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TOKYO (AP) — The commander of American troops in Japan said Thursday that the situation ahead of North Korea's planned launch of a long-range rocket this month is "very dangerous."
Lt. Gen. Salvatore Angelella said U.S. troops in Japan are closely monitoring activity in North Korea as it prepares for the launch. He said the United States sees the launch as a violation of U.N. restrictions in place to keep North Korea from developing its long-range missile capabilities.
"This is a very dangerous situation, and we do not support those actions by North Korea. ... We are monitoring the situation closely," Angelella, who commands the roughly 50,000 U.S. troops in Japan, said at a news conference in Tokyo.
He said American troops are working closely with the Japanese to protect the country's citizens and territory, but declined to give details. Two U.S. officials said Wednesday that the Navy had begun moving several ships into the western Pacific.
North Korea has announced it will launch the rocket between Dec. 10 and 22. It attempted a similar launch in April, but it failed shortly after liftoff.
Also on Thursday, a Japanese man who served as a chef to the North Korean leadership and visited the country earlier this year said the planned rocket launch was meant to honor the late leader Kim Jong Il.
Kenji Fujimoto, Kim's personal sushi chef from 1988-2001, said he believes the late leader's son and successor, Kim Jong Un, was backing the launch to show respect for his father.
"I don't think that Kim Jong Un is taking a very aggressive role in pushing for this launch, but he might want to commemorate his father's passing," said Fujimoto, who uses a pseudonym.
He said that despite its apparent determination to defy international appeals against the rocket launch, he believes North Korea is changing for the better and wants to improve relations with the West.
Fujimoto settled in Japan after leaving the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, and has written several memoirs. The latest is about a visit to North Korea for several weeks last summer.
That trip was meant to fulfill a promise he had made to the younger Kim before he left, he says.
Fujimoto says that during his years as Kim Jong Il's chef, he got to know Kim Jong Un and other members of the family, and that his reunion with the current North Korean leader was an emotional one. A photo on the cover of his latest book purports to show Kim Jong Un embracing Fujimoto.


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The JMS Client logging is handled using the Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J). As the name implies, slf4j is a facade that delegates to other logging systems like log4j or JDK 1.4 logging. For more information on how to configure slf4j for specific logging systems, please consult the slf4j documentation.
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Jillian Harris has had a rather busy week between fending of rumors of her fiance cheating and publicly defending her relationship with The Bachelorette winner, Ed Swiderski.
The couple was rumored to have broken up this weekend, but the two put up a united front as they dined at LAVO this Friday in Las Vegas.
Jillian is now once again speaking out about her relationship. She told OK magazine that a tabloid story, "claimed Ed and I broke up, when in fact we have not even come close… I really want out of the spotlight so bad. I hate it so much."
Interesting how certain people hate the spotlight once they start to get negative press. Most fans are still shocked that Jillian has yet to dump Ed. Perhaps she has yet to read US Weekly's latest issue which shows detailed time-lines of her fiance cheating on her.
Then again, anyone who watched The Bachelorette would know that Jillian is very stubborn. I'm starting to think she will marry Ed and have his babies just to prove the world wrong.


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Connecticut lawmakers created a special charitable fund on Wednesday to help cover the mental health costs of first responders, educators and other workers traumatized by the Newtown school massacre.
Both chambers of the General Assembly voted unanimously in favor of the bill, crafted by legislative leaders after meeting with Newtown police officers and other first responders who spoke of co-workers suffering from psychological trauma. Some of those workers felt they had to return to their jobs because traditional workers compensation does not cover most people for exclusively mental health issues.
"We can only imagine for a few seconds what they went through in doing their jobs," said Senate President Donald E. Williams Jr., D-Brooklyn. "This legislation is about helping them through this incredibly difficult period."
Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, whose district includes Newtown, said five members of the Newtown Police Department currently are on leave because of the shooting, which left 20 first-graders and six educators dead. He said others will likely need help as time goes on because post-traumatic stress disorder and other illnesses may not become evident until months or years after the event.
"In the aftermath, we know how much this hurts them," McKinney said. "It's not easy to step forward and say, `We need help, we're hurting.' And that's why we need to do it for them."
The Sandy Hook Workers Assistance Program will be privately funded and administered by the Office of Victim Services within the state's Judicial Branch.
Melodie Peters, president of the Connecticut branch of the American Federation of Teachers, said all the Sandy Hook teachers have returned to work. She said 11 people had applied for workers compensation coverage but were rejected. Peters said she worries about those employees once the school year is finished and they have time to realize what has happened.
"Their focus is still on the children right now and trying to get back to a normalcy," she said.
AFT arranged to have teachers from the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado visit with the Newtown teachers. Peters said those teachers spoke of how it took about five years get past the trauma they experienced.
AFT also represents the custodians and secretaries at the school, as well as the medical examiners who conducted autopsies on the Sandy Hook victims. Those workers' expenses would also be covered by the fund, which is expected to be fully up and running on April 1.
House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, said several hundred thousand dollars has already been pledged to the fund by corporations, including wrestling company WWE, Northeast Utilities, AT&T, Dominion Resources and health care products-maker Covidien.
Also the Connecticut Trial Lawyers and the Connecticut Bar Association have contributed.
The New England Cable Television Association has agreed to promote the initiative through public service announcements. Members of the public can contribute to the new account through various charities, including The United Way of Western Connecticut.
Under the bill, eligible claimants can receive financial assistance for uncompensated leave from their job if mental or emotional impairment has caused a total or partial disability that prevents them from working. They can also receive financial help for related medical expenses not covered by their own health insurance. The bill limits each claim to up to 52 weeks of benefits.
Meanwhile, there is a separate bill moving through the legislative process that would require Connecticut's worker's compensation system to cover treatment costs for mental illnesses stemming from future workplace traumas.


