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Representatives Barney Frank (D-Mass) and Mike Capuano (D-Mass) introduced a bill Thursday night that would merge the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The idea of merging the two market regulators has been floated in the past, most recently during the negotiations over the Dodd-Frank Act following recommendations made by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in a 2008 report on modernizing regulation. At the time Rep. Frank rejected the idea as one that would prevent a comprehensive regulatory reform bill from moving forward. "Had we sought to merge those institutions in the overall financial reform bill, it would almost certainly have caused the defeat of that that legislation," Frank noted in a statement on the proposed merger. "Now that the basic policies have been adopted to cover security and derivatives regulation we can focus on the structural issue."
Earlier this month the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations reintroduced the idea of a merger in its report on the MF Global default. The report criticized the two regulators for lack of coordination and noted, "The apparent inability of these agencies to coordinate their regulatory oversight efforts or to share vital information with one another, coupled with the reality that futures products, markets and market participants have converged, compel the Subcommittee to recommend that Congress explore whether customers and investors would be better served if the SEC and the CFTC streamline their operations or merge into a single financial regulatory agency."
The idea of a merger between the two agencies brought a sharp rebuke from Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan), the ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee.
A chief stumbling block in past efforts to join the agencies has to do with turf, as the CFTC falls under the Agriculture Committee and the SEC under Financial Services.
Roberts noted in a statement quoted in Politico, "The CFTC has already made changes in an effort to prevent this from even happening again. I don't see how merging two regulators who regulate different aspects of our economy would have made any difference in Governor Corzine's bad decisions or in preventing such a problem in the future."
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla) also rejected the notion of merging the two agencies following the recommendation in the Financial Services report, suggesting Congress should concentrate on holding those responsible for the MF Global debacle accountable instead of discussing a "hypothetical merger."
Lucas added, "Customers are still waiting on their money to be returned and have no idea if they will ever be made whole."
Opinions on the proposal appear not to be split so much along party lines as along committee jurisdictional lines.
Gerry Corcoran, Chairman and CEO of RJ O'Brien, says, "I would think the idea is worthy to explore, but nearly impossible to happen in the near term given the urgent need to incorporate Dodd-Frank regulation into the futures industry."
CME Group has consistently opposed such a merger. The Intercontinental Exchange had no comment.
Frank added, "The existence of a separate SEC and CFTC is the single largest structural defect in our regulatory system. Unfortunately, this is deeply rooted in major cultural, economic and political factors in America...I file this bill now because I believe it is time for this to be on the agenda of the next Congress."


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We've all had the experience, usually as young children or adolescents, of discovering for the first time something that gives us such intense pleasure that it immediately becomes all we want to do. Cartoons, video games, candy, masturbation--these things when first experienced enslave the imagination and subjugate the will. Ordinarily we have parents or other role models nearby to warn us against overindulgence, to guide us toward healthy enjoyment of our pleasures. However, parents can't be everywhere all the time, and occasionally a kid will find himself at a circus with ten dollars in his pocket and a cotton candy vendor right in front of him, or home alone with a brand new container of Vaseline and the inside scoop on where Dad keeps his Playboys. When this happens, the child in question must learn the hard way--through stomachaches or painfully stretched genital tissue--the previously unfathomed value of restraint.
Watching Fury of the Wolfman, I get the feeling that director José María Zabalza was unwittingly teaching a young Jacinto Molina just this lesson.
Any fan of Paul Naschy's knows what an exuberant, passionate, explosively creative force of nature he is. In fact he's at his best when throwing caution to the winds and letting his fervent imagination bring all his childish enthusiasm for the gothic and epic monster battles to the fore. But never have I seen that force so wildly unrestrained as in 1972's The Fury of the Wolfman.
It's like a Naschy hurricane. It's an eruption of Molina. It's the molten nuclear core of the Naschy reactor opened up and pushed to meltdown. And like an overindulgence of cotton candy or an overzealous bout of self-abuse, it leaves the viewer feeling a little achy and sick.
But not before it makes you feel so, so good.
Molina took writing credit for this movie, and as is typical his script is overflowing with ideas that Zabalza jams onto the screen so fast and furious that the movie's tone is absolutely breathless. In fact, there's so much going on that, for a long flashback sequence near the beginning when Professor Waldemar Daninsky is telling his young wife Erika about the fate of the arctic expedition of which he is the lone survivor, Zabalza apparently decides there's too much going on to fit on one screen--so he stages the flashbacks in double-exposure, with two different scenes going on in the same frame at the same time! While the effect is interesting, it's also nearly impossible to follow. Still, the ghostly low-angle shot of Paul writhing in his yeti-bite-induced illness (?), his pecs cresting like the Tibetan mountains as other figures carry on in the background, is definitely one that will stick with you.
*As seen on Cold Fusion Video Reviews! Crack open a cold one today!
I'm not sure what subject Prof. Waldemar teaches, but apparently it's one that requires both arctic expeditions AND lectures delivered to students whilst dissecting a corpse. He's a scholar of wide-ranging interests, obviously.
Paul's got problems at home, however. After visiting with Dr. Ilona he finds a note in his car from an anonymous source with evidence that his wife has been fraternizing with students--fraternizing like a mad minx, apparently. Distraught, he drops the car in gear and floors it toward the Daninsky abode--not realizing that the note was placed there by Erika's lover, who has also tampered with the brakes! Careening out of control, Paul goes off the edge of a cliff; elsewhere, Erika and her hunky humptoy celebrate their newfound freedom.
But wait! It'll take more than a half ton of twisted metal and the puny force of gravity to stop the Mighty Mighty Molina! Surviving the crash, Paul drags himself home only to surprise his wife and the student in flagrante delicto. He transforms (though not immediately--there's an odd pause there where he just kinda hangs out) and kills them both, then takes off through the catacombs in full animalistic majesty. However, when the werewolf inexplicably picks up a downed power line (!?!?) he is shocked back to human form and apparent death.
The university mourns the passing of Professor Daninsky and the strange deaths of his student and wife (by wild animal attack, it seems!), and Professor Ilona demands a moment of silence in his honor. But her reading of the Tibetan parchments has taught her much, and she knows that Paul can be killed neither by electricity nor conventional weaponry. On a dark and stormy night she hires two grave robbers--in suits!--to dig up Paul's grave and free the beast within for her own nefarious experiments.
I should point out that at this point we're only 26 minutes into the movie. Fasten your seatbelts, we're just warming up!
(?) where she has employed an all-Eurobabe staff of scientists (!) to watch over her stable of chained lunatics (?!) while she tries to control the resurrected werewolf via chematrodes. Meanwhile, a mysterious masked figure in a cape is prowling around the lab, like the Phantom of the Opera but unconcerned with stealth, and no one seems to care.
In the ensuing madness Paul is befriended by Karen, a Eurobabe assistant with a conscience, and in short order the two find themselves imprisoned in the castle, the doors "hermetically sealed." (!?!?) But the seal is not enough to keep out a group of hippie squatters who break in to stage an orgy in the crypt (?!?!?!?!?!?!). The lunatics down there--among them an articulate Spanish dwarf--are loosed by the compassionate Karen, because...ah, who knows why? Soon the lunatics are raping the Eurobabe science staff, Paul goes on a kill-crazy hippie-axing rampage (not even in wolf form!), the identity of the Phantom is revealed, and we learn that Dr. Ilona has brought the corpse of Erika--Paul's wife from way back at the beginning, you might remember--to the castle as well.
The moon comes up, Erika is resurrected and wolfs out, and we're treated to perhaps the first married-werewolf-couple battle in film history! But does Karen love Paul enough to end his curse? Or is there some other twist here?
And what's crazy is, there's a whole other subplot with some Spanish detectives that I haven't even had time to talk about!
While I was entertained immensely by this movie--bursting into maniacal laughter every ten minutes or so--I couldn't help feeling that it was almost TOO MUCH Naschy. It was all the great things we love about Molina movies, but turned up to fifteen and kicked another football field length further from narrative logic than usual. (The only thing missing was the nekkidity, for the print we have here is obviously a cut one. According to imdb there's another version with those scenes intact, under the title The Wolfman Never Sleeps. So watch for that!) I loved it, but eventually even I was saying, "No, Paul, pull out! You've GONE TOO FAR!"
Apparently a great deal of the cause for this is Zabalza. According to a few accounts I've found online, the director was a chronic alcoholic, and was sometimes so drunk on set that his 14-year-old nephew stepped in to tell the crew "what his uncle wanted." Yes, a 14 year old actually directed some of this movie! Not only that, but the kid rewrote some of the dialogue as well, which was recorded in post-production as was usual for export-bound European flicks at this time. Rumor has it that Molina was so enraged when he saw the final product--which in addition to having his script changed and dialogue rewritten also sported the mystifying editing, some pick-up shots with another actor in Paul's werewolf gear (blasphemy!), and a whole werewolf attack scene lifted directly from Curse of the Devil (you'll recognize it when you see it--suddenly the victims are in period costumes!)--that he swore never to work with Zabalza again, and indeed never did. And in later movies, even when he put too much into the script to fit on the screen, I don't think Paul ever went quite THIS far again.
FotWM goes too far, that's not entirely a bad thing. It's entertaining, never boring, and sometimes quite surprising. It's chock full of weirdness from one end to the other, and if you're a fan of Naschy already, you'll be able to see echoes of many ideas from other films--the Tibetan monks for instance parallel the Eastern mystic of Vengeance of the Zombies, the "yeti" werewolf idea is revisited in Night of the Howling Beast (which I MUST SEE), and the "werewolf must be destroyed by one who loves him" is here given an interesting twist. Non-Naschy fanatics could perhaps be forgiven for writing this one off, but for connoisseurs of Molina's milieu, this is an entertaining oddity. I give it one thumb as a movie, but 2.5 as a Molina-Fan Freak-Fest.
In short, recommended!
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Monday, March 3, 2008
Fury of the Wolfman (1972): or, I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Village
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 11:07 AM
Labels: '70s, 2-3 thumbs, Hippies, Mad Science, Monsters Amok, Paul Naschy, That Famous Sampled Wolf Howl, Waldemar Daninsky, Werewolf
6 comments:
- Karswell said...
I reccomend this one too. I remember seeing werewolf pix of him in old monster mags long before I ever actually saw any of his films and thinking he was a great looking wolfman... and more from the "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" mold than the Chaney imitators.
- March 3, 2008 at 12:27 PM
- Nathan said...
Boy, those screencaps looks really familiar. Really, really familiar. Heck, you even used one of my captions to clinch it.
- April 28, 2008 at 5:13 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
You know what they say about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. But if you want to enforce a copyright, I'll gladly credit you.
- April 28, 2008 at 6:02 PM
- Nathan said...
Enforce? No. But a voluntary little "screencaps courtesy coldfusionvideo.com" would be ever so neighborly.
- April 28, 2008 at 9:19 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Done and done. For what it's worth, I actually grabbed the pic from google images without paying much attention to the caption, though I guess it must have registered subconsciously. Still, conscious or not, it's all yours, and is now credited as such.
Love your site by the way--even if we don't share the same opinion about this little Paul Naschy gem.
- April 28, 2008 at 9:50 PM
- Nathan said...
It may have been the lousy VHS tape I watched, lo those many years ago. (Or it may be that my consciousness wasn't as gol-darned expanded as it is these days.)
- April 29, 2008 at 1:01 AM

