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Kaeleen's primary goal is to help patients feel and look beautiful. She is compassionate to her patients' concerns and thrives to deliver the best customized care and education to each person. With so many different options in the industry, Kaeleen is passionate about finding the right plan for each of her patients that works with their individual needs and achieves desired results.
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5 B2B Solutions for Ultimate Growth and Success
Every B2B company wants to increase revenue, develop and nurture good relationships with their customers and win a good portion of the market. The core goal of all strategies is to achieve a sustainable, profitable growth, and make efforts to maintain it. When it comes to business success, growth goes through marketing, and the best results happen when you use right tools. We've collected five of the B2B solutions that we believe could increase your successful business development.
#1. SE Ranking
SE Ranking is a powerful all-in-one cloud-based software that helps businesses of any model grow while building a solid online reputation. The platform offers a bunch of useful features like Google keyword ranking, Page changes monitoring, Social media management, White Label and Marketing plan which are extremely important and useful for B2B companies. The features like White Label come within the pricing plan and you don't need to purchase it separately.
White Label undoubtedly add a touch of elegance and professionalism to your service, as you can easily personalize your marketing offer with fully customizable reports featured with your logo, footer, header and the custom styling. You can also use the custom email template to send manually created or scheduled White Label reports to your clients.
Page changes monitoring is a must-have feature for marketing teams and agencies to always know what changes to your website took place. It scans any changes made to the key SEO elements: title, description, keywords; headlines H1-H2; content, the number of inbound and outbound links, robots.txt file; HTTP response status from the server (301, 404). Page changes monitoring tracks and analyzes the changes not only on your websites, but also website changes of your competitors. This provides a huge advantage to you in knowing what your competitors are changing in terms of positioning, new releases and so forth.
Another great feature for B2B companies is a well-detailed online Marketing plan that provides comprehensive strategies to all kinds of users from newbies to experienced gurus. This best-practice plan allows marketers to optimize their website in the best and most efficient manner.
The reports could be generated and delivered on schedule or manually. You can also set a customized access to your employees, colleagues and customers as well as provide a direct link with no credentials which is an easy and quick way to share data with the outside parties. The link can be deactivated at any time as well.
#2. CrazyEgg
CrazyEgg is a great heat map tool that shows how users are clicking on things, how far they are scrolling down your pages, what they are watching, where people are coming from and who clicks the most.
The tool helps you segment traffic and define if certain content elements or design are closely intertwined with one group than another. This approach gives you a significant feedback about your website without a bunch of A/B tests. It is simple to use and makes the difference to identify your own goals and categories in your business growth.
#3. Unbounce
Unbounce is good at building custom landing pages and converting visitors into potential clients. The tool makes the overall process much easier and tests landing pages thoroughly. Using a drag-and-drop interface, it is simple to set up and create pages and forms, even you are not an expert at HTML code. Thanks to a plenty of multiple templates and successively integrated A/B testing, Unbounce is one of the most powerful B2B solutions to turn your shoppers into buyers.
#4. Maptive
Maptive is a good tool for salesmen to build up beautiful, shareable and customized maps for a presentation or the web in a few seconds. The tool provides an easy way to obtain good data by uploading a sheet of addresses and view how they are laid out on a custom map. You can also find out where your products are selling out best, reveal the best places for an upcoming marketing tour and answer any question you have about the geography of your data.
#5. LeadzGen
LeadzGen is a powerful lead generation tool that is designed for salespeople to define leads hitting the website. Since increasing conversions is really important for your website, the tool helps to track website visitors, detect their contact information, turn them into qualified leads and maintain the sales pipeline. It is a good tool for small and medium companies and B2B business models.
Everyone wants to get business growth, that's why it is significant to get right tools in your arsenal. These 5 above-mentioned tools are a good start when it comes down to improving your conversion rate, increasing your customer base and running your social media presence.
Have you used these tools? Do you know other tools for ultimate growth and success? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 188883
Security Vulnerability: CVE-2006-1630
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:30 EST
Note that 0.88.1 fixes this.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188881 ***
Reopening, not a duplicate, note the different CVE number, 0.88.1 closes 3
seperate security holes!
I have entered 3 bugzilla bugs for this so people can search for CVE and find
the appropiate bug for all 3 CVE's . This is sorta kinda security SIG policy and
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If you have children, lead in your home can cause serious long-term health and behavior problems for them. Lead is a hazard to children under 6 years of age in particular. Lead in paint, dust and soil is a problem for children because it gets in their bodies when they put their fingers, toys or paint chips or dust into their mouths. Lead can also harm a pregnant woman and her developing fetus.
You may also check x-presscontracting.com/ online to know more about the paint renovator. You should consider testing for lead if there are children in your home and your house was built before 1978.
- If your house was built before 1978, it is especially important to test for lead if.
- Your house has peeling or chipping paint.
- Your house has bare soil in the yard where children play.
- You plan to repaint, remodel or renovate the house.
- A child living in the house has had a blood lead test result indicating lead exposure.
- Your house was built before 1950 — such homes almost always have some lead-based paint.
How Widespread is Lead-Based Paint in Housing?
Before 1940 86%
1940-1959 66%
1960-1978 25%
All Housing 35%
How can I tell if the lead is a hazard in my home and how do I determine if Lead-Based paint is present?
Certified renovators can use an EPA-recognized lead paint test kits, Certified lead-based paint inspectors or risk assessors use x-ray Fluorescence instruments and finally, you can have paint chip sampling done by laboratories.


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From refugee housing plans on Buffalo's East Side to a health summit and a symposium, faculty and students are actively engaged in the issue
By the University at Buffalo
Ghalia Ajouz and her classmates don't see an abandoned silk mill on Buffalo's East Side.
They envision a rehabilitated building that serves as a vibrant temporary housing community for refugees who've been relocated to Buffalo. They see a structure that contributes to the economic revitalization of a section of the city that has lagged behind the rest.
The students are members of a University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning spring studio that focuses on developing short- and long-term housing plans for refugees in the Queen City.
The work they are doing this semester is one of numerous refugee-focused projects at UB, one of the most international public research universities in the U.S.
It's fitting that Buffalo - known as the City of Good Neighbors and currently experiencing a resurgence following decades of economic decline - should be so welcoming to refugees, said Erkin Ozay, a native of Turkey and an assistant professor of architecture at UB who is leading the studio.
"The families relocating here have had to tackle their own difficulties. I see Buffalo as a beacon of hope for them," Ozay said. He noted Buffalo is expected to receive 1,200 to 1,500 refugees in the next few years.
"There's something poetic about a city that had to tackle problems of decline now being hopeful," he said.
Meeting Refugees' Long- and Short-Term Needs
Students in Ozay's studio spent the first part of the semester researching the various stages of refugee life in Buffalo, from pre- to post-arrival. They visited the West Side Bazaar and met with representatives from refugee organizations to learn about strategies that worked on Buffalo's West Side, home to many immigrants from Myanmar, Somalia and Bhutan, among other countries.
Then, they developed schematic plans for different housing types, focusing on the Broadway-Fillmore section of the East Side. Throughout the project, they've collaborated with partners at the International Institute of Buffalo and Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Housing Services.
"The East Side already has this proud history of immigration," Ozay said. "The idea is, what strategies can we devise to provide better, more affordable housing to satisfy the day-to-day needs of resettled families, as well as their social needs and how they are integrated into the community."
Toward that end, the students were split up into groups, one to design plans for a "welcome house," while the other is looking at long-term rental housing strategies.
An International Student's Perspective
Ajouz, the architecture student, knows what it's like to live in a new country. She came to Buffalo three years ago from Lebanon to study architecture at UB. In her native Lebanon, she served as a volunteer helping Syrian refugees.
"For every four Lebanese, there is one Syrian refugee right now," Ajouz said. "There are also a half of a million Palestinian refugees. Lebanon is a very small country, about one-tenth the size of New York state."
The transition to life in the U.S. is not easy for refugees, many of whom come from nations devastated by war.
"For the first three months of their arrival, they are in what's called 'the honeymoon phase,' " Ajouz explained. "They're in a better place, away from what they have seen before. After that 90 days, they start feeling guilty. They think about family they left behind, or family who were killed."
Ajouz and her classmates are spending the rest of the semester finalizing the preliminary designs they drafted. Ajouz' group focused on revamping the former Duffy Silk building at 1270 Broadway.
They wanted to use an existing building, because there are numerous vacant properties on the East Side.
Their design includes retail space on the first floor to encourage the new residents to interact with the larger community. "We want integration, not just resettlement," Ajouz said.
The students' plans also feature an active courtyard that includes space for a garden, which serves two purposes: It allows refugees to grow their own food - some of which may be plants and vegetables from their native country - and it's a psychological mechanism.
"Think about it, if you are living somewhere for six months, would you plant something? Probably not," Ajouz said. "Growing plants means it's more long-term. It helps take their mind off of the guilt."