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Denny O'Neil, Marc Sumerak, and more speak at Lakeland Community College's 7th Annual Comics Symposium on April 1-3, 2010.
Master of Ceremonies:
Dr. Peter M. Coogan is the director of the St. Louis-based Institute for Comics Studies. He is cofounder and co-chair of the Comic Arts Conference, held during the San Diego Comic-Con International and the San Francisco WonderCon.
Special Guests:
Brooke Keesling is an award-winning filmmaker, animator, educator, and overall lover of life. She has worked in visual effects for nearly a decade and is currently the Director of Development at New Deal Studios, a full-service visual effects commercial and film production studio, located in Los Angeles, CA, best known for their work on feature films such as The Dark Knight, The Aviator, Iron Man, I Am Legend, The Departed, Watchmen, Alice in Wonderland, and Shutter Island.
Dennis O'Neil began as Stan Lee's editorial assistant in the mid-1960s. He wrote comic stories for Batman starting in the 1970s, and was one of the guiding forces behind returning the Batman character to its dark roots from the campiness of the 60s. O'Neil has also written several novels, comics, short stories, reviews and teleplays, including the novelization of the movie Batman Begins.
Some of his best-known works include Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman with Neal Adams, The Shadow with Mike Kaluta, and The Question with Denys Cowan, all of which were hailed for their sophisticated stories that expanded the artistic potential of the mainstream portion of the medium. As an editor, he is principally known for editing the various Batman titles. Today, he sits on the board of directors of the charity, The Hero Initiative.
Cleveland-based writer Marc Sumerak has worked professionally in the comic book industry for over a decade. What started as an editorial internship during his Junior year at Bowling Green State University soon transformed into an Assistant Editor position at Marvel Comics in NYC. Four years and five hundred publications later, Sumerak left Marvel's editorial staff to pursue a freelance writing career. As both an editor and a writer, Sumerak has helped chart the course for a number of today's most popular characters, including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and many more.
Some of Sumerak's recent writing work includes Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man, Hulk Team-Up, Weapon X: First Class, and a highly-publicized story starring Iron Man and fashion icon Tim Gunn. In 2005, Sumerak helmed the successful relaunch of Marvel's Power Pack franchise. His work as co-writer on Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius earned him an Eisner Award nomination (2006) and two Harvey Award nominations (2006 & 2008). Sumerak has also written material for DC Comics, American Greetings, the Elks, SAMHSA, PBS Kids, Pepperidge Farm, Tyson Foods, Triple-A Baseball, SEGA, and the U.S. Army.
Discussion Session Facilitators:
Matthew J. Smith teaches courses in media studies at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH, including "Graphic Storytelling: Comic Books as Culture," "The Graphic Novels of Alan Moore," and a week-long field study at Comic-Con International each summer (details of the latter may be found at www.powerofcomics.com/fieldstudy). In 2009, Wittenberg University's Alumni Association recognized him with its Distinguished Teaching Award. Along with Randy Duncan, he is co-author of The Power of Comics: History, Form & Culture (Continuum, 2009), a textbook for college-level comics arts studies courses (www.powerofcomics.com). The two are also editing the forthcoming Comics Criticism: Methods and Applications.
Mervi Miettinen is a Ph.D. student at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her dissertation focuses on superhero comics and their political and ideological dimensions, especially the status of the superhero as a liminal character existing both outside and inside the juridical order. Watchmen remains one of her all-time favorite comic books, and the movie isn't that bad, either.
She is currently working on her dissertation as an ASLA/Fulbright Scholar at Bowling Green State University.
Mark Bernard is a Ph.D. Candidate in the American Culture Studies program at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He is currently working on his dissertation, tentatively titled, "Selling the Splat Pack: The DVD Revolution and the American Horror Film." His work has appeared in Scope: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies, The Projector: Film and Media Journal, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.
Charles Coletta earned both his BA and MA in Literature from John Carroll University and his doctorate in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University. He has taught in the Department of Popular Culture at BGSU since 2000. In 2008 he co-chaired the "Comic Books in Popular Culture" conference at BGSU. In 2006, he assisted Eva Marie Saint in her preparing for her role as "Ma Kent" in Superman Returns. He most recently served as a contributing writer for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Comic Books & Graphic Novels.


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Summer Reading from YES! Magazine
Great writing can change cultures, politics, lives—or just while away a few hours at the beach. From the overflowing library shelves to the sheaf of papers by the printer, the YES! office is littered with reading material. Good thing that, like you, we're readers. Here's a look at what some members of the YES! staff are cracking open this summer...
Audrey Watson, Finance and Operations Director
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
What I liked about this book was the endless energy for good that Paul Farmer embodied. I was left with a feeling of hope. Tracy Kidder tells the story of someone who is truly succeeding in changing the world. Farmer goes into Haiti (and then Russia, Peru, and Rwanda), and as a medical anthropologist takes a problem-solving approach that is based in the communities where he works. He doesn't take "no" for an answer. Underlying his actions is a caring for individuals, and a belief that health is a human right, no matter where you live.
The Last American Man
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Years before she was eating and praying and loving on three continents, Elizabeth Gilbert wrote a book about her friend, Eustace Conway—a man who hiked from Maine to Georgia without supplies, who makes his own buckskin clothes, who rode a horse across the country, who lived in a teepee for 17 years. Eustace finds "modern" life absurd and says he wants nothing more than a simple, happy life in the woods—but for a variety of reasons that Gilbert explores with sensitive insight, he's never quite able to have it. Eustace is brilliant and you've probably never met anyone who thinks like him—he'll make you take a hard look at how you spend your own days—but Gilbert doesn't idealize him. There's an underlying sadness to the book, despite the funny, personable style Gilbert's fans will recognize: It's a lament for a lost world.
David Korten, Board Chair and Co-founder
The Tao of Liberation: Exploring the Ecology of Transformation
by Mark Hathaway and Leonard Boff
I'm reading The Tao of Liberation by Mark Hathaway, an adult educator and ecumenical eco-justice activist, and Leonardo Boff, Brazil's best-known theologian. It sometimes meanders and is maybe a hundred pages longer than necessary. I value it highly, however, for its moments of brilliance that take discussion of the nature and potential of the human place in the cosmos the next step beyond the epic work of Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme. It also offers an exceptional and authoritative review of an impressive swath of the relevant literature from ecology, economics, social justice, spirituality, and cosmology. I find it an inspiring contribution to my understanding of the nature and purpose of Creation.
Fran Korten, Executive Director and Publisher
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
by David Remnick
I am relishing every word of David Remnick's meticulously researched and insightfully told story of Barack Obama's life. As I (regretfully) reach the end of this 591-page volume, here's my key take-away: The driving force in Obama's adult life is to help ordinary people get a fair deal. I see little evidence of a taste for glory or for the accoutrements of high position. Rather his very real quest for power seems to be born of his utter frustration as a community organizer trying to get City Hall to pay attention to the most basic needs of the residents of South Chicago. How much more effective to be able to respond from a position of power inside the system rather than to protest from the outside. So the young Obama carefully mapped out a political trajectory that would end in his becoming the mayor of Chicago. Then his 2004 Democratic Convention speech derailed that plan, as an adoring public pressed him to run for president. I, for one, am immensely grateful. Chicago can wait.
Jessica Lind-Diamond, Development Manager
The 1000 Journals Project
by Someguy
Open The 1000 Journals Project to any page, and you'll want to curl up on a couch or under a tree to savor each vibrant entry. Part social experiment, part collective art project, 1000 Journals is a collection of multimedia entries from the 1,000 blank journals that "Someguy" anonymously released into the world at random, with instructions to fill a page and then pass the journal on. Vividly reproduced, you'll want to physically touch each page. Not just because they're beautiful, but because 1000 Journals reminds us that as we struggle to make sense of the world, we are not alone. They've also made the 1000 Journals Project into a movie: www.1000journalsfilm.com
What is the What
by Dave Eggers
In this memoir, Valentino Achak Deng vividly recounts his life among the "Lost Boys"—refugees who spent their childhood escaping war-ridden Sudan by foot. His journey unfolds as a heartbreaking epic, guiding him through relentless challenges and losses; however, Valentino does not seek pity. The hope of someday sharing his story, he says, was pivotal to his survival. With the help of author Dave Eggers, Valentino has finally done so—and the novel's proceeds directly aid Sudanese refugees around the world. The Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, formed after the book's publication, recently funded a high school in Valentino's hometown of Marial Bai, Southern Sudan.
Scott Gast, Online Editorial Intern
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future
by Charles Bowden
Book titles don't get more inviting than this. Bowden, a journalist who has watched the U.S./Mexican border boil over with violence since NAFTA's passage, has written a tough and gritty book placing the mass migration of humans across borders in context of a planet staggering toward an uncertain future. Vivid moments—cardinals nest in the Sonoran desert, Ciudad Juarez menaces, a Greenpeace whaler charges angrily ahead—are strung into a picture of a torn world, still streaked with beauty. Bowden's writing is bewildering; there are passages that alter the feel of afternoons, strings of sentences that remind us of the strange future that's already here.
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn, Creative Director
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston
What began as a New Yorker article turned into this full nonfiction adventure book about an elite circle of acrobat-scientists obsessively drawn to the Northern California's coast redwoods, among the largest and oldest living things on Earth. Their various professional and personal lives are connected by the hunt for the world's biggest tree. Personal stories unfold in parallel with the development of equipment to be able to climb these giants. Preston jumps into the narrative and participates in explorations of the canopies, which reveal untouched ecosystems barely aware of the world 300 feet below. Growing up surrounded by redwood forests, I fell into an easy nostalgia for these trees. The book was so inspiring, I ordered 10 coast redwood saplings to plant here in the Pacific Northwest, once inhabited by coast redwoods—the gift of a redwood forest for generations a thousand years from now.
Valerie Schloredt, Associate Editor
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith's On Beauty is an homage to E.M. Foster that treats big themes—class, politics, race, sex, family—with stylistic grace, emotional warmth, and compelling narrative. Her tale of the midlife crisis of art historian Howard Belsey is nearly social satire, but Smith's wit is matched by her humanity. What do we love, and why? How to live? Smith has some ideas as she describes the struggle to re-connect a life that has become disconnected from meaning. A book to share, On Beauty has something for the sweetest, and the most cynical, members of your social circle.
Susan Gleason, Media and Outreach Manager
The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
By Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford
What's it like to see and experience that ethereal, ghost-like quality of ancient ice we've seen in so many photos of the Antarctic? Or to travel across the Arctic tundra? It's unlikely I'll ever visit the Arctic or Antarctic myself, but with rising concerns about the future of these majestic ecosystems, I've been eager to understand more fully what's at stake. This insightful, transportive collection of essays delivers. Through historic expedition journals and contemporary travel writing, a multi-faceted vision of the Earth's polar regions, and the communities who live there, unfolds. These first hand accounts are riveting with their vivid detail and passionate prose.
And for the kids…
Christa Hillstrom, Web Managing Editor
by Michael Ende
Meek-eyed Momo is a legend treasured by German children, thought up by the same author who wrote the better-known kaleidoscopic fable, The Neverending Story. A homeless waif alone in a city, she's an unlikely leader—but it is precisely her vulnerability, honesty, and detachment from power that give her such compelling strength.
When a group of creepy, otherworldly bankers arrives, convincing everyone to invest their free time in a new central bank, Momo is alone in her resistance. She takes on the system and the sad resignation of her friends, who find themselves joyless, exhausted, and fumbling for purpose in a world where they no longer have time to connect.
It's a novel that teaches young people the humble rewards of stillness, attention, and the vocation of simple presence as service to others. Yes, it's a children's story. But you might find your heart as moved as Momo's by the transcendental discovery of the opening and closing of every moment's beauty.