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|Manatee County Government Administrative Center Commission Chambers, First Floor 9:00 a.m. - June 18, 2013
Agenda Item #18
Salvatore and Fifetta Mannino, Code No. CE2005090636
Contact and/or Presenter Information
Joe Fenton, Division Manager, Ext. 6854
Action Requested
Motion to reduce the fines for this case to $2,337.00, (as previously recommended by the Special Magistrate on May 22, 2013), subject to the following conditions:
1. The reduced fines shall be paid within 30 days or will revert back to the original fine amount of $23,370.00 for CE2005090636.
2. Recording fees need to be collected, which total $20.00.
3. Building and Development Services Department Director is authorized to sign satisfactions of liens if the reduced fines are paid.
Enabling/Regulating Authority
Section 162.09, Florida Statutes (2009)
Background Discussion
Below is a summary of Code Enforcement Case No. CE2005090636 against Salvatore and Fifetta Mannino regarding property located at 5907 15th Street East, Bradenton (DP#1838710000):
County Attorney Review
Not Reviewed (Utilizes exact document or procedure approved within the last 18 months)
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I hear that. There are a few CW figures I want to get but all I can find are IG droids.
Smaller than Legacy, no pack ins, crap for articulation, and the same price as the Legacy assortment?!I smell greed.
Speaking from my many horrible years of working at Target. Unless Hasbro had the packaging for each line totally different, you can't have different price points on each line because as we all know the stuff mixes together, people would question prices, and it would be a giant pain. Too bad for Target maybe, but that's why they'd never do it in my opinion.
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Red Keep
The Red Keep is a castle containing the Iron Throne and is the home of the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. It is located in King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, where it sits on Aegon's Hill.
- 1 History
- 2 The Castle
- 3 Layout
- 4 Recent Events
- 5 Quotes
- 6 References
Aegon the Conqueror first set foot on Westeros in the area of King's Landing at the start of his War of Conquest. On the highest of the three hills of the area, named Aegon's Hill, he built his first fort of earth and wood,[1] the Aegonfort.[2] After the completion of the Conquest, Aegon ordered the construction of a permanent royal castle on the hill. The construction was completed during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen, who killed all those who worked on the castle to preserve its secrets.[1]
The Castle
- See also: Images of the Red Keep
The Red Keep is made of pale red stone. It has seven massive drum-towers crowned with iron ramparts. Massive curtain walls surround the keep, with nests and crenelations for archers.[1] Thick stone parapets, some four feet high, protect the outer edge of the wall ramparts, where the heads of traitors are traditionally placed on iron spikes between the crenels at the gatehouse. The walls have great bronze gates and portcullises, with narrow postern doors nearby. The immense barbican has a cobbled square in front of it. Behind the walls are small inner yards, vaulted halls, covered bridges, barracks of the gold cloaks, dungeons and granaries.
Inside, the Keep holds the Iron Throne, the seat of the monarch, and has several gathering halls, including the Great Hall and the Queen's Ballroom. Relics of the Targaryen dynasty, such as dusty suits of black armor and dragons' skulls, sit in hallways. Doors are made of oak banded with black iron. Rushes are used on the floors as the weather cools. Overall, the Keep is not particularly large, being smaller than Winterfell.
Maegor's Holdfast
Maegor's Holdfast is a massive square fortress inside the heart of the Red Keep behind walls twelve feet thick and a dry moat lined with iron spikes. It is a castle-within-a-castle. The royal apartments are in Maegor's Holdfast.[3] The king's bedchamber has twin hearths.
Queen's Ballroom
The Holdfast contains the Queen's Ballroom, a hall only half as big as the Small Hall in the Tower of the Hand. The Ballroom seats one hundred and has beaten silver mirrors behind the wall sconces which makes the torch's light seem twice as bright. Its walls are paneled with richly carved wood and it has a gallery above the main floor. High arched windows sit along the south wall.[4]
Tower of the Hand
The Tower of the Hand contains the chambers of the Hand of the King. Its Small Hall is a long room with a high-vaulted ceiling and bench space for two hundred.[5] The private audience chamber is not as large as the king's, but has Myrish rugs, wall hangings, and a golden-tinted round window that give it a sense of intimacy. The Tower also has a solar, and a garderobe. The tower has tall windows.[6] Below the tower is the chamber of the dragon mosaic.
The Maidenvault is a long, slate-roofed building located behind the royal sept. Its entry has two tall carved doors. Baelor I Targaryen confined his sisters there when he came to the throne, claiming it would prevent any carnal thoughts.[7] Mace Tyrell's court stayed there during their visit to King's Landing.[7]
White Sword Tower
White Sword Tower contains the chambers of the Kingsguard. It is a slender structure of four stories built into an angle of the castle wall overlooking the bay. A circular white room, known as the Round Room, has whitewashed stone walls hung with white woolen tapestries, and forms the first floor. A large white table (weirwood carved in the shape of a shield) with seven chairs provides a meeting space for the order. The undercroft holds arms and armor, the second and third floors hold the small sparse sleeping cells of the six brothers of the Kingsguard, and the topmost floor is given over to the Lord Commander's apartments. His rooms are sparse as well, but spacious, and they stand above the outer walls.[8]
Great Hall
The Great Hall is the throne room of the king. The Iron Throne sits on a raised iron dais with high and narrow steps. A long carpet stretches from the throne to the Hall's great oak-and-bronze doors. The Hall itself is cavernous, and can sit 1,000 people. It is oriented north to south, with high, narrow windows on the eastern and western walls. Skulls of the Targaryen dragons once adorned the walls, but Robert I Baratheon had them replaced with hunting tapestries at the beginning of his reign.[9]
Traitor's Walk
The Traitor's Walk is the squat, half-round tower that contains the entrance to the dungeons. The top floor holds the cells for the prisoners who were to be kept in a degree of comfort. The entrance to the dungeons sits on the ground floor of the tower, with the dungeons beneath the tower. Between the two prisons are rooms for the King's Justice, the Chief Gaoler and the Lord Confessor.[10]
The dungeon of the Red Keep has four levels. On the upper level are cells with high narrow windows where common criminals are confined together. The second level has smaller, personal cells without windows for highborn captives. Torches in the halls cast light through the bars. The third level cells, the "black cells", are smaller still, and have doors of wood so that no light enters them. These are reserved for the most vile and dangerous prisoners. The lowest level is used for torture. It is supposedly safer to go through the fourth level of the dungeons in darkness, because there are things one would not wish to see.[11]
Secret passages
The Red Keep has a network of secret passages and tunnels. King Maegor had them built to enable him to make a quick escape should his enemies ever trap him. The tunnels are supposedly full of traps. Some tunnels are of stone, while others are earth supported by timbers. Some of them are so small that a grown man must crawl through them. Some pass very close to other rooms in the Keep, allowing a hidden person to eavesdrop on conversations.[11] The bedchamber used by Varys contains a secret lever that causes a stone slab to float up and reveal a staircase.[12] One secret passage leads from the bedchamber of the Tower of the Hand to the outside.[11][13] There is also a secret way to get out of the Red Keep onto the cliffs facing the sea. Narrow handholds, impossible to see from the ground, have been cut into the rock so one may climb down to a trail beside the Blackwater.[14][15] Another passage out of the Red Keep leads to a sewer that empties into the Blackwater.[16]
Notably, Maegor's Holdfast is the only building in the Red Keep that has no secret passages, as Maegor "wanted no rats in his own walls", except for one secret escape door that does not connect to any other passage in the Red Keep.[12]
Characters familiar with the secret passages:
- King Maegor I Targaryen
- Cheese
- Lord Larys Strong
- Lord Varys
- Varys's little birds
- Lord Petyr Baelish
The godswood at the Red Keep is an acre of elm, alder and black cottonwood trees that overlook the Blackwater Rush. The heart tree is a great oak, whose limbs have become overgrown with smokeberry vines.[17]
The royal sept inside the Red Keep has crystal windows placed high in the walls. There are seven altars, one for each of the aspects of the Faith of the Seven.[4] It is located in front of the Maidenvault.[7]
The rookery is the home of the ravens used by maesters of the Citadel. The Grand Maester has his chambers beneath the rookery.[18]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Lost in the dark cellars of the Red Keep, Arya Stark overhears a conversation between two strangers to her, Varys and Illyrio Mopatis.[16] Queen Cersei Lannister has Lord Eddard Stark thrown into the dungeon of the Red Keep for plotting against King Joffrey Baratheon. The new king has the hunting tapestries of Robert Baratheon removed from the throne room.[19]
A Clash of Kings
The Tourney for King Joffrey's 13th Name Day is held in the Red Keep.[20]
During the Battle of the Blackwater, Sansa Stark and other ladies take refuge in the Red Keep's sept and the Queen's Ballroom.[4]
A Storm of Swords
Sansa marries Tyrion Lannister in the Red Keep's sept.[21]
King Joffrey receives wedding gifts in the Queen's Ballroom. Following his wedding to Margaery Tyrell at the Great Sept of Baelor, Joffrey dies at the reception in the throne room. Tyrion is blamed for Joffrey's death and is held in the dungeon. Sansa escapes the Red Keep with the assistance of the fool, Dontos Hollard.[15]
After he escapes the dungeon with the help of Varys and his brother, Ser Jaime Lannister, Tyrion kills his father, Lord Tywin Lannister, in the Tower of the Hand.[11]
A Feast for Crows
The Tower of the Hand is burned to the ground with wildfire by order of Queen Cersei Lannister in early 300 AC, after the death of her father, Tywin.[22]
A Dance with Dragons
The current Hand, Lord Mace Tyrell, plans to construct a replacement Tower of the Hand triple the size of the original. Ser Kevan Lannister and Grand Maester Pycelle are assassinated by Varys and his "little birds" in the Grand Maester's chambers below the rookery.[18]
|Aegon the Conqueror had commanded it built. His son Maegor the Cruel had seen it completed. Afterward he had taken the heads of every stonemason, woodworker, and builder who had labored on it. Only the blood of the dragon would ever know the secrets of the fortress the Dragonlords had built, he vowed.[1]
|The Red Keep has ways known only to ghosts and spiders. [23]
|The Red Keep shelters two sorts of people, Lord Eddard. Those who are loyal to the realm, and those who are loyal only to themselves. [23]
|Father said the Red Keep was smaller than Winterfell, but in her dreams it had been immense, an endless stone maze with that seemed to shift and change behind her.[16]
|No one knew the Red Keep better than the eunuch.[8]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 18, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, King's Landing.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 47, Eddard XIII.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 22, Arya II.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 39, Eddard X.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 6, Sansa I.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 67, Jaime VIII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 43, Eddard XI.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 27, Jaime III.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 77, Tyrion XI.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 12, Tyrion II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 1, Tyrion I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 20, Eddard IV.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 61, Sansa V.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 32, Arya III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 25, Eddard V.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 A Dance with Dragons, Epilogue.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 2, Sansa I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 28, Sansa III.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 12, Cersei III.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 30, Eddard VII.