While the studio is focused on two types of housing plans, there's more to it, said Ozay, the professor leading the course. "We want to see if we can contribute to the urban rejuvenation of the East Side through this, especially because there already is some momentum building there."
The influx of refugees is helping to drive Buffalo's resurgence, said Isok Kim, an assistant professor of social work at UB whose research focuses on social determinants of health and mental health among immigrants and refugees.
"The refugee communities are very active and visible in Buffalo," Kim said. "As Mayor Byron Brown has repeatedly mentioned, they are singularly responsible for the uptick in population growth in the City of Buffalo. They are helping to revive Buffalo's West Side. They generate economic growth through various entrepreneurial endeavors, and add invaluable cultural and linguistic diversity to Western New York."
UB's Multi-Pronged Effort
Kim is one of numerous UB faculty members who have worked with refugee populations locally and across the globe.
He is a founding member of the Refugee Health Summit, a major UB-community initiative to address health issues that affect refugees. This year's summit happens Saturday at the Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Center in downtown Buffalo.
Kim is also leading two community-based participatory research projects: the Burmese Community Behavioral Health Survey and a qualitative study that aims to understand specific barriers to health and health care among Buffalo's Burmese population. And he's teaching a graduate level course titled "Responding to Refugees and Immigrants."
It's important that research universities like UB address refugee issues, Kim said.
"We can no longer cover our eyes and ears and simply ignore what's happening beyond the United States, because we are intricately and intimately involved in the perpetuation and worsening of the refugee crisis around the world in this global economic and political environment," he said.
Other UB refugee-focused efforts include:
•The Immigrant and Refugee Research Institute in UB's School of Social Work, which is working to improve the lives of immigrants and refugees in Western New York through research on issues involving the welfare of newcomers. Its co-directors are Wooksoo Kim, associate professor of social work, who studies Asian immigrants, and Hilary Weaver, professor of social work, whose research centers on indigenous populations and refugees.
•Kim Griswold, M.D., associate professor in the departments of family medicine and psychiatry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has worked with Buffalo's refugee population for decades. In 2014, she was appointed as medical director of the Western New York Center for Survivors of Refugee Trauma and Torture. Griswold is also a research associate professor of epidemiology and environmental health in UB's School of Public Health and Health Professions.
•On April 14, the Alison L. Des Forges Memorial Committee at UB is hosting an international symposium on refugees, migrants, human trafficking and slavery. This event is free and open to the public, and runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 120 Clemens Hall on UB's North Campus.
Medical students in the department of family medicine can serve a rotation working with refugees at Jericho Road Community Health Center.


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On this Vigil of Our Lady's great feast, I wanted to draw our readers' attention to an exciting new album by the Dominican Friars in Washington DC, called Ave Maria: Dominican Chant for the Immaculate Conception.
This is a large set of music, as can be seen from its gorgeous libretto here in PDF. The brothers have an especially unified sound that comes from singing together many times a day.
Dominican Chant has its own heritage that is somewhat distinct from, and historically parallel to, Roman chant. The Solemn Salve Regina, for example, has more--unwritten--lengthenings of notes than the cathedral version, while retaining the te on the "nobis," which is a ti in other editions, such as the Carthusian.
As a mendicant Order, the Dominicans required a unified liturgy so that a friar transferred from one house to another would easily find his way through the Mass and Hours. All the easier that he might hear in his mind's ear his founder St. Dominic's exhortations to the choir: "Stronger! Faster!"
Just in time for Christmas, in honor of the Blessed Mother on her great Feast, order the CD here and support a huge thriving seminary full of the next generation of the Order of Preachers at the service of the Church.
Kathleen Pluth, hymn writer and translator, S.T.D. (cand.) student at the Angelicum in Rome | archive
Fr. Christopher Smith, S.T.D., pastor of Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Taylors, SC | archive
Mary Ann Carr Wilson, music director at St. Anne Church in San Diego, home of the summer Chant Camp.
Adam Wood, church musician and writer at Music for Sunday.
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Ever since I first tried Linux on my desktop years ago, I've found myself wincing at what I felt were avoidable blunders. This observation doesn't affect one distro more than another, rather it's ongoing issues I've watch in utter amazement happen time and time again.
No, I'm not giving a free pass to proprietary operating systems as they also have their share of epic blunder moments. But with Linux on the desktop, I guess you could say it just hits a bit closer to home. Remember, these are not merely bugs – I'm also talking about avoidable issues that affect folks even if they don't realize it.
It's the year 2016 and the presence of a proper Linux pre-installed experience with the top online retailers is next to nothing. Obviously smaller Linux system vendors don't have a ton of leverage here, however larger system vendors tinkering around in the Linux space absolutely do. I'm talking about Dell and their on again/off again love affair with Linux. Sadly these days, Dell's "big offering" is the XPS, with a few scattered desktop solutions buried deep under some search queries.
This means that there needs to be a bigger presence from the smaller Linux system vendors on Amazon, NewEgg and other related shopping sites. Ads are great, yet the fact remains that there needs to be slick, informative landing pages on these sites to grow the pre-installed market. After all, many of these smaller vendors are already selling on Amazon...yet they lack any sort of feature or discoverability outside of blind searching. Avoiding this is, in my opinion, a blunder worth note. Who is at fault? All of us – none of us.
Blame is difficult here since there are so many factors. What I think goes without saying is that this is a huge missed opportunity. I know for a fact that Google, Microsoft and Apple have strong presence on these shopping sites. It'd be nice to see the smaller PC vendors come together and give Linux on the desktop the recognition it deserves. Don't tell me it can't be done, the entire process is crazy simple.
I'd love to see these smaller vendors take some time, write up an informative landing page and get folks who are looking to buy a new laptop some great "out of the box" solutions.
One thing that irritates me is how many Linux enthusiasts will upgrade to a new and often yet to be vetted version of a distribution simply to get the latest software releases. To be clear, I'm not talking about updates in which you install critical security patches and bug fixes. I'm talking about X Distro version 1 to X Distro version 2.
Now some folks have avoided this entire situation by running with rolling distributions. Others still, utilize tools like Ubuntu's Personal Package Archive or SUSE's package search. All of these options can help. Still, entirely too many people are updating needlessly to distro releases that in my opinion, may still have minor bugs that need to be worked out. Why? If you're running a long term support type of distribution, you should be able to keep using it without needlessly upgrading to a new release.
So why do I rally so hard on not blindly upgrading to new popular Linux distro releases? Bugs and regressions. One of my favorite most recent bugs was so blindingly bad that I can't even fathom how it was allowed to be passed off in the first place. The network manager bug that affected one popular distribution was incredibly annoying. Worse, the affected distribution also passed this bug onto other related distros that also had to explain to their users that the bug fix was coming soon.
Basically the bug meant that users who connected to wifi networks were being kicked off. The methods of experiencing this varied from time passed to recovery after a system standby. Regardless of how, the affect had a lot of people pretty ticked off. Another issue that I'd consider a bug are the problems some folks have with ALSA and crackling audio. Users such as myself do some research to figure out if a driver module update or perhaps some conf file editing will resolved the issue. Casual Linux users, however, are left hoping the community can help. Usually with advice that is far beyond their scope of ability.
Yet in the previous release of the same distro, the issue wasn't there. I've seen this happen with clients more often than not and it's incredibly frustrating to explain. The solution is obvious – patch your system, but don't upgrade right away. That simple choice often makes all the difference.
However, what blows my mind is how often folks never seem to learn. Look, if you upgrade to a new release of your favorite distribution or rely on bleeding edge packages, you are assuming it'll be bug free. Usually this is the case, often it's not. The blunder here takes place when you realize that it is a shared responsibility. Those who are not newbies know what they're doing and accept the challenge. Newbies, however, are not at all warned by distribution providers that it may need a bit more time before it's ready for everyone. Sadly, release schedules seem to rule the day here at the expense of those newer users who don't understand the situation with rushed distro releases.
Perhaps you don't think this is a blunder? Okay, visit the forums of any release based distribution and tell me how many issues are being reported. Exactly, I rest my case. Perhaps patience is the key here.
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Did a China Indicator Lead the Market Down?
From China Real Time:
A once-obscure indicator from the Conference Board has managed to capture global headlines less than two months after it was published for the first time.
Unfortunately for the New York-based organization, the attention has centered on the downward revision in its China leading economic index for April, after the group admitted to a mistake in its previous calculations.
Much market commentary blamed the change for Tuesday's 4.3% fall in China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index — which was followed by declines in other global markets, including the Dow's 2.6% drop. The blogger known as Tyler Durden even headlined his take on the news "Massive Downward Revision of China Leading Economic Index Refutes China 'Recovery' Myth." (The revision doesn't seem to have actually changed his pessimistic take on the Chinese economy.)
But as always with markets, multiple explanations are possible: Rachel Ziemba of Roubini Global Economics said the fall in Shanghai was more likely due to reduced liquidity.