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In coal-fired, gas-fired, combined cycle, refuse-fired, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, solar or any other type of power plant there are always various needs for vertical access transportation of personal and material.
For more than four decades Alimak has serviced the power industry with safe, productive and economical solutions, from space saving small passenger elevators in narrow paths to solving multi-tonnage lifting demands without the need of a shaft.
Why an elevator?
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It is paramount to identify potential sources of failure to provide preventive maintenance, and, should an un-planned production stop occur, respond rapidly to the failure. Installing an elevator is often the least expensive way to decrease down-time.
Alimak also supports in the construction of power plants with temporary vertical access solutions.


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In order to make it easy for teachers and students to participate in On the Same Page, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County will provide copies of Fire from the Rock and The Soloist to schools. Teen Librarians from your local branch library are available to present book talks or lead discussions in the classroom. To get involved, follow these steps:
Reading with On the Same Page will address benchmarks for the following standards for grades 7-12:
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Pitbull Bites Maine Boy – Who's At Fault? [POLL]
Earlier this week a 5-year-old boy from Brownfield was visiting relatives in Fryeburg and the family's pit bull bit him in the face.
The boy had been petting the dog when it turned on him and bit him multiple times. No adults saw what happened.
The dog was not up to date on its vaccinations, so it was euthanized. Results for rabies came back negative yesterday after it was tested at a state lab.
The boy is recovering at a hospital in Portland.
The family from Fryeburg had the dog since it was a puppy and they say that it never displayed such aggression before.


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General Motors will open the third of four new software centers near Atlanta.
The automaker plans to hire about 1,000 software engineers, project managers, database experts and others to staff the new operation in Roswell, Ga., north of Atlanta. The fourth location is to be announced soon.
The newest Innovation Center is part of GM's effort to in-source about 90% of the company's information technology work. When Chief Information Officer Randy Mott joined the company in February, GM workers did only about 10% of its IT work.
But Mott is confident GM can save money by doing most of that work in-house because of opportunities to eliminate overlapping software applications, databases and computer systems. That, in turn, can expedite development of new vehicles.
"We look to the Innovation Centers to design and deliver IT that drives down the cost of ongoing operations while continuously increasing the level and speed at which innovative products and services are available to GM customers," Mott said in a statement. "The IT Innovation Centers are critical to our overall GM business strategy and IT transformation."
In October, GM said it would hire 1,500 workers for a software center at the GM Technical Center in Warren. The company previously launched a software center in Austin, Texas, where it is hiring 500 workers.
GM also recently announced that it would hire 3,000 Hewlett-Packard employees who previously did IT work for the automaker.
The automaker gravitated toward the Atlanta area in part because of the "deep pool of high-tech expertise through the surrounding colleges, universities and talent residing in the area," Mott said.