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National Science Foundation funds $2.1 million soybean disease project at ISU
Identifying genes essential for the soybean plant's defense against three major diseases will be the aim of a new $2.1 million research project led by Iowa State University.
'MythBusters' host to take audience behind the scenes of popular science show
Grant Imahara of the Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" show will speak at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Stephens Auditorium at the Iowa State Center. Doors open at 6 p.m. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Carly Fiorina appearance at Iowa State postponed
Carly Fiorina's Iowa State appearance as the Fall 2008 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics -- originally scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 16 -- has been postponed. Fiorina's lecture will be rescheduled for a later date (to be announced).
Iowa State study finds mom's beliefs may impact their kids' alcohol use
An ISU research team found when mothers helped their kids develop a self-view that doesn't include alcohol, those adolescents drank less. Their study was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a professional journal of the American Psychological Association.
New beef irradiation process improves appearance, odor of irradiated beef
An ISU researcher has found that adding certain natural products to beef before irradiating it allows the meat to maintain a healthy, red appearance and inhibits off-odors.
Iowa State economists' report puts face on state's immigrant population
Economists Dave Swenson and Liesl Eathington of ISU's Regional Capacity Analysis Program examined a representative sample of more than 16,000 Iowans from the 2006 U.S. Census to make projections on Iowa's foreign and native-born populations. They found that the state's immigrant population is much different than what many people believe.
Team PrISUm to show off car that raced 2,400 miles on sun power
Team PrISUm is inviting sponsors, friends and the public to its garage from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, to show off Sol Invictus, the team's $400,000, 1,400-watt solar race car. The garage is located on the south side of Iowa State University's Sweeney Hall.
Iowa State University fall enrollment is 26,856; fourth-highest on record
Student enrollment at Iowa State University is 26,856, an increase of nearly 2.7 percent (or 696 more students) compared to fall 2007.
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Author and reporter Sonia Nazario to speak Sept. 23
Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sonia Nazario will speak on "Enrique's Journey and America's Immigration Dilemma," at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in the Memorial Union Sun Room. The event is free and open to the public.
Author Adrienne Rich to speak, Sept. 22
Adrienne Rich, writer, award-winning author, poet and feminist icon, will speak at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, in the Memorial Union Great Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
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Bonobos may have greater linguistic skills than previously thought
What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? The findings, published this month by Iowa State Ph.D. student Janni Pedersen in the Journal of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, indicate that bonobos may exhibit larger linguistic competency in ordinary conversation than in controlled experimental settings.


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STOCKTON - Alyssa Arrington's eyes widened as she opened her gift. The wrapping came off, and a cushiony, toasty-looking purple coat with a faux fur collar was revealed.
STOCKTON - Alyssa Arrington's eyes widened as she opened her gift. The wrapping came off, and a cushiony, toasty-looking purple coat with a faux fur collar was revealed.
"It's cute," 8-year-old Alyssa said to one of her friends. "My mom has to be careful about washing it."
Similar scenes were repeated more than 350 times Thursday morning in the multi-use room at Spanos Elementary.
What began in November as a campaign by third-grade teacher Devyn Lach to bring warmth into the lives of the coatless children in her classroom had ballooned by the week before Christmas into a schoolwide success story that will stop the shivering at Spanos this winter.
"I'm happy I'm able to do something to give back to my community," said Lach, who turns 30 today. "It makes me feel good inside to know I'm doing something special for the students in my school, who I care deeply about."
Spanos Elementary is next to Gleason Park in south Stockton. The neighborhood is crime-riddled, and virtually all of Spanos' 500 students qualify for free and reduced-price meals, a key indicator of poverty.
More than one month ago, Lach began spreading the word about her coat drive on Facebook. Lach's media-savvy sister, Dayna, who lives in Southern California, kicked things up a notch by contacting television and print reporters to drum up additional publicity.
Promises of coats began flooding in, and the biggest contribution came from the Alex and Faye Spanos Family Foundation, which donated $10,000 in Target gift cards.
"It's a school that has a lot of needs," said Natalia Orfanos, the Spanos family's director of special projects and communications. "That's a very basic need, to stay warm. It was a no-brainer."
Lach, who plans to do this again next year, was very specific in her instructions to individual coat contributors. Each gift-giver was given the name of a specific child for whom to buy a coat, along with their size and requested color.
Lach also asked her contributors to donate new coats because, she said, many Spanos students seldom receive anything that is brand new and just for them. And to make sure her students learned from the experience, Lach required her students to fill out thank-you notes before receiving their coats.
"The response has just been beyond expectations," Spanos Principal Danielle Valtierra said. "The kids are just overjoyed and excited. It's just remarkable. There are not enough adjectives to describe it."
Darrian Zanini, 9, was snug and smiling after slipping on his coat.
"I'm very excited," he said. "Blue is my favorite color. It zippers up, then it buckles up, and you can buckle up the hood, too."
Asked if he felt warmer in his new gear, Darrian gave a two-word reply.
"Beyond warmer," he said.
Contact reporter Roger Phillips at (209) 546-8299 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/phillipsblog.