The Conference Board's leading indicator for China — like the ones it calculates for other countries — is based on publicly available data published by the Chinese government, but the correction didn't reflect any change in the underlying data. "A human error occurred when reformatting the official data for April. There's a lot of transformations that need to happen to the Chinese data to make them directly comparable to the indicators we use in other LEIs," explained Bill Adams, the Conference Board's resident economist in Beijing.
The idea that global markets were being driven by such statistical flukes seemed particularly frustrating to Bank of America-Merrill Lynch economist Ting Lu. On Wednesday he unleashed a vicious — by the standards of economists, anyway — critique of the methods used to generate the indicator. In addition to the error the Conference Board admitted and corrected, Lu alleged other several statistical mistakes, saying the group's analysts "might misunderstand" or "may fail" to do certain procedures. He didn't provide evidence that any specific error had actually been made, but urged investors to discount the indicator.
Asked to respond to Lu's report, Bill Adams of the Conference Board said: "The China LEI is made according to a transparent and internationally comparable methodology, and we welcome comments from the analytical community on our methodology."
The most mysterious part about the brouhaha over the correction by the Conference Board is that it does not actually represent a major change in the outlook for China. The revision pushed the six-month annualized rate of change in the index down to 6.8% in April from the original 9.9%. The new rate is the same as January's — which shows that the corrected number is in line with the recent trend. The LEI has been signaling a slowdown since December.
Notably, the erroneous high reading had no discernible effect on global markets when it was announced, on June 15 — adding to the mystery of why some investors suddenly saw its revision as a cause for alarm. Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index rose just 0.05% that day, and commentators didn't mention the China LEI as a factor in trading there or elsewhere. Mainland China's markets were closed then for a holiday. When they resumed trading two days later, the Shanghai Composite fell.
It was the LEI's original, high, mistaken reading for April that was out of step with the broader slowing trend in China's economy. At the time of the original release, the Conference Board struggled to explain the figure, and warned — correctly, as it turned out — that the bump would be "transitory."
"The Conference Board's correction to the LEI, although regrettable, brings the index into line with what we've been forecasting for months, which is that growth is going to moderate after the post-crisis cyclical bounce-back," Adams said.
For those who've been paying attention, it's clear that the Chinese economy has been slowing since the second half of last year as the authorities began to scale back their stimulus programs. And growth is universally expected to slow even more in the rest of 2010, in part because of the government's move in April to cool down the property market.
That is likely to result in weaker construction activity in coming months, though not much of a slowdown is yet apparent in the latest economic data for May. If Tuesday's selloff in global stocks is anything to go by, markets may not have yet fully priced in the extent of the coming slowdown.


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Compare and Contrast the Devil and Tom Walker and the Devil and Daniel Webster
The Devil and Tom Walker
The devil and Daniel Webster
By: Zack Pridey
Tom and his wife were both greedy and mean, they seemed to care nothing for one another, or anyone else for that matter. Tom was so greedy and mean, he made a deal with the devil to make himself rich. He didn't care who got hurt or what he had to do, so he agreed to do as the devil said. Jabez was a very poor humble man, and he was very down on his luck, if something bad happened to the neighbors, 10 times worse would happen upon Jabez and his home. He struck a deal with devil, but he soon would regret. But he never became greedy or mean, he remained as humble and religious as before. "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving had few similarities to "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Bebet, but it had many differences.
The stories were similar in a few ways. For instance, they were both poor men who sold their souls to the devil. The devil was a large, dark, and secretive man that had them sign the contract in blood. The stories also shared similarities in the fact that both men were religious after signing the contract. After that the stories take completely different directions.
The stories differed from the very beginning. Tom Walker never asked for help from the devil, while Jabez Stone orally originated a trade with the devil for two cents. After the help of the devil Tom went off to become a wealthy conceited man with no human compassion, but Jabez lived his life as humble as before. Tom was carried away by the devil when his contract expired, but Jabez was lucky in his efforts.jabez was able to compromise with a trial with Daniel Webster as his lawyer. Jabez and Daniel won the trial and Jabez was able to live his life in content, while Daniel was read his fortune and had the satisfaction that he won a trial against the devil himself.
The greedy and ungrateful usually pay differently than a man who was just trying to make ends meet, and...
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The first secret of Fight Club is that there is no fight club.
Well, loosely translated, that applies to Washington where the first rule of Debt Club is that there isn't one.
Both parties claim to be the grown-ups about our debt.
But the reality is that both parties are against debt when the other guys are in charge, and for debt when they can use it to their own political advantage.
I'll get to how this affects your portfolio dramatically in a moment…
The other way that Washington is similar to DC is that, as in the movie with Ed Norton and Brad Pitt – spoiler alert – there actually is only one character because the Brad Pitt guy is imaginary.
Well, so it is with the Republicans. They pretty much just beat the crap out of themselves and imagine that they have an adversary.
To wit…
The so-called Fiscal Cliff will hit the middle class because contrary to Obama's PR department, aka the media, the Bush tax cuts were across the board and not just for the rich.
Obama's out to raid the middle class piggy bank.
The reality is that ending the tax cuts for the rich will have a minor blip of an impact on the debt or deficit – but Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich for political purposes because he views it as 'social justice' – even though he's admitted it won't do any real good, and could harm the economy.
He doesn't care about that the way he did prior to re-election day.
Now that he won, the gloves come off, and it's the American taxpayer of all but the 47% who don't pay Federal income taxes who will get burned.
His main goal is to split up the GOP and have them fight over tax increases. Obama has set it up to where he wins if we go over the cliff because taxes will go up for everyone and he'll blame Republicans.
But the truth is that Obama wants the tax increase on the middle class because that's where the real money is to fund his entitlement state agenda.
Of course, he can't admit that out loud and that requires the GOP to play their usual inept part in the negotiations and Boehner is falling for it.
Right now everyone thinks the GOP is fighting against tax increases for the rich when in point of fact, the real battle is for the wallets of the middle class.
What the GOP should have done is let Obama have his tax deal where the middle class gets spared and the rates go up for the wealthy…
And down the road when that was exposed to have done nothing for the debt crisis, contra to Obama's fiction,THEN it would be on Obama to explain how he's going to pay for his grand schemes when the Tax the Rich mantra has been exposed.
I mean, come on… the average taxpayer doesn't understand economics… and Obama's counting on that.
Alas, the GOP has shown no inclination to think their way out of a wet paper bag, and so we have the apparent statemate known as the Fiscal Cliff.
But like Fight Club, it's an illusion.
Given that the Democrats are better at the long game than the GOP, I have begun to modify my prediction that the Fiscal Cliff will be averted at the last minute by politics as usual.
An alternate scenario appears to be playing out in which Obama and the Democrats are willing and even eager to go over the cliff with a view toward making the House GOP a scapegoat and give them a chance to retake the House in 2014.
In normal times before the Democrats were taken over by the Progressive wing of the party I think my view would be correct. Clinton never would have done what Obama apparently is willing to do to win the long game.
After all, Clinton and Gingrich DID work together.
But Obama apparently is determined to win at all costs.
Going over the Fiscal Cliff would mean that tanking the economy in the short term is a price the Democrats are willing to pay in order to regain full control of DC… a dubious proposition, but they might be right.
In this game of legislative and electoral chicken, I'm not sure who will blink and history suggests that we'll get tax increases of some kind now in exchange for future
spending cuts that will never happen – i.e. the can kicking will continue.
But if we reach the Fiscal Cliff and Obama does a Thelma and Louise, it will be because he is playing for keeps. After re-election, he's emboldened, and that's not good for a guy already known for his hubris and overconfidence in these matters.
He may just think he can pull off this 'destroy the economy so he can save it' in time for 2016 scheme.
Only time will tell on the big picture, but I wanted to give you an update because there is an immediate lesson in this for us.
In terms of 'investing', the days of the long-term investor are dead.
With massive swings in the markets from year to year and the unstable political and geopolitical situation, it is far more risky to park your money for the long-term than it is to trade the short term swings with a percentage of your capital.
The good news is that is precisely the kind of approach that we take here at Absolute Wealth.
Stay tuned because we're keeping our fingers on the pulse of each swing the markets make so you can profit no matter which way the fight in DC or the economy goes.
Good Investing!
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Monday, August 6, 2012
A moment with Magdalena Solis
My husband was the one who turned me onto Magdalena Solis, a band that immediately pressed all the right buttons for me. Their music is almost bacchanalian—a soundscape of textures interspersed with samples from films.
As an author, I've found their music highly inspirational in creating the right kind of mood in which I can create. I love the almost alien wildness and unpredictability. So, of course, it stands to reason that I had to hunt them down and drag them into the spotlight here on my blog.
So, who's in the band, where are they based and what motivates them? The duo are Wim Lankriet and his partner Marie Beaunom, and Lankriet happily answered a bunch of my questions. As for how the band originated, Lankriet says: "Magdalena Solis is based in Brussels, Belgium. We're a male/female duo, me and my girlfriend. I was writing little screenplays when we met, and she's a professional video editor. We're both movie freaks, so from one thing came another. Early works were mere visual experiments. When we created some sounds for those we quickly got an offer to release the music. We were surprised and flattered... it wasn't really our plan.
