recent weeks have led to increased banking industry risk. Standard & Poor's considers that increased regulatory forbearance acts to defer the necessary cleaning out of the banks' balance sheet and should serve to increase the opacity of financial information. Such leniency is evidenced by a reduction in statutory reserve ratios, the retrospective relaxation of nonperforming loan and provisioning standards, and the loosening of exposure limits for loans for the purposes of stock purchases (including margin lending). Standard & Poor's has serious concerns about the general solvency of the Malaysian financial sector. Standard & Poor's expects gross nonperforming loans (NPLs) for the financial sector to more than double to a peak of 30%-32% of total loans by year-end 1999 from 13.2% in June 1998. At this level Standard & Poor's estimates that the recapitalization cost is Malaysian ringgit (RM) 36 billion (approximately US$9.5 billion). This implies a significant shortfall over RM16.0 billion to be provided by the government's recapitalization vehicle (Danamodal Nasional Berhad). While banking systems in neighboring countries are also in need of capital, they have adopted a more open policy with regard to foreign investment in, and ownership of, indigenous banks. Foreign investment is viewed as potential source of capital. However, recent foreign exchange controls implemented by the Malaysian government are more likely to act as disincentives to foreign investment. This, in conjunction with a lack of surplus capital in the domestic markets, has intensified Standard & Poor's solvency concerns of the Malaysian financial sector over the short to medium term. The contagion risk from the weaker financial institutions in the system to stronger institutions exists, although not to the same extent as in Thailand. Standard & Poor's expects Malayan Banking Berhad gross NPL level to more than double in calendar 1999 from 8.38% at June 1998. This view is premised on Maybank's high exposure to the troubled Malaysian corporate borrower sector, a market segment which Maybank traditionally leads; and the absence of a strong cushioning effect from the bank's overseas operations, owing to the regional economic downturn. Over the next 15 months, Maybank's capitalization, as measured by equity to assets, may fall back to levels prevalent in the early 1990s. Nonetheless, the bank's leading business franchise, capable management team, and credit underwriting skills, which are traditionally more conservative than the average Malaysian bank, are factors supporting the ratings in the investment-grade category. The announced RM1.5 billion recapitalization of the merged RHB Bank/Sime Bank and government guarantees on Sime Bank's portfolio is positive and will assist in providing the bank with additional flexibility in defending its capital base. Nevertheless, Standard & Poor's expects RHB Bank Berhad's NPL ratio and profitability to continue to deteriorate sharply, with the possibility that additional capital support may be required in the future. Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank Berhad's (AMMB) ratings have been lowered as a consequence of its rising NPLs, which at June 1998 were 11.74% of total gross loans, up from 8.08% in March 1998. Standard & Poor's expects the bank's NPLs to peak at more than twice current levels and is concerned about the impact this will have on the merchant bank's capital base. AMMB's June 1998 equity-to-assets ratio, at 6.60%, may be insufficient to absorb the expected peak NPL level. The existing total provisioning for the NPLs, at 39.9%, will almost certainly be insufficient, thereby further pressuring the bank's capital base. Given these shortcomings, the ratings on AMMB remain on CreditWatch with negative implications because of continuing questions over the ability of the ultimate parent company (Arab-Malaysian Corp.), which is under creditor protection, to extend additional capital support. Standard & Poor's expects to resolve the CreditWatch listing by the last calendar quarter of 1998, during which time AMMB would be expected to have executed its contingency recapitalization plan. The absence of such, or an insufficient recapitalization, is likely to lead to a further ratings downgrade. Bank Bumiputra's pi rating downgrade is a reflection of its high 20.4% NPL ratio, at March 1998, and sharp loss, at RM1.4 billion, posted for its financial year ended March 31, 1998. Standard & Poor's expects asset quality to continue to deteriorate, with NPLs to peak at more than twice its current level. The proposed merger with Bank of Commerce (M) Berhad, which would see a dilution in the government's ownership in Bank Bumiputra, raises some uncertainty of the level of government support of the merged entity in the near future. Still, the governmental role played by the bank is the main factor sustaining the rating, even at the double-'Bpi' level. The pi rating on Hong Leong Bank Berhad was lowered in response to its higher-than-industry average NPL ratio. At March 1998, Hong Leong Bank's NPL was 9.34%, while the average for commercial banks was 8.05%. The bank's high loan growth over the past few years carries with it an inherent risk of a further sharp escalation in asset-quality problems. The triple-'Bpi' rating on Public Bank Berhad was affirmed in recognition of its still strong financial profile and superior asset quality in the Malyasian context. Similarly, Standard & Poor's considers that the projected financial profiles, after taking into account the likely deterioration in asset quality, of Ban Hin Lee Bank Berhad, Bank of Commerce (M) Berhad, Multi-Purpose Bank Berhad, Perwira Affin Bank Berhad, and Southern Bank Berhad can sustain their double-'Bpi' ratings. The triple-'Cpi' rating on the troubled Sime Bank Berhad was affirmed, pending its merger with RHB Bank Berhad. The merger is expected to be completed by the year end. OUTLOOK (MALAYSIAN BANKS): NEGATIVE The current ratings take into account Standard & Poor's expectations of future problem loan levels at individual banks, and government capital injections into certain of these banks. If problem loans were to exceed anticipated levels or capital injections not materialize, further downgrades are possible, Standard & Poor's said. -- CreditWire Ratings Lowered and Removed from Creditwatch Rating To From Malayan Banking Berhad Local currency counterparty credit rtgs BBB-/A-3 A-/A-2 Ratings Lowered and Remaining on Creditwatch Negative Rating To From Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank Berhad Counterparty credit ratings B+/C BB/B Ratings Lowered RHB Bank Berhad Local currency counterparty credit rtgs BB+/Neg/B BBB/Neg/A-3 Foreign currency counterparty credit rtgs BB+/Neg/B BBB/Neg/A-3 Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Berhad Counterparty credit rating BBpi BBBpi Hong Leong Bank Berhad Counterparty credit rating Bpi BBpi Outstanding Ratings Affirmed Rating Malayan Banking Berhad Foreign currency counterparty credit ratings BBB-/Neg/A-3 Foreign currency CDs BBB-/A-3 US$250 million sub notes due 2005 BB+ US$300 million 3(A)2 commercial paper A-3 Public Bank Berhad Counterparty credit rating BBBpi Ban Hin Lee Bank Berhad Bank of Commerce (M) Berhad Multi-Purpose Bank Berhad Perwira Affin Bank Berhad Southern Bank Berhad Counterparty credit rating BBpi Sime Bank Berhad Counterparty credit rating CCCpi
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Some of the Museum's most important ostracod specimens were re-examined recently using synchrotron technology. The results published in the journal Science showed that these very delicate but exquisitely preserved fossils gave evidence for reproduction using giant sperm back in the Cretaceous period about 100 million years ago.
