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"Why would anyone buy credit default swaps on the U.S. government? If the U.S. ever defaulted it would be because the world ended, so no one would be around to pay you on your CDS," is a thing that people more or less used to say.
Not so much any more? Now it's like, "Why would anyone buy credit default swaps on the U.S. government? If the U.S. ever defaulted it would be because of stupid debt-ceiling procedural problems, and they'd fix it quickly, and treasury bonds would only have payments delayed by a couple of days, so they wouldn't lose any value, so your CDS wouldn't pay you anything."
And yet, U.S. CDS has ticked up a bit over the last few days as we've all remembered about the debt ceiling. So there's gotta be an actual answer to those disbelieving questions.
Those questions rest on the notion that credit default swaps are a hedge against credit risk -- as my colleague Matt Klein puts it in his post on the subject today, "the contracts are supposed to offset investor losses" -- but this is only true to a first approximation. If you own $100 worth of government bonds, and you buy $100 notional of CDS on that government, then to a first approximation:
- If the government doesn't default, your bond pays off 100 and your CDS pays off zero.
- If the government defaults, your bond pays off X and your CDS pays off 100 minus X, where X is whatever your bonds are worth after default.
- If the government sorta defaults but not really, X is basically 100, so you make 100 on the bonds and zero on CDS, just like if there wasn't a default. So your CDS isn't worth much.
- If the government totally totally defaults, X is like 40 or 0 or whatever, so you make 40 or 0 on the bonds and 60 or 100 on the CDS. So your CDS is worth a lot.
- Except that whoever sold you that CDS has to pay you, and if the government is the U.S. government then its default means that we're all running from zombies and using bitcoins to pay for ammunition and whatever, so good luck getting paid. If you don't get paid your CDS is worth zero.
- So CDS on the U.S. government, in either of the two most plausible U.S.-government- default scenarios -- brief technical default or zombie apocalypse -- is worth zero.
- So don't buy it, dope.
One possible explanation for why (1) people buy it and (2) more people have been buying it recently as technical default becomes more likely, pushing up the price, is that those people are all dopes. This is an unsatisfying explanation, as it is never great to assume that a market exists entirely due to stupidity, though of course sometimes that assumption turns out to be correct.
It seems wrong here though. Schematically, a normal CDS contract's value is made up of:
- Credit protection, plus
- Structural nonsense in the CDS contract unrelated to credit protection.
In U.S. government CDS, the value of the credit protection is more or less zero, for the reasons described above. This means, first, that U.S. CDS isn't worth much -- I see 1-year CDS bid and offered at 28/38 basis points running, with the 5-year at 28/33*; the price of 5-year CDS seems never to have exceeded about 100 basis points running (in early 2009), compared to 505 bps for Portugal now, or 25,960 for Greece in early 2012. And it means, second, that whatever it is worth comes from the structural nonsense.
Fortunately, CDS contracts are full of structural nonsense! The main piece of structural nonsense is the cheapest-to-deliver option: When a government defaults, the CDS contract allows its owner to deliver any bond of that government and get back 100 minus the value of that bond.** So you find the cheapest bond, you buy it, you deliver it into the CDS contract, and you get back 100. If the cheapest bond is cheaper than 100, you make money. (It is!)
The cheapest-to-deliver option exists for historical and liquidity reasons, but is sort of weird in practice. It is so weird that people who write about CDS often forget it. People who trade CDS do not. To a second approximation, the entire value of a CDS contract on the U.S. government is made up of the value of that cheapest-to-deliver option.
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Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered my first cookbook, "Haute Potato". For those of you who don't know, the cookbook features 75 gourmet potato dishes. Need a last minute gift idea? I humbly suggest giving Haute Potato to the favorite foodies in your life. You can buy it on Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com and as of today, it should be on shelves in Barnes and Noble bookstores across the country.
To learn more about the book, check out PhamFatale.com/Haute-Potato. And in honor of the book, I've collected some of my favorite potato dishes that I've posted over the years. Happy holidays!
Today's post is about one of my favorite companies, California Lavash, where the ever wonderful Lilea works. California Lavash makes healthy, preservative free breads. Their lavash works amazingly well for pizzas, desserts, and in the case of this recipe, as a breakfast wrap. Anyway, if --like me-- you're stressed in the mornings because of the holiday season, here's a recipe that'll make you look like a culinary whiz without taking eons to prepare.
Fresh fruits of your choice are layered with plain yogurt, a drizzle of honey and crunchy granola, and the whole thing is wrapped in lavash bread. It's super easy to roll out a bunch of these for all the hungry little hands in your house.
Canapés are small appetizers that are perfect for a holiday cocktail party. These sweet and savory Christmas canapes invoke the colors of the season through the use of candied orange bits.
The base is a blini made of rice flour for extra crispness. The top is slightly melted sharp cheddar cheese with a garnish of oil-cured black olives and the candied orange rind. You may have heard that citrus and cheese don't play well together, but the tart/sweet rind doesn't have some issues.
If you have other leftover dried fruit, feel free to use it instead. A spreadable cheese is also a great substitute for the cheddar. The bottom line is that you can assemble these appetizers quickly and make use of whatever ingredients you have on hand.
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Struggling in her marriage and mired in depression, three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton coped by turning to a life of prostitution, working for an escort service based in Las Vegas.
"I do not expect people to understand," Favor Hamilton wrote today in one of a series of posts to her Twitter account after The Smoking Gun website reported on her double life. "But the reasons for doing this made sense to me at the time and were very much related to depression."
The Smoking Gun said the 44-year-old has been working for the last year for a Las Vegas escort service that booked her for dates there, as well as in Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago.
One of the country's best-ever middle-distance runners, Favor Hamilton competed for the U.S. at the Olympics in 1992, 1996 and 2000 but did not win a medal. She won seven U.S. national titles. She lives in Madison, Wis., where, The Smoking Gun reported, she and her husband, Mark, live in a $600,000 home and appear to be in no financial distress based on the website's review of court and municipal records.
Favor Hamilton told the website that only her husband was aware of her escort work, but that "he tried, he tried to get me to stop. He wasn't supportive of this at all."
The website reported that Favor Hamilton worked under the alias "Kelly Lundy" but said she told some of her clients about her true identity and suspected one of them outed her.
Soon after the story appeared online, Favor Hamilton released a series of tweets saying in part that she was "drawn to escorting in large part because it provided many coping mechanisms for me when I was going through a very challenging time with my marriage and my life."
A nine-time NCAA champion for Wisconsin, Favor Hamilton is the namesake of the Big Ten's Suzy Favor Athlete of the Year Award, given to the conference's top female athlete.
Neither Favor Hamilton nor officials from the Big Ten immediately responded to requests from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Favor Hamilton is a three-time outdoor 1,500-meter national champion and a three-time indoor national champion — her last title coming in 1999.
"As crazy as I know it seems, I never thought I would be exposed, therefore never hurting anybody," she said in one Twitter post.
In another, she says she is seeking psychological care for her problem.
She closes her series of tweets by saying, "I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend."


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Historic league rivalries, some of which have existed since World War II, will fade into the pages of high school yearbooks under the realignment plan proposed Tuesday by the Sac-Joaquin Section.
If early reaction is any indication, those rivalries will die hard.
Every league in the Stanislaus District would gain and-or lose teams starting with the 2014-15 school year under the plan, but no leagues face more radical change than the Modesto Metro and Central California conferences. They include public high schools in Modesto, Turlock, Atwater and Merced.