"Ever since the project has grown, notably after the first full album Hesperia that was released last year. But we still do it just for fun and intend to keep it that way. We're motivated by creating the ultimate sonic and visual trip, something incredible. Slowly we work and progress to achieve our vision. That's what keeps us going, the dream, the vision, and the pleasure of doing it. It's like a drug. We work for ourselves and do as we please. Public attention and reviews, we had never expected that, but it has become important to us. Well, just the idea--we create things that make people soar, that they thoroughly enjoy, that makes us feel good."
At a quick glance, Magdalena Solis's latest video, some might see similarities with the works of Alejandro Jodorowsky, and perhaps a nod toward Kenneth Anger's film works. Lankriet confirms: "Indeed both Anger and Jodorowsky, along with 1960s B-movies, have been major influences for the Hesperia album visuals. However, we have been craving new horizons for a couple of months now. After some doubts and discussions we decided to do the Crown your whores and burn your kings clip as the climax of this first period. At the same time for us it marks the end of an era. For some time now Tarkovsky and the Czech 1960/70s new wave films have been fascinating new favourites. Also Pasolini remains important to us, more than ever.
"Future visuals will be less lush and extravagant. Our fascination for deviant and subversive art has not faded, and this will remain present in future work, but the style will change. To put it simple, we feel it is time for us to grow up."
With regard to musical influences, as well as writing and production processes and how the two work together, Lankriet says: "We listen to many different genres, and music from different eras. What inspires us most is simply music with brilliant melodies. That is what matters and that is also what we miss in many contemporary things, because it is too experimental. Experiments and seeking new horizons is important, but mere experiments are just a fad and rather boring to listen to, it's only half of the work really. For us the ideal music is always a combination of both experiments and great melodies. So that's how we create: switching constantly between these two poles, when the experiments begin to bore us we move on to pure melodies and vice versa.
"Classical music is also very important to us, in particular Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. I find it interesting to study and play their music because these three form a revolutionary cycle that was the birth of modern music—and at that time there was no equipment for experiments, they only had dissonant notes and harmonies. Popol Vuh is also important to us; he drew from a vast array of influences but he was a most fascinating connection between rock and classical music, without falling into symphonic rock bullshit. Another peculiar and authentic 1970s project we listened to a lot these last few months is Flamen Dialis. It's full of interesting experiments, mixed with brilliant and eternal melodies. His only album Symptome Dei I find a total masterpiece, and still incredibly underestimated.
"Our past recordings to me, it was perhaps the result of too many influences, just a bit too many. Our work also remains a struggle between the current zeitgeist and our more 'classical' attitude and influences. Our project is still very young, and within the modern music world we often feel like Voltaire's Ingénu. How that novel ended I forgot."
But Magdalena Solis not only reflects its cinematic influences in its music videos, but draws them into the music too. In Lady of the Wild Things there are a good few sound clips from assorted films.
To this, Lankriet adds: "There are quite a lot of audio samples on the Lady of the Wild Things EP. The track The Pigs Monastery has mostly audio from Ken Russell's The Devils; both the "christ crucified..." monologue and the "you filthy whore" screaming at the end are from The Devils. There is a bit from Jodorowsky's El Topo in it too, the preacher and crowd yelling and chanting, before the guitar and drums fall in. Count your blessings and Pink Sock Parade both have audio that was taken from lesbian porn clips. The voice in the first part of Zero Point Energy is PT Barnum. People have asked me sometimes where the fairy vocals in the second part of Jinxed come from, but that is actually me singing with a pitch effect that makes me sound like a child.
"On Hesperia we used maybe less significant samples, there they blend more with the instruments in general. But they remain present and important. We continue to use sound samples while composing/improvising. We often create strange background noises ourselves, by putting loads of effects on instruments. During my teens I saw a documentary about George Martin that blew my mind and he is still a big example. Guitars plus synths plus effects plus sound samples, these together are to us some sort of huge supernatural organ, a fairytale instrument that sucks up all the sounds of the world."
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Before contact with Europeans, Indigenous peoples educated their youth through traditional means — demonstration, group socialization, participation in cultural and spiritual rituals, skill development and oral teachings. The introduction of European classroom-style education as part of a larger goal of assimilation disrupted traditional methods and resulted in cultural trauma and dislocation. Reformers of Indigenous education policies are attempting to reintegrate traditional teachings and provide more cultural and language-based support to enhance and improve the outcomes of Indigenous children in the education system.
SchoolNet was an educational project launched in 1993 by federal, provincial and territorial governments, educational organizations and industry partners. Their goals were to link Canadian schools and libraries (particularly those in remote areas) via the Internet and to foster the creation of a Canadian educational website in English and French.
Originally established as schools offering a narrow, classical curriculum to the sons of gentlemen, SECONDARY SCHOOLS (also known as high schools) became coeducational, offering a widened variety of programs and courses to all children who had completed the elementary school program.
Mechanics' Institutes Established first in England during the 1820s, Mechanics' Institutes began as voluntary associations of working men seeking self-improvement through education. The community-based institutes offered evening lectures, lending libraries and periodical reading rooms.
The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools is a Catholic religious order founded by Jean-Baptiste de La Salle in France in 1680. In Canada, members are generally referred to as Christian Brothers or De La Salle Brothers. They are not to be confused with the Congregation of Christian Brothers who were founded by Edmund Rice in Ireland in 1802 and whose members in Canada were also called Christian Brothers or Irish Christian Brothers. The Brothers of the Christian Schools were a major force in Catholic education in Canada, especially in Quebec. They first arrived in Montreal in 1837, then experienced numeric growth, geographic expansion and a solid reputation over the next 125 years. The Brothers underwent a significant exodus and decline in vocations with the dramatic religious and social changes spawned by the Second Vatican Council and the Quiet Revolution.
Up until the second half of the 19th century, most rural teachers in Canada were young, female, poorly paid, and held the most limited professional qualifications. These teachers delivered a rudimentary education to thousands of Canada's rural children, often amidst difficult conditions. Indeed, until the 1960s, rural teachers frequently taught students of various ages and wide-ranging academic abilities together in one-room schoolhouses while also shouldering the burden of maintaining the schools themselves.
In Canada, political and law-making power is shared by the provincial and federal levels of government, as set out in the constitution. Section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867 gives the provincial governments the exclusive jurisdiction to make laws governing education.
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Jackson - Gordon
Tanika Nicole Gordon and Donald Curtis Jackson of Goldsboro exchanged vows in a double-ring ceremony Aug. 19 at 3 p.m., with the Rev. Ricky Dawson officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Greg Gordon of Scarsdale, N.Y., and Shelia A. Kornegay of Goldsboro and the granddaughter of Mary A. Gordon of Bronx, N.Y., and George and Thelma Artist of Goldsboro.
The groom is the son of Donald B. and Saundrea C. Jackson of Goldsboro and the grandson of Vandelia Bates of Brookneal, Va., and Edna Callaway of Altavista, Va.
The bride was escorted by her father and given in marriage by Greg Gordon and Shelia Kornegay.
After a wedding trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C., the couple reside in Goldsboro.
A rehearsal dinner was held at Madison's.
By News-Argus Staff
Published in Weddings on September 24, 2006 3:32 AM


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HOME IMPROVEMENT: ReStore Items Benefit Community
Behind every Habitat for Humanity house dedication is the store that makes it all possible.
"We like to think of it as the ultimate home improvement outlet," said Lance Henning, executive director for the Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity.
Off of East Euclid, the Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity ReStore is seeing its spring rush.
"March is a busy time for us," said Henning.
The store sells gently used and brand new items like light fixtures and appliances for a fraction of the price you'd pay at a big box store with all of the profits going right back into the community.
"This year, we're hoping the store will be able to help us build 9 or 10 Habitat for Humanity homes," said Henning.
Since this location opened two years ago, Brad Durson has been a regular.
"Spring break is the time to start those honey do projects," said Durson.
Durson has finished a patio, brick work, and painting using items he's purchased at ReStore.
The items are donated by everyone from local contractors who have misordered to individuals renovating their own homes.
Durson feels like his dollar is going further at ReStore, and not just because of the bargains.
"I know the revenue here is going to a great purpose," Durson told Channel 13 News.
ReStore is open Monday through Saturday from 9 AM to 6 PM.
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The southern hemisphere's seasons are the opposite of the northern hemisphere's:
Spring Sept-Nov
Summer Dec-Feb
Autumn Mar-May
Winter June-Aug
The proximity to the River Plate and sea-level location make the city humid, so the summer heat and winter chill are felt more acutely.
You'll hear plenty about a local obsession: sensación térmica (thermal sensation). This isn't the real temperature, but how hot it feels; so prepare yourself for a summer day and being told that it is 44ºC (111ºF)!