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The spectrum of clinical disorders represented by the Society includes but is not limited to:
In recent years, there has been tremendous growth in new diagnostic information, pharmacological and neurosurgical treatments for movement disorders, as well as a greater understanding of impaired motor control function. MDS offers you and your patients an essential link to this knowledge.
In 1985, The Movement Disorder Society was founded on the initiative of Professors Stanley Fahn and C. David Marsden, whose leadership and vision guided the expansion of clinical expertise and research in this field. This not-for-profit organization merged in 1992 with the International Medical Society for Motor Disturbances. Publication of the journal Movement Disorders began in 1986, and the first International Congress was held in 1990. Read more about the Society
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Mom gives birth to twins at home
Mom, twin boys doing well, family says
Mom gives birth to twins at home
Mom, twin boys doing well, family says
WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. —
Meri's due date was Oct. 25.
A mother gave birth to twin boys on Thursday morning at her S. Elm Street home, the Enterprise reported.
Shawn Anderson, the father of the boys, said his wife delivered her first son and then called 911. Police and firefighters arrived and helped delivered the second baby minutes later.
The call came in around 11:15 a.m., officials said.
Meri, the mother, and the two boys, Craig and Cody, were taken to the hospital and all three are doing well, said Anderson.
The couple also have a three-year-old daughter Melanie, said Shawn.
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What the heck is wrong with Mexico?
It has everything it needs to be a prosperous First World country.
It has a $1.7 trillion free-market economy -- the 12th largest in the world.
It has 116 million of the hardest working people on the planet.
It has its own oil, gas, silver and other natural resources. It's got beautiful beaches and ancient ruins to attract tourists.
So why is Mexico such a mess?
Why are its wages so low and its per capita income a third of ours? Why is its unemployment rate so high? Why is its pollution so bad?
Why are drug cartels killing tens of thousands of people each year in turf wars? Why are the drug traffickers effectively in charge of the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border?
And, most import to us, why do so many of Mexico's poorest citizens have to leave their families, become criminals and sneak across the U.S. border just to get a decent-paying job?
The answer is simple, and no secret.
The reason Mexico is not the safe, prosperous First World country it should be is because of its corrupt government and the politicians who run it.
Thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan shocked the professional appeasers, the Cold War wimps and the detente-forever crowd when he called the Soviet Union exactly what it was and always had been -- "The Evil Empire."
His politically incorrect truth-telling told the whole world what he thought of the USSR and announced that he was going to use moral and spiritual weapons, not just military strength, to fight Soviet communism.
He knew it was not the captive peoples of the Soviet Union who were evil. It was their totalitarian government and the terrible ideas that it enforced so brutally.
Mexico's people are equally blameless. They're not the source of their country's economic ills or our illegal-immigration problem.
The Mexicans who cross into the USA looking for work are doing what most people I know, including myself, would do if they were trapped in a politically corrupt country.
It's time for Washington to stop arguing over the length or height or strength of our border fences, or how many years our 11 million illegal immigrants must wait in line to become an American citizen.
It's time for Washington to address the root cause of our immigration problem -- the mess that is Mexico.
We need to stake out the moral high ground and do what it takes to help Mexico -- and it's not money.
Mexico already has all the human and natural resources it needs. But it's being held back by corruption.
It's time for an American president -- this president -- to stand up and call Mexico what it has been for at least a century, "The Corrupt Empire."
We -- through the president -- have to tell the people of Mexico we want to help them clean up their corrupt government.
We have to tell them we understand why they must risk their lives to come here illegally. And we have to tell them we want to help them become a First World country so they can stay home.
Michael Reagan is a political consultant and author. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Tender mercies
Suffering meets consolation in the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion . . .
It was 3 p.m. and it was time to say the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy. I had a rosary in my hands and was counting out the litany in the midst of a small prayer group that I had been invited to join for the day.
It was hard for me to focus since I was afraid I would be called upon by the group leader to lead the next set. I chuckled to myself at the reversal of roles: I realized how my college students must feel when my eyes scan the class looking for someone to make eye contact with so that I can ask about the day's reading. I hadn't done my homework and came unprepared with none of the chaplet prayers memorized.
The leader passed me over and asked the woman in front of me to begin the next set.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion . . .
As a Catholic and college professor, I sometimes find myself torn between insider and outsider perspectives concerning Catholic devotions.
As far as the "insider" part of me goes, saying the chaplet has a link to my most tender childhood memory. My grandmother would say her rosary next to my bed since I was afraid of the dark. And so whenever I'd take out my rosary beads to say the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy, I'd have a warm, comfortable feeling.
Although I had never said the devotion alone, as a "Catholic insider" I was always eager to practice it in a group.
But looking at the devotion as an outsider, it did have some undeniably controversial elements. The devotion was revealed through visions and locutions to a Polish nun and stigmatist, Maria Faustina Kowalska, who died in 1938 at the age of 33.
If visions, locutions, and stigmata weren't enough, there was Faustina's insistence that the chaplet be said at 3 p.m. (the time of Jesus' death) and that those who recite the chaplet would receive "great mercy" at the moment of death.
Putting all this together with other ostentatious claims about the chaplet somehow being related to the end times, it was surprising that a normally cautious institution like the Catholic Church would promote it.
But devotion to the divine mercy resonated with the spirituality of Pope John Paul II, and he made his fellow Pole Faustina Kowalska the first saint of the new millennium. The Sunday after Easter is now called Divine Mercy Sunday.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion . . .
It was the Sunday following Divine Mercy Sunday when I was saying the chaplet, having just been passed over by the leader of the small prayer gathering. He had given his own personal testimony about how he had experienced the divine mercy in his own life: He had forgiven his wife for an affair, and they had rededicated themselves to their marriage.
After the chaplet ended, members of the group began to mingle and talk. One woman spoke of how her breast cancer had metastasized, another spoke about how her kidney disease had reached its final stage. A couple shared their experience of losing their child, and a nun mentioned that she was about to lose her only sister to a rapidly advancing illness.
That Sunday there probably were some who were praying for the specific graces promised to Faustina in her visions. Perhaps some thought that invoking the divine mercy was a prelude to the immanent vindication of God at the end of days. But if this was the case, it was hidden from my eyes and ears.
Instead, everyone simply shared the consolations they received during their encounters with illness and loss.
It was then that I realized that the core of the divine mercy devotion really did not have to do with locutions, visions, or stigmata. The devotion was about how the love elicited by suffering reveals the divine mercy. Through sharing grief in a community, divine mercy helps us move beyond sadness and despair.
St. Faustina's image of The Divine mercy shows Jesus with his right hand extended and two rays of light
shining from his heart to illuminate the world.
Faustina wrote that Jesus told her the rays "represent blood and water," an allusion to the saving blood and water pouring from his side as he was pierced on the cross. One could also interpret the rays as reflections of the divine and human aspects of mercy incarnate in Jesus, true God and true human. We experience divine mercy when we experience human mercy.
I have to admit that I don't drop everything at 3 p.m. to say the chaplet. But I can admit that I sometimes say it alone, for even in solitude I can feel the sense of community and connectedness that makes God's mercy real.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
This article appeared on the October 2008 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 73, No. 10, pages 37-38).