The new MMC would include Oakdale, Atwater and Buhach Colony along with current members Beyer, Davis, Downey and Johansen, with Merced's El Capitan added upon starting varsity sports in 2015 or 2016. The schools would compete at the Division 2 level in the playoffs for most sports, with football continuing its own playoff format.
The new CCC would be considered a Division 1 conference and would absorb Enochs, Gregori and Modesto from the MMC to join current members Golden Valley, Merced, Pitman and Turlock. It would add Modesto Christian for basketball only. All other Modesto Christian sports would move down from the Trans-Valley League to the Southern League.
Merced and Atwater, two of the CCC's oldest rivals, would be in different leagues.
"We're not happy about it," said Merced Union High School Superintendent Scott Scambray. "They're not taking into account that Merced and Golden Valley are losing student population. By 2014-15 and 15-16, both schools will be below 2,000 students. Golden Valley is scheduled to be below Atwater and Buhach Colony. For some reason they are not taking that into account."
Other significant moves would take place in the Western Athletic Conference. Under the initial proposal, Lathrop and Weston Ranch would join the WAC with Patterson and Central Valley moving to the Valley Oak League.
"It would be interesting to mix it up a little," Golden Valley head football coach Dennis Stubbs said. "If it makes sense, I'm all for it. My initital reaction is this doesn't make a lot of sense."
The committee will meet several more times, seeking input and possible changes to the plan from schools and the public before recommending a plan to the section's board of managers for a final vote, targeted for April 24.
At the next meeting, scheduled for Jan. 29, the committee will begin hearing the formal responses and possible counterproposals from the leagues.
Much resistance expected
The section shuffles league membership every four years, using projected enrollment and recent competitive success as primary criteria.
In past realignments, few changes were made between the unveiling of the plan and ratification. However, a section official said Tuesday that this particular cycle could see an unusual amount of resistance to the proposal, particularly from the southern half of the section. The Sac-Joaquin Section includes about 280 schools and stretches from Merced to east of Sacramento and then west to the Vacaville and Napa areas.
Because the details of the realignment proposal had remained rumors until Tuesday, committee members, coaches and school officials could do little but offer instant reactions to the shuffling after seeing the plan for the first time.
"As a member of the committee, this is the first I'm seeing this proposal," said former Davis High Principal Chuck Edmonds, who is a nonvoting co-chair of the realignment committee and commissioner of the MMC.
Later, during public comment, Edmonds said he anticipated some resistance from Modesto schools and said he plans to enter into discussions with administrators from the CCC and Oakdale to ensure any movement between leagues addresses the concerns of all involved.
The proposal had many local administrators and coaches shaking their heads.
"I would be totally against it," Buhach Colony head football coach Kevin Swartwood said. "We've got a great league, it's competitive. I know we're all going to be the same size. I know Turlock and Pitman are a bit bigger, but it's still competitive. If we just added El Cap, it would make it even better.
"Just add El Cap and leave us alone. Knowing the MMC schools from the time I was an athletic director, I'm pretty sure they feel the same -- leave us alone."
'A sad day,' coach says
As word of the proposal wafted through the corridors of MMC schools, reaction was quick and negative.
"It makes me a little sad," said Downey football coach Jeremy Plaa. "I think it's a sad day for our school district. I have a lot of mixed feelings. I like the league we're in. There is a convenience to it. I would have liked the enrollment to be more equal so we could play each other."
Modesto City Schools is formulating a way to draw new boundaries that would eliminate much of its inherent enrollment disparities. Modesto High has 2,470 students and Davis 1,289.
The cost of transporting teams to and from games was cited by Merced athletic director Scott Winton as one of the reasons he's against the proposal.
"The obvious issue is how this is going to affect the bottom line as it pertains to our transportation budget," he said. "It doesn't make sense or cents to drive 43 miles past two schools in Atwater with similar enrollments for a league game in north Modesto."
Oakdale athletic director Dave Bacigalupi cited tradition as a major reason for wanting to keep the Mustangs in the Valley Oak League.
"We've been in the VOL for more than 70 years," he said. "With all due respect to the MMC, we have no interest in joining them."
The second part of Oakdale's move to the MMC would be a promotion from Division 3 to Division 2, which Bacigalupi also rejects.
"Putting us in Division 2 isn't fair to us," Bacigalupi said. "We've worked our butts off to be good and now we're being punished for being good. We have been successful in most sports, and it doesn't seem fair to us that we're being put in a bigger division because of that success."
Modesto Bee staff writer Ron Agostini contributed to this report.
Modesto Bee staff writer Brian VanderBeek can be reached at (209) 578-2150 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sun-Star reporter Shawn Jansen can be reached at (209) 385-2462 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Below is a list of the current and proposed alignments and a map of the Sac-Joaquin Section proposed league alignment.
Central California Conference (Blue pins)
Level: Division 1
CURRENT: Atwater, Buhach Colony, Golden Valley, Merced, Pitman, Turlock
PROPOSED: Enochs, Golden Valley, Gregori, Merced, Modesto, Pitman, Turlock, Modesto Christian (for basketball only.)
Modesto Metro Conference (Red pins)
Level: Division 2
CURRENT: Beyer, Davis, Downey, Enochs, Gregori, Johansen, Modesto
PROPOSED: Atwater, Buhach Colony, Beyer, Davis, Downey, El Capitan, Johansen, Oakdale
Valley Oak League (Green pins)
Level: Division 3
CURRENT: East Union, Kimball, Lathrop, Manteca, Oakdale, Sierra, Sonora, Weston Ranch.
PROPOSED: Central Valley, East Union, Kimball, Manteca, Patterson, Sierra
Western Athletic Conference (Light blue pins)
Level: Division 4
CURRENT: Central Catholic, Central Valley, Ceres, Livingston, Los Banos, Patterson, Pacheco.
PROPOSED: Central Catholic, Ceres, Lathrop, Livingston, Los Banos, Pacheco, Weston Ranch.
Trans-Valley League (Yellow pins)
Level: Division 5
CURRENT: Escalon, Hilmar, Hughson, Modesto Christian, Orestimba, Ripon, Riverbank.
PROPOSED: Escalon, Hilmar, Hughson, Orestimba, Ripon, Riverbank, Mountain House.
Mother Lode League (Purple pins)
Level: Division 5
CURRENT: Amador, Argonaut, Bret Harte, Calaveras, Linden, Summerville.
PROPOSED: Amador, Argonaut, Bret Harte, Calaveras, Linden, Sonora, Summerville.
Southern League (Magenta pins)
Level: Division 6
CURRENT: Delhi, Denair, Gustine, Le Grand, Mariposa, Ripon Christian, Turlock Christian*, Waterford.
PROPOSED: Delhi, Denair, Gustine, Le Grand, Mariposa, Modesto Christian (for all sports except basketball,) Ripon Christian, Waterford.
* Turlock Christian moves to the Division 7 Central California Athletic Alliance.
MMC (Red), CCC (Blue), VOL (Green), WAC (Light Blue), TVL (Yellow), MLL (Purple), SL (Magenta)
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Let's Go to the Memo
What's really in the Downing Street memos?
Is there anything important in the Downing Street memo? This is the now-notorious secret transcript of a British ministerial meeting on July 23, 2002—obtained and published by the Sunday Times of London just this past May Day—which seems to suggest that, nine months before the war in Iraq got started, the Bush administration a) knew Saddam Hussein didn't pose a threat; b) decided to overthrow him by force anyway; and c) was "fixing" intelligence to sell the impending invasion to a duped American public.
Many critics see the memo as the ultimate proof of Bush's duplicity—and, given that no U.S. newspaper picked up the story for two weeks (and then buried it deep inside), as further evidence of the mainstream media's cravenness. Others, and not just Bush apologists, see the affair as overblown and the document's contents as no big deal.