Spring and autumn are ideal times to visit – gorgeous weather and lots going on. At any time of year, be prepared for rain; heavy storms or a day or so of solid downpour are common. For meteorological information within BA, phone 4514 4253.
Average high to low temeratures:
January 30.4ºC (87ºF)-20.4ºC (69ºF)
February 28ºC (84ºF)-19.4ºC (67ºF)
March 26.4ºC (80ºF)-17ºC (63ºF)
April 22.7ºC (73ºF)-13.7ºC (57ºF)
May 19ºC (66ºF)-10.3ºC (51ºF)
June 15.6ºC (60ºF)-7.6ºC (46ºF)
July 14.9ºC (59ºF)-7.4ºC (45ºF)
August 17.3ºC (63ºF)-8.9ºC (48ºF)
September 18.9ºC (66ºF)-9.9ºC (50ºF)
October 22.5ºC (73ºF)-13ºC (55ºF)
November 25.3ºC (78ºF)-15.9ºC (61ºF)
December 28.1ºC (83ºF)-18.4ºC (65ºF)
Buenos Aires has a packed calendar of cultural fixtures: highlights include the twice yearly Fashion Buenos Aires in March and September, the ten-day showcase for international non-Hollywood films, Festival International de Cine Indepeniente in April, the Buenos Aires Tango Festival (the world's most important tango festival) in August, and the Argentinian Polo Open in November and December.
See all festivals & events in Buenos Aires
The following feriados, or public holidays, are fixed from year to year:
New Year's Day 1 January
Jueves Santo Thursday before Easter
Good Friday (Viernes Santo)
Labour Day 1 May
May Revolution Day 25 May
Independence Day 9 July
Day of the Immaculate Conception 8 December
Christmas 25 December
For the following, the day of the holiday moves to the Monday before if it falls on a Tuesday or Wednesday, or to the Monday following if it falls Thursday to Sunday:
Falklands/Malvinas War Veterans Day 2 April
Flag Day 20 June
San Martín Memorial Day 17 August
Columbus Day 12 October
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Film to document Pan Am crash for 40th anniversary
It took years before Ali'imau J.R. Scanlan could forget the worst aviation disaster in the territory's history following the 1974 crash of Pan American World Airways — also known as Pan Am — when flight 806 came in short of the Pago Pago International Airport.
"What still haunts me today was the smell of burning bodies. I had nightmares of this event for years after the crash," said Ali'imau, who at the time was among local employees of Pan Am working at the airport, as he recalled the night of the disaster to Samoa News.
This week Thursday, Jan. 30, marks the 40th anniversary of the Pan Am crash and Ali'imau's story is one of those that Great Britain based independent filmmaker Paul Crompton, with Barge Pole Productions, wants to include in a television documentary.
Crompton will be in Pago Pago from Jan. 31- Feb. 3 to research the Pan Am crash for the documentary, which he says is for the families of those that died "who want to know more about the event," according to the film maker's letter published in Samoa News last week as an advertisement.
Pan Am flight 806 was enroute from Auckland, New Zealand to Los Angeles, with stops scheduled in Pago Pago and Honolulu.
About 11:41p.m. local time, the plane crashed 3,865 feet short of runway 5 at Pago Pago International Airport, and of the 101 persons on board — including ten crew members — only five people survived, according to a Nov. 4, 1974 investigation report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
The 29-page report, obtained by Samoa News with the assistance of Ian Gregor with the FAA's Los Angeles Public Affairs office, also says that one survivor died of injuries nine days after the incident, which "destroyed the aircraft by impact and fire".
NTSB determined the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the pilot to correct an "excessive rate of descent after the aircraft had passed decision height", it says and noted the flight crew didn't monitor adequately the flight instruments after they had transitioned to the visual approach for landing, and the flight crew didn't monitor adequately the increased rate of descent.
Further, the aircraft first crashed into trees at an elevation of 113 feet before it hit the ground and continued through the "jungle vegetation, and struck a three foot high lava rock, where it stopped.
The NTSB report provides details of the incident including interviews with survivors and others on the ground. Among the findings of the NTSB were that the injuries sustained by the fatally injured passengers, as well as the surviving passengers, were a direct result of the "post crash fire" which engulfed the plane.
Additionally, only the left side over-wing exits were used in evacuating the aircraft; and the surviving passengers told investigators they had listened to the pre-takeoff briefings — by flight attendants — and also reviewed the passenger safety information pamphlets.
Fire and rescue response time was delayed by rain, barriers across the response route, terrain, and confusion as to what was burning, according to the report, which also says the response crew had initially thought they were responding to a house fire.
On the rainy night of the crash, Ali'imau was working for Pan Am as the load controller. In those days before computers, that was the person who had the manual seating chart for the B-707 plane and it was his job to assign seats to passengers. The load controller would also have the seating chart along with the names of passengers who were onboard the flight from Auckland.
"I noticed that there was a Samoan family on the list — parents and two or three children," Ali'imau told Samoa News adding the family was heading to Samoa, and he believes this family was killed in the crash.
Samoa News should point out that, at the time, there were no direct flights between Apia and New Zealand and all flights came through Pago Pago; passengers would then catch a connecting flight on Polynesian Airlines to Apia or Pan Am to Auckland.
At that time, Faleolo Airport had no paved runway, it was grassy.
On the night of the crash, Mike Betham, who was the local supervisor, "told me to stop seating passengers because the plane had just crashed short of the runway," Ali'imau recalled. "Mike and [another Pan Am employee] and I got in my car and rushed to the site of the crash. We were the first ones there."
"When we got there, there was a lot of smoke coming from the plane but it was not on fire yet. I was surprised to see three palagis walking from the airplane. At first I thought they were just local residents who came out to see the crash," he said.
"I walked up to them and asked them where they came from. I was really surprised when they said they came from the plane. I asked them how they got out," he said. "The first man said he was seated on seat 17A and as the load controller, I knew that was the seat next to the emergency window. He said he started to open the window before the plane came to a stop and jumped out before the plane stopped moving, and broke his ankle."
"The couple next to him followed him out but no one else followed them. My suspicion is that there was so much smoke in the plane and no one saw them jump out. The back doors couldn't open because the wings had folded all the way back and blocked the doors," he said.
"At this time a lot of other people from the airport were at the site and I yelled to everyone to move back because the engines looked like they were on the verge of exploding. Soon after that, the engines... exploded and the entire plane started to catch fire," he said. "The explosion blew a lot of bodies out of the airplane..."
A couple of local residents, who were of a young age in 1974, told Samoa News via online posts they recalled that night as word spread island wide that the plane had crashed short of the runway.
Ali'imau says he has been contacted via email by Crompton to be interviewed for the documentary.
In his letter published in Samoa News, Crompton said he wants to know more about the event.
"I am hoping to meet and talk with people that helped with the recovery of those who survived and also those that perished," he wrote. "I am reaching out to talk to anyone who was there on the night, who may remember what it was like on the evening of the crash or the following few days."
"Can anyone tell me when and where the wreckage was buried, or did anyone have relatives on board and are you willing to talk about it on camera?" he asks.
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Spain 1-1 Italy
WRAP: A point will have to do for both sides, then, and just about a fair result after an enthralling game of football. Spain's intention with their strikerless formation was clearly to approach Italy from all angles and mess with their line. Italy, for the most part, held firm, sat tight and kept their flanks clean. They tired near the end, but ultimately it was just one lapse of concentration that cost them. Going forward, they broke quickly and intelligently, not allowing Spain to build up pressure, using the excellent Cassano as a release valve. Pirlo was imperious. De Rossi was excellent out of position. Both these sides, you would think, would be challenging for the title on this form. Spain still need to ask themselves where they're going to get goals from against stubborn defences and if Fernando Torres seems intent on channelling Chris Kiwomya.
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FULL-TIME: Spain 1-1 Italy
90+3 min Torres tries to play it through for Iniesta, only for De Rossi to intercept. If I were marking Torres on his performance tonight, I'd give him a five. Out of 100.
90+2 min Navas down the right, ghosts past Giaccherini and feeds it through to Arbeloa. Arbeloa looks up and crosses... oh, it's poor. It's poor. It's gone straight behind for a goal-kick. Could that be it?
90+1 min Xabi Alonso! Iniesta and Xavi are now setting up camp in the Italy area. Xavi swivels and lays the ball backwards for Alonso, who tries his luck from 25 yards. It's sliced, though, and well wide.
90 min Three minutes of injury time as Nocerino replaces Motta. We've hardly had a stoppage. It's been that relentless. Torres prances down the left, gets to the byline, crosses left-footed. It's cleared by Bonucci.
89 min Marchisio! Saved by Casillas! Spain break with Iniesta! Brought down by Maggio! Yellow card for Maggio! Cripes, this is tense.
88 min Xavi sets Navas clear down the right. Navas has Xavi inside him, who's continued his run, or Torres at the back post. He tries to slide it across for Torres, but the cross is intercepted by, I think, Bonucci.