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The U.S. trade deficit was little changed in August as imports and exports stalled, data showed today. U.S. factory output expanded in October at a slower pace than forecast, while another report showed euro-area services and manufacturing grew less than estimated. Chinese manufacturing strengthened this month more than anticipated. Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. are among U.S. companies reporting earnings today.
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By Drew Singer
(Reuters) - The controversial trial of two high school football players accused of raping a classmate will remain open to the public and will not be relocated to another town, an Ohio judge ruled on Wednesday.
Prosecutors and an attorney representing the accuser had sought a closed trial, arguing that public access to the juvenile trial would subject the accuser to unwanted publicity and make potential witnesses reluctant to testify.
Visiting Hamilton County Judge Tom Lipps said the presence of the media would prevent inaccurate reporting and enhance public confidence in the juvenile justice system, according to his written ruling, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.
"An open hearing is especially valuable where rumors, mischaracterizations and opinions unsupported by facts have reportedly been repeated in social media postings and other published outlets," Lipps wrote. "An open hearing will diminish the influence of such postings and publications."
Prosecutors have accused Ma'Lik Richmond and Trent Mays, both 16, of raping a classmate at a party attended by many teammates last August in Steubenville, a close-knit city of 19,000 near the Pennsylvania border.
The case attracted national attention after the hacker activist group Anonymous publicized a picture of two young men carrying a girl by her wrists and ankles and released a video showing other young men joking about the alleged assault.
Richmond's lawyer, Walter Madison, said previously on CNN that his client was one of the young men in the photograph - which he said was taken out of context - but does not appear in the video. A lawyer for Mays has not publicly commented on the postings.
Community leaders have accused authorities of protecting the school's popular football program by not charging more players who could have prevented the alleged attack.
Lipps also ruled on Wednesday that the trial will remain in Steubenville. He set a trial date for March 13.
Reuters generally does not identify people who say they have been victims of sex crimes.
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Pity . . you missed a really good game. But . . . some horses are "working" horses, while others are "luxury" horses.windgat wrote:I don't watch rugby...
Instead I did something useful...
That would make sense. The geyser insulation relates to the area coverered (m²), and the content to m³. So, if you double the linear sizes of the tank, you need 4X the amount of insulation to cover 8X the amount of water.windgat wrote:One surprising result so far in the model is that the bigger the geyser capacity, the less the electricity used! Do you think that's accurate?
Temperature decrease is not constant. It is ruled by the balance of heat gain vs heat loss. You need to work out the heat loss based on the current temperature (ie: (Th-Ta)/R) and then convert that loss to temperature drop via the formula we just corrected (ie: ?T=3.6X0.24XLoss/L)windgat wrote:You have given me heat loss in Watts - what I really need is temperature decrease per time unit.
Greystoke wrote:You can measure that value by doing a "cooling " exercise. It's not too difficult, but you do need a thermocouple thermometer. (some electronic multimeters come with themocouple probes)
4.8 kW looks OK to me.windgat wrote:The total daily power use comes in at 4.8kW - seems too low. I would expect 10 - 15 kWh.
Greystoke wrote:you do need a thermocouple thermometer.
I have faith in your ingeniouty. So, kindly tell me how you did it.windgat wrote:I have one, but how can I get my probe into the how water geyser? (sounds like a line from a Pam Anderson movie...)
Did the same thing trying to get an estimate for the thermal resistance of my geyser. I'm sure its the right order of magnitude, but I truly haven't a clue how accurate it is.windgat wrote: . . To get a smooth temperature at midnight I manually fiddle the starting temp to about match the ending temp. It may need to be over multiple days for more accuracy.
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How Far Did That Home Run Travel? This Guy Knows!
Good morning!! This is from Monday's Boston Globe....
"Greg Rybarczyk has a day job. But most of all, he digs the long ball, and he has devoted much of his spare time to tracking home runs, creating a tool, the Hit Tracker, that he says calculates the precise trajectory of every home run hit in the big leagues.
"I'm not sure why exactly I got into the home run thing, it's probably a combination of things," said Rybarczyk...."
Peter here, and I'll link the entire article, which even includes a link to his "hit tracker" website, and it will be available when you click on the title of this post. But aren't we all curious to know, after watching one of our favorite Sox players crush a ball out of the park, just exactly how far that round leather stitched object traveled? From its point of impact with the wood of the bat to the spot where it lands, somewhere in Fenway Park, or better yet, somewhere on the surrounding streets, there has never been an EXACT scientific method for measuring the distance traveled. It's not as if a ball boy or girl can run out onto the field of play, metallic tape measure in hand, and my goodness, it had better be a LONG one, and then climb into the stands to get an exact flight path measurement while holding up the flow of the game for five or ten minutes. No, that won't work. So that's why Greg's concept interests me, and I too am going back to read the entire Globe article and then click on the provided link to go to his actual website. Yes, it's all there, when you click on the title!
Muct more importantly, I wanted to wish you, my Constant Readers, a happy New Year's Eve Day. In yesterday's post, I had a few things mixed up...I originally thought yesterday, Sunday, was New Years Eve day, but a comment from blogger and friend Laura (she and her blog are on my link list...just scroll down a little on the right hand side of this page--look for her first name) set me straight. TODAY is New Year's Eve day, and it's Monday, December 31st, 2007, and that's probably the very last time I will type the numbers 2 and 0 and 0 and 7, except when I write about the fond rememberances of a GREAT baseball year for all of us. Because it WAS a very special year, and every one of us is richer for it. I know I am, and I have you here every day! Life is good.
So enjoy midnight, when 2007 becomes 2008, and hug someone who is close to you, right there, on your right. You know you want to! I look forward to a great 2008, and I'd love to spend it writing to you, my blog friends and readers, or better yet, MY FRIENDS...FOREVER. Is that OK with you? Oh, don't forget to click on this post's title to read the Edes' fascinating article about home runs, and their tracking machine! Be well. Forever! And have a wonderful night, for as the hours turn and tick closer and closer towards that special midnight hour, magic will happen! I just know it. And I love it!!! And I love you, every one of you. Be safe, and be well.


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Ohio governor spares condemned obese killer
Ohio governor spares condemned obese killer
COLUMBUS, Ohio —
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has spared a condemned inmate who says he's too fat to be humanely executed.
Kasich followed a recommendation of mercy by the state parole board, which said it didn't doubt Ronald Post's guilt but said there were too many problems with how he was represented 30 years ago.
Kasich said Monday that Post's sentence of death was being commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Post was sentenced to die for the 1983 shooting death of Elyria motel clerk Helen Vantz in a robbery.
Post's lawyers had also argued that he was so obese that executing him would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.