So, let's go to the memo. Actually, let's go to seven memos: the famous minutes; a secret Cabinet Office report written two days before the ministers' meeting (published last weekend by the Sunday Times and the Washington Post); and five eyes-only memos, written around the same time, about various official British meetings with President Bush, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. (These memos, described in today's Los Angeles Times, have been available in full for some time now on the Think Progress Web site.)
What in these documents is new and significant? What's old hat or trivial? What do they say—and not say—about the Bush administration's prevarications? And should the mainstream media be pardoned or lashed for selling the story so short?
The "killer quote" in the original SundayTimes story is this passage from the July 23 ministers' meeting:
C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.
"C" is the code name for Richard Dearlove, head of MI6, the British foreign intelligence service. His "recent talks in Washington" would almost certainly have been with his counterpart, George Tenet, then-director of the CIA. Tenet would have told him about the "perceptible shift in attitude." What accounts for it? "Bush wants to remove Saddam through military action."
This is about as solid as the evidence gets on these matters: By mid-summer 2002—at a time when Bush was still assuring the American public that he regarded war as a "last resort"—the president had in fact put it on his front burners.
Some who have read the memo shrug. Even former Slate Editor Michael Kinsley wonders what's new here. After all, we've read over and over that Bush was hellbent on war even earlier than this. The point has been made in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies, and Ron Suskind's The Price of Loyalty, as well as in articles by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker and Walter Pincus in the Washington Post.
True, but let's get serious. When the scholars write the big tomes on this sordid saga, they'll want to base their findings on primary-source documents—and here is one, flashing right before us. The Downing Street Memo will be a key footnote in the history books; it should have made front-page headlines in the daily broadsheets of history's first draft.
In other respects, though, the memo doesn't make as strong a case against Bush as some have claimed. Read in conjunction with the six other British documents, the case weakens further. The memos do not show, for instance, that Bush simply invented the notion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or that Saddam posed a threat to the region. In fact, the memos reveal quite clearly that the top leaders in the U.S. and British governments genuinely believed their claims.
For instance, at one point during the July 23 meeting, the British ministers are discussing some of the risks of going to war. Saddam might "use his WMD on Kuwait," one official cautions. "Or on Israel," adds the defense secretary.
An Iraq "options paper," dated March 8, 2002, states: "Despite sanctions, Iraq continues to develop WMD" (though it adds that intelligence on the matter is "poor").
The July 21 Cabinet Office report published by the SundayTimes last weekend—titled "Iraq: Conditions for Military Action"—raises an intriguing strategic concern: that a post-Saddam government might still want weapons of mass destruction. "Even if regime change is a necessary condition for controlling Iraqi WMD," the memo warns, "it is certainly not a sufficient one." The "options paper" makes the same point: "Even a representative [Iraqi] government could seek to acquire WMD … as long as Iran and Israel retain their WMD."
In a personal message to Blair, dated March 22, 2002, political director Peter Ricketts writes that, although Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs "have not, as far as we know, been stepped up," they "are extremely worrying." What has changed, he emphasizes, "is not so much the pace of Saddam Hussein's WMD programmes but our tolerance of them post-11 September."
The implicit point of these passages is this: These top officials genuinely believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction—and that they constituted a threat. They believed that the international community had to be sold on the matter. But not all sales pitches are consciously deceptive. The salesmen in this case turned out to be wrong; their goods were bunk. But they seemed to believe in their product at the time.
What of the second half of the key quote from the Downing Street Memo of July 23—that Bush wanted war, justified by WMD and terrorism, but "the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy"? It's worth noting that "fixed around" is not synonymous with "fixed." To say that Bush and his aides "fixed" intelligence—as some Web sites claim the memo shows—would mean that they distorted or falsified it. To say "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" means that they were viewing, sifting, and interpreting intelligence in a way that would strengthen the case for their policy, for going to war.
Either way—"fixed" or "fixed around"—Bush and his aides had decided to let policy shape intelligence, not the other way around; they were explicitly politicizing intelligence.
But that doesn't necessarily mean they thought their claims were false. Murray Kempton, the late great New York newspaper columnist, once strolled out of a federal courtroom where some mobster was on trial and chortled to a colleague, "They're framing a guilty man in there." Something similar was probably happening with the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq. They just knew Saddam had WMD, and if the facts didn't quite prove he did, they would underscore and embellish the tidbits that came close. The problem was, their man wasn't guilty, at least on the charges of indictment. (For more on this view of intelligence errors, click here.)
Does this distinction matter? If all you want to know is whether Bush was deceptive, no; he was deceptive. If you want to know how government works, how officials make bad mistakes, yes; it matters a lot.
Reading the seven British memos, you see the Blair government wrestling with serious dilemmas. In a memo to the prime minister on March 14, 2002, David Manning, then Blair's foreign-policy adviser, lists some of the concerns: "how to persuade international opinion that military action against Iraq is necessary and justified; what value to put on the exiled Iraqi opposition … what happens the morning after?"
The tragedy embedded in these memos is that the Brits were mistaken in their two most basic premises: first, that Saddam Hussein really had WMD and really posed a threat; second, that just because Bush needed Blair's support, Blair could somehow influence him.
Their first mistake would be revealed after the war was over. The second should have been clear before it began. Manning's memo recounts raising some issues about political support, international law, postwar stability, and so forth at a recent dinner with Rice. "Condi's enthusiasm for regime change is undimmed," he reports, adding, "From what she said, Bush has yet to find the answers to the big questions." Two months later, the July 21 Cabinet Office report cited the same worry: "A post-war occupation of Iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise. … U.S. military plans are virtually silent on this point."
At least the Brits clearly saw the difficulties ahead and tried to engage Bush on their implications. Had he listened, our biggest problems in Iraq today might be a great deal smaller. This is another lesson to be gleaned from the Downing Street memos.


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The cities of Worcester and Fitchburg are implementing parking bans. In Worcester, the ban takes effect at 10 tonight. Fitchburg is prohibiting parking on city streets from 7 a.m. Wednesday until 7 a.m. Thursday.
A winter weather advisory is in effect from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday for Western, Central and inland Northeast Massachusetts.
The temperature Wednesday will be about 30.
"When temperatures are below freezing, motorists need to be especially careful on bridges and overpasses where slippery spots can easily develop," the weather service says.
The morning rush hour will be affected, so plan accordingly.
The forecast for Thursday: Mostly sunny and highs in the mid 30s.


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Evan Gordon scored 23 points, Ruslan Pateev had 12 points and eight rebounds, and Arizona State held on to beat California 66-62 Thursday night.
Arizona State (18-5, 7-3 Pac-12) went up 16 points after a 17-3 run in the first half and kept the lead around double digits until the Bears (13-9, 5-5) tightened up defensively in the closing minutes.
Justin Cobbs hit a 3-pointer to cut Arizona State's lead to three and followed Gordon's two free throws with another to pull the Bears within 64-62 with 22 seconds left.
Gordon hit 1 of 2 from the line at the other end to give Cal a chance, but the Sun Devils forced Allen Crabbe into a turnover with 9 seconds left. Jonathan Gilling sealed it by hitting 1 of 2 free throws after that.
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Apricot Yogurt Parfaits
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Try this great dessert recipe and add one more fruit serving to your day!
- Prep Time:15 minutes plus refrigeration time
Ingredients1 can (14oz.) apricots (juice-pak)
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
2 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoon apricot brandy
1 cup low-fat plain yogurt
1 cup fresh apricot slices, kiwi or berries
Garnish: Yogurt, brown sugar or mint leaves
Drain apricots, pouring 1/4 cup of the juice into saucepan or microwave-safe dish.