86 min "I didn't have this as a draw, at all," writes Soren Assmann. "But kudos to you if this holds. Can't say it would be undeserved for the Italians. Their tactics of basically a back five worked... oh man, Torres. Just not his season, is it?"
85 min TORRES ALMOST BURIES A SUBLIME CHIP OVER BUFFON! It's just not happening for Torres, is it? A minute earlier, he got a yellow card for raising the arm against De Rossi as they both jumped for a lofted ball. The next moment, he's in the clear again, decides to skip outside the challenge of De Rossi and tries to dink it over Buffon's outstretched arm. There are people on their feet in the office... but the ball skims the roof of the net with Buffon stranded. Navas was on his outside as well, begging for the ball.
83 min Torres! Oh, Torres! He's not in the clear this time, but he has Xavi bursting clear through the middle if only he can pick a pass. He waits and waits and waits... and his pass is intercepted. Italy break with Pirlo - bit of grappling off the ball between Giovinco and Arbeloa there, which earns Arbeloa a yellow card when play stops.
82 min This could be an enthralling conclusion. The game's getting pretty stretched at both ends - it's been brutal on the legs. Italy win a free kick just inside their own half as Alonso lunges in on Giovinco.
80 min The wall jumps as one, and the ball hits it.
79 min Torres finds Silva, who finds Iniesta on the edge of the area. Iniesta with a little drag back that fools Chiellini and draws the foul. Chiellini finally gets booked, but more pressingly for Italy, Xavi's got a free kick about 22 yards out.
77 min DI NATALE! What a chance! What a game! Giovinco with a lovely cross from the left. Di Natale had pulled away from Ramos, and threw himself at the ball, full stretch. He got a firm contact on the ball with his right boot, but couldn't control the shot, and it flew just wide with Casillas a helpless bystander.
75 min Torres! Oh, he's messed it up! Busquets wins the ball from Giovinco and slides it through for Torres. And Torres is clean through! It's practically his first touch, and Buffon has charged out of his goal to meet him! Torres tries to take the ball outside Buffon on his right, Buffon reads his intentions and block tackles him, and the ball dribbles out for a throw! Oh no, Fernando. Oh, no. Somewhere in an apartment in Lisbon, Andre Villas Boas is gesticulating at his television, shouting: "Didn't I warn you?"
73 min Jordi Alba with a volley at the back post! Navas shuffles down to the right byline and intelligently lifts it above the morass in the centre, towards Alba beyond the far post. Alba didn't quite connect with the volley, and dragged it a couple of yards wide. Here is Fernando Torres, coming on for the goalscorer Fabregas.
71 min Fabregas is stopped dead in his tracks by a slide tackle from Pirlo, who's been a candidate for man of the match. Will we see more changes? Will Spain bring on a striker? Torres has been called back to the technical area, so it looks as though he might be on fairly soon.
69 min Navas with his first little burst down the right. Giaccherini's been given the run-around tonight, but he manages to get a little deflection on the cross to send it behind for a corner.
68 min There was a yellow card, we're learning, but it was shown to Alba, not Fabregas.
66 min Now Bonucci gets himself booked for a tackle on Iniesta. A few handbags afterwards as Fabregas weighs in trying to make sure Bonucci gets booked. Fabregas, instead, has got himself into trouble. Not sure whether he was booked there, I'll double check.
64 min GOAL! Spain 1-1 Italy (Fabregas)
Super run and a super finish! Spain are back in it! Simple goal, enabled by a momentary loss of concentration at the heart of the Italian defence. Fabregas's run isn't tracked by Giaccherini, Silva slides the ball through to him, and Fabregas slots the ball past Buffon from close range! Meanwhile, Navas comes on for David Silva, while Italy bring on for Giovinco for Cassano.
62 min Well, well. How soon before we see changes from Spain? They're still yet to create a clear-cut chance, for all their possession (it's been about 58-42 so far). And could that be the last we see of Balotelli this tournament? Di Natale has made an irresistible bid for a starting spot here.
60 min GOAL! Spain 0-1 Italy (Di Natale)
A lightning breakaway from Italy, and Spain have been ripped open! Another shock on the cards here! That was a goal crafted by the genius of Pirlo, skipping past Busquets and sliding an ideal through ball to substitute Di Natale. Di Natale had Cassano unmarked to his right, so it was just as well he scored, but it was an accomplished finish, lofted into the top corner, beyond Casillas's desperate fingertips.
59 min Xavi tries to put Fabregas through. De Rossi slides in to intercept. That's going to have to go down as a misplaced pass for you, Xavi. Cash or cheque?
58 min Spain work it aroud the angles, passing it around the edge of the Italy area, but Arbeloa loses the ball and then wrestles Cassano to the ground as he tries to come away with it. "Del Bosque is either an eejit or a genius," writes Sam Graham. "My money is on the latter. Perhaps he is about to invent the over-lapping goalkeeper?"
56 min Poor Mario Balotelli. He's now been taken off for Di Natale.
53 min Balotelli robs Ramos! He's through on goal! He slows his pace as he approaches Casillas, taking his time! Watch out, Mario! He's behind you! And as Balotelli gets ready to pull the trigger, Ramos slides in with a desperate lunge and scrapes the ball away! The look on Cassano's face is an absolute sight. Balotelli took so much time there. He had seconds - whole seconds - to get a shot away, but waited and waited and waited, perhaps for Casillas to commit himself.
51 min Iniesta lashes it just wide from a tight angle! Fabregas won the ball back in the Italy half, laid it to Iniesta on his left, and Iniesta made a beeline for the byline. De Rossi was nipping at his heels, but Iniesta's shot was just touched wide by a sprawling Buffon. Both goalkeepers have had a pretty good game so far. Iniesta picks himself up, De Rossi's stud marks stinging in his ankle. Not for nothing does De Rossi have the following tattoo:
50 min Now Xavi has a pop from distance. That's well wide, but Spain are continuing to pepper the Italian goal with speculative shots.
49 min Xavi lays it off to Fabregas, who shoots from 20 yards! Buffon flies to his right to push it clear. Corner.
48 min Torres warming up on the far side. He's not stretching, he's just curling up with a blanket and a mug of Bovril. "Chiellini must have a good agent as well as a "rugged profile"," writes Tom Richardson. "Having been living in Milan for the past 10 months, my impression is that he's got the bulk of the Azzurri's promotional work."
47 min Chiellini miscontrols and then brings down Xavi as Spain look to break. Remarkably, he stays out of the book.
46 min Spain in a spot of bother in their own half as Busquets's karate clearance goes straight up in the air, but Pique gets his head to it and the danger is averted.
18.01 Italy to get the second half under way, then. No changes from either side.
17.50 Time for some emails. Srik Srid writes thus:
Is it just me or does this look like a long-ball team in the guise of Spain? Less tika-taka and more aerial lobs, and quick long passing? Not that I'm complaining, but I wonder what happened to the real Spanish players. Maybe they couldn't afford to send their team and instead hired Chelsea in disguise - which would explain the lack of Torres?
I'm not sure we're quite ready to reclassify Spain as the spiritual heirs to the Wimbledon team of the 1980s just yet. There have been a few lofted balls, yes, but it's been blended in with all the usual stuff. The real problem has been a familiar one - too often they've tried to walk it in. That doesn't necessarily mean having a pop from distance, but there's a distinct lack of pace in their game. And from Victor Holton:
Is Chiellini related to Charlie Chiellini the famous Chef?
Um, no. I don't think so.
HALF-TIME Spain 0-0 Italy
45 min Motta misses the best chance of the game so far! Super save from Casillas with his right hand! Cassano plunged down the right touchline and managed to bend a cross in. Balotelli had peeled away towards the penalty spot, Motta gave Busquets the slip and had a free header at goal from eight yards. It was too close to Casillas, although it was still a fine save. And on that, the half-time whistle peeps.
44 min Iniesta with a first-time chip over Buffon! Just over the bar! Pinpoint pass from Xavi to find Iniesta, who had made the run down the centre. He had two blue shirts bearing down on him, so just stuck out a toe and tried to dink it over the goalkeeper. That really would have been something.
42 min Now Chiellini wins a foul as Busquets slides in late. Chiellini cried like a baby after that challenge. "He certainly looks the part," Jon Champion observes. "You mean he's ugly?" Craig Burley replies. "In profile, he looks like a map of the Adriatic Coast," Champion adds. There is silence from Burley. "Rugged," Champion says by way of explanation. Morecambe and Wise this is not. Little and Large, to be fair, this is not.
40 min Spain win another free-kick, this time after a foul by Chiellini. Spain just encroaching into Italy territory a little as the half winds to a close.
38 min Xavi clips it to the far post, Fabregas gets up at the far post, but he's penalised for climbing all over De Rossi. De Rossi, by the way, is sporting quite the get-up - one long sleeve and one short sleeve on his jersey.