A scanning electron microscope of an exceptionally preserved ostracod from Brazil showing details of unusually preserved soft body parts. From images obtained by scanning electron microscope we have known since the 1970s that the Cretaceous ostracod Harbinia micropapillosa was almost identical in body form to modern day examples. Usually ostracods, microscopic crustaceans that inhabit aquatic environments, leave only their calcareous shells in the fossil record. However, these exceptional fossils from Brazil include details of their organic soft body parts not normally fossilised. These specimens were first found by legendary evolutionary biologist Dr Colin Patterson while he was studying the fossil fish from the same rock formation. He passed them to Dr Ray Bate who published them under the name Pattersoncypris. However, some ostracod workers now believe that they should be classified under the name Harbinia which was first described by a Chinese worker in 1959 and therefore takes naming priority. The European Synchrotron Research Facility (ESRF) at Grenoble in France. In 2007 we had a request by Dr Renate Matzke-Karasz (University of Munich) and a group of co-workers to take our specimens to Grenoble in France to have them analysed in the synchrotron beam ID19. A synchrotron is a giant ring where electrons are accelerated to great speeds and then bent into a circular path by magnets. Strong magents are used which cause the electron beam to deviate and at this point a very bright, intense synchrotron x-ray is emitted. Sometimes synchrotrons are referred to as diamond light sources as a result. These very intense synchrotron x-rays are then focussed into a beam which can be used for analysis at a sub micrometer scale ideal for our microfossils. Some types of modern day ostracods are well known for their use of giant sperm in reproduction. Dr Matzke-Karasz and her co-workers were interested to see if our fossil specimens (Robin Smith thesis collection) contained any evidence for giant sperm or the organs responsible for its production and storage. As the curator of the specimens it was my job to transport them safely to Grenoble and to handle them while they were being analysed. I also took part in the analysis which went on all day and all night for two days. Fortunately we did get some sleep as there were four of us. We took it in turns with two of us analysing the fossils and two analysing the comparative modern specimens in 6 hour shifts. Positioning the specimen so that it is aligned with the beam. (Don't worry about the scary red lines. The beam was only switched on when we were all safely out of the room!). Dr Radka Symonova (then at Charles University, Czech Republic), Renate, Dr Paul Tafforeau (ESRF) and Dr Robin Smith (Lake Biwa Museum, Japan) examining some early scans in our experimental cabin home for the two days. The specimens were placed in the beam and then rotated 180 degrees while 1500 x-ray cross sections were taken at regular intervals. These x-ray images were then combined together using specially designed software to produce 3-dimensional images (Holotomographic reconstructions). Although we could immediately see evidence for important internal structures while we were analysing the specimens, a lot of work was still required to produce the final results. The slices that make these 3-dimensional images were analysed for internal structures by Renate and her team back in Germany. Artificial colours were painstakingly added to each slice by hand to show these structures more clearly. One of the x-ray cross sections of a fossil specimen before it was combined into a 3-dimensional image. The results clearly showed differences between males and females. The males had distinctive tubes in the position where modern day ostracods have a sperm pump called a Zenker's Organ. The females had inflated sacks in the position where modern day ostracods have sperm receptacles. These are only inflated once they have been impregnated with giant sperm. Our results had shown that this reproductive strategy had been in place more than 100 million years ago. Video of a female specimen of Harbinia micropapillosa. The orange sacks are the sperm receptacles. So why is this important? As I showed in the dinosaur exhibition blog item, it is vital to know how organisms reproduce so that you can correctly interpret their fossil record and distribution in modern day environments. Ostracods are often restricted to particular environments and can be useful indicators of changes in climate. This particular ostracod species is common in Cretaceous non-marine sediments offshore Brazil and is therefore of interest to oil exploration companies as a marker for key rock formations. Reproduction with giant sperm is not just restricted to the ostracods as other organisms including fruit flies and some types of frog also use this strategy. The evolutionary significance and history of this type of reproductive strategy is still unclear. What is certain is that specimens in the Museum collections show that this was also happening over 100 million years ago! Some acrylic palm of the hand sized scale models produced from the 3-D synchrotron scans and used at the "Science Uncovered" event.

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Thursday, February 16, 2012
How to Manage a Remote Workforce
Just because a business has been deemed as "small" doesn't mean they can't take advantage of the same remote workforce that the big players tap into. Thanks to innovations in Internet technology, it is a lot easier (and often more profitable) to utilize the services of a remote workforce to handle a business's many tasks. Even your own company roster could benefit from flexible hours by completing their work tasks from home. This type of scheduling goes a long way to increase productivity and promote company loyalty. Although your workers might be "off-site" and online, that doesn't mean they still won't require decisive and strong management. What follows are some helpful tips to help your small business manage a remote workforce.
Put It In Writing
If you are hiring a new remote worker you should create a clearly defined list of goals for the project they are working on. These guidelines should leave nothing to doubt as they will serve as a vital template for the project. It's also helpful to provide examples of just how you want the work completed.
Tap Into Technology
While it is true that the bulk of your communication with your remote workforce will be handled through email, there is no reason why you can't utilize other forms of communication. Today most savvy remote workers have access to web cameras and headsets which allow for video conference calls via services like Skype. It could be beneficial to schedule a weekly Internet conference call to check on the progress of an ongoing project. This is also the perfect method for providing power point demonstrations as training for new remote workers. What's great about this for a small business is that many of these conference services can be set up for free or at a minimum cost.
You can also set up a common communication area through a project management system where all the remote workers will have access to upload their projects and share comments or questions.
Set Deadlines
Just as you should provide your remote workforce with complete guidelines it's important to provide them with a thorough schedule of when their work needs to be delivered. For your own sake, you should pad these deadlines with extra time. As a small business it is vital that you build a solid reputation with your clients for dependability. Although a remote worker can promise to meet the deadlines, sometimes they end up faltering. You should never put your own business at risk.
Tackle Problems ASAP
In a typical office setting, a worker who has a question about a particular project can simply walk down the hall to their manager and get an answer. A remote worker will have the same type of questions that can be related through email. It's your responsibility as manager to answer those queries as soon as possible. You don't want to bring a remote project to a grinding halt due to a lag response time.
If you small business plans to active a remote workforce, treat them as you would your own immediate staff with proper instructions, deadlines and support. You might just find that with the help of a remote workforce, your business can expand faster than you've ever imagined.
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Human Resource Management- Darleen AsherNovember 6, 2012 at 9:45 AM
I appreciate the tips, they are certainly useful. Managing a remote team needs more than just a tool for communication or project management systems. I have been working remotely for about 3 years and apart from those tools you mentioned, I have learned the need for productivity or time tracking tools to ensure accurate tracking of employee performance. This tool does not only help the employer but it also aids employees in measuring their own productivity. Looking forward to more of your future posts.
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Missouri Public Service Commission Supports National 'Fix-A-Leak Week'
Water leaks cost you money–money that essentially goes down the drain. There are several things that consumers can do to conserve water and at the same time save money on their bill.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), household leaks can waste more than 1 trillion gallons of water annually nationwide. The average household's leaks can account for more than 10,000 gallons of water wasted every year, or the amount of water needed to wash 270 loads of laundry. About 10 percent of the homes have leaks that waste 90 gallons or more of water per day. The EPA estimates that fixing easily corrected household water leaks can save homeowners about 10 percent on their water bills.