Sprinkle gelatin over juice and let stand for 5 minutes to soften.
Warm over LOW heat or microwave at MEDIUM (50%) power for 30 seconds or until gelatin has dissolved.
In food processor or blender, puree canned apricots; add lemon juice, brandy, yogurt and gelatin mixture and process for 30 seconds or until combined.
Pour into parfait or stemmed glasses or champagne flutes.
Cover and refrigerate until set, at least 1 hour or overnight.
Just before serving, arrange fruit on top.
Garnish each with small spoonful of yogurt and sprinkling of brown sugar or mint leaf.
Each serving provides: an excellent source of vitamin A, vitamin C and calcium and a good source of potassium.
Nutritional Information
- Calories: 135
- Carbohydrates: 24g
- Total Fat: 1.1g
- Cholesterol: 3mg
- Saturated Fat: 0.6g
- Dietary Fiber: 2g
- % of Calories from Fat: 8%
- Sodium: 52 mg
- Protein: 6g
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APPOMATTOX, Va. (AP) — The Civil War Trust is rolling out its latest in a series of Battle Apps for smartphones.
The Appomattox Battle App culminates with the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865.
The nation's largest nonprofit battlefield preservation organization says more than 110,000 users have downloaded the 10 titles. The apps are intended to enhance a visitor's experience at Civil War sites.
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Gallery of the Spring Garden
Today is the first day of Spring! This morning we overheard the pups deep in conversation:
Dante: "Woo wo woo wooo." (translation) "Daddy says today it is officially Spring."
Sierra: "Snort, puff, snort?" (tr.) But I thought it's been spring for months now?"
Dante: "Woof woo woo!" (tr.) "But now it's official!"
Sierra: "Snort, grunt!" (tr.) "I don't get it! I've been nosing flowers for long time now!"
Dante: "Ear flap, woof wo wooo." (tr.) "No, it's not about the weather, it's about the earth's rotation."
Sierra: "Body shake, snort, snort?!" (tr.) "What's rotation? I thought everything revolved around me!"
The year has been flying by at breakneck speed and we've already reached the Spring Equinox. Spring is officially here. While many parts of the country, and world, are still getting snow (good for skiing, huh Jen!), we've been basking in warm 70° sunshine (good for growing.) So for those of you who are ansy to put away the winter clothes, here's a glimpse of our springtime to help warm you up and let you think of the delightful times to come. Smell the sweet blossoms and feel the gentle warmth of the sunshine on your skin. Ease back in your chair and hear the melodic tweets of the jovial birds. Spring is on it's way.
Cuddling in the warm weather and amongst our plethora of seedlings are the pesky rats. These critters have been attacking our soybean plants to no end. At one point, we thought the plants were big enough to hold their own again these thieves, but waking up to a plot of decapitated soybeans seedling proves that the rats love soybeans.
Well, we love our soybeans too and and can't wait for the plants to finally start bearing beans, if they get to that point at all. So until then, we had a sauteed soybean lunch today that was tasty and satisfying, with the hope of having our own fresh soybeans this summer. We're keeping our fingers crossed that the pests don't eat our grown soybeans before we do. Until then, thank goodness for Trader Joe's edamame!
Sauteed Soybean/Edamame Recipe
Yield: 2 Servings
Total Time: 5 Minutes
Quick and easy, this side dish takes only about 10 minutes. Especially if you buy the pre-shelled soybeans.
- 2 T Olive Oil
- 3 Shallots, roughly diced
- 3 Garlic cloves, mashed or finely diced
- 1/2 lb Soybeans (shelled, pre-cooked)
- few sprigs Fresh Thyme
- Sea salt
- fresh cracked Black Pepper
- 1/2 T Soy Sauce
- Over med. high heat, warm saute pan. Add olive oil, then after it warms, add shallots. After shallots soften (@2 min.) lower heat to medium, add garlic and saute for another minute or two.
- Add soybeans and thyme. Season with salt, pepper, and soy sauce, then continue to cook until soybeans are fully heated (@ 1 min.)
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1. Re: difference of core and threadbustaf Apr 30, 2012 5:55 PM (in response to francis83)
Threads are (sub entity) of the cores (tree level progenies hierarchy)
For the operating system , the word threads, could represented the others signification.
To vulgarize grossly ......
1 System (kernel)
2 (drive affinity cores)
3 forks ( child sub core)
4 forks (pids or sessions)
5 threads (child of pid)
(For the kernel , Semaphores are agents driving all tasks with the rules policy)
With all the operating system recent, more you have cores and threads, more results
are better.
also all new softwares must take in count now this evolution.
To extend or see more concrete
Open this link as example
open this title section
3.10 GOMP_CPU_AFFINITY – Bind threads to specific CPUs
(I finish, i am interrupted busy previously)
Within a session (pid or fork), the access of affinity for programmer is:
physical processor when you have several elements on mother board, his specific core,
and finally the threads.(very large number possible).
When you have only 1 physical processor with 2 cores it's the same process , just you have level
2 (specific core) are moved to level 1 (as pseudo physical processor)
It's also same with threads cores
Example (Atom)
Processor Number N570
# of Cores 2
# of Threads 4
You have only 1 physical processor, but for your system,the convention is simplified;
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It used to be that actors stopped playing tough-guy action roles after reaching 60. John Wayne probably held out the longest, into his late 60s. With Clint Eastwood continuing into his late 70s (in "Gran Torino"), Arnold Schwarzenegger (65) and Sylvester Stallone (66) would look like wimps to quit. So we shouldn't be surprised that the former has returned to his pre-gubernatorial career with the release of "The Last Stand" two weeks ago, or that the latter is kicking butt and taking names in this week's "Bullet to the Head." Maybe the 60s really are the new 40s, or the 80s are the new 60s, or something like that.
"Bullet to the Head" opens with a nice black-and-white sequence of Jimmy Bobo (Stallone) saving the life of Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang), a young Korean American cop. This immediately establishes for us the main conflict of the film: Bobo is a hit man; Kwon is a naive, incorruptible D.C. police detective, who has come to New Orleans to chase down a lead. Going after the same people, they temporarily become "partners." And every time Bobo saves Kwon's life, Kwon reminds him that, as soon as they're done, he intends to arrest Bobo.
With Bobo narrating and color blossoming in the image, we leap back a day or two for some background. The blood-soaked opening wasn't very long, so we get a much more extensive and even bloodier sequence, in which Bobo and his usual partner ballistically perforate a particularly irritating, coked-up criminal. But they are betrayed by their client, who decides to save a big wad of cash by hiring yet another hit man to take them out — an obligation that he only 50% discharges.
Soon they discover that their anonymous client is a crooked businessman (Christian Slater), who answers to an even more crooked developer (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), who, in turn, has bribed most of the city government. The Golden Snitch in this violent game of Quidditch is a flash drive listing all his payoffs, which has fallen into the hands of imprudent blackmailers.
Now here's where the plot goes kerflooey in an all-too-common way: It's not the drive itself that's of value, but the information on it. So, when Kwon gets his hand on the drive, all he has to do is dupe it, or email the files to a bunch of friends, or post them on his Facebook page, or whatever. But the story depends on everybody chasing after a physical object, so we have to believe that none of the characters have stumbled onto this.
The relationship between Stallone and Kang is reminiscent of the Eddie Murphy/Nick Nolte shtick in "48 Hrs" — which shouldn't be surprising, given that both were directed by Walter Hill. Before James Cameron showed up, Hill was generally regarded as America's leading young director of action films, with "Hard Times" (1975), "The Warriors" (1979), and "Streets of Fire" (1984) to his credit. "Bullet to the Head" is his first feature in more than a decade.