36 min SWEEPSTAKE ALERT. Who had 36 minutes on Mario Balotelli getting booked? A spicy, mistimed challenge on Jordi Alba, and he's had enough warnings by now.
35 min Marchisio with a thumping volley from outside the area! Casillas, startled, can't hold it first time, but grabs hold of it at the second attempt. Italy look as though they're trying to work the ball down that left side in behind Arbeloa. Cassano again cuts in on his right foot and clips it back to Marchisio, who absolutely leathers it left-footed.
33 min Cassano cuts inside, inside Arbeloa, and whips a low shot at goal. Casillas parries, Pique and Balotelli chase the loose ball, Balotelli lunges at Pique and only just avoids a yellow card. Viktor Kassai scolds Balotelli harshly. Balotelli, sporting a thin blonde Mohican, looks abashed.
31 min Xavi clattered on the edge of the area! Nothing given, though. The ball goes all the way through to Casillas, who tries to sidestep Cassano, gets in a bit of trouble, goes over under the challenge of Cassano and comes within a fraction of getting Cassano booked.
29 min Iniesta! It was another deep, deep corner from the right, headed back in by Pique and lashed at goal by Iniesta. Buffon had to tumble to his right to smother it.
27 min Silva with another effort from about 25 yards out. Buffon gathers comfortably. "Spain's choice of six midfielders showed when they went to check out Italy, they accidentally watched their rugby team," writes David Dean. "They've decided to stick up their jumper and keep it in their pack!" I have no idea what that means. I think it's rugby.
26 min Arbeloa retreating into his own half under pressure from Balotelli. Balotelli has a little nibble at his ankles and gives away a free-kick. First real sign of the bestial, bloodthirsty Balotelli. He shoots Arbeloa a little look warning him not to try anything like that again.
25 min First little flourish from Iniesta! He gets the ball in that place where he loves it, near the left corner of the penalty area, shimmies past one man and tries to curl a shot past Buffon, but it's blocked by Bonucci.
22 min Cassano! Not far away! Marchisio slides the ball through to him, Pique doesn't get tight enough, and Cassano can get a shot away, trickling just past Casillas' right hand and just past the post. "It's truly outstanding to see chaps like Xavi Hernandez and Xabi Alonso, both well over 30, playing some of the best football the world has ever seen and showing few signs of slowing down," writes Donncha Ó Conmhuí. "I guess you could say old Xabis die hard."
20 min Pirlo's away now after a neat one-two with Balotelli. He tries to chip it through for Cassano, who's making the run into the channel, but Ramos heads away.
19 min Maggio slips the ball through for Marchisio in the channel. Ramos comes across and wins the throw. One little burst from Maggio aside, Italy haven't managed to do too much damage on the flanks.
17 min Ramos under pressure from Cassano in his own half, but completely merks him. Huge roars from the Spain fans, who far outnumber Italians in the ground. Chiellini wins back the ball with an immense challenge, and as Arbeloa tries to clear the bouncing ball, he catches Motta on the shoulder. Giaccherini puts the ball out so Motta can get treated.
15 min Silva has another go from just inside the area. De Rossi gets a block in this time, but at the moment there are lots of pockets of space in this game, and lots of areas where players are bumping into each other. Neither side has quite worked out how to turn this curious tactical waltz to their advantage.
13 min And Pirlo draws a good sprawling save from Casillas! Decent start by both teams, this.
12 min Cassano brought down by Ramos on the edge of the area! Chance for Pirlo to wind one up from about 20 yards...
11 min Silva! Best chance of the game so far! Spain break with three on three, Fabregas is pole-axed by Chiellini, I think, but manages to get it away to Iniesta, who sets Silva free. Silva comes in on his left foot and tries to drill it in low from 14 yards, but it's weak and Buffon can save easily.
10 min First sight of Balotelli, combining with Cassano on the edge of the Spain area and launching a shot goalwards from distance, but not really connecting.
9 min Xavi with the corner, Pique heads it back across goal, Ramos can't direct it goalwards, Xavi gets it again on the right, slips it inside to Silva, who shoots from 25 yards and puts it well over.
8 min Spain almost dance their way through! Silva and Fabregas combine in the area, and only a desperate block tackle from Chiellini puts it out for a corner.
7 min Clearly one off the training ground there, the ball played along the ground to Marchisio, who tries to flick it along the six-yard line, but Busquets is equal to it, and Spain can come away with the ball.
6 min Arbeloa tussles for the ball near his own corner flag and gives away a corner. Pirlo to take.
5 min Here's Maggio, the Napoli wide midfielder, charging down the right wing. Alba catches up with him but brings him down. Pirlo swings in the free-kick; Fabregas heads it away. There, you see. What's Fabregas doing there? How false a nine is he? Is he so false a nine he is, in fact, a four? It's going to take me a while to work out what's going on here.
3 min Another huge long ball out of defence, this time from Ramos, goes straight through to Buffon. Spain have always been a little more direct than Barcelona, to whom they have often been compared in terms of style, but it is quite a surprising strategy early on. Hello to Des Maxwell in California: "I followed your blow by blow account of the Greece-Poland game and noted your inability to resist a jab at the Greeks and their economy: all good, clean fun. I look forward to an unrelenting cavalcade of groan-inducing puns related to the bailout of the Spanish banks!" Looks like the Spanish are playing two banks of four... sorry, three... sorry, now down to 2.8. That what you're after?
2 min First corner of the game, to Spain. It's clipped to the edge of the area and cleared by Marchisio.
1 min Pique with a huge long clearance from well inside his own half, looking for Silva on the right wing. Spain taking the direct route! Silva brings the ball down well but slips, and Giaccherini, desperate for his first touch, gets a foot in.
17.00 Perhaps four times as many Spaniards as Italians in Gdansk tonight. You wonder how many of them would have hung around if there'd been a bank run back home. Spain to kick off.
16.58 Teams out, anthems sung. The Italian one really is a belter.
16.45 I've thought about this a bit. The first 20 minutes are going to be utterly nuts. Neither team is quite going to know what to do or how to counter the other team, so we may well see one of the most frantic, open starts to an international fixture in living memory. With 15 minutes gone and the score standing at 2-2, both managers will panic and switch back to a simple 4-5-1. The game will then unfold with a more predictable stability. I am therefore predicting 2-2.
16.40 Some emails. One from Soren Assman:
So, what are your predictions for today? At least you were right at MY DANES NOT CONCEIDING A GOAL YEAH BABY YEAH! Ah, good times. My bet's completely on Spain today, but the line-ups are truly insane. This sounds like an energetic game... unlike the Germans. I want goals, and three defenders against Spain? That promises goals, right?
I think the idea is that you have an extra man in the centre of defence, plus wing backs to tuck in when you're out of possession. How 27-year-old Giaccherini copes against David Silva at left-back considering he only made his Serie A debut at the age of 25 remains one of the great unkwowns. Baca Bright, in Accra, Ghana, has this:
What a crazy line-up for Spain, no well-known strikers up front against Italy, I was tipping Spain to beat Italy but I'm not very sure they'll do that job when the strikers are watching from the bench. Spain 0-0 Italy.
16.15 To be fair to Italy, their hand has been forced rather by injury. They're missing Barzagli and Balzeretti, with Criscito left out of the squad, which has forced De Rossi into a makeshift centre-half role. Giaccherini, who plays left wing for Juventus but is naturally right-footed, is the real surprise choice. He must have done something absolutely sick in training. Spain's system stems from Vicente Del Bosque not really having total confidence in any of his three conventional strikers, Torres, Llorente or Negredo. Not that I normally have any idea how things are going to pan out, but I have absolutely no idea how things are going to pan out.
16.07 Well, let's get some expert reaction to that breaking team news from former Manchester City manager (sounds a lot more prestigious these days, doesn't it?) Peter Reid:
16.05 Here is your team news. And it's nuts! Spain with no striker! Against Italy! Italy playing three at the back with Emanuele Giaccherini making his international debut at left-wing-back! Against Spain! De Rossi playing at centre-half! Fabregas playing up front! What a time to be alive.
Spain (4-2-1-3): Casillas; Arbeloa, Ramos, Pique, Alba; Alonso, Busquets; Xavi; Silva, Fabregas, Iniesta.
Italy (3-5-1-1): Buffon; Bonucci, De Rossi, Chiellini; Maggio, Motta, Pirlo, Marchisio, Giaccherini; Cassano; Balotelli.
16.00 It's always a special moment when the defending champions step into the fray. Everybody remembers the joyous scenes four years ago, when Spain ended their major-tournament hoodoo by winning Euro 2008. Not much has been seen of them since, as they planned their defence of the title, but we can safely assume that Fernando Torres has continued to go from strength to strength, that David Villa is primed to terrorise defences across Europe, that Carles Puyol will still be their rock at the back. Italy, meanwhile, still retain fond memories of their 1982 World Cup victory. What a team that was - Cruyff, Gullit, Van Basten, Matthaus - but since then it has been more or less three decades of disappointment at major championships. Bit like England, then...