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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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Yeah, yeah, very nice, but what about gettin' drunk with Gary Fisher?ReplyDeleteReplies
That one's next. As I have several stories to post concerning the Dahon, I needed to introduce it.Delete
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I've seen the Montague bikes and considered them. There are some other "full size" folders on the market. Small wheeled bikes have some advantages over large wheels, including: they are more portable, the small wheels are more resistant to deformation, they weigh less, they are easier to change tires on, the bikes have a lower center of gravity, and they accelerate faster. They can be geared to have as much or greater range than a standard bike. Large wheels have one advantage, which is that they bridge holes in the road better. I do like the look of big wheels--one of my favorite bikes was a Raleigh Roadster with 28" wheels. But it was so large that it was difficult to transport.Delete
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Historic Costume Collection launches crowdsourcing campaignUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Director, Office of Communication Services
Just this past semester, the Fashion Design and Merchandising (FDM) program in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa changed its name from Apparel Product Design and Merchandising in order to more fully convey its focus. And the program is continuing to think in new ways by exploring an exciting and innovative non-traditional method of obtaining much-needed funding for its Historic Costume Collection: crowdsourcing.
Crowdsourcing is a method of grassroots fundraising in which individuals, fledgling companies, bands or theater troupes, non-profits like the UHM Historic Costume Collection, and many other groups set up "campaigns" to raise money on websites such as Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Visitors to the sites may pledge as little as $1 to $5, depending on the campaign, which has a specified time, often a month or two, to reach its funding goal. Goals also range from as little as $500 into the tens of thousands of dollars. Those who pledge money may do so out of pure philanthropy; other campaigns offer "perks" in return for the donations.
The UHM Historic Costume Collection has been described as a hidden treasure by the Hawaii State Legislature, which voted funding to support it in 2009. But the Collection's continuing needs have led it to turn to crowdsourcing for a hoped-for sum of $10,000 to purchase necessary items for the upkeep and preservation of its irreplaceable holdings. Museum-quality cabinets are needed, with large, wide drawers that will allow the garments to be stored flat and unfolded; so are textile-conservation materials such as acid-free boxes, paper, and wrapping material; muslin to pad the hangers and protect the shoulders of hanging garments; and display cases. The Collection has only a single display case at present, which can only accommodate two to three garments at a time, while most of its extensive holdings are rarely seen.
The Collection, begun in 1960, consists of approximately 18,000 historic and ethnographic garments, textiles, accessories, home-furnishing fabrics, and related materials and equipment dating back to the early 19th century. It is the largest collection of its kind at an American university. There are 4 sub-collections: Western, Asian, Hawaiian and Ethnic. The Asian collection includes a series of five Qing Dynasty (1644 to 1912) imperial dragon robes, which are the subject of a lavishly illustrated book and a companion documentary DVD. It also boasts a Japanese kosode, an ornate silk robe that was among the exchange of gifts during negotiations when Commander Perry opened up trade between the U.S. and Japan in 1854. The Collection's holdings span a broad range from haute couture gowns to clothing worn by Hawai'i's Territory-era plantation workers in pineapple and sugarcane fields. There is an extensive collection of iconic aloha shirts and muumuus, as well as many bolts of Native Hawaiian kapa.
The mission of the Collection is to preserve these ethnographic artifacts in order to support teaching in FDM as well as in other programs and departments at the University; to promote research by students, faculty and visiting scholars; and to provide artifacts for use in class and exhibition. UH faculty members use Collection holdings in classroom instruction, whether for historical instruction or to provide inspiration for textile and design students. Students in textile conservation classes also learn how to preserve and repair the delicate materials. Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and visiting scholars may request objects for research, and students in curatorship classes and members of other institutions periodically borrow articles for exhibit either on campus or in other venues.
The FDM program hopes that the romance of garments from a bygone era and their inspiration for fashion design today will combine with an understanding of the academic importance of textile conservation, museum curatorship and ethnographic studies to appeal to the crowdsourcing community to help them reach their goal. The Costume Collection's campaign may be viewed at Indiegogo: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/uh-historic-costume-collection--2. A Flickr gallery of the Collection's holdings may be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/uhmuseum/collections/72157616089473082/
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(CNN) -- How do two convicted murderers walk out of prison?
Too easily, it appears.
Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins have been free for some time, though this fact didn't become public knowledge until this week. Now, Florida authorities are not only looking for the two men, but they also are insisting they aren't to blame -- even if others dropped the ball or were fooled in a big, big way.
"We've had a system failure that resulted in two individuals being erroneously released," Orange County, Florida, Sheriff Jerry Demings said. "...This is very frustrating for all of us who work in the system."
The two fugitives, both 34, didn't need a Hollywood-style jailbreak or even a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card to spring themselves out of the Franklin Correctional Institution. Instead they used forged documents indicating their life sentences had been modified and they could leave.
The legal-looking documents contained bogus reproductions of several key players' signatures, including those of the Orlando-area state attorney or the assistant state attorney and Judge Belvin Perry. They bore the seal of the Orange County clerk of court's office.
The documents were processed by the state Department of Corrections and the men were released. Processing the paper work is more akin to data entry than high-level analysis or approval, noted veteran Florida criminal defense attorney Mark O'Mara.
"However it was done, it was well-planned and they know the system well enough to place it," said O'Mara, a CNN contributor known for representing George Zimmerman.
As well as those behind the convicts' release might have executed their scheme, some think others in authority could have done better, but the agencies involved are defending their actions.
The orders to release Walker and Jenkins looked legitimate, said Ninth Circuit State Attorney Jeffrey L. Ashton.
The county clerk of court's office didn't do anything wrong, spokeswoman Leesa Branbridge said. It acts "like a post office," Bainbridge said, "Our role is to take orders and send them to the appropriate agency."
That last agency, the state Department of Corrections, is throwing up its hands as well.
The court passed along documentation indicating the two murderers' sentences had been changed, and "it's not our job to question what the court does," said Department of Corrections spokeswoman Misty Cash.
"The fault does not lie on us. No one is getting in trouble here for what happened," she said.
Whoever is to blame, the price is being paid. Law enforcement officials are working overtime to try to find Walker and Jenkins, with a reward of $10,000 apiece being offered for information leading to their capture. The relatives of the men's victims are angry, scared and want an explanation.
And while Demings said Friday he didn't know of any similar premature releases of inmates, O'Mara said that given how smoothly this plan worked, how readily available court documents are in Florida, and how seemingly simple it was to pull off, it would be naive to think this hasn't happened before, freeing other convicts well before their time was served.
"I doubt it happens very much, because this is very unusual," said O'Mara. "But this could have gone for 10 years or more."
Sentenced to life without parole, then set free
In September 1998, Joseph I. Jenkins killed Roscoe Pugh Jr. during a home-invasion robbery attempt.
Six months later, Cedric Slater was gunned down on an Orlando street corner -- shot dead, a jury determined, by Charles B. Walker.
Both killers were convicted and sentenced to life behind bars without the possibility of parole within two years of their crime. While it's not known if they knew each other, they were at the same prison in North Carrabelle, in Florida's Panhandle.
Jenkins left there on September 27, and Walker left on October 8, according to authorities. They had motions indicating the sentences had been reduced, as well as court orders granting the request. Investigators later discovered these documents were forged.
Asked how someone might replicate the documents, O'Mara noted that court filings in Florida cases are available online, so they might be mimicked by "anybody with a little common sense," access to a word processing tool and the gall to replicate signatures seen on those records.
There might have been a screw-up, but Cash said there is no "cover-up" at the Department of Corrections. That agency's chief, Michael Crews, has promised a "vigorous and thorough review" to make sure others weren't also wrongly freed.
"This will be a lesson learned for all involved. We may now look more closely at what the court sends," Cash said. "Our system is being accused, and people are being led to believe that the DOC let these guys walk out the front door, and that's just not the case."
There's good reason to question, and change, the system, O'Mara said. Whereas victims are notified before a defendant's pretrial release, there's no such notice -- even to prosecutors -- before a convict walks free, he pointed out.
In fact, the first that prosecutors got wind of what happened was after they were contacted by a member of Walker's family, Ashton said.
An October 8 letter from the Department of Corrections to Slater's mother, Evangelina Kearse, notified her a "court order and amended sentence caused (Walker's) sentence to expire."
"Please be aware that recent actions causing the release of this offender are beyond our control. Nevertheless, we apologize for the delay in this message," it said.
It doesn't have to be this way, O'Mara said. "Let not only the victim's family know well ahead of time, then send it to the state's attorney," he said, surmising prosecutors as well as victims won't let mistakes by so easily. "...That's an easy fix."
Not the first case, perhaps not the last
One irony is that Florida authorities were completely ignorant that such ruses can work.
On October 7, charging documents were filed against another inmate, Jeffrey Forbes, for allegedly trying a similar scheme in 2011.
Forbes is accused of forgery and attempted escape after a police detective who initially helped convict the man discovered he was scheduled to be released despite being sentenced to life in prison for the attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer, according to Ashton's statement.
The investigation revealed that someone had forged Ashton's name on a bogus court order reducing the sentence and a circuit court judge's name on the order reducing Forbes' life sentence, the statement said.
Nonetheless, Walker was freed thanks to his own forged documents the very next day -- October 8.
Both he and Jenkins appeared to play by the rules afterward. They both went to the Orange County jail to register as felons -- Jenkins on September 30, Walker on October 11 -- an audacious "and really smart move" by both men, because it bought them time before authorities were tipped off anything was awry, O'Mara said.
While their releases may have initially seemed legitimate and innocuous, by Friday evening, the two convicts had been classified as escapees.
Demings, the Orange County sheriff, said both are considered "dangerous individuals" and -- by virtue of some "legitimate spottings" -- are thought to be in the Orlando area.
One of the officials whose signature was forged said he wouldn't be surprised if something like this happens again. It may not work exactly the same way, but it would be unwise to assume criminals won't try whatever they can to get out of prison, said Judge Perry.
"People, particularly people with criminal minds, come up with ingenious ways to beat the system," Perry said. "They have nothing but time on their hands to think of things."