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CHARLESTON, Ill. (AP) JT Yoho scored 14 points and Kendall Griffin added 11 to lead Wright State to a 56-44 victory against Eastern Illinois on Tuesday night.
Reggie Arceneaux had 10 points, and Yoho and Matt Vest grabbed eight rebounds each for the Raiders (2-0).
Alex Austin scored 11 points and Sherman Blanford 10 for the Panthers (0-2), who could not overcome a cold-shooting first half.
Wright State led 32-17 at halftime after Eastern Illinois shot just 25 percent (6 of 24) from the floor in the first 20 minutes.
A 3-pointer by Yoho - who was 3 for 4 from behind the arc - stretched the Raiders' lead to 47-27 with 8:18 remaining.
Wright State outrebounded the Panthers 37-24.


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Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,I was in the process of writing this letter when Brad Helbert asked me to send him something documenting the response to Mitchell County by the Big Country Medical Reserve Corps. I was so impressed with how many people came out to help and how effective they were intent on being. Because of the excellent response, all of the residents had a place to stay that night with cots, blankets, pillows and sheets. I witnessed the MRC volunteers spontaneously helping anyone that needed it. I would especially like to thank Russell and Roy High for driving their own vehicles over to get the supplies needed and hauling them to Colorado City, twice, so that the shelter operations could commence. Russell has worked with us before by hauling drinking water to the wildfires we had in the state years ago during the Cross Plains and panhandle fires. I feel we are truly blessed to have such willing and able volunteers that step up anytime there is a need. That is what makes Sweetwater and Nolan County such a great place to live.Grant MaddenFire Chief/Emergency Services DirectorSweetwater Fire Department


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True Grit as True Grist for Exploration of the Western Novel
The Old West occupies a relatively short era in American history, and it is in that colorful period that Charles Portis' True Grit unfolds. To get the ball rolling on this year's Big Read, scholar Tom Averill examines how the novel depicts those years and the characteristics that unite all Westerns – among them coming-of-age stories and themes of diversity and racism, violence and genocide, and justice.
Averill is a professor of English at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, where he is writer-in-residence. He is author of three novels: rode, Secrets of the Tsil Café, and The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson. He has received the O. Henry Award for his short story collections.


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Ke$ha: Bikini Babe in Australia!
UPDATE: Apologies, images removed!
Ke$ha hits the beach in a black bikini on Wednesday (November 10) in Sydney, Australia.
The 23-year-old singing sensation had her new song, "Sleazy," covered by Ben Folds at a show in Columbus, Ohio earlier in the week! A concertgoer said that Ben wanted to cover the most popular song at the time, so he went on iTunes and picked out "Sleazy"!
"HOLY S—. dream come true. this is TRULY amazing," Ke$ha tweeted.
Ben Folds Covers 'Sleazy'


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Out of the Woodwork: But Aren't You a Woodworker?
It's not a hobby if it isn't fun.
By Ethan Sincox
Page: 80
From the December 2009 issue #180
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Last year, my wife and I bought our first house together. Right after closing, with the help of friends, we pulled carpet, painted, moved walls and relocated plumbing. Rooms took on different shapes, the floors gleamed in wide plank hardwood and new ceiling fans quietly circulated fresh air in almost every room.
But the kitchen remained pretty much untouched. We knew our limitations, both in finances and in stamina, and didn't want to bite off more than we could chew. We decided to hold off on its renovation until a later date.
Apparently, that time has come. For the past few months, we've pored over catalogs and design books, trying to figure out what kind of look we want for the new heart of our house. We even got bids from some local stores and talked to a friend about custom cabinets.
And I always get the same look from people when I tell them that.
From the December 2009 issue #180
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Monday, June 20, 2011
23 comments:
Viennese Melange??ReplyDelete
No glass of water with spoon on top sadly :(
Vienna owns that one! :)
WOW Carol!ReplyDelete
Love the painting. As so often with your art, something "Cezannesque"
about the strokes. Love all the colorful pics. And what a charming
and elegant young woman your niece is, and that simple salad looks yummy.
Gotta' try it today.
Mille-feuille owes you a debt of extreme gratitude!!! And I owe Mille-feuile a debt of gratitude for luring you back to les patisseries!!!! Too much restraint is NPT good for PB!!ReplyDelete
Lovely watercolor, comme toujours. I made a big salad very like this one today for lunch here at work, only I used brown rice. (Just joined weightwatchers, and I'm being very healthy and good.)ReplyDelete
Looks delicious! I always thought that I would dislike macarons but I found a great place called Sandrine's in the Okanagan last year and I finally tried a few...and then a few more. My favourite so far is definitely any kind of berry flavour or chocolate which I suppose really covers almost all of them. They go great with a glass of champagne.ReplyDelete
The Wanderfull Traveler
hey those macarons look good! (so did the multi-colored ones in the last post!) but the mille-feuille would have to be made test case: my absolute fave pastry when living in france.ReplyDelete
Carol, this is wonderful. I love how you've captured the charm of Paris in NYC. I can just hear the French saying "brrounee" from that blackboard. That mille feuille definitely looks perfect. Don't tell me you had to eat that macaron for the photo shoot? :-) Going to check out your niece's recipe. She rocks (no kidding, with the perfectly talented Auntie!)ReplyDelete
Wonderful post today! I also went to your niece's eHow site for the first time-- love her method of salad making! Merci beaucoup, Carol!ReplyDelete
Ah, I read about this place in the NYTimes, I want to see how it compares to the pastry shops here in Paris!ReplyDelete
I had a big salad for dinner.ReplyDelete
Which would have been fine, except there were no macaroons served to me post lettuce. Even a madeline would have done. I would love to try their madelines. Did you have one?
I hope they take euros & find someone w/that pretty French writing to mark prices. Thanks for the news item, Carole (& bear?)ReplyDelete


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24-year-old gas station clerk dies in Streamwood stabbing
A gas station clerk was stabbed and killed during an apparent robbery early Saturday in Streamwood, police said.
Authorities identified the victim as 24-year-old Anandkumar Jaiswal of the 0-100 block of North Park Boulevard in Streamwood.
Police and fire personnel found him bleeding from his chest at 4:36 a.m. Saturday while responding to a call at the Thornton's gas station, 2 N. Barrington Road, Streamwood Police Deputy Chief Jim Gremo said.
Jaiswal had been repeatedly stabbed and was bleeding "profusely," authorities said. Paramedics took him to St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates, where he was pronounced dead at 5:28 a.m. Police said family members were notified Saturday morning, and an autopsy was scheduled for Sunday.
Thornton's was offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest. Police released three surveillance photos showing the suspect, who was dressed in dark clothing, wore one white shoe and one dark-colored shoe, and had his hands and face covered.
Police described him as between 5 feet 9 inches and 6 feet tall. Video captured him taking money from a cash register, and Gremo said robbery "seems to be the motive."
At about 11 a.m., police were at the scene pulling video from the gas station's security camera.
The auto strip mall on the northwest corner of Barrington and Old Church roads was cordoned off with yellow police tape, and several squad cards blocked off the entrances all morning.
No customers were allowed in, and most of the businesses were closed.
Jack Shields, assistant manager at Casey Automotive in the strip mall, said he was shocked to hear about the stabbing when he got to work at 7:15 a.m. Most of the store's 11-member crew was sent to other stores, and Shields planned to close up at 12:30 p.m.
"It's tough because most of our employees go over there once or twice a day to get pop or coffee," he said. "You get to know all the employees."
Shields said he's worked at suburban gas stations in the past. "On the overnight shift, there is always a bit of uncertainty," he said.
Shital Shah, who lives on Williamsburg Drive, said he usually gets gas at the Thornton's station. His kitchen window faces Barrington Road with a full view of the gas station, and he and his family watched police activity all morning.
"We were worried seeing what's going on there," he said. "We definitely feel a little bit unsafe right now."
Members of the major case assistance team are assisting Streamwood police in the investigation, Gremo said.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Streamwood Police Department investigations division at (630) 736-3700. Confidential and anonymous information can be left on the crime tip line at (630) 736-3719.
The village's last homicide was the November 2011 strangulation death of a newborn baby boy inside a restroom at a Salvation Army store. The child's then-19-year-old mother, Jessica Cruz of Hanover Park, has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and concealment of a homicide.
Daily Herald staff writer Josh Stockinger contributed to this report.