To help consumers find and repair easy-to-fix leaks and to promote conservation, the Missouri Public Service Commission is supporting the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Fix-a- Leak Week, March 17-23, 2014.
"Water is essential to our existence. It is vitally important that we do all that we can to preserve this critical resource," said PSC Chairman Robert Kenney. "Fixing water leaks will not only save money on water bills, it will also help conserve water for future generations to enjoy."
According to the EPA, a good method to check for leaks is to examine your winter water usage. It is likely that a family of four has a serious water leak problem if its winter water use exceeds 12,000 gallons per month.
Here are some tips to save water:
-- Check for leaks. Silent toilet leaks can be found by putting a few drops of food coloring into the tank and seeing if color appears in the bowl before you flush. Don't forget to check irrigation systems and spigots, too.
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Please don't forget to enter Victoria's Secret Blush Giveaway. It ends December 22, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. PST (Pacific time).
In July, I was fortunate to receive Beauty Box 5. Beauty Box 5 is a beauty sampling subscription that comes to your door every month.
This was my July 2012 Beauty Box 5. You can check out my post to see what I received and what I thought about this subscription. For this post, I am going to review the Blinc Eyeliner.
Product Review: Blinc Eyeliner Brush It On... Slide It Off! in Black
Where to purchase: Sephora stores, sephora.com, and blincinc.com
Price: $26 for 0.21 oz/ 6 g
Description on the back: Blinc's Eyeliner is the original eyeliner invented to form a water-resistant "layer of color" that contours your eyes. Since Blinc is not a cosmetic paint like conventional eyeliners, it cannot fade, smudge, run or flake, even if you cry or rub your eyes.
The intense layer of color creates a dramatic look that lasts all day. Only when you are ready for removal, the layer of color will effortlessly slide off your skin into your hand without the use of a harsh makeup remover.
Ideal for those with sensitive eyes, contact lens wearers, performers and active people in search of an eyeliner whose look, hold and ease of removal is without compromise.
Thoughts: The first time I heard about this brand was from a pastor from my church. She mentioned it's the only eyeliner brand she uses and own every color. Other than that, I have never heard of this brand. When I saw the sample, 0.02 oz/ 0.7 g, I was pretty excited and curious to know why the pastor loves this brand.
The packaging of the sample did not blow me away. It just looks cheap.
The real packaging looks better. I actually like it.
Here's a picture of the brush. It's really thin and sturdy. It glides easily on the eyes.
A swatch of the eyeliner.
Here's how the eyeliner looks on me.
My overall opinion... I actually liked it but I wouldn't say it's the best. I like that it's easy to apply on the eyes, does not smudge, and easy to take off. I also like the thin, sturdy brush. The thing I don't like is small, but I don't like shiny eyeliners. It's just my personal taste. I tend to go for matte eyeliners. That's probably why I like cream/gel eyeliners. Other than that, this is a great eyeliner!
* Thin, sturdy brush.
* No makeup remover required.
* Applies easily on the skin.
* Does not smudge.
* Does not have a lot of varieties of colors; only have black, brown, and gray.
* Shiny eyeliner.
Would repurchase: Maybe.
Rating: 4.5/5 Tobey's Paws
You can check out my other July 2012 Beauty Box 5 reviews:
Disclaimer: The product mentioned in this post are given to me. I am not affiliated with any company nor getting paid to advertise any products. This post is written with my honest opinion.
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- L e n a said...
you always get us interested in niche brands!
this liner looks great on you. i really like the clean definition.
i usually shy away from liquid since they are bit shinier than others (like you mentioned) but actually, i think this is not bad at all. ;) - December 22, 2012 at 11:30 AM
- Ahleessa said...
Oh, you're like me!... hehe~ You should try their eye pencil. I heard the pencils don't smudge either.
- December 27, 2012 at 8:35 PM
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Every single electronic mail services provider is different. So, services of this variety really isn't "one size fits all". If you need to select a new electronic mail services provider, it is important to determine what your wants are. Understanding what you want, before you start off comparison-purchasing for providers, will support you to streamline the selection process.
So, think about your wants very carefully at the outset. For instance, will you want to send out surveys and transactional messages via electronic mail? Will you need your new electronic mail system to be integrative with a client connection management computer software system?
How a lot you need, past fundamental electronic mail services (and tech assistance) from your electronic mail services provider, is some thing that you must create before you hunt for a provider.
If you need to, brainstorm with your team in purchase to locate out which companies are most important to your enterprise.
How Considerably Electronic mail Do You Send per week?
The degree of services that you pick must gel with your needs. This indicates that you must determine how a lot electronic mail you'll be sending out each month. As effectively, take into account the types of electronic mail messages that you'll be sending to customers or income leads.
Are they promotional? Are they transactional? Do you need the electrical power to send confirmations and surveys? Do you want to be ready to routine electronic mail mail outs in advance?
Various packages will be offered via different providers. When you store about, look for the precise features that you will need. Then, assess companies which provide these features for reasonably priced rates. Firms must provide all of the features that you will need from an electronic mail services, as effectively as excellent tech assistance and overall client services.
Customer testimonials will support you to locate the excellent apples in the bunch. It's constantly wise to vet providers on the internet before producing a ultimate decision about whom to buy electronic mail companies from. Customer testimonials aren't constantly genuine, but most of them are actual and these testimonials undoubtedly supply shoppers with excellent info about companies.
Every provider will have an SLA Agreement. This is a Services Degree Agreement and it will generally provide a guaranteed services degree, such as 99 percent (for instance). To carry on with the instance, if the services is down for a handful of hrs, will you be compensated for the dilemma?
These agreements are effortless to access digitally before you indicator them and reading through their features (i.e. their fine print) will let you to recognize how a lot services is guaranteed and what will happen if the organization doesn't honor its agreement.
The very best SLAs will provide compensation in the kind of credits towards expenses. They won't pay out funds, but they'll credit you as extended as you're prepared to comply with some methods in purchase to declare your credit. It's excellent to know that this variety of assistance and compensation is on your contract, so do take into account choosing a organization which delivers it via the SLA.
Now that you know what to look for and think about, why not hunt for a new electronic mail services provider today?
Read MoreFinding the right career for you can definitely be a challenge. If you have ever considered starting a career in psychology, or perhaps if you have ever considered becoming a psychology technician, you have definitely gone through some of the reasons why you should want to become one. Be as it may, I am certain there are numerous reasons why anyone would want to become a psychology technician. Still, here are a few that you should probably keep in mind.
1. Stable Career, Decent Wage
If you would like to become a psychology technician, you should definitely be in mind that it will offer you a stable career as well as a decent wage. Even though a lot of people choose their career according to their own personal preferences, you still have your future to think about. It is important for your future, and for your own good, to be able to have a stable career, and the job that will make you able to put food on the table. Ultimately, your career is also about your immediate survival.