He still has his chops, but nonetheless there's something perfunctory about the whole affair. Stallone does his weary tough-guy act, which he continues to do very well, but the only other players to leave much of an impression are Jason Momoa (as the scariest of the baddies) and Sarah Shahi (in the only female role of note).
If you're taking a sabbatical from on-screen violence, you should definitely give this a pass: It has more than its share of (as the title suggests) bullets to the head, and some very nicely staged knife and ax battles are even more gruesome.
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Russian adoptions by NH folks hit bumpBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 12. 2013 11:32PM
Wendy Rella of Bedford watches the video on her iPad at least once a day. It features a smiling 10-month-old boy whom she hopes to adopt from Russia.
"He is beautiful. There was a bond there between us immediately," said Rella, a Nashua hair stylist who went to Russia with her husband to meet the baby in December. "It was like he knew something, and we felt it, too. I just hope we can bring him home."
A complication in the adoption process has cropped up, however - a political issue between the United States and Russia that led last month to Russian President Vladimir Putin signing a law banning Americans from adopting Russian children. The uncertainty only grew late last week with Russia sending mixed signals.
Wendy and her husband, Peter, were just one of 10 couples in New Hampshire and 1,000 nationwide trying to adopt an orphan from Russia when the ban took effect Jan. 1. The law was a response to a U.S. law targeting Russians deemed to be violating human rights. New Hope for Children, based in Newmarket, specializes in helping families adopt Russian orphans. The nonprofit helps guide families through what can be a complicated and time-consuming process.
While aware the ban might be implemented, directors at New Hope were hopeful it wouldn't be.
"This was sort of a slap in the face to our families and the kids," said Dyan Ciccone, a member of the New Hope board of directors and spokesman for the adoption agency. "We were hopeful that President Putin would not sign it. We were hoping it was political posturing.."
Americans adopted 962 children from Russia in 2011, according to the U.S. State Department. Ciccone said her organization has been helping between 10 and 12 New Hampshire families a year adopt Russian children.
One potential adopter who may soon look at other countries to adopt from is Nancy Cronin of Bedford. A mother of three, she recently decided to adopt from Russia because that country has had less restrictive age requirements; the younger parent of an adopting couple can be no more than 48 years older than the child.
"I decided to go ahead and pursue this and literally the next day I heard about the ban," said Cronin. "It's like I wasn't meant to adopt from Russia. I still want to adopt, but I'm probably going to have to look somewhere else."
Not giving up
Wendy Rella says she has too much invested in the adoption process, financially and emotionally, to turn back now. Ciccone said most international adoptions cost more than $25,000 to complete.
Rella and her husband, a pharmacist at a Goffstown Rite Aid, decided to adopt from Russia because of his heritage.
"His mother is all Russian, and we found out my husband's grandmother was a Russian orphan," Rella said. "We wanted to have that ethnic background in our home."
The couple adopted a Russian girl, Alina, in 2009. Now 4, the girl wants a little brother in the house.
"I'm going to give him an Elmo and a duckie," said Alina. "I'm happy about it."
In November, the Rellas felt ready to adopt a 3-year-old boy, but his Russian parents backed out of the process.
"We said, 'OK, we'll handle this. God has a plan,'" Rella said.
About two weeks later, the 10-month-old became available. "It was like it was meant to be," said Rella.
Peter and Wendy completed a new round of paperwork and went to Russia in December to meet the boy.
"We consider him our son already," said Rella, who works as a stylist at Marc Anthony Hair and Nail Salon in Nashua. "We bonded with him. He was beautiful, he was calm, but you get your guard up. You wonder if something or someone is going to take them away. Your guard is up, but he was just so sweet.
"We were in Russia like two days, and I started looking at emails and hearing about the ban," said Rella. "I'm like, 'Are you kidding me? We're here, in Russia, and this is happening?' We asked our coordinators about it, and they thought it wasn't really going to happen."
Ciccone said she isn't sure what the future might hold.
"We just don't know if this can be resolved quickly,'' Ciccone said, "or if there's a moratorium put on adoptions for a period of time, or if it's permanent. We're in a state of limbo, just like the families."
Wendy believes the Rellas' adoption will be approved, but she still has concerns.
"I worry what will happen," said Rella. "Will someone else adopt him?
"In my heart of hearts, I know that would be OK because at least he would have a family. But we want people to know there is a family in Bedford, New Hampshire, that wants very much to welcome that child into our home and give him the love every child should have."


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Justin Bieber submitted to a DNA test last Friday to disprove, once and for all, Mariah Yeater's claims that he fathered her son Tristyn, 4 months.
"Yeah, I took it," Bieber, 17, said of the test during an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, airing Wednesday. The procedure was simple, the pop singer explained. "They just swab your mouth."
The ball is now in the court of Yeater, 20, who must provide a DNA sample from her little boy to see whether it matches that of Bieber. In a paternity suit dropped last week, Yeater claimed she had a 30-second sexual encounter with Bieber backstage at an L.A. concert in October 2010, giving birth to Tristyn 9 months later.
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Some gamers are blaming Kinect, Microsoft's motion-controlled peripheral, for the loss of their XBox to the dreaded Red Ring of Death.
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Microsoft says that Kinect was built to work with all Xboxes, and says instances of RRoD are "purely coincidental".
According to the BBC, forums are rife with accounts of Christmas ruined by console failure caused by Kinect. We did not find very many complaints, but the common theme is that the Kinect update was to blame.
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== Possible Attendees ==
== Possible Attendees ==
Note: section just to gauge the level of interest in having a hackathon. please .
* Johan Tibell (tibbe)
* Johan Tibell (tibbe)
Revision as of 12:36, 6 November 2009
March 2010
Zurich, Switzerland
1 About
The Haskell Hackathon is an international, grassroots collaborative coding festival with a simple focus: build and improve Haskell libraries, tools, and infrastructure.
ZuriHac will be held in March at the Google office in Zurich. It is open to all -- you do not have to be a Haskell guru to attend. All you need is a basic knowledge of Haskell, a willingness to learn, and a project you're excited to help with (or a project of your own to work on).
There will be lots of hacking, some talks, good food, and, of course, fun!
2 When
Right now we're looking at four possible dates (Friday-Sunday):
- March 5-7,
- March 12-14,
- March 19-21, or
- March 26-28.
If you add your name under #Possible Attendees below please note the dates that absolutely don't work for you.
3 Where
We will be in the TechTalk area of the Google office.
4 Equipment
You should bring a laptop with wireless (802.11). The room has whiteboards and a projector for any discussions or should anyone wish to give a talk.
5 Travel
Online timetables for travel within Zurich can be found at ZVV. For trains within Switzerland and to neighboring countries go to SBB.
5.1 Getting to Zurich
There are direct flight to Zurich airport (code: ZRH) from most major European cities. Switzerland also has excellent and reasonably priced train connections with the rest of Europe.
5.2 Getting to the Google Office
The train and tram stop closest to the Google office is Bahnhof Enge. You can take tram 5, 6, 7, 13, or S-Bahn S2 to get there. It takes about seven minutes by tram from the main train station (Zurich HB) to Bahnhof Enge and another five minutes to walk to the office.
5.2.1 From the Airport
Take S-Bahn S2 directly to Bahnhof Enge and walk from there. Alternatively, take any S-Bahn that goes to the main train station (Zurich HB) and take tram 6, 7, or 13 to Bahnhof Enge.
6 Possible Attendees
Note: this section was just to gauge the level of interest in having a hackathon. To actually register, please visit the registration page.