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Kotaku: Electronic Arts Inc. today announced that John Riccitiello will step down as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors, effective March 30. The Board has appointed Larry Probst as Executive Chairman to ensure a smooth transition and to lead EA's executive team while the Board conducts a search for a permanent CEO. The Board will consider internal and external candidates with the assistance of a leading executive search firm.
I wonder was he forced to step down?many companies are known for these type of actions when expected profit is not being made.
what a great day for gamers.
that's call for Celebration
F to you Johnny.
"A few years ago the game you bought was the game you got"


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What to Do In and Around Detroit
City of Southfield
Purpose is to provide safe, educationally challenging, convenient leisure opportunities, utilizing public open space and quality leisure facilities to enhance the quality of life for Southfield's total population that might not otherwise be available.
Detroit Institute of Arts
Considered to house one of the best art collections in the United States, the Institute showcases everything from mummies to modern art and African masks to Monet in its outstanding collection of over 65,000 works. Don't miss the General Motors Center for African American Art, a part of the DIA which showcases 400 pieces, in various media, by African American artists.
North American International Auto Show
The Auto Show makes it's appearance at the beginning of every year and also debuts more new and concept cars than any other auto show in the world. Living in the automotive capital of the world, it is practically a sin to not visit the Auto Show at least once in your lifetime!
Tiger's Game
Baseball is an American tradition and the new Comerica park makes ballgames even more enjoyable for the people of every age! Peanuts and hotdogs, anyone?
Located on the city's southwest side at the foot of the Ambassador Bridge, Mexicantown is Detroit's small, but thriving Hispanic community. With a few very popular eateries along the neighborhood's main strip, it is a great place to find some authentic Mexican cuisine.
Belle Isle
Belle Isle has something to offer everyone so there is no excuse for staying away. It is now a clean, safe, prospering park where a family could easily spend an entire day swimming, fishing, playing at the playground and huge slide, biking and more!
The Renaissance Center
The Renaissance Center is an icon for Detroit growth and revitalization. Located on the Detroit River, GM Renaissance Center overlooks Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The view is spectacular from the Wintergarden, a five-story atrium designed for retail and restaurants. The RenCen also boasts one of the tallest hotels in the world, the Marriott Renaissance.
Motown Historical Museum
The museum exhibits trace the roots of Motown's remarkable story and chronicle its impact on 20th century popular culture and musical styles. The story begins with Berry Gordy, Jr. and a small house in Detroit that he christened, Hitsville USA (now home to Motown Historical Museum). The story continues as Motown evolves into a major entertainment enterprise that was among the most diverse and influential in the world.
Henry Ford Museum
The Henry Ford is the history destination that brings the American Experience to life. With a rich and diverse offering of exhibits, demonstrations, programs and reenactments, The Henry Ford celebrates yesterday's traditions as well as today's innovations. Five distinct attractions at The Henry Ford captivate and inspire visitors of all ages.
The Detroit Zoo
The Detroit Zoo is one of Michigan's largest family attractions, hosting more than 1.4 million visitors annually. Situated on 125 acres of naturalistic exhibits, it provides a natural habitat for more than 3,300 animals representing 280 species. The Detroit Zoo was the first zoo in the United States to use barless exhibits extensively.
Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is the world's largest institution dedicated to the African American experience. The Museum provides exhibitions and programs that explore the diversity of African American history and culture, and it houses over 30,000 artifacts and archival materials.
Detroit Historical Museum
The Motor City Exhibition, where visitors see how a Cadillac is assembled, is just one of the many interesting displays at this museum dedicated to telling the story of Detroit.
The People Mover
The Detroit People Mover (DPM) is a fully automated light rail system that operates on an elevated single track loop in Detroit's central business district. The system provides connections between sports arenas, exhibition centers, major hotels, and commercial, banking, and retail districts.
Detroit Science Center
Science is made fun and exciting in this hands-on, interactive science center, which introduces science, engineering and technology in ways that children can understand. Complete with an IMAX® Dome theater, the center underwent a huge expansion and renovation in 2001.
Eastern Market
This open-air farmers market is over 160 years old, declared a historic area in 1977. The experience of shopping at Eastern Market can not be compared with anything else. The enormous variety of locally grown and made products and produce in one open area is truly amazing!
Red Wings Hockey
Hey, Hockeytown! With the number of times the Stanley Cup has found its home in Detroit, there is no excuse for not supporting our hometown team and catching an always-exciting Red Wings hockey game at Joe Louis Arena, Detroit's largest indoor venue.
Greektown is a one-of-a-kind experience. Between the shopping at Trapper's Alley to the flaming cheese at any number of Greek restaurants, you will walk the streets with the distinct feeling of what life might have been like for Greek immigrants to Detroit long ago!
For more events in and around Detroit, check out Visit Detroit, and the Metro Times.


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The hearty, slow-simmered dish.
"We would prefer not to serve cassoulet," said legendary winemaker Alain Brumont over lunch at his club-like restaurant, La Table de Bouscassé in Madiran, France. "First of all this isn't the right city for cassoulet. But more importantly, here in the southwest, we are trying to escape the clichés."


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Cy Young Award winners Roy Halladay and Justin Verlander made their spring training debuts Sunday as the Philadelphia Phillies and Detroit Tigers tied 5-5 in 10 innings.
Both aces allowed a run and struck out two in two innings.
Victor Martinez had a big day at the plate for the Tigers, going 3 for 3 with a home run off Halladay. Martinez, who batted .330 with 102 RBIs for Detroit in 2011, missed last season with a left knee injury. He is batting .571 this spring.
Ryan Howard had two doubles and an RBI for the Phillies, who tied the score in the eighth on a homer by Domonic Brown.
AL MVP and Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera went 0 for 3, dropping his spring average to .111.


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Yeah, I agree, I gave up bothering commenting on them a while back. The quality of replies was fairly dire compared to the symposium.
They're mostly basically all the same since they deliberately pick the things where there is no black and white answer so the only right answer is "It depends, you needs a nuanced approach where you consider the specifics of your environment".
Though that recent one linked is pretty retarded in comparison (for precisely the reason Peter already indicated)


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Actress Jennifer Carpenter,who stars on Showtime's murder-centric "Dexter" with her husband, Michael C. Hall, has listed her Hollywood Hills bachelorette pad for $695,000.
The 1937 California bungalow, with two bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathrooms, was built as a hunting lodge. Surrounded by mature trees and landscaping, the cottage has vaulted ceilings, skylights and decks off the dining room and master bedroom. There is a flat lawn and canyon views.
Carpenter, 29, has played Dexter Morgan's sister, Debra, since 2006. The Emmy-nominated show, in its fourth season, centers on a forensics expert and serial killer played by Hall, 38. He also was one of the central characters in the ensemble drama "Six Feet Under" (2001-05).
She starred in the horror films "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" (2005) and "Quarantine" (2008) and will appear with John Cusack in the psychological thriller "The Factory" (2011).
Carpenter and Hall were married in December.
The listing agents are Stephen Placial of Sotheby's International Realty, Los Feliz, and Steve Clark of Deasy Penner & Partners, Beverly Hills.
Now he'll tee off somewhere else
Golf champ Fred Couples has sold his house in the Santa Barbara-area community of Montecito for $9.56 million.
The 11,000-square-foot, two-story Monterey colonial had been listed last year at $12.5 million. The main house, built in 1939, has nine bedrooms and 7 1/2 bathrooms. The 2,300-square-foot guesthouse has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a kitchen.
The 5-acre, ocean-view property includes a putting green, a tennis court, rose gardens and a swimming pool.
Couples, 50, purchased the home in 1999 for $4 million. The 15-time PGA Tour winner has relocated to La Quinta, Calif.
Sharon R. Fisher and Vickie G. Craig of Village Properties, Montecito, shared the listing with Dan Encell of Prudential California Realty, Montecito. Colleen Beall, also of Village Properties, represented the buyer.
It's something of a celeb magnet
A 1929 Los Feliz home once owned actor Cary Grant and, later, drummer Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers has come on the market at $3,495,000.
The Spanish Colonial Revival-style villa has four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a media room in 6,727 square feet. Details include original stained glass and period tile.
There are gardens, a swimming pool and an attached one-bedroom guest apartment.
Grant carried bride Virginia Cherrill, his first wife, over the threshold of this house, according to "Dream Palaces of Hollywood's Golden Age" by David Wallace.
The walled property last sold in 2006 for $3.2 million, public records show.
The listing agents are Mimi Starrett and Aaron Kirman of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills.
Film producer greenlights deal
Phoenix Pictures Chairman and co-founder Mike Medavoy and his wife, Irena,have purchased a Beverly Hills home for $5.85 million, the Multiple Listing Service shows.
The contemporary Mediterranean, built in 1965, has four bedrooms and seven bathrooms in about 6,200 square feet.
The one-story house has views of the city beyond the grassy backyard, which has a swimming pool and spa. There is a gated motor court and a four-car garage.
The property sold for $5.6 million in 2008 and had come on the market in February at $7.99 million.
The film producer had listed his custom-built Beverly Park mansion in March but withdrew it after a month and a half.
"We can't find anything we like out there more than where we are now," Medavoy said at the time. The six-bedroom, 10-bathroom East Coast traditional on 2 acres had been priced at $19,995,000.
The Medavoys have transferred the deed on that house, but details of the transaction were not available.
Medavoy, 68, has been at work on the movies "Shutter Island," directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and "Black Swan," directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman. Both are due out next year.
The Medavoys were represented by Joyce Rey and Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills, on their recent purchase, according to the MLS, and the listing agents were Lou Melazzo and Stephen Resnick of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills.
He has designs on a new project
Retired fashion designer Geary Roark has listed his Studio City home at $1,099,000.
The Robert Byrd-designed storybook ranch, built in 1953, has hand-hewn beam ceilings, built-in cabinets and a two-sided brick wall with a fireplace in the living room and a built-in barbecue with a rotisserie in the dining room.
There are three bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms in 1,894 square feet.
Roark grew up in Tennessee, and his father was a building contractor.
"I was really attracted to the craftsmanship in the house," he said, describing it as having "lots of wood and lots of character."
During his 27 years in the home, he has left his mark. "When I redid this house, step by step, I tried to think of the integrity of the house," said Roark, who used the home to entertain clients and major buyers. "The first thing I did was replace the carpet with flagstone."
Byrd is known for creating homes that make the most of their natural surroundings. "It's built on a hill, and designed for the lot, so when you come up the driveway, there are a series of steps, and on the second level you see the openness of the house," Roark said. "The inside and outside are all sort of one."
To continue the flow visually, Roark used broken concrete on the back patio and added retaining walls of stone from the site.
Now that he is no longer designing dresses, Roark, 61, plans to move to Palm Springs, where his daughter lives.
"I just want a new project -- something creative to do," he said.
Roark is looking for a home built between the late '40s and the mid-'60s. "There are some wonderful architectural homes there that, fortunately, have not been touched."
His dresses and suits have been worn on such TV shows as "Dallas" and "Hollywood Insider," at red-carpet events and by luminaries including Hillary Rodham Clinton and Oprah Winfrey. In his heyday, he had his own departments in such stores as Bullocks Wilshire and Neiman Marcus.
Bret Parsons of Prudential California Realty's Pacific Design Center office has the listing.