2. Numerous Career Options If you're dwelling than the fact whether or not you should become a psychology technician, make sure that you understand that this career often involves numerous career options. You will probably be required to get further educated in order to keep your job. If you don't have a problem with this, you will probably be successful at your job. In addition to that, you must realize that this career also opens a lot of doors for you.
3. Help Others
There are numerous people out there who have a need to help others. If you thing that you belong in this group, perhaps it would have been for the best to put this desire into good use and become a psychology technician. This is just one of many occupations that will allow you to help others in the best possible way. It's also one of the best ways for you to show your philanthropy and altruism.
4. It's Exciting Enough
In addition to what has already been mentioned, this is one occupation that is certainly exciting enough. You will work with people, you will frequently have work dynamics, and you will be able to help others. For the majority of people who are into psychology, these things are enough to keep them motivated and is to keep them love their job. Certainly, there are numerous occupations that are perhaps more exciting, but if you are attracted to other sides of this job, you will certainly learn how to appreciate the fact that it is not painfully dull and excruciatingly boring.
5. Yet Not Too Physical Another thing that I should also mention is that being a psychology technician is also not too physically demanding. There will certainly be points at which you will have to lift something or physically perform an activity, but the majority of your work can be done from the comfort of your office chair.


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Data Recovery (not)
Posted 20 February 2010 - 02:37 PM
a USB port on three different computers. I attempted to retrieve the files using various software
packages with most being able to determine the file struture. Upon trying "Recuva" and selecting
the Seagate drive, Scan reports "Unable to determine file system type". I tried the USB port with
a Thumb drive and it seems to work. My question is, Is this program capable of recovery from
a USB hard drive?
Thanks for any input.
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I had a similar problem with a damaged flash drive Recuva wouldn't go as far as deep scan my drive and all of the freeware recovery programs I've tried had failed.
The only tool I had success with was DiskInternals Partition Recovery but it's commercial and the demo version only allows file previews, however it does gives you some idea just how much data can be recovered if any.
There is another program called "Roadkil's Boot Build" - http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=26869 it can be used to write a new partition table however since I haven't used it and cannot comment on it's effectiveness.
Richard S.
Posted 20 February 2010 - 04:54 PM
Rescue Kit 9.0 Express: (Paragon Freeware)
When simply deleting a partition (without additional wiping) disk management software only removes the references to it in the Partition Table, thus leaving the possibility to recover it later. The Undelete Partitions Wizard enables you to find and recover these partitions. A restored partition will be fully functional, as long as other partitions were not created, moved or exceeded the disk space.
Might be worth a look.
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Thirty-four percent of Americans wouldn't mind if Christianity were the official state religion of their individual state, according to a poll conducted by The Huffington Post last week. Forty-seven percent considered the notion wrong.
When asked in the same survey if they favored a constitutional amendment making Christianity the official religion of the United States, 52 percent of those polled said they couldn't pledge allegiance to such a concept. But 32 percent said, essentially, "Bring it on."
If there's any consolation in those numbers, it is that only 11 percent of those who think their individual state could use a good dunk in the baptismal fount are stupid enough to think there's any constitutional protection for it. Anyone who believes that the imposition of a state religion would be tolerated anywhere in this country isn't smart enough to know that the prohibition against the federal government's establishment of an official religion applies to statehouses, too.
Cynical politicians usually settle for symbolic gestures designed to assuage a dull-witted but religiously motivated base that keeps track of such things. Remember the "Year of the Bible" flap in the Pennsylvania Legislature not too long ago? It was a way for the state's most religious and fiscally conservative politicians to throw red meat to their base without spending a dime.
Even as the news came that one-third of Americans would be comfortable with Christianity as the official religion of their individual states, House Joint Resolution 494 was being presented before the North Carolina General Assembly.
Introduced by Reps. Harry Warren and Carl Ford, the bill declared that the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit the establishment of a state religion at the state level, but only at the federal level. "Each state in the Union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion," Resolution 494 states.
Fortunately, North Carolina's Republican Speaker of the House pulled the bill before President Barack Obama was forced to deploy federal troops to Raleigh-Durham. There was no point in risking national embarrassment by having the majority of the General Assembly vote to pass what would have amounted to a writ of secession.
Mr. Warren and Mr. Ford, both Tea Party Republicans, believed they could enact legislation that gave North Carolina permission to ignore federal law. Under their scheme, North Carolina would've become an island of Christian jurisprudence exempt from federal oversight without a shot being fired in anger.
Recently, Pastor Joe Morecraft of the Chalcedon Presbyterian Church in Cumming, Ga., declared a definitive break with what he calls "godless conservatism" -- a political philosophy he insists is "just as devastating to this country as liberal humanism."
Mr. Morecraft extols Christians to "act like Christians" and proclaim Christ's lordship over politics. There's nothing particularly unique about this until you wade into the high grass of Mr. Morecraft's very dark theology. In an excerpt from a sermon posted on YouTube by the church, Mr. Morecraft proclaimed chattel slavery a legitimate way to punish "fools" who reject Christ.
The pastor, who is not a white supremacist, said slavery is a God-given institution that should be used to bring arrogant men into conformity with God's law. A man who doesn't worship God can expect to "lose his family, his property, and his freedom." In the end, such a man will find himself and his family at the mercy of somebody who is godly and wise.
"Put him in somebody's service where they can watch over him," Mr. Morecraft said, "and make him do right even though he doesn't want to do it."
There is some truly scary stuff in his sermon that I haven't bothered to quote because it is so over the top. What's scariest is that this pastor isn't some lone snake-handler running around the backwoods of Georgia. He's a much-respected pastor in the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States, a mainstream denomination. He's part of a movement of like-minded extremists who believe with all of their hearts that there truly is a place for slavery in "godly cultures" and that we have no right to judge it an abomination.
Fortunately, America isn't a "godly culture" that tolerates slavery or religious coercion anymore. Any sentiment -- even among an unthinking minority -- that moves us in that direction is a threat to us all.
Correction, posted April 9, 2013: Pastor Joe Morecraft's denomination affiliation has been corrected.
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Types of quantum field thories
A (pre-)quantum field theory with defects is, roughly a field theory that assigns data not just to plain manifolds/cobordisms, but to spaces that may carry certain singularities and/or colorings. At the locus of such a singularity the bulk field theory may then undergo transitions.
Such defects are known by many names. In codimension 1 they are often called domain walls. If they are boundaries they are often called branes, the corresponding domain walls are then sometimes called bi-branes. Examples of Dimension-1 defects are Wilson lines and cosmic strings (at least in gauge theory) and dimension-0 defects are often called monopoles.
A plain -dimensional local FQFT (a bulk field theory) is a symmetric monoidal (∞,n)-functor from the (∞,n)-category of cobordisms.