- Johan Tibell (tibbe)
- Christophe Poucet (poucet)
- Duncan Coutts (dcoutts)
- Ganesh Sittampalam (Heffalump)
- Iustin Pop
- Tom Harper (sioraiocht)
- Simon Meier
- Marc A. Ziegert (coeus)
- Joachim Breitner (nomeata)
- Reinier Lamers (tux_rocker)
- Chris Eidhof (chr1s)
- Ian Lynagh (Igloo)
- Valery V. Vorotyntsev (vvv)
- Eric Kow (kowey)
- Guillaume Hoffmann (gh_: impossible: 5-7)
- Jürgen Nicklisch-Franken (jutaro)
- Eelco Lempsink (eelco)
- Muharem Hrnjadovic (almaisan)
- Andres Löh (kosmikus; impossible: 12-14)
- Clara Löh (smurfpje; impossible: 12-14)
- Mathias Koerner (difficult: 5-7)
- George van den Driessche
- Valentin Wüstholz
7 Organizers
- Johan Tibell (irc: tibbe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com)
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Peter Weller voices Batman in "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2." (Warner Bros.)Link
Michael Emerson voices the Joker in "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2." (Warner Bros.)Link
Mark Valley voices Superman in "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2." (Warner Bros.)Link
David Selby voices Commissioner Gordon in "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2." (Warner Bros.)Link
Michael McKean voices the Joker's doctor, Bartholomew Wolper, left; Michael Emerson voices the Joker, center; and Conan O'Brien voices talk show host David Endocrine, right, in "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2." (Warner Bros.)Link
Peter Weller voices Batman in "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2." (Warner Bros.)Link
Kevin Smith has no small amount of praise for Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns."
"'The Dark Knight Returns,' for many people of my generation, for many people that followed, from the moment it was published forward is kind of like 'The Catcher in the Rye' of comic books," Smith said at the West Coast premiere of "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2," the concluding chapter of Warner Bros.' animated adaptation of Miller's landmark 1986 miniseries.
"It's a very important book that we all carry with us and just like the 'Catcher in the Rye,' they've never done a movie of it, because most people thought it was unfilmable," he said.
Perhaps, though the animated format seems to have served the story just fine, judging from the reaction of the audience attending a screening of the new PG-13 rated movie Monday night at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.
MORE: 'Dark Knight Returns': Mark Valley talks Superman, 'Human Target'
Smith was on hand to serve as the moderator for a panel discussion that followed the screening, featuring Ariel Winter, the "Modern Family" actress who provides the voice of the near-future version of Robin, and Peter Weller, who gives voice to Batman. Also appearing were screenwriter Bob Goodman, dialogue/casting director Andrea Romano, director Jay Oliva and executive producer Bruce Timm.
"I have watched it at least 12 times," Smith observed. "And I have wept each time."
DC Comics initially released "The Dark Knight Returns" as a 4-part series in 1986, the brainchild of author and penciller Miller (who had turned the then-lagging Daredevil into a hit at Marvel), along with two frequent collaborators, inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley. As Smith noted, the title immediately became a cultural touchstone in comics.
Set in a futuristic 1980s — complete with a Reagan-esque president, a David Letterman-style talk show host, an American/Soviet conflict in Latin America, break dancing and big shoulder pads — the story centers on an aging Batman who comes out of a semi-forced retirement to save his city and finish old business with enemies and friends alike.
"We did discuss the possibility of updating it and we thought, nah, hell with it," Timm said. "Jay was an advocate early on for keeping the whole thing literally set in, like, 1986."
Even though the book was supposed to be set in the future, there were plenty of 1980s references. Authenticity and fealty to the source material was a subject the creative team returned to often throughout the course of the evening. Before the panel, Goodman noted that "the goal here was to do a true adaption of that material," he said. "It is for a more adult audiences. I was given free rein to do what's necessary. And yes, it's brutal. This is by far the highest body count of anything I've ever worked on."
Timm and his team tried to apply the same faithfulness to the art as well. "It's always tricky any time where we've actually tried to adapt the style of a really significant comic book artist," he said before the screening. "We felt it was really essential in this movie, because it is such a big crazy iconic book that we really needed to do whatever we could to make it look as much like the original as possible."
The ability to skew darker certainly aided in that aim. Warner Bros. and DC have enjoyed success with earlier PG-13 animated entries — "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2" is the 16th such project released since 2007's "Superman/Doomsday." The preceding "Dark Knight" installment was released last fall.
For his part, Weller said he approached the character of Batman as a blank slate. "I do have a sense of a guy, who felt himself worthy and subsequently retired and is now coming back to life and sees a venue, an avenue for himself. And that's the only story I wanted to build. You know, the rest of it is all gravy."
"Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2" comes to Blu-ray and DVD on Tuesday.
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A 19-year-old Volusia County man is accused of sexually battering his friend's father's girlfriend while she was sleeping early Saturday morning.
Zachary Bomar actually called law enforcement as well, because the victim hit him several times over the head with a ceramic cookie jar and he had to be treated at the hospital.
Deputies said the victim woke up just before 5:30 a.m. to find Bomar in her bed assaulting her. She screamed and grabbed the jar, hitting Bomar, who ran from the house near DeLand.
Deputies said Bomar and the victim's boyfriends' son had been out drinking and went to the house to stay the night.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — "American Idol" finalist Angie Miller won't be tickling the ivories on this season's final showdown.
The piano-playing 19-year-old singer from Beverly, Mass., was revealed Thursday to have received the fewest viewer votes on the Fox talent contest, leaving 23-year-old R&B vocalist Candice Glover of St. Helena Island, S.C., and 22-year-old country crooner Kree Harrison of Woodville, Texas, to compete on next week's finale.
"I love you guys," Miller said to Glover and Harrison before her dismissal.
Miller mostly impressed the judges Wednesday with her performances of Elton John's "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word," Pink's "Try" and Emeli Sande's "Maybe."
However, the budding singer-songwriter apparently didn't win over enough voters, despite never appearing as one of the show's low vote-getters and having thousands more followers than Glover and Harrison on Twitter.
An emotional Miller could barely make it through her swan song, a rendition of former "Idol" contestant Colton Dixon's "Never Gone."
Glover and Harrison will face off for the show's record deal grand prize Wednesday, with the 12th season "Idol" champion crowned on Thursday. Both women have found themselves at the bottom of the voting spectrum once before during the contest.
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The Phillies have the wherewithall - and desire - to sign veteran infielder Placido Polanco to a two-year contract worth between $10 and $12 million, FoxSports.com reported Wednesday night, citing a "source familiar with the Phillies intentions."
Earlier this evening, the Phillies' official web site said that the team had entered into serious discussions with Polanco, and that they had made them their No. 1 target to replace veteran Pedro Feliz at third base. Polanco, who played third base for the Phillies from 2002-05 but has played second base since being traded to the Tigers midway through the 2005 season, just finished a four-year, $16 million contract in Detroit.
Devoting $6 million to third base would leave the Phillies with decent financial flexibility to bolster their bullpen and perhaps add another bench piece. Infielder Juan Castro and back-up catcher Brian Schneider will combine to make $2 million next season, giving the Phillies $108 million committed to 14 players. Once arbitration raises are awarded to center fielder Shane Victorino and righthander Joe Blanton and the salaries for J.A. Happ, Carlos Ruiz and Ben Francisco are figured in, the Phillies should have approximately $14 million remaining to spend before reaching the $137 million that they ended up doling out last season.