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STOCKTON - Multiagency cooperation and an influx of new cash are putting teeth into battling truancy in the Stockton Unified School District this year.
STOCKTON - Multiagency cooperation and an influx of new cash are putting teeth into battling truancy in the Stockton Unified School District this year.
In a letter sent to students and parents last week, Superintendent Steve Lowder and San Joaquin County District Attorney Jim Willett reminded adults that parents and guardians of truant students can face fines of up to $2,000 and a year in jail.
It goes on to tell older students that, for them, truancy enforcement can mean community service or the loss of driving privileges.
The laws are not new, but this year, prosecutors will be available to enforce them, though county and school officials said they didn't expect prosecution to be common.
"The only parents or students we're going to see going before a judge will be the worst of the worst," said Dee Alimbini, Stockton Unified's administrator for child welfare and attendance. "It is going to send a new message and add a new tone of seriousness we haven't utilized before."
The changes come with increased coordination among the school district, prosecutors and the county Board of Supervisors. It's an attempt to keep students in school today, where they can learn how to be successful and avoid committing crimes tomorrow. The changes are focusing only on Stockton Unified, though officials said it doesn't have to stop there. There is also a plan to increase involvement with San Joaquin County Superior Court.
The school district sent out the letters Wednesday. Next, the district plans to use its notification system to reach the community with a recorded message from Lowder and Willett.
Legal action for truancy can play a role in increasing attendance, but it should be the last - not the first - resort, said Hedy Chang, an expert on absenteeism and director of Attendance Works, a national initiative to address chronic absenteeism.
"The vast majority of parents will respond to positive messaging," she said.
Stockton Unified has a thorough system in place that the changes will strengthen, Alimbini said.
It starts with addressing challenges families face that sometimes stand between students and attending school. Intervention includes everything from home visits to counseling to group meetings about the importance of showing up for school, she said. "Every day your child misses, the more (the child) falls behind. When (parents) see what the ramifications are, attendance tends to improve."
Parents get a letter from the district after three unexcused absences and a second after six. When the third letter comes, at nine absences, it is considered a habitual problem. Attendance tends to improve after the first letter goes out.
Last school year, the district sent out 17,000 first letters, according to the district. More than two-thirds of the students improved their attendance after the first letter.
The district's attendance rate has been climbing, reaching more than 94 percent last school year, Alimbini said.
The new effort will focus more on the lower grades, because increasing attendance at that level can increase chances those children will learn the skills needed to get to - and finish - high school.
And finishing high school matters for the city. High school dropouts are 31/2 times more likely to be arrested and eight times more likely to be incarcerated than people who graduate, the District Attorney's Office said in a news release issued by county Supervisor Carlos Villapudua about the partnership.
"Truancy will lead into misdemeanors and will eventually become our next felons. For us, we want to be able to put a stop to it," said Villapudua, who represents a district including central and southern Stockton. He said he has been talking with the District Attorney's Office for the past two years about how the county government could help with truancy.
In June, the board approved the county government's $1.33 billion budget, then tweaked the spending plan to put an additional $500,000 into the District Attorney's Office budget, enough to pay for three prosecutors and two investigators.
It's unclear how much attention prosecutors will pay to truancy. Willett did not return a call Monday.
Villapudua said the District Attorney's Office committed to use some of the new resources to address truancy. And there's movement toward creating a new truancy court, too, he said, that could work like courts for drug offenders, where deferred sentences won't be served if behavior changes.
"We're just here to be, basically, an extra tool. And let the parents know ... there's a hammer there. There's a law, there's an obligation to keep your kids in school."
Contact reporter Zachary K. Johnson at (209) 546-8258 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/johnsonblog.


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The Challenge of Patient Identification and Patient Matching
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
A little bit before HIMSS, Healthcare Scene had the chance to sit down with a panel of experts on patient identification and patient matching, but I wasn't able to post that interview until now. This is such an important topic, so I was happy to learn from some real experts in the space.
In this interview we talk over the challenges associated with matching patients in healthcare and the damage that's done when you don't match the right patient. We also talk about the solutions to the patient identification and matching problem including the impact a national patient identifier would have on the problem. Finally, we talk over CHIME's $1 million National Patient ID challenge.
Here's a look at those who participated in the discussion:
- Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA, CEO and President of Just Associates
- Michael Trader, President of RightPatient
- John Lynn, Founder of Healthcare Scene
If you're interested in the challenge of patient identification and patient matching in healthcare, then you'll enjoy this discussion:
Also, after the more formal discussion we take some questions from the live audience in what we call the "after party." Plus we even dusciss Beth Just's new alter ego. Finally, we dive in deeper on the topic of patient identification and matching:


text: I spent a couple of hours on an Airush 17m Varial XR a couple of weekends ago. It was good fun, however I totally couldn't time my jumps. I'd load n pop and then what would feel like an eternity, wait for the kite to move. I know you advise the smallest bar and slowest settings for your Airstyle, but my kite was setup with the fastest turning speed on the kite and the longest bar and it was still unbelievably slow. I couldn't get much height but I hung and hung and hung. I couldn't time the redirection of the kite to ride away either. I need more time under the kite! Adapting to a bigger slower kite is harder than I thought!


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Consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) impressed Wall Street on Friday by more than doubling its fiscal second-quarter profits and hiking its full-year guidance above estimates.
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Shares of the maker of Tide laundry detergent and Bounty paper towels rallied 2% on the upbeat developments.
P&G, the world's largest consumer products maker, said it earned $4.06 billion, or $1.39 a share, last quarter, compared with a profit of $1.69 billion, or 57 cents a share, a year earlier.
Excluding one-time items, it earned $1.22 a share, up from $1.09 a year before and well above the Street's view of $1.11.
Revenue rose 2% to $22.18 billion, besting consensus calls from analysts for $21.91 billion. Organic sales grew by 3%, while gross margins expanded to 50.9% from 50.1%.
"Global market share trends improved as we continued to implement our growth strategy and made very good progress against our productivity and cost savings goals," CEO Bob McDonald said in a statement.
P&G pleased shareholders by raising its earnings targets, projecting fiscal 2013 non-GAAP EPS of $3.97 to $4.07. Even the conservative end of the new range would meet the Street's view of $3.97.
The maker of Duracell batteries and Pantene hair products also upped its organic-sales growth view to a range of 3% to 4%, compared with 2% to 4% previously.
For the current quarter, P&G is calling for non-GAAP EPS of 91 cents to 97 cents, compared with estimates from analysts for 95 cents. Organic sales are seen rising 3% to 4%.
P&G also said it now sees buying back $5 billion to $6 billion of its own stock, up from $4 billion to $6 billion earlier.
"Our strong first half results have enabled us to raise our sales, earnings and share repurchase outlook for the fiscal year, while we strengthen investments in our innovation and marketing programs," McDonald said.
Wall Street cheered the P&G news, bidding the Cincinnati-based company's shares 2.07% higher to $71.88 in premarket trading.
The rally should boost P&G's 2013 gain of nearly 4%, but the stock has picked up just 6% over the past 12 months, compared with 23% for rival Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL).