If one replaces plain cobordisms here with cobordisms "with singularities" including boundaries and corners but also partitions labeled in a certain index set , one calls a morphism
a TQFT with defects. A general formalization is in (Lurie, section 4.3), see at Cobordism theorem – For cobordisms with singuarities (boundaries/branes and defects/domain walls). See also (Davydov-Runkel-Kong).
Such a morphism carries data as follows:
for each label in of codimension 0 there is an ordinary bulk field theory;
for each label in of codimension 1 data on how to "connect" the two TQFTs on both sides
So one may think of the codimension colors as defects where the TQFT that one is looking at changes its nature.
In particular, when the QFT on one side of the defect is trivial, then the defect behaves like a boundary condition for the remaining QFT. Since at least for QFT such boundary conditions are also called branes, defects are also called bi-branes.
The statement of the cobordism theorem with singularities (Lurie, theorem 4.3.11) is essentially the following:
Given a symmetric monoidal (∞,n)-category , then for every choice of pasting diagram of k-morphisms for all , there is a type of manifolds with singularity , such that is the free symmetric monoidal -category on this data, hence such that TFTs with defects are equivalently given by realizing such a pasting diagram in , where each of the given k-morphism appears as the value of a codimension -defect. (See also Lurie, remark 4.3.14).
under construction
An old notion of defects in field theory – well preceeding the above general notion in the context of FQFT – is that of topological defects in the vacuum structure of gauge theories that exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking (such as a Higgs mechanism).
A comprehensive review in in (Vilenkin-Shellard 94. Steps towards conceptually systematizing these broken-symmetry defects and their interaction are made in Preskill-Vilenkin 92. We now discuss this may be translated to and formalized in the general FQFT definition above along the lines of (Fiorenza-Valentino, FSS).
Let be a Lie group, to be thought of as the (local or global) gauge group of some gauge theory. Let a subgroup, to be thought of as the subgroup of global symmetries preserved by some vacuum configuration (which "spontaneously breaks" the symmetry from to , the archetypical example is the Higgs mechanism).
Then the space of such vacuum configurations is the coset space . So given a manifold (spacetime), vacuum configuratons are given by functions . Hence is the "moduli space of vacua" or "vacuum space" in this context.
The functions are to be smooth functions in the bulk of spacetime. If they are allowed to be non-smooth or even non-continuous along given strata of , then these are called defects in the sense of broken gauge symmetry.
In particular (with counting adapted to )
if is not smooth but is smooth on the pre-image of each element of and becomes a smooth function on where is a codimension-1 submanifold, then is said to be a domain wall for vacuum configurations.
if is not smooth but becomes smooth on , where is a codimension-2 submanifold, then is calld a cosmic string-defect of the vacuum configurations;
if is not smooth but becomes smooth on , where is a codimension-3 submanifold, then is calld a monopole-defect of the vacuum configurations.
hm, need to fine-tune the technical conditions here, to make the following statement come out right…
domain walls can appear when is non-trivial;
cosmic strings can appear when is non-trivial;
monopoles can appear when is non-trivial.
Next consider a sequence of subgroups
to be thought of as coming from two consecutive steps of spontaneous symmetry breaking, the first one down to at some energy-scale , and the second at some lower energy scale .
Then we say that vacuum defects at energy of codimension- which wind around an element are metastable if they become unstabe at energy , hence if their image in is trivial.
So if we add to the singular cobordism category the -morphism which is the -dimenional unit cube with an open -ball removed, then the boundary field data for metastable codimension -defects is
we have a homotopy fiber sequence
This induces a long exact sequence of homotopy groups
So for every metastable defect of codimension given by there is an element in of one codimension higher. One says (Preskill-Vilenkin 92) that the codimenion -defect may end on that codimension -defect.
In order to formalize this we introduce, following the cobordism theorem with singularities, cells in which label spontaneous-symmetriy-breaking defects as well as their defects-of-defects which exhibit their decay by higher codimension defects.
Consider a span of the form
Comparing this to the span that comes from the "cap" in the theory at energy level , which is just
shows that the former models a -disk which is not filled with spacetime, but nevertheless closes the disk. This is the defect given as a removal of a piece of spacetime.
In order to formalize how these defects may decay at higher energy, consider next a span of field configurations of the form
Comparing again to the span that comes from the "cap" in the theory at energy level , which is just
shows that the former models a -disk whose center point carries a singularity: the fields at the bounding take values in the moduli space of the ambient theory , but then at the tip of the "cap" there is a "field insertion" of a field with values in . Hence this labels a defect of codimension .
To construct such a decay-process span that captures the above story from Preskill-Vilenkin 92, consider the following diagram:
This may be read as follows:
on the far left is the space of fields of the ambient theory at energy scale around the defect;
the bottom left map is the "fluctuation" map that sends these fields to fields at the higher energy scale ;
the bottom right map exhibt the possible "decays": a lift through this map takes a field configuration that winds around a -ball and contracts it through that -ball, hence going forth and back through the bottom two maps corresponds to carrying a defect over the energy barrier from to and there having it decay away.
these decaying configurations are therefore given by the homotopy fiber product of the bottom two functions, which is , as indicated. But this space is really given by field configurations at energy scale that wind around a -ball, as shown at the very top.
Hence the top part of this diagram is a span that exhibits a defect-of-defects which tells just the story that (Preskill-Vilenkin 92) is telling: a codimension- defect of the low energy theory decays at higher energy, and the decay is witnessed by the appearance of a codimension -defect of the high energy theory.
singularity | field theory with singularities |
boundary condition/brane | boundary field theory |
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A general formulation via an (∞,n)-category of cobordisms with defects is in section 4.3 of
Further general aspects are discussed in
Details in dimension 2 and 3 are discussed in
Discussion of defects in prequantum field theory, hence for coefficients in an (∞,n)-category of spans is in
Examples in physics of interaction of defects of various dimension is discussed in
Defects in 2-dimensional conformal field theory have a long history in real-world application, for instance in Kramers-Wannier duality
Jürg Fröhlich, Jürgen Fuchs, Ingo Runkel, Christoph Schweigert, Kramers-Wannier duality from conformal defects (arXiv:cond-mat/0404051)
Fröhlich, Fuchs, Runkel, Schweigert, Duality and defects in rational conformal field theory (arXiv)
Defects in 2-dimension TFT have been studied a lot in the context of genus-0 TFT, where they are described using the language of planar algebras.
Lecture notes include
Defects in Chern-Simons theory and related systems are discussed in
Davide Gaiotto, Edward Witten, S-Duality of Boundary Conditions In N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory (arXiv:0807.3720)
Anton Kapustin, Mikhail Tikhonov, Abelian duality, walls and boundary conditions in diverse dimensions, JHEP 0911:006,2009 (arXiv:0904.0840)
Anton Kapustin, Natalia Saulina, Surface operators in 3d TFT and 2d Rational CFT in Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber (eds.) Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field and Perturbative String Theory AMS, 2011
Defects in higher dimensional Chern-Simons theory on manifolds with corners are discussed in
The following references discuss the traditional notion of topological defects in the vacuum structure of gauge theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking such as domain walls, cosmic strings and monopoles.