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A civil lawsuit against investment giant JPMorgan Chase, announced Tuesday in Washington by New York's top prosecutor, is aimed at the root of the nation's brutal 2008 financial crisis. Consumer advocates, however, questioned why it took so long and why prosecutors didn't bring a criminal case.
Speaking at a news conference at Department of Justice headquarters, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman offered no apologies for going after JPMorgan Chase for sins committed by investment bank Bear Stearns, which it bought with government help in March 2008.
Bear Stearns was a top bundler of mortgages into complex bonds that turned out to be junk, sparking the deep financial crisis in 2008. Schneiderman's civil suit, which seeks unspecified financial damages on behalf of residents of the state of New York, alleges widespread deception and misconduct in the packaging, selling and monitoring of the complex financial instruments.
JPMorgan Chase officials declined to comment on the suit.
At issue are the actions of EMC Mortgage, the Texas-based mortgage unit of Bear Stearns in the run-up to the crisis. The 31-page civil complaint alleges that the bank and EMC failed to properly evaluate the mortgages packaged into bonds for sale to investors, failed to fix problems in the due diligence process and secured monetary repayment for the bank instead of investors when mortgages went bust.
Officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Justice Department lined up on the podium for the announcement. Together they make up the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group, federal and state officials who are probing the mortgage finance component of the nation's deep financial crisis.
No criminal charges were announced, not against former Bear Stearns executives such as former CEO Alan Schwartz and former Chairman Jimmy Cayne, nor against executives who worked at EMC.
"The Justice Department has just been embarrassingly passive in terms of criminal prosecution," said Michael Greenberger, a University of Maryland law professor, former commodities regulator and former top DOJ adviser. "Is this the first shoe to drop? Is it a one-off, or does it really mean that the mortgage-fraud task force is at work and there will be other civil actions and criminal actions to follow?"
Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West deflected questions of political timing, with the announcement coming a month before the presidential election, noting that, "We follow the facts and the law, wherever they may lead."
Consumer groups urged more.
"We're all frustrated," said Ira Rheingold, the executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates. "It's a shame more cases haven't been brought. It's a shame that the heads of the banks got their golden parachutes. And, unfortunately, I think the saddest part about the whole thing is that I have no sense that there's any real remorse out of these institutions. Immediately they're back to business as usual.''
The consumer groups said that meant settling civil lawsuits was seen as a business cost.
"You can make a lot of money doing corporate crime and unfortunately the risks are very low, as seen by how few people have gone to jail and how little money has been returned to people harmed in the fiscal crisis," said Ed Mierzwinski, the consumer program director for advocacy group U.S. PIRG. "These corporations so far are paying an infinitesimal amount of money compared to the havoc they wreaked on families, homes and the economy."
The government action came against a bank that the government had asked to take over Bear Stearns for the good of the country.
The Bush administration sought the sale to thwart a financial meltdown like the one that ensued in September 2008 when investment bank Lehman Brothers couldn't find a suitor. Then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson leaned on JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to purchase Bear Stearns at a fire-sale price during a turbulent weekend in March 2008.
"I called Jamie Dimon at 4:30 p.m. and told him we needed to get the deal done by the end of the weekend," Paulson later wrote. "Self-assured, charismatic and quick-witted, Jamie had the ability to walk the line between being a tough businessman and knowing when to rein in his competitive instincts for the good of the financial system."
Later in his memoir, Paulson noted that JPMorgan Chase "was particularly concerned with the firm's mortgage portfolio" and the bank "didn't want any of Bear's mortgage portfolio," then valued at around $35 billion.
Schneiderman wasn't bothered by going after the bank that had been asked to save the financial system, noting that JPMorgan Chase had acquired both assets and liabilities in the deal.
Asked by McClatchy whether he'd personally discussed the civil complaint with Dimon, one of the only financial actors to come out of the crisis with his reputation untarnished, Schneiderman said, "We have not spoken recently."