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Applications & White Papers for 5G Wireless Communications
Antenna Beam Characterization of 5G Mobile Devices and Base Stations Using the R&S®NRPM Over-the-Air (OTA) Power Measurement Solution
Radio frequencies in bands around 28 GHz are being discussed as candidates for mobile communications of the fifth generation (5G). Beam steering will be a key feature in the context of 5G. It will be a major challenge to test the beam steering capabilities of base stations and user equipment in every phase from research and development through production. Conducted measurements will be mainly replaced by over-the-air measurements of electromagnetic radiation. Rohde & Schwarz offers the R&S®NRPM Over-the-Air (OTA) Power Measurement Solution that perfectly fits such measurement needs.
Part of this solution are the R&S®NRPM-A66 antenna modules. They have integrated diode detectors. Thus, there are no cables between the antenna and the detector as in traditional setups. This avoids high and potentially unknown RF losses. The R&S®NRPM-A66 antenna modules with their integrated diode detectors are factory calibrated, which means that the user does not have to calibrate them to achieve highly accurate measurement results.
This application note contains theoretical background on OTA power and pattern measurements. It gives step-by-step instructions for the verification of the power level and the radiation pattern of a device under test (DUT) in comparison to a golden device, and it presents an approach for verifying the accuracy of beam steering.
Rohde & Schwarz presents the R&S®ATS1000 antenna test system, a highly accurate solution for testing 5G antennas up to mmWave frequencies in a mobile shielded chamber.
This application note shows how to use Rohde & Schwarz signal generators and analyzers for testing early 5G New Radio components, chipsets and devices. Methods for easy creation and analysis of custom OFDM are explained. The solution provides
● a single user interface for signal generation and analysis configuration
● Flexible OFDM configuration and signal generation incl. flexible pilot and data allocation
● User defined modulation schemes including complex scenarios, e.g. 5G NR PSS
Energy efficiency of RF Frontends (RFFE), especially transmitters, continues to gain greater prominence.
Meeting the efficiency challenge is increasingly difficult at higher operating frequencies and bandwidths, such as those proposed for 5G.
There is a group of transmitter RFFE architectures whose signal output is constructed from two, or more, efficiently generated components. This signal construction in effect, means that such architectures use predictive, post-correction linearization. Their predictive nature enables distortion to be completely eliminated.
The capabilities of multi-channel signal synthesis setups with R&S®SMW200A, in combination with the R&S®FSW analyzer enable measurement, hence development, of these types of transmitters.
The document focusses on devices for the 3.5 GHz NR (5G New Radio) candidate band, but its findings are equally applicable to developments and measurements for, for example, K-band satellite applications or mmW NR candidate bands, where efficiency is an even more crucial design target.
Phase stability over time is a key characteristic for phase-coherent signals. A common 1 GHz reference signal maintains high phase stability between the RF outputs of multiple R&S®SGT100A SGMA vector RF sources.
The new IP connection security analysis solution for the R&S®CMW500 platform identifies IoT and mobile communications devices' IP connection vulnerabilities in an early stage of development.
5G networks will need to offer more capacity and flexibility while lowering the operational expenses of the system. Two new technologies can simultaneously address both the increase in capacity and the increase in energy efficiency: Virtualization & Massive MIMO. This white paper provides an overview of test solutions addressing current and future requirements for antenna verification including both conducted and over-the-air (OTA) test methods, which result from applying Massive MIMO antenna technology.
This white papers complements the "Millimeter-Wave Beamforming: Antenna Array Design Choices & Characterization" white paper (1MA276) from Rohde & Schwarz, which introduces fundamental theory behind beamforming antennas and provides calculation methods for radiation patterns, a number of simulation results as well as some real world measurement results for small linear arrays.
The Doherty Amplifier continues to be rolled out in an increasing number of TxFE (Transmit Frontend) applications, as the quasi-linear amplifier architecture of choice.
The advent of 5G, with its inevitable microwave or millimeter wave air interface, increase the design challenges associated with its construction; not least of all because of the potential for increased dispersion in the constituent amplifiers and combiners.
This application note describes a measurement-based development methodology by which the Doherty Amplifier may be enhanced, increasing performance and/or performance bandwidth. This methodology is supported with a working example.
The methodology may also be extended to balanced, spatially combined and anti-phase (so called "pushpull" or "differential") amplifiers, the latter often itself nested in Doherty configurations.
The R&S®Quickstep sequencing software may be downloaded from:
Millimeter-wave bands are of increasing interest for the satellite industry and potential 5G bands.
Antennas for 5G applications make use of these high frequencies to incorporate a large count of radiating elements. These antenna arrays are essential for beamforming operations that play an important part in such next generation networks.
This white paper introduces some of the fundamental theory behind beamforming antennas. In addition to these basic concepts, calculation methods for radiation patterns and a number of real world measurement results for linear arrays are shown.
Widespread adoption of higher order modulation schemes, larger signal bandwidths and higher operating frequencies, to enable higher data throughput in communication links like 5G, places increasingly tough demands on the frontend. Signal fidelity is often enhanced with linearization.
The greater number of RF chains and signal bandwidth in 5G Frontends mean that DPD (Digital Pre-Distortion) may no longer be the default linearization choice; 5G Frontends will be completely different from their 4G predecessors.
The key metrics of Efficiency, Linearity, Bandwidth and Output Power remain, as does the question of how to optimally create the signal with just enough fidelity and power, with a minimum of wasted power. The solution set to that question, however, has never been greater.
Amongst other topics, this White Paper, (i) proposes a classification of Linearization schemes, (ii) introduces the hard limiter, (iii) illustrates linearization of an exemplary mmWave PA using non-DPD techniques, and (iv) introduces a class of linearized transmitters that create their signal and linearity from efficiently generated components.
Enhanced Mobile Broadband, Massive Machine Type Communication, Ultra-reliable and low latency communication have been identified as the requirements to be supported by the 5thGeneration of Mobile Communication, short 5G. 5G is extensively discussed in the wireless industry. A lot of research and pre-development is being conducted worldwide, including an analysis of the waveforms and access principles that are the basis for current LTE and LTE-Advanced networks.
In this application note we discuss potential 5G waveform candidates, list their advantages and disadvantages and compare them to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), which is used in LTE/LTE-Advanced.
Generation of wideband digital modulated signals in V-band and above is a challenging task and typically requires a set of multiple instruments. This application note aims at simplifying the task and looks into the analysis part as well. Latest signal and spectrum analyzers like the R&S®FSW67 are first to allow use in V-band up to 67 GHz without external frequency conversion. Up to 2 GHz of modulation bandwidth can be covered using the option R&S®FSW-B2000.
Former application note 1MA217 describes V-band signal generation and analysis up to 500 MHz modulation bandwidth. This application note expands modulation bandwidth to 2 GHz but also an alternative setup is used to cover the necessary bandwidth and to obtain enhanced purity in signal generation.
Verification of the spectrum allocation and in depth analysis of the transmitted signals is very important in many domains. For example, the IEEE 802.11ad standard makes use of approximately 2 GHz bandwidth in the 60 GHz frequency domain. Researchers and developers of Automotive radar discuss the 79 GHz frequency band with an available bandwidth of up to 4 GHz. Finally the upcoming 5G technology for cellular networks discusses the use of up to 2GHz signals in the cm and mm-wave frequency bands.
This technical evolution already indicates the need of signal measurement and analysis in the mm-wave domain with high bandwidth.
Therefore, this application note presents a method to measure and analyze signals with an instantaneous bandwidth of up to 2 GHz using new tools on the R&S®FSW Signal and Spectrum Analyzer platform in collaboration with an R&S®RTO Digital Oscilloscope.
This application note describes how to generate and analyze wideband digitally modulated signals in the mm-wave range.
Rohde & Schwarz measuring equipment and some 3rd party off-the-shelf accessories are used for both signal generation and analysis. Measurement results are shown which demonstrate the typical performance for millimeter wave signals in terms of error vector magnitude (EVM) and adjacent channel power (ACLR).
Two test setups and their measurement results on a commercial V-band transceiver module are presented.
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May 9, 2014Everyday
Ferragamo's Got A Brand New Bag!
Just when you thought things were winding down in the world of need-it-now bags, Salvatore Ferragamo is shaking things up with a brand new style, the Fiamma. Eponymously named for the founder's daughter, it's an ode to her legacy. This ladylike, structured satchel made its debut on the F/W 14 runway, but the fun starts this week as a video campaing announcing its arrival hits the internet and said bag hits the stores. A series of films featuring Roman princesses, Brazilian heiresses, and even a Who What Wear favourite, Langley Fox Hemingway, illustrate how iconic style is passed on throughout generations. To start your own family tradition, shop the collection here.
Salvatore Ferragamo Fiamma bag, from a selection, starting at $1650
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October 2010 Discusses 2009 prevalence rates of cigarette, alcohol, prescription drug, and illicit drug use among adolescents and discusses trends in use over time.
February 2013 Fewer teens are using cigarettes, alcohol, and most illicit drugs, according to NIDA's latest Monitoring the Future study. Troubling trends persist in marijuana use, however, and nonmedical prescription drug use remains a concern.
July 2012
Rates of adolescent cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking stood at historic lows in 2011, but marijuana use trended upward, according to the Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey.
July 2013 When the goal is to avoid using alcohol and illicit substances after being released from jail, it's who one's friends are that counts most. Self-control is important because it helps a person have the right kind of friends.
March 2008 Reports on results from a study showing that men and women with alcohol use disorders are more likely to report nonmedical use of prescription drugs than people who don't drink at all.
January 2014 NIDA grantee Dr. O'Brien was honored for his "exemplary personal commitment to French‒American relations as symbolized by … exceptional cooperation in science and in public health."
July 2014
Within the 2 weeks prior to responding to a nationwide survey, 28 percent of high school seniors were in a vehicle whose driver had been using marijuana or another illicit drug, or had drunk 5 or more alcoholic drinks.
January 2013 NIDA-funded researchers have gathered evidence that brief interventions can help adolescents move away from drug use. In a clinical trial, middle and high school students markedly reduced their substance use following two 60-minute sessions that combined motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy.
October 2009 Reports on a study investigating the effectiveness of a combined therapy of disulfiram and naltrexone for people who abuse cocaine and alcohol.
December 2010 Reports findings from a survey that revealed that although substance abuse is prevalent in jails and prisons, many correctional facilities do not offer detoxification services or therapies to aid in maintaining abstinence.