Discussion of "topological defects in gauge theory" in higher codimension is in
Defects field theory motivated from solid state physics is discussed in


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In September 1789, at the end of the Constitutional Convention, James Madison wrote in dismay to his old friend Thomas Jefferson, who was an ocean away in Paris. "I hazard an opinion," he lamented, "that the plan should it be adopted will neither effectively answer the national object nor prevent the local mischiefs which everywhere excite disgust against the state governments."Madison had come to Philadelphia four months earlier determined to create a fully empowered national government designed to replace the state-based system under the Articles of Confederation. Despite his own best efforts, however, the delegates to the convention, so he thought, had proved unequal to the task, producing a document that finessed the core issues behind a veneer of willfully ambiguous compromises. Madison regarded these political accommodations as loose knots that would soon unravel, predicting that the Constitution would be lucky to last a decade.
At the same time, Benjamin Franklin was expressing his own frustration with the document's final draft but doing so in an upbeat tone that contrasted sharply with Madison's stark sense of failure. No one—and certainly not Madison—could turn a phrase as deftly as Franklin, and his open-ended verdict was a classic statement of political wisdom in the wait-and-see mode:
I confess that I do not entirely approve of this Constitution at present: but, Sir, I am not sure I shall never approve it; for having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change my opinion even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise . . . Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
Both Madison and Franklin were well aware that the 55 delegates assembled in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 were no gathering of demigods operating under the saintly spell of divine inspiration but rather a muster of veteran politicos set on closing a deal. But the deal they struck has endured, the United States remains one of the oldest republics in world history, and four of the sitting members of the Supreme Court claim that their judicial opinions are guided explicitly by the intentions of the original framers—all facts that make a reverential posture toward this moment almost irresistible.
Reverence should nevertheless be resisted, because there is no evidence that tongues of fire appeared over the heads of the delegates, thereby granting them momentary access to transcendent truths. The Constitutional Convention was a wholly secular occasion in which the delegates behaved like diplomats from various countries negotiating a landmark treaty. And the compromises they hammered out were calculated concessions made between the different regions or sections of what was still a work in progress called the United States. They were designing the political framework for a new nation that did not yet exist.
The most famous compromise, recognized as such by the delegates at the time and enshrined in most history books as the Great Compromise, was brokered in the early weeks of July. The issue at stake was the character of representation in Congress. (Everyone had already agreed that the new legislature should be bicameral.) The question remained whether representation should be determined by state, as in the government under the Articles of Confederation, or by population.
The arguments on both sides of that question had grown so fierce that Franklin, rather uncharacteristically, proposed that a chaplain be called in to deliver a prayer on the day of the decisive vote. Though the story is probably apocryphal, Alexander Hamilton purportedly opposed Franklin's proposal, claiming that he saw no reason to call in foreign aid.
The Great Compromise was a split-the-difference solution, making representation by state the rule in the Senate, with two representatives for each state, and by population in the House. Most historians have described this resolution as a compromise between the large states (such as Virginia and Pennsylvania) and the small states (such as Delaware and New Jersey). The former were victorious in the House and the latter in the Senate. Although they did not realize it at the time, the adoption of state-based representation in the Senate would prove a major victory for the slaveholding states. For as the population growth in the North outstripped the South the Senate became a bastion from which proslavery states effectively blocked legislation that threatened their peculiar institution.
At the time, however, there was another reason why the most ardent nationalists at the convention interpreted the Great Compromise as a devastating defeat. George Washington, who was in the chair and prohibited from participating in the debate, let it be known that he regarded the vote as a death knell for the national cause he had left retirement to champion, expressing his "deep regret at having any agency in this business." Madison was equally depressed at the outcome, also lamenting the Great Compromise as a fatal blow to a fully empowered federal government and predicting that any national government to emerge from the convention would be "of short duration."
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Here, Randy (the energetic Richard Thieriot) isn't pleasing mom Margaret (the convincing Darrie Lawrence) when he arrives with wife Jane (the adequate Lynn Wright) at the family's Massachusetts-coast summer house in 1970. (Brett J. Banakis' terrace with its expansive view will have observers drooling.) Also not a joy for the matriarch is the behavior of divorced daughter Barbara (Margaret Nichols), who's been slipping off to sleep with a former yardman whom Margaret outspokenly dislikes.
She reserves her primary contempt, though, for her other son, Pokey, who is never seen -- except when glimpsed partially for one late-in-play sequence (evidently impersonated by Thieriot). But it's his frequently described aloof attitude that Gurney lays in as indicative of the family's abiding discontent and which fuels the series of scenes taking place during the one busy day in the characters' charged get-together.
The major problem with the work, however, which has been directed efficiently by Scott Alan Evans and separated by Swingle Singersish musical interludes, is that it ends up playing like a series of under-nourished sketches.
Yes, Randy throws a few tantrums -- and one tennis racket -- underscoring Margaret's belief that she's spawned endlessly childish kids. Jane, wearing her intricate coming-out gown, balks at the annual club dance and at her generally unrewarding existence. And Barbara shouts her decision to marry her paramour (now a builder), only to have Margaret question whether the man's motives include a lust for the family property (a plot turn somewhat reminiscent of Lopakhin's real estate hunger in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard).
Nevertheless, despite all the talk of Pokey's trouble-making and the activity of many unseen actual children, Children is far too quiet to raise a theatrical ruckus.
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Its back to school season here which means endless kid trips to the dentist, etc. Sticker shock for parents anywhere, and parental time for lectures on hygiene. Which in our business makes us think of nonprofit organization databases. Hygiene, the number one missing element that could save you expense and, yes, pain.
Poor list hygiene happens by accident. The box office may collect names in a variety of ways: from web site transactions, walk-ups, phone orders, mail orders. Over time, the hygiene of your database can deteriorate, which could mean lost money in wasted direct mail, out of date email addresses, or more systemic problems that could mean the wrong donor gets the wrong letter, or worse! Here are some of the typical problems, and tips for fixing them:
1) Data may include incorrect addresses or incomplete addresses. We advise doing a complete address correction at least once a year, or more, depending on your organization's dynamics. NCOA is an absolute must!
2) Data may be kept by show, rather than anchored by the purchaser unique I.D. That could result in thousands of duplicates! Organizations using external box offic systems such as Ticketmaster often confront this problem. Solution: we believe in the value of building a master database, and then regularly updating it from your box office files.
3) Data may need scrubbing for name/address duplications. Louise Stevens may have bought the tickets for the last show; John Stevens may be buying the tickets for this show; and last year Mrs. John Stevens may have bought the tickets. Oh, and women change their names more often than men. (Example: I just went back to adding Kenngott to my name to reconnect with college classmates on Lynked In and Plaxo and other social networking sites.) Good scrubbing removes these dupes.
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Accurate data saves duplicates in mailing, ensures your ability to prospect and target wisely, and can cut printing budget waste. Accurate data also lets your customers know that you have studied them! So get to work in the hygiene department. It will save you huge headaches and a lot of money that can be put to far better use!