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Troisi feels he has Socceroos X-factor
After a two-year exile from the Socceroos, coach Ange Postecoglou has brought James Troisi back in from the cold and the playmaker feels he has the X-factor needed to stay there.
Troisi made his Socceroos debut in 2008 but really looked like becoming a permanent fixture in the side in 2011 when he was lighting up the Turkish top flight at Kayserispor.
But the calls inexplicably stopped coming from Australia's then coach Holger Osieck.
The 25-year-old Melbourne Victory star says he still has no idea why.
"I can't answer that question," he said at the Socceroos' training camp on Saturday.
"I really don't know. For me, it was really disappointing. I was doing well in Turkey and just wasn't getting the call up for whatever reason."
Then, having secured a dream move to Italian giants Juventus, he was sent to fellow Serie A club Atalanta, where the games also dried up.
Postecoglou, who at the time was coaching the Victory, convinced him to make a loan move to the A-League and it paid off.
Under the watchful gaze of the Socceroos' mentor, Troisi scored 15 goals and made seven assists in his 35 games to break back into the national fold.
But with 30-man preliminary World Cup squad still to be trimmed to 23, Troisi knows his job isn't done yet.
"He gave me a call in Italy and told me to come back and I think it was the right decision," he said.
"I know he likes me but I've still got to do what I have to do in this short period of time.
"He was at pretty much every single game of ours so he knows what I can do so I guess that's why I'm here and I just want to continue that form."
Troisi is one of 13 midfielders in the 30-man group but has proven a valuable asset to Postecoglou's preferred attacking style.
He scores and creates goals and can get in behind defences, which is exactly the type of game Postecoglou likes to play.
Troisi feels he has what it takes to stand out from the crowd and get the opportunity in Brazil to add to his nine caps.
"That's one of the reasons he brought me to Victory because he likes an attacking style of football I play," he said.
"I think if you just look at what I've done this season, I'm playing as a 10 not only creating goals but scoring goals.
"People are saying I'm a striker which I'm not.
"For me, I think I bring something a little bit different. I can play with the ball and play people in and also run in behind and score goals as well, which is quite hard to find.
"I think that's why I'm in the squad."
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This German landscape artist travelled extensively, and is renowned for his paintings of towering and atmospheric mountain ranges.
Bierstadt is particularly known for his paintings of North American mountain ranges, which he often undertook on huge canvasses, mirroring the scale of his subjects. He is sometimes referred to as belonging to the Rocky Mountain School of artists.
He was born near Dusseldorf in 1830, where he studied at the Art Academy. His original travels took him through Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and then to America.
His most impressive scenes are from the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, where he provided some of the earliest oils of the Yosemite valley, the jewel of 'the Range of Light'. He attempted to capture in his paintings the awesome beauty of nature at its most majestic, with granite walls exploding 3,000 feet from of lush valley floors, waterfalls cascading like diaphanous bridal-veils, and distant jagged saw-tooth mountain ranges.
Bierstadt was awarded the French 'Chevalier de la Legion d'Honnour' and was named a Member of the National Academy of New York in 1860. He died in 1902.
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The licenses, how do I describe this?, jump in and out. One week a client machine will have a valid license until 2014, then one day it has an invalid license. On many installs, the client app won't phone home to the console server, so I've got to go out and touch those. Some clients will update the defs, some won't. Again, they need to be touched.
We run a lot of macros here on the CAD boxes, and while CA v.8.1 posed no problems after exempting the network drives from local scans, we've had no such luck with r12. Despite exempting both share scans as well as macros (gads!), macros that took seconds to run now take up to 3 minutes.
We get a lot of update errors (ccupdate), particularly on the servers, and I was told by tech support that someone had to be logged on administratively for an update. Uh, am I missing something? Do AV apps normally require an administrative login in order to update?
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CTAHR hosts inaugural speaker for Dean's Distinguished Lectureship SeriesUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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The first speaker for the UH Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) Dean's Distinguished Lectureship Series, Dr. Tracy Irani, will be giving a talk to the University community focusing on work conducted by the Center for Public Issues Education at the University of Florida (UF)/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS).
The talk, entitled "Bridging the Green Divide: The Role of Public Issues Education in Enhancing Public Understanding of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Land Grant System," will be given on Tuesday, April 2, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Kuykendall room 101, with Q&A to follow. Refreshments will be provided. The talk will also be offered via UH Halawai (Adobe Connect) for UH faculty, staff, and students.
The aim of the Dean's Distinguished Lectureship Series, a new initiative of CTAHR's Dean Maria Gallo, is to bring outstanding scholars in food and energy systems; urban and natural ecosystems; human, animal, and plant health; and family and consumer vitality to the University to share their expertise in a spirit of collaboration and knowledge building. The Center for Public Issues Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources, a joint project of UF and IFAS, works to enhance public knowledge of, and investment in, agriculture and natural resources, and to make clear the connections between the two.
Irani is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at UF in Gainesville, Florida. She is skilled in making complex scientific concepts comprehensible to the general public and developing effective outreach and professional development programs, work which has been funded by the American Lung Association, the National Institutes of Health, the USDA, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is the director of UF's Center for Public Issues Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources and co-director of UF's Scientific Thinking and Educational Partnership Program.


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Springdale authorities arrested a man on child pornography charges.
Police said they received a report that Shane Timmons, 25, was downloading child pornography.
A search warrant was issued for Timmons' house on Scott Lane, and police said a computer was seized.
Police said Timmons denied the accusations, but after a forensic review, it was found that the computer had been used to download and view child pornography. Detectives said that in a second interview, Timmons admitted his involvement.
Police said Timmons was arrested Wednesday on charges of knowingly possessing a computer that contained images of child pornography. He was taken to the Washington County Detention Center.


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Arizona State linebacker Vontaze Burfict, a big hitter whose discipline problems have dropped his draft stock, told reporters Sunday that he's the best linebacker in the draft, a leader who will change the defense wherever he goes, and that the penalties he racked up come from the fact that "I just love to hit and just hate to lose."
"I'm a soft-spoken guy, shy sometimes, but when I'm on the field I just hate to lose," Burfict said.
Burfict's highlight-reel hits have some fans dreaming of him as the attitude-changing linebacker the Eagles need, but scouts have questioned his instincts and self control. He had a down season for Arizona State last year, was benched at times and got into a locker room fight with a teammate.
Reports at the time said Burfict threw the first punch, but he gave a different account, saying the altercation began in a seven-on-seven drill that wasn't supposed to involve hitting. Burfict said the receiver hit him anyway.
"We had a little argument and brung it into the locker room, we started chatting about it, he started rough-housing me and pushed me, and my first instinct was to swing on him," Burfict said. "Everybody thinks I'm a bad guy because my instinct was to swing on him."
He later added, "I know this is a business now and there's things you cannot do in a business."
On the field, Burfict said he gained weight -- going up to 260 pounds last season -- and that it made him tire faster. He told reporters he's now down to 248.
"I think that I'll come in and just change the whole atmosphere of a team. I'm a leader, and just bring aggression to the game on the whole side of the defense," Burfict said. He said he tries to model his game after Ray Lewis and Nick Barnett, and has big dreams for his NFL career.
At one point Burfict was considered a top-of-the-draft talent, but his stock has dropped amid questions of whether he can harness ihs potential.
"I love being coached, want to be better and hopefully in the Hall of Fame one day," he said.
But he laid some of the blame for his disappointing season on his coaches.
"I thought I played average (last year). I could have played better," he said. "Coaches kind of messed me up. I didn't know if I was going to start a game, I didn't know if I was going to be benched, so it hurt me at point in times, but I tried to fight through it."