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Editor's Note: This scholarly study, "The Original Meaning of an Omission: The Tenth Amendment, Popular Sovereignty and "Expressly" Delegated Power," by Kurt T. Lash, is one of the finest examples of Tenth Amendment research available.
It was published in 2008 in the Notre Dame Law Review, which allows individuals and non-profit institutions to distribute it widely (please see copyright notice on the paper for full details).
Today, courts and commentators generally agree that early efforts to strictly limit the federal government to only expressly enumerated powers were decisively rebuffed by Chief Justice John Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland.
According to Marshall, the fact that the Framers departed from the language of the Articles of Confederation and omitted the term "expressly" suggested that they intended Congress to have a broad array of implied as well as expressly delegated powers.
As Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story later wrote, any attempt to read the Tenth Amendment as calling for strict construction of federal power was simply an attempt to insert "expressly" into the text. Today, Marshall's point regarding the significance of this omitted term is probably one of the least controversial claims about the original understanding of Tenth Amendment as currently exists in legal commentary.
It is also almost certainly wrong.
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, early Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase and numerous other members of the Founding generation regularly inserted into their description of federal power the very word that Marshall insisted had been intentionally left out. According to these Founders, Congress had only expressly delegated power.
Upon investigation, it turns out that this rephrasing of the Tenth Amendment actually reflects the original understanding of the text and its underlying principle. Completely missed by generations of Tenth Amendment scholars, the addition of the phrase "or to the people" to the Tenth Amendment ensured that the Clause would be read as a declaration of popular sovereignty.
According to this theory of government, the sovereign people were presumed to retain all powers not expressly delegated away. Repeatedly stressed by advocates of the Constitution as representing the proper construction of federal power, the principle of "expressly delegated powers" meant that Congress could utilize no other means except those necessarily or clearly incident to its enumerated responsibilities.
Consistently read in combination with the Ninth Amendment's declaration of the retained rights of the people, the Tenth Amendment was broadly understood to establish a rule of strict construction of federal power – the very interpretive principle rejected by John Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland.
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One of the nation's leading scholars of constitutional law, Professor Kurt T. Lash is honored as the newest recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he directs the Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law. Previously, he was the James P. Bradley Chair of Constitutional Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, CA.
Professor Lash focuses his scholarship on constitutional law, theory, and history, and his work has appeared in some of the top law reviews in the United States, including the Stanford Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, and Texas Law Review. His recent book, The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment, was published in 2009 by Oxford University Press.
Copyright, Kurt T. Lash, Notre Dame Law Review


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18 Points for CreativityI thought this was a pretty fun and unorthodox way to display your family tree.
(scrabble family board found here)
Perhaps it was a family of writers. I wonder if they argued over whose name was worth the most points.
But what do you do if you're a family of, say, whalers? How would you show off your ancestors? Or a family of haberdashers? You know, all those many, many families of haberdashers out there. . . .
What has your family done to display its roots?


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Elizabeth 1 (1558-1603)
This was a time of great social and cultural change in England. There were rich new developments in literature, sciences, medicine and the arts.
England was sending increasing numbers of ships to voyage overseas into unknown areas. Sea captains like Drake and Hawkins took every opportunity to capture the ships of other countries, especially those of Spain and Portugal. These men may have been seen as pirates or profiteers, depending which side you were on. The Queen did little to stop them.
So when the idea of a company trading with the East was first put to Elizabeth I she hesitated. She knew what her seamen were like and thought they might attack traders from other countries, especially the Portuguese and Dutch who were England's main rivals. But, on 31 December 1600 she gave a charter to The Company of Merchants in the City of London, granting them a monopoly of all English trade in Asia and the Pacific. This meant that no other English company or people were allowed to trade in that area.
When the first voyage of the East India Company embarked in 1601, it took with it a letter written by Elizabeth to the Sumatran Sultan Alauddin Shah.
James I of England (1603-1625) and VI of Scotland (1567-1625)
New styles of architecture were introduced in James I's reign, the Queen's House in Greenwich being an example. Unfortunately the Globe burnt down in 1613, but the theatre had become established by then.
When James came to the English throne, he was already James VI of Scotland. He needed money, and the Company seemed at times to be a good money-making venture. At other times it stood in his way. In 1603 James acquired large stocks of pepper. When the Company brought back tons of pepper from its first voyage, he tried to stop them selling it, so that he could make money on his own stock first.
In 1609 he launched one of the Company's ships. In that year he also gave the Company a new and better charter. He continued to take a lively interest in the Company for the rest of his reign. In return he received 'loans' which were never repaid.
It was during his reign that the Company's relations with India's Mughal emperors began, starting with an approach to Akbar.
Charles I (1625-1649)
The Company provided Charles I with a useful income. Charles I needed this money to help him fight the Civil War - the Crown was at war with Parliament, and eventually lost (Charles was beheaded and replaced by Oliver Cromwell). In a good year he could get as much as 20,000 in customs duties through the Company's trade. He could also obtain 'loans' for granting favours to the Company - one of these in 1641 was for ?60,000.
This didn't mean he was always a friend to the Company. He granted a charter to one ship, the Roebuck, allowing it to continue piracy near India. The Indians, seeing an English ship attack their cargo ships, wrongly imprisoned Company servants in Surat. To get them released, Charles had to write an apology to the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahangir.
Charles II's reign brought in a change from the drabness of the time of Cromwell. Once again fashion became important as did the theatre. More impressive buildings were built.
Charles II (1660-1685)
Soon after coming to the throne, Charles II gave the Company a new charter. The charter allowed the Company to fortify and colonize its factories, sending people, stores and ammunition. This meant they could build up their factories in India, which laid the basis for the future rule of India by the British. In 1662 Charles II signed the Treaty of Breda in which the spice island of Run was exchanged for the island of Manhattan. It was during the reign of Charles II that tea started becoming popular.
When Charles I was beheaded a period called the Commonwealth, when there was no king or queen but a Protector, started.
Oliver Cromwell (1649-1659)
Life changed greatly during Cromwell's rule. The leading Puritans simplified much of English culture, believing that many aspects of existing culture went against the teachings of the Bible. As they dressed in plain clothes they did not have the need for expensive fabrics such as silk. This led to a decline in the Persian silk trade. It was during Cromwell's reign that 'coho seeds' (coffee) were introduced into England's, and the first coffee house opened.


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Oct 28, 2008
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Tech soccer team wraps up the
2008 regular season on Wednesday with a non-conference match
against Lipscomb at 3 p.m. at Tech Soccer Field. The Golden Eagles
wrapped up Ohio Valley Conference play over the weekend, and earned
a bid to the OVC tournament for the first time since 2003.
Tech is 4-0 all-time against Lipscomb (4-11-3), last playing in 2007.
On Nov. 4, the Golden Eagles hit the road to face UT Martin in the opening round of the OVC Tournament. UTM beat Tech 1-0 in OVC regular season play on Oct. 24. The winner of the opening round game will face the no. 2 seed Eastern Kentucky in Murray, Ky. on Nov. 7. Tech beat EKU in head-to-head competion in the regular season.


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- Premier League
Fulham draft in Emanuelson on loan
Fulham have signed AC Milan's versatile left-sided player Urby Emanuelson on loan until the end of the season.
Emanuelson, 26, is equally comfortable playing at either left full-back or left midfield but has found first-team opportunities hard to come by at Milan.
Fulham boss Martin Jol has experience of Emanuelson from his time at Ajax - a stint that saw the player make 240 appearances and win the KNVB Beker three times as well as three Dutch Super Cups before moving to AC Milan in January 2011 and winning the Serie A title.
After the Premier League win against West Ham on Wednesday night, Jol said: "He can play left midfield, wide, play No. 10. I feel we need fresh legs. I coached him at Ajax. He is a skilful player, very agile. He is very mobile and quick."
Emanuelson was a member of the Netherlands squad that won the UEFA Under-21 Championship in 2006 and was voted best left-back in the UEFA team of the tournament. He has earned 16 caps for the Dutch senior side since making his debut against Republic of Ireland in 2006.
Emanuelson becomes Fulham's third signing of the window after Emmanuel Frimpong on loan from Arsenal and 19-year-old midfielder Chris David from Twente.
Fulham are also looking to sign Eyong Enoh from Ajax.
Ajax technical director Marc Overmars confirmed the interest in De Telegraaf but said: "The negotiations have yet to begin. There is nothing certain."
Fulham also strengthened their squad on Thursday with the loan signing of Bulgaria international defender Stanislav Manolev from PSV, while Eyong Enoh made it a trio of temporary deals as he completed a switch to Craven Cottage from Ajax with just minutes remaining before the window closed.


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A project partner in Vietnam, Do Thi Cuc, speaks about the General Business Project and how the volunteers have greatly supported her social protection centre.
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Our Care Project Coordinator, Anh Tran, explains how volunteers support local staff at the Care Placements. Australian volunteer Jasmine also talks about her daily tasks at the project and why she chose Vietnam.
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Two volunteers from Australia speak about their time in Vietnam on the Medicine project; they explain all the work done at their placement.
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Two volunteers speak about their International Development placement and describe what impressed them the most about this project.
Sally, the Volunteer Coordinator in Vietnam, and also a volunteer from Denmark speaks about the Care placement in Vietnam.
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Gina, from the United States, speaks about her Medicine placement in Vietnam and why she chose to volunteer abroad.
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The Country Director of Projects Abroad in Vietnam, Phuong Linh talks about her role and the projects in her country.
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