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Credit and Discredit
S & L scandals, junk bonds, defaults—the pattern is familiar to anyone who knows about U.S. banking between 1830 and 1855.
September/October 1990 | Volume 41, Issue 6
My files bulge of late with stories that tell unedifying tales of cupidity and stupidity in world and national credit markets. There is the S & L scandal—the story of how hundreds of savings and loan institutions failed through unsound investments, while supposed regulators looked the other way. The bill for their "bailout" climbs toward some new megabuck horizon, it seems, every time there is a fresh disclosure. Some of the stricken banks held quantities of the infamous "junk bonds," that is, risky securities backed mainly by the expectations of their issuers, rather than by solid assets.
And passing to the international scene, there are Third World nations such as Mexico and Brazil looking for debt relief as they struggle (and fail) to meet interest payments on money borrowed for development purposes. Their banker-creditors answer that before any loans can be renewed, the delinquents must stop squandering money on inefficient state-run enterprises and popular social programs.
There are common denominators to all these stories. In a time of economic change and growth, some avid borrowers will bend common sense and law out of shape. Some eager lenders will take foolish risks. And some politicians will do their best to avoid interfering with the process. It is rather sobering—and very familiar to anyone who knows the history of banking and borrowing in the United States between, say roughly, 1830 and 1855.
The great leitmotif of this period was growth. The population was doubling every twenty years, new states were entering the union—and the crying need of the hour was for capital to build a transportation and marketing network. It was a climate made for speculation.
States had the power to charter banks, and they did so—especially in the new, development-hungry West—with a liberality that S & L operators would look upon enviously. There were 329 chartered banks in the entire nation in 1829. Six years later there were 704, and in 1840 the number was 901. But the available banking capital was not growing nearly as fast as the available banks or the volume of their loans. The new institutions issued their own colorfully printed bank notes, but the only universally recognized hard currency to back them was specie—gold and silver coin. And there was very little specie behind these paper millions.
True, each state had inspectors who were supposed to ensure that there were adequate reserves in the vaults. But the officials who chose the inspectors were elected by voters who wanted easy credit, so nobody looked too closely. In Michigan, for instance, bank examiners were readily bamboozled by boxes of specie shifted from one locale to another in advance of their arrival. As a contemporary put it, "Gold and silver flew about the country with the celerity of magic." One treasure chest was found to have a top layer of precious metal over a substratum of nails and glass. A legislative committee appointed to study why, in Indiana, fifty-one banks out of ninety-four created between 1852 and 1855 failed, reported that many had no funds, no deposits, and no directors, and one opened its doors only twice a week. One etymology for the term wildcat bank , used to describe such institutions, suggests that it was because they were located "out where the wildcats are."
Growth-hungry state legislatures not only could charter such banks to put "money" into the hands of promoters, but they could get the states directly into the banking game as guarantors or part owners. In Mississippi, for example, a banking corporation was chartered whose stock was bought by the original subscribers for only 10 percent cash down. And that 10 percent was returned to them as soon as the state itself deposited five million dollars' worth of its own bonds as the working assets. In short, they "enjoyed the special privilege of bank ownership without contributing anything themselves." They could share in the profits, borrow to buy land, use the land as collateral for more loans, and continue this bootstrapping in a way that makes dealing in junk bonds look positively respectable by comparison. Until, somewhere down the line, some spoilsport asked for payment in cash. When that evil day came the state, too, would be in trouble. What then?
By 1838 the total indebtedness of all states was about $172 million, very substantial money for the time. About a third of it represented investments in banks; the rest consisted of debts contracted to build turnpikes, canals, and railroads. Without these cherished "internal improvements," there was no hope of growth for young states. But with them, it was believed, the economy would become so robust that repayment would be no problem. The shining example was New York's Erie Canal, completed in 1825. Before the last mile was completed, the tolls collected already exceeded the interest payments on the construction bonds.
So Pennsylvania began work in 1826 on a system of canals to link Philadelphia with Pittsburgh and the Ohio River trade. Maryland followed with liberal subscriptions to canal and railroad projects. Out west Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan set afoot projects designed to connect the Atlantic Coast, the Great Lakes, and the Ohio-Mississippi river basin in one grand national market. The more elaborate the schemes, the better their chance of approval by state legislators thinking of their home districts. Every hamlet should be in direct touch with buyers of crops and sellers of goods. Illinois issued $8 million in bonds in 1837 to pay for no fewer than seven railroads and for the improvement of navigation on five rivers.


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Andrew Breitbart, conservative publisher, was powerful, polarizing force
Andrew Breitbart's website, bigjournalism.com, announced his death in Los Angeles on Thursday.
LOS ANGELES — Conservative media publisher and activist Andrew Breitbart, who was behind investigations that led to the resignations of former Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York and former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, has died in Los Angeles at age 43.
Breitbart's website, bigjournalism.com, announced Thursday he died of natural causes in Los Angeles. His death was confirmed by breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak, who said he was at the hospital, and by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
Breitbart was walking near his house in the Brentwood neighborhood on Thursday, shortly after midnight, when he collapsed, said his father-in-law, Orson Bean, a movie, TV and Broadway actor.
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Someone saw Breitbart fall and called paramedics, who tried to revive him. They rushed him to the emergency room at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Breitbart had suffered health problems a year earlier, but Bean said he could not pinpoint what happened.
"I don't know what to say. It's devastating," Bean told The Associated Press.
Larry Dietz, watch commander at the Los Angeles County coroner's office, said a cause of death was unknown and an autopsy was likely.
Reaction to his death was quick.
"RIP 'O Mighty Warrior!" Texas Gov. Rick Perry said in a message on Twitter, the medium where Breitbart confronted his critics with often abrasive messages. Indeed, Breitbart's final message called a follower "a putz."
His online profile, meanwhile, called him a "mild-mannered family guy" and "husky male model."
Media Matters, the liberal watchdog that was a frequent Breitbart critic, said the organization's "thoughts and prayers are with his family today."
"We've disagreed more than we've found common ground, but there was never any question of Andrew's passion for and commitment to what he believed," said Media Matters' Ari Rabin-Havt.
Republican presidential contenders also weighed in.
Rick Santorum called Breitbart a "powerful force" after learning of his death from reporters at a rally in Dalton, Ga. "He will be what a huge loss ... for our country and certainly for the conservative movement and my prayers go out to his family," Santorum told reporters. "I'm really sorry to hear it."
Mitt Romney posted to Twitter: "Ann and I are deeply saddened by the passing of (at)AndrewBreitbart: brilliant entrepreneur, fearless conservative, loving husband and father."
Newt Gingrich tweeted: "Andrew Breitbart was the most innovative pioneer in conservative activist social media in America. He had great courage and creativity."
Breitbart's fans have praised him for exposing government corruption and media bias.