Sorry, slipped into Match of the Day mode for a second there. Of course we know who Spain are. Of course we know who Italy are. What we don't know is whether the hunger is still there - whether this dynasty of Spanish players is as murderously determined to claim their third major international title as they were to claim their first. The sands of football have done a good deal of shifting in the last two years, but what has remained unblemished is Spain's reputation as the most powerful force in the game. They begin the tournament as favourites, and in the four matches so far, will not have seen a great deal to rattle them. Second favourites Germany scraped to a 1-0 win over Portugal last night without ever really threatening to find top gear, the campaign of third favourites Holland is in turmoil after an opening defeat to Denmark, fourth favourites France begin tomorrow against sixth favourites England, who have Phil Jagielka as their third-choice centre-half. Let's not get started on them.
So what of fifth favourites Italy, with their charming, erudite manager Cesare Prandelli and their assembly of promising but imperfect attacking talents? Of all the teams at Euro 2012, Italy are the hardest to read. Conventional wisdom goes that a squad that has had to endure the viscissitudes of match-fixing scandals (Domenico Criscito was withdrawn from the squad while Leonardo Bonucci is still under investigation), earthquakes (a warm-up game against Luxembourg was cancelled), a 3-0 defeat to Russia and injuries to key players such as Andrea Barzagli should not really be described as credible challengers. Conventional wisdom goes that a team who doesn't yet know whether their best formation is 4-3-1-2, 3-5-2 or 8-1-1 with Mario Balotelli being launched into the opposition penalty area from a catapult on the halfway line isn't best equipped to triumph. Italy have a habit of trashing conventional wisdom. Let me find you some team news.


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Orange Marmalade Ep 11 : Destiny and Co-Existance
Our story is connecting the dots between the present and our Joseon past. Jae Min finds that his world is once again rocked to the core and he's had blinders on the whole time. Will all the pieces of his scattered present and past-life memories finally allow him to have the love he lost? Join Tippy, Kate and I as we discuss if Jae Min and Ma Ri will finally be able to love and live in peace.
Kate: This episode had a lot of sweet moments in it. Jae Min sticking up for Ma Ri and starting to remember his feelings, Ara and Shi Hoo hanging out, Shi Hoo sticking up for Ma Ri…. But overall, this episode felt like it was setting up the finale. Not that I minded. Each one of those little moments seemed to add a bit more to our understanding about what those characters' destinies might be and how vamps and humans could possibly coexist in the future.
Wendilynn: Absolutely this is a setup episode. However, as setup episodes go, the feels were amazing. I loved watching Jae Min piece together his memories.
Tippy: I really enjoyed this one. It was just so sweet and lighthearted (most of the time), and you could tell everyone was kinda sorta settling into the new normal. Jae Min offering to stand in as a sort of companion for Ma Ri so the other students' parents could be at ease was very thoughtful, despite him using it as an excuse to be by her side (whether he knew it or not). The way he asked for her help in remembering things slowly by just hanging around was well done in my opinion.
Kate: You're right Tippy, in that Jae Min's hanging around Ma Ri seemed in part an excuse. Yes, Jae Min's memory might be sparked by spending time with her, but he was grudgingly chivalrous to her most of the time. Just the sitting by her while she drank her lunch alone was enough to convince me his heart remembers more than his head was willing to accept at this point.
Wendilynn: I agree that it was an excuse as well. His heart has always been the one in charge over his head anyway. But, once he started seeing her in his past life memories, there was no way he could walk away from her. You know, until he got spooked by the memory of the neck kiss. lol
Tippy: Yeah, his response to that ended up being much more reserved than I thought. The way he reacted when he finally brought it up to her was what I was thinking, instead of asking her to skip school with him. I'm getting ahead of myself though. Back to the skipping thing, the way he walked into the fountain to make sure her "wish" made it in made me swoon a little bit. Dry clothes be damned! I also appreciated that they were simultaneously showing what Shi Hoo was doing while skipping school as well. I was super stoked to have him sing, and I gotta admit that exchange with Ara in the store almost made my nose bleed. (^///^;)
Kate: I won't say Ara and Shi Hoo are a match made in heaven (they're no OTP!), but they are a good match. He excites her, and he also is tough enough to disagree with her or stand up to her when she acts out. It is also a neat little call back to early in the series when he flirted with her to distract her from picking on Ma Ri. Now that she's grown (and he's settled a bit), they actually could be a good couple.
Wendilynn: I liked the Shi Hoo/Ara scenes too. When she was willing to be playful with him in the store. I wanted to squeal. (I'm too old for squealing and that's my story) She even gave him that little playful "bite" just like he gave earlier. I did like seeing what they offered Shi Hoo in exchange for his release. I have to admit, a chance to free his parents would be a powerful offer to get him to be good.
Tippy: It was so weird for me to see him in this calmer state. Not that he has any less attitude, it's just that there's something to stand for and a goal in mind now. It's good to see him this way. Good on him for setting Jae Min straight by giving him some perspective on what Ma Ri is going through. It reminded me that their past selves were best buddies.
Kate: Now that the co-existence project is progressing, and Shi Hoo's parents will soon get released from their punishment, he has less angst and he's more grounded. You're right Tippy, it is nice to see him this way. He seemed less competitive with Jae Min over Ma Ri in this episode too. Last week I thought that hug was to show Jae Min he had claim to Ma Ri, this week, like you said, it seemed more like he was trying to make Jae Min remember his feelings for Ma Ri through a little spark of jealousy, and then in another scene, set him straight about Ma Ri's feelings. It made me wonder if part of Shi Hoo's destiny was for he and Jae Min to rediscover their past life friendship.
Wendilynn: I remember watching that scene were Shi Hoo is thinking about what he would be willing to give up to have his parents back and I felt really moved that he was willing to give up the girl he loved to free them. He really shows that his basic personality hasn't changed. He gave up Ma Ri in the past life because of the love of a brother.
Tippy: He's got a heart of gold, that one. Anyway, before I get choked up here...did anyone notice (of course you noticed) the huge product placement? They tied it into the story a little bit, but I was having a good laugh over it. Poor Jae Min's mom didn't get the purse she thought she was picking for herself. Hahaa. About her and her husband too, I didn't realize they were only seeing each other on the weekends. Made me really sad that their kiss was interrupted, seeing as they probably don't have very many opportunities to spend quality time together. Also, Jae Min's fully clothed shower freakout. Whoa…
Kate: I second that product placement laugh. Poor Jae Min's mom. While he did remember her birthday, word to the wise--don't get your mom or your lady face cream for her birthday unless she specifically asks for it. The gift was almost like Jae Min telling his mom she's looking old. But at least she was able to steal some sweet moments with hubby Yoon Jae. I felt bad for them and their commuting marriage too, but somehow I think their reuniting as a family might just be in the cards as soon as Jae Min can accept co-existence.
Wendilynn: I think I finally understand what spooks Jae Min so much about his mom marrying a vampire. After the way he freaked out over the bloody shower scene and remembering the neck kiss, I realized he's terrified of being eaten by a vampire. And with his mom being so intimate with one he probably feels she's in danger too. Almost makes you wonder if he still has his blood phobia, in a small way. Although Joseon Jae Min would have passed out in that shower. lol
Tippy: Ohhhh, it all makes sense now! I wondered if he really had it again, or if it was just a nod to past Jae Min. That poor boy's mind is putting him through the ringer, I swear. I do like how he slowly started piecing little clues from when he was in the band, which lead him to finding Ma Ri's sheet music. Just that one piece of music was enough to string it all together for him to make sense of what he was seeing.
Kate: I'm really interested to see where all our characters will end up, and whether the Joseon story line will play a role rather than just helping Jae Min figure out his love for Ma Ri. While I am sure that she will gladly be his girlfriend, and all the friends and family around him will be glad to see him healed and happy, will there be any other kinds of reverberations from the Joseon era in present day?
Wendilynn: That's a really good question, Kate. I found it endearing that both of Ma Ri's parents wanted to be brave like their daughter. They go to talk to their boss only to discover that they are working for Jae Min's mom. And of course she has no problems with vampires. lol The part of this episode that melted me the most, though was when Jae Min found the box buried by the tree. When he realized his past life memories were not a fantasy but the clue to the love he's always felt for Ma Ri. When he picked up the tattered remains of the hair ribbon he'd once given her so long ago, I got all warm and fuzzy. I can't wait to see if we will find out the rest of the contents AND possibly the story behind what started all of this. I'm referring to the treaty of course, and why it ended up being nothing but prejudice and paranoia.
Will our lovers finally fine what they have been fighting for all these centuries? Will co-existence even be possible for humans and vampires?
For more from your Orange Marmalade drama club look for us at:
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For other Orange Marmalade episode reviews:
[Episode 1-2] [Episode 3] [Episode 4] [Episode 5] [Episode 6]
[Episode 7] [Episode 8] [Episode 9] [Episode 10] [Episode 11]


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