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If you would like to see the full notes, I refer you to the following pages:
Latest Patch Notes: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/
Latest Test Realm Patch Notes: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html
The information found in the above links will remain updated as any further changes are made.
Psynister's Thoughts
With so many patch notes, I'm not about to comment on every single one of them. However, I will talk about some of them below that have particularly caught my eye. Some of these changes I have already discussed and you can find by reading other articles I have posted over the last week or two.
New BoA Chests
New Portals and Zeppelins
Mount Changes
New Druid Cat and Dire Bear Forms
I welcome you all to share your thoughts on the patch here as well. Feel free to comment on the specifics I point out here, or any other portion of the patch notes that I do not specifically cover.
The following points will be broken down into the same category they fall under within the patch notes.
For the individual class notes, there are many classes that I do not have enough experience playing to give an honest opinion on the changes, so I may skip over some of the specific classes. Nearly every class received at least some form of update though, so if you would like to get more details on those changes then I suggest you look at the patch notes yourself for the details.
The local Postal Service has grown tired of walking so far each day to collect mail and have decided to install a large number of new mailboxes to Stormwind, Undercity, Darnassus and Orgrimmar.
This is the only thing I want to point out in the General section that I have not already covered. The lack of mailboxes in many of the towns drives me crazy. Including "a large number of new mailboxes" in cities is an excellent change that I welcome with open arms. Tons of mailboxes and double bank and auction house locations are the one thing that I love about Silvermoon, and the lack thereof is the one thing I hate about everywhere else.
- Players will now be awarded experience for completing objectives and actions that yield honor in Battlegrounds (honorable kills not included).
- Players who do not wish to gain experience through PvP can visit Behsten in Stormwind or Slahtz in Orgrimmar – both located near the Battlemasters in either city – and turn off all experience accumulation for the cost of 10 gold.
- Disabling experience gains will prevent a player from gaining experience through any means available in the game.
- Players with experience gains turned off who compete in Battlegrounds will face off only against other players with experience gains turned off.
- Behsten and Slahtz can reinstate experience gains for players, for a 10 gold fee of course. Any experience that would've been accumulated if experience gains were not turned off cannot be recovered.
This change holds a lot of potential. Finally we see something from Blizzard aimed directly at twinks. While I'm not a hardcore twink, I do enjoy doing it. Giving players the ability to shut off their experience gain is excellent. You can now power level your twinks to the desired level, turn off their experience gains, and then go farm all the items and achievements you want without having to worry.
It's also worth noting the 4th bullet there. If you turn off your experience gain, you will only participate in battlegrounds with other players who also have it turned off. So basically we have an opportunity have have twink vs twink and non-twink vs non-twink battlegrounds, so those of use who do like PvP but don't like going up against players who live solely for that reason might actually stand a chance.
Now, there's nothing stopping those twinks from turning their experience gain back on before a BG so they can face non-twinks instead, but they have to fork over 10g every time they want to make the change back and forth.
Races: General
Axe Specialization (Orc): The weapon bonus from this effect now applies to fist weapons in addition to axes.
Orcs are now able to apply their racial specialization to fist weapons. Shamans and Rogues are the only classes I ever see using fist weapons, and shamans far more than rogues. Not a big deal in my opinion, but it might bring a little more attention to the orcs.
Items: General
- Block Value: The amount of bonus block value on all items has been doubled. This does not affect the base block value on shields or block value derived from strength.
- Mana Regeneration: All items that provide "X mana per five seconds" have had the amount of mana they regenerate increased by approximately 25%
Increased bonuses to block value is a pretty big deal. It doesn't double from the shield itself, nor from your Strength score, but all other equipment that grants you bonus Block will be increased. My Prot Paladin readers should love this one.
After posting this the thought occurred to me to actually look at some gear out there, and after having done that I'm really not entirely sure that this is going to be that big of a deal. There aren't all that many options for increasing your Block, and the ones that do aren't necessarily worth taking over other pieces that don't. For now I'm going to jump over to being neutral on this one until I've had a chance to do some more looking. Extra block value is always good, but the change itself might not have all that much impact.
A lot of people threw fits about Mana Regeneration nerfs in the previous patch. I don't know that this is going to solve any of those opened wounds, but at least we're seeing a little bit of an increase in mana regen.
Classes: General
Silence, Strangulate, Silencing Shot, and Arcane Torrent: These abilities will also apply a 3 second interrupt effect against non-player controlled targets, making them more versatile against creatures immune to silencing effects.
This change might be nothing, and it might be a life saver. Being able to use them as spell interrupts even against targets that are immune to silence can be a very welcome addition to your arsenal if you happen to play a race/class that has these abilities.
Death Knights
Due to significant talent changes, all death knight talents will be reset for players.
Death Knights are the only class mentioned as receiving all of their talent points refunded. If you have a build that you like and don't want to forget it then I suggest you copy it down somewhere before the slates are wiped clean.
I make no claims towards being knowledgeable about Death Knights. Since I don't know how significant the impact of these changes are going to be, I will leave it to others who know more about the subject to give details concerning them.
Invisibility: Can no longer be interrupted by a hostile action or damage done during the 3 second fade time, however an invisible mage can still be stunned or silenced.
This is the main update that interests me in the mage. There's nothing worse than knowing that you have to flee in order to survive, popping invisibility, and then immediately finding it disrupted right in the middle from some random hit.
- Blessing of Sanctuary: This blessing now also increases stamina by 10%. This effect is not cumulative with Blessing of Kings.
- Exorcism: Now has a 1.5 second cast time, but can once again be used on players.
- Hand of Reckoning: Redesigned. Now does damage only when target does not currently have the caster targeted, but damage done increased to 50% of attack power, occurring after the taunt effect is applied.
- Lay on Hands: The buff from this ability now reduces the physical damage taken by the target by 10/20% instead of increasing the target's armor.
Paladins have the longest list of changes in this patch, and they really covered a lot of different points. All specs are going to feel the effects of this patch in one way or another.
Since I have recently devoted much of the blog to Protection Paladins I am going to discuss more of their points than others.
Blessing of Sanctuary not giving +10% Stamina is HUGE. This effect is in addition to the effect that it already has. Not only are you gaining more hit points, which is always good for a tank, but you are also increasing your spell power (assuming you've spent the talents points for it) which in turn will increase the amount of threat that you are able to generate.
I really don't like the change to Exorcism. I do like that you will be able to use it on players again for when I do happen to need to PvP, but adding a cast time completely removes it as a viable option for being included in my tanking rotation or as a form of taunt to get stray mobs to turn their focus back to me. If there was anything I would be willing to do a little QQ over, it would be this. But, it's not essential in any way, so overall I dislike it but really don't care at the same time.
Lay on Hands provided a damage reduction buff rather than bonus armor makes this an even more effective tool for use in grinding and farming, as well as tanking in general.
After much quiet contemplation, rogues now possess the ability to learn how to use one-handed axes.
Giving rogues more options for better weapons is sure to thrill the rogues out there. I'm not a huge fan of the class myself, but it seems like a good change to me and I'm sure most rogue players will be pleased with it.
- A customizable totem bar will now be available for shaman allowing the storing of 4 different totems. These totems can be placed on the ground at once in one global cooldown for the combined mana cost of all 4 totems.
- Base health increased by approximately 7% to correct for shamans having lower health than other classes.
The shaman is also receiving quite a few changes in this patch, so I would suggest you go take a look at the full notes if you happen to play one.
The new totem bar options are going to be a huge benefit to shamans everywhere. Being able to drop all four totems at once, on a single cooldown is huge. You have three customizable options for each spec, thus dual spec players can have up to 6, so you can get different groups of totems set up for different occasions.
The increase in base hit points for shamans is something that is definitely overdue. In articles read prior to full patch notes being released an interview revealed that nobody on the current team remembers why shamans had the lowest health pools in the game and that they would fix it in 3.2.
User Interface
- Character name auto-completion for the chat frame, pop-ups, and mail interface can be enabled through an interface option in the Development settings.
- Character names can now be colorized according to class in the chat frame through an interface option in the Development settings.
- Casting bars under a target's portrait will now indicate whether or not the cast can be interrupted.
- Druids will now be able to see their mana bars when shape-shifted.
- Item Comparisons: Holding the shift key while hovering over an item will now display the stat differences with the item currently equipped in the relevant slot.
- Macros and scripts will no longer be able to target totems by name.
- Quest creatures and objects will now show on the player's world map.
- The quest log is now double-paned for more easily viewing quest information.
- Vendor prices will now be listed on items whether or not players are at a vendor.
I think the most profound impact form this patch is going to be right here in the user interface. Many of these changes are going to do away with the need for existing addons.
The first four items on the list probably hold the least impact, but there are existing mods that provide this same functionality.
Being able to see whether or not it is possible to interrupt a spell will save some players the hassle of wasting their interrupts, or perhaps it might prompt them to use them more frequently depending on the situation.
The Item Comparisons may very well take the place of the RatingsBuster addon as it performs nearly the exact functionality. The one benefit that RB still holds over this is that it does it for you automatically where the new option requires you to hold the Shift key in order to see the information.
Macros/Scripts not being able to target totems is going to make pvp against shamans a bit more of a struggle, which is actually a very good thing for those of us who like playing shamans. Macros that do this completely defeat one of the prime resources that shamans have to offer.
Quest Creatures/Objects showing up on maps, along with the changes to quests in the previous patch almost completely defeats the need for addons such as QuestHelper and Carbonite. Whether the new changes will work as well as these addons still remains to be seen, but there is potential now to see these addons sent to their graves.
Vendor prices listed on items will help you select your quest rewards if you wish only to sell the item instead of using or disenchanting it. I use an addon for this very purpose right now. I don't remember the name of the one I use right off the top of my head, but it's another addon being replaced by new in-game options.
The ravasaur trainer Mor'vek has returned to Un'Goro and will offer to help Horde players raise and train a Venomhide Ravasaur as a mount… if they can survive the creature's deadly poison.
Since this is mentioned as a "return" I will assume that this is something that was available before I started playing the game as I do not remember ever hearing his name even mentioned. But the addition of another mount, and a horde-only one at that (For the Horde!) is good news in my book.
There is quite a list of profession changes. I only have a firm grasp on the workings of a few professions, and those happen to be the ones receiving the fewest number of updates.
I will leave the details of these changes for someone else to go over since I know that my own knowledge is lacking. From what I can tell, Jewelcrafting is going to receive the biggest change from this update.
Non-Combat Pets: 8 new pets have been added (not including Argent Tournament rewards). Raptor Hatchlings can be found on rare and elite raptors throughout the game world. In addition, an Obsidian Raptor Hatchling can be purchased from Breanni in Dalaran.
For those pet lovers out there, and you all know who you are, there are now eight more for you to rush out and collect. While I do get a few pets on all of my characters, I'm not really into collecting things that have no real impact on the game itself, so I'm certainly not a pet collector myself.
Similar to professions, there are quite a few updates in the item category, so I suggest you take a look at the information at the actual patch notes if you are interested.


text: WORLD GOLD COUNCIL PROMOTES MORRISON: Sally Morrison has been appointed managing director, jewelry for World Gold Council. Morrison, who is based in New York and joined World Gold Council in 2012 as director of jewelry, replaces David Lamb, who will continue to consult. Previously, Morrison was chief marketing officer at Forevermark and has held senior positions at JWT, Miramax and AmFAR, where she has led marketing initiatives including innovative digital campaigns, creative celebrity collaborations, and marrying jewelry with the worlds of art and film. She was instrumental in the development of LoveGold's digital brand, which was recently nominated for a GEM Awards for communications. LoveGold, which features gold jewelry, the designers creating it and the people wearing it, was launched in January 2013. "My primary goal is to stimulate the demand for gold and make it relevant, exciting and inspirational," she said. "We will continue building the LoveGold community, which launched in China over the summer and is about to go into India." Morrison pointed out the huge opportunities in those two countries, where there is massive gold consumption. "The Chinese consumers are very engaged on the site, and hungry for designers that aren't available there, so we see huge potential," said Morrison. The company has a bridal brand called Azra in India that specializes in modern lifestyle pieces that can be worn after the wedding.


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From Conservapedia
Ontology is a branch of metaphysics that focuses on existence, being, or the philosophy of reality, and includes the ontological argument for the existence of God, and such questions as the source of the Universe.
A synonym of ontology is 'state of affairs'. Though the latter term often is used in a more flexible sense of both real and absurd imagination, to ask of the ontology of, say, roses is to ask 'what is the state of affairs which is rose-ness?'