Sherrod, who is black, was ousted from her job as USDA's state rural development director for Georgia in July 2010 after an edited video surfaced of her making what appeared to be a racist remark. She is seen telling a local NAACP group that she was initially reluctant to help a white farmer save his farm more than two decades ago, long before she worked for USDA.
Missing from the clip was the rest of the speech, which was meant as a lesson in racial healing. Sherrod told the crowd she eventually realized her mistake and helped the farmer save his farm.
Once the entire video surfaced, Sherrod received numerous apologies from the administration — including from President Barack Obama — and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asked her to return to the department to work on civil rights issues.
She declined Vilsack's offer but later sued Breitbart, his employee, Larry O'Connor, and an unnamed "John Doe" defendant for "defamation, false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress." A lawyer for O'Connor said Thursday that it is unclear whether the case will proceed for the other two defendants, who were in the process of trying to get the case dismissed from federal court.
Breitbart's websites also featured a 2009 hidden-camera video that brought embarrassment to the community group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The videos show ACORN staffers offering advice on taxes and other issues to actors posing as a prostitute and pimp.
Those videos triggered a firestorm of criticism, with some ACORN employees appearing willing to support illegal schemes involving tax advice, misuse of public funds and illegal trafficking in children.
An internal review later concluded the videos "feed the impression that ACORN believes it is above the law." The internal investigation and a Government Accountability Office report cleared ACORN of criminal activities.
Even so, public pressure led Congress to block previously approved funds from going to ACORN and to stop future payments. Roughly 10 percent of ACORN's funds came from federal grants and the group eventually disbanded.
Breitbart also sparked a controversy that ultimately led to the resignation of Weiner, whose problems began on May 28 when Bretibart's biggovernment.com posted a lewd photograph of an underwear-clad crotch and said it had been sent from Weiner's Twitter account to a Seattle woman.
Initially, Weiner lied, saying his account had been hacked. But he pointedly did not report the incident to law enforcement — a step that could have led the way to charges of wrongdoing far more serious than mere sexting.
Additionally, his public denials were less than solid — particularly when he told an interviewer that he could not "say with certitude" that he wasn't the man in the underwear photo.
Weiner's spokesman said the photo was just "a distraction" and that the congressman "doesn't know the person named by the hacker."
The congressman denied sending the photo and said he had retained an attorney and hired a private security company to figure out how someone could pull off such a prank.
But Weiner dropped that story line on June 6, offering a lengthy public confession at a Manhattan news conference, acknowledging to online activity involving at least six women.
Breitbart seldom showed restraint in his vitriol to his critics and seemed to relish in the negative attention his antics earned him.
After Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts died in 2009, Breitbart tweeted "Rest in Chappaquiddick" and called him "a special pile of human excrement." When critics questioned his tone, he tweeted they "missed my best ones!"
Breitbart is survived by his wife, Susannah Bean Breitbart, and four children.


text: Portland Trailblazers Insider and NWSB Managing Editor "Q" weighs in with his Love'Em & Hate'Em column for the Trail Blazers vs. Denver Nuggets game on Wednesday. Gerald Wallace was M.I.A. last night. Usually a guy who fills up the stat sheet very nicely, but he didn't do much of anything. Nice game though by Jamal Crawford who put up 21 points on 5 out of 9 shooting from three-point range.


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Editor's note: Welcome to another great installment of "Spotted". With your help, we hope to shine a light on lacrosse spotted in unexpected places, whether it be on TV or in real life. If you find any aspect of lacrosse in a place you didn't expect it, we would love to hear from you. Take a quick photo or video and submit it at LaxAllStars.com/Contribute!
Gatorade is basically the pinnacle of sports drinks, and they just posted an Instagram photo of a lacrosse player flying through the air while going behind the back to score. What a shot, both by the player and the photo!
This photo was probably staged and not from a real game, but nonetheless it is great to see a giant sports company like Gatorade giving lacrosse some love. I'm sure that not all of Gatorade's 200k+ Instagram followers don't all know lacrosse, so this photo is helping to grow the game!
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I myself favor one of the concentric ring flag options. Rows of stars are tres boring.
In the wake of Puerto Rico's overwhelming vote in favor of U.S. statehood, what would a 51-star flag look like? There are many possibilities. Picture above is the likely answer, but the top one here is a wonderfully cheeky option. My thought is this: isn't D.C. going to scream blue murder if Puerto Rico gets in and it does not? Maybe we should be looking at 52 star flags. [Smithsonian via The Awl]


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During his inaugural address, Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee said that establishing gay marriage equality and rescinding E-Verify would "do more for economic growth in our state that any economic development loan."
Political freedoms are often associated with entrepreneurial activity, but that is most often seen in countries that have not had those freedoms previously.
Is the change that affects the gay and immigrant communities going to unlock pent-up economic activity in Rhode Island?
We do not want government in control of marriage. We need to start treating each other as humans. Government free marriage is the pathway to equality. Government should have no control over religion or marriage. Leave marriage to the religions or to the people to freely contract with one another.
It certainly sounded like a very wacky comment from the Governor that more economic development would be prompted by those "fringe" issues than any economic development plan - certainly lots of people attacked him for it, including myself.
Then I looked into it further - there's actually no shortage of credible studies that show the economic benefit of establishing Marriage Equality - California, CT, MA, are just a few of the states where the economic benefit was quantified. Massachusetts alone reaped a $100 million bonus in tourism and filing fees. This is at heart a civil rights issue - so I'd support it without the economic benefit - but those who mocked the Governor would do well to actually stop underestimating him and look into the studies that back up his statement. http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/home.html
On E-Verify, I still feel that the only ones "anxious" about that law were likely illegal immigrants. Legal residents have nothing to fear. But let's stop kidding ourselves that illegal immigrants working under the table don't form a very important part of our state and national economies. There's plenty of businesses out there hiring illegals for jobs that even out of work Americans seem reluctant to do - migrant farming, cleaning, janitorial etc...
The net result is that you've got a low paid work force (yes illegal on numerous levels) that winds up contributing the economy, keeping costs down for certain businesses, and ultimately costs down for consumers.
Seriously - eliminate all "under the table" workers tomorrow and our economy is going to suffer some serious shocks. So here again, what appeared to be odd comments from the Governor have more basis in fact than most "smart" people originally gave him credit for.
These are two issues that should not be bundled into one survey question. I cannot even vote on this one.
I agree with Tim. I had to vote "no" but I believe that gay marriage would be an economic boon to the state. I for one make it a practice to boycott/not buy from any stores or manufacturers who receive a poor "equality" score from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Nor would I vacation or attend any event/conference in a state that had a practice of discrimination against gays, minorities, or women.
I am not gay, but I do believe in equality in the area of civil rights -- including the ability for adults to marry -- for gay members of our society.
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I really enjoyed your research and article about Chief Metuktire and sent it to all of my students because I often discuss visual representation in my courses and feel they could learn a great deal from reading this about how indigenous people are often represented in the mainstream media/social media.
I'll be sure to keep tabs on your website now that I know you exist, and congratulations on getting into school! Great luck to you, Katie Englert -
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