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Anton Wishik completed his MA in International Affairs at the Hopkins Nanjing Center in June 2011. His thesis research involved a comparison of China's "active strategic counterattacks on exterior lines" military strategy and anti-access/area denial doctrine, and was written and defended in Chinese. He received his BA from Western Washington University (WWU) in 2000 and taught at WWU until 2004. Anton resided in China from 2004—11, and in addition to completing his Masters degree, he did research, editing and translations for China Security, a Beijing-based journal published by the World Security Institute, and interned with the US Trade Representative's Office in Beijing.
Jonathan Walton completed his MA in China Studies at the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies. His current research focuses on Chinese domestic security and state-society relations, as well as PLA involvement in UN peacekeeping. He completed his BA in China Studies at Oberlin College in 2004 and recently spent three years as a China-oriented researcher with the Long Term Strategy Group of Cambridge, MA. Mr. Walton has also spent three years living and studying in China, including 1998—99 with School Year Abroad: Beijing, 2002—03 with the Associated Colleges in China program, and 2004—05 as a Fulbright Fellow at Nanjing University. He has near fluency in written Chinese and spoken Mandarin.
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The Next Generation Fellowship is a post-master's degree program that is cultivating a new generation of Asian affairs specialists committed to and capable of bridging the gap between the best scholarly research and the pressing needs of U.S. foreign policy toward a rapidly changing Asia.
Recent master's and professional degree holders (e.g., MA, MBA, LLM, JD, etc.) are invited to apply for a year-long fellowship at NBR's headquarters in Seattle. Fellows will collaborate with leading scholars to conduct independent research and participate in the briefing of research findings to the policymaking community in Washington, D.C.
This one-year fellowship is designed to further the professional development of Asia specialists in the year just after the completion of their master's degree. Successful fellows will gain further knowledge of Asia and an understanding of the U.S. foreign policymaking process by: supporting NBR research projects; conducting independent research under the guidance of NBR fellowship staff and two NBR affiliated scholars; co-managing the NBR Alumni Network blog; arranging seminars and discussion forums hosting Asia experts; and traveling to Washington, D.C., to participate an orientation and the briefing of research findings to relevant constituents within the policy community.
The Next Generation Leadership Advisory Board comprises a select group of respected academics and policymakers who have demonstrated commitment and success in the practical work of bridging the academic and policy worlds. The board will provide inspirational leadership to the program and meet individually, as possible, with program fellows in Washington, D.C. to share their vision for the need to strengthen the development of a cohort of young Americans with expertise on Asia.
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The Next Generation Fellowship Program will grant a one-year award to two to four fellows annually. Next Generation fellows will work on NBR research projects and participate in the effective delivery of that research to the policy community. The four major components of the Next Generation Fellowship are:
As part of the fellowship, each new class of fellows will participate in an orientation in Washington, D.C., which includes meetings with government officials, members of Congress and their staffs, and senior academics who have themselves successfully bridged the scholarship-policy gap. The Next Generation orientation session immerses the fellows in the program's vision, allowing them to meet with American political and academic leaders and providing opportunities for them to discuss their research with representatives of their intended audiences.
NBR conducts advanced research on politics and security, economics and trade, and health and societal issues, with emphasis on those of interest to the United States. Drawing upon an extensive network of the world's leading specialists and leveraging the latest technology, NBR bridges the academic, business, and policy arenas. At any given time, NBR directs 20–30 major research projects involving 150 scholars at universities and research centers worldwide. Each fellow will be placed on projects that best match his/her qualifications and research interests.
NBR organizes its research around three broad topics: politics and security, economics and trade, and societies and health. Our current research initiatives within these topics include:
Fellows have researched a wide range of significant policy issues resulting in the following publications:
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The Maritime Boundary Dispute Between Bangladesh and Myanmar: Motivations, Potential Solutions, and Implications
Jared Bissinger
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Are Sri Lanka's Relations with China Deepening? An Analysis of Economic, Military, and Diplomatic Data
Nilanthi Samaranayake
Asian Security, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2011
Media Relations in China's Military: The Case of the Ministry of National Defense Information Office
Matthew Boswell
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The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation -- Implications for China's Policy on Information Security Standards
Dieter Ernst and Sheri Martin
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Understanding China's New Sovereign Wealth Fund
Eric G. Altbach and Michael H. Cognato
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"Foreign Policy under Fukuda: A Small but Significant Change for U.S. and Japanese Interests in Asia,"
Andrew David
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North Korea and Iran: Nuclear Futures and Regional Responses
Tim Cook, Jonathan D. Pollack, Christopher W. Hughes, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Deepa Ollapally and Kalsoom Lakhani
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The Measure of a Nation: Quantifying Innovative Strength through Improved Service Sector Metrics
John M. Graham
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The PRC's Evolving Standards System: Institutions and Strategy
Chaoyi Zhao and John M. Graham
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U.S. citizenship or permanent residence status (by time of application deadline) is required. The applicant must have completed a master's degree by the time the fellowship begins. Individuals who have received their master's degree diplomas up to twelve months prior to the application deadline may apply to the program; exceptions may be permitted on a case-by-case basis. Prospective fellows should apply only for the year that they expect to participate. No deferrals are permitted.
For each fellow, regardless of his or her career trajectory, the program provides an extraordinary opportunity. Fellows who go on to specialize in Asia scholarship will have been exposed to the policy relevance of research. Those who choose a policy-related career will have been exposed to the importance of quality scholarship. Fellows who choose other career paths, whether in the private, nonprofit, or media sectors, will have been exposed to the dynamic intersection of policy and scholarship.
One thing will hold true for all alumni of The Next Generation Leadership Program: They will be young leaders capable of making a significant difference in how the United States relates to Asia. Their engagement in critical efforts to ensure that policy is well-informed by the best academic research available will shape their contributions as leaders and strengthen their impacts in their various fields. Fellows will acquire or refine skills in:
Each fellow will receive a $32,500 fellowship award (with benefits), as well as a reimbursement for some relocation expenses.
If you have a question that is not answered below, please contact us at email@example.com.
What kinds of research projects will I be working on?
NBR has an evolving research agenda that addresses a range of critical policy relevant issues.
May I seek additional employment during my time as a fellow at NBR in Seattle?
No. Fellows are expected to work full-time for NBR and are not permitted to obtain additional employment.
Is there a set deadline for publication? What happens if my article is not published before the end of the fellowship term?
The article the fellow writes will be published according to the accepting journal's normal production schedule. That may or may not occur during the fellowship term.
May I enroll in graduate classes during my time as a fellow at NBR in Seattle?
To ensure that selected fellows participate fully in their experience at NBR, fellows may not be enrolled in graduate classes during the fellowship period.
May I apply if my degree is anticipated during the fellowship year, but not yet awarded?
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Is this fellowship only for students who have a master's degree in international affairs?
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May I be considered for a fellowship if I conclude my graduate requirements in early June?
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How are fellows paid?
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Will NBR provide housing for my stay in Seattle?
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I am a Boren fellow interested in the Next Generation fellowship. I have two years to secure government employment following the completion of the Boren fellowship. If I participate in the Next Generation program, will that mean I have just one year to secure government employment?
No, participation in NBR's Next Generation fellowship does not count toward the two-year period before you have to secure government employment. If you participate in the Next Generation fellowship you will still have two years from the date you complete the program to secure government employment as required by the Boren fellowship.
On the NBR Alumni Network, 2009-10 Next Generation Fellow Nilanthi Samaranayake discusses the topic of her recent article in Asian Security.
To learn more about recent developments in Asian maritime security, access Asia-related career opportunities and events, and connect with NBR alumni, please visit the NBR Alumni Network.
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