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It's a big week for shows at 9:30 Club as Outkast's Big Boi comes to town in support of his outstanding solo debut while Of Montreal and Janelle Monae team up for a cross-genre extravaganza. Comet Ping Pong also hosts a pair of top shows and Town Tavern welcomes back students the best way - with cheap beer.
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Over their 18-year partnership, Andre 3000 and Big Boi of Outkast evolved into specific and opposite archetypes, the balance of which made their work together so fascinating. As a solo artist, Big Boi sticks to his trademark style of nimble-tongued braggadocio, 'hood tales and party music. The crucial element of this consistency is that Big Boi gets markedly better at executing his already tight formula each time he sends a release to market. Where the Dungeon Family's original production style of Southern bounce hip-hop, electro-funk and rock was once seen as revolutionary, on Big Boi's first official solo album it's now effortless. "Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty" was delayed for three years, but it feels right on time. Dropping thundering club smash "Shutterbugg" as the first single is like throwing a knockout punch at the first round's opening bell. And to make sure his serious raps' bona fides were still respected, Big Boi dropped "General Patton," the aural equivalent of a horde of vikings riding to battle in low-riding Cadillacs. Everything on this album sounds really big, from the flirtations with pop on "Be Still" to raw heaters such as "You Ain't No DJ." Big Boi performs Wednesday night at 9:30 Club.
Sharon Van Etten could have made another album similar to her debut, "Because I Was in Love," and that would have been just fine. She stands out from the solo acoustic guitar pack thanks to her relatable lyrics and crystal-clear voice. But backed by a full band on her new album, "epic," her black-and-white sketches have become full-color portraits, and it's quite a trade-up. She's scheduled to have a band backing her at DC9 on Wednesday. Marissa Nadler will handle the standout solo acoustic part of the bill at DC9.
There's nothing particularly [expletived] up about [Expletived] Up's music. It's a symphonic brand of hardcore that thrives on the strength of a triple-guitar attack. It's more [expletive]-ing loud than anything. Frontman Damian Abraham is an entirely unique frontman -- ferocious growl, a seemingly endless string of clever quips between songs, and he looks like a 1980s WWF tag team champion. Openers at Rock & Roll Hotel are Cloud Nothings, whose jittery indie rock is an odd match, but both bands are among the more tuneful in their respective genres.
Dear college students: Welcome back to Washington. We hope you had an enriching summer, whether at the high-flying internship you always wanted or selling T-shirts on the Ocean City boardwalk. We're sure you have a lot to catch up on. Luckily, some bars can't wait to see you and your friends again. Just bring your college IDs to take advantage of dirt-cheap drink specials. Here's this week's no-brainer: On Thursday nights, Town Tavern's Senior Social Sessions offer unlimited rail drinks and domestic draft beers for $10 between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. when you show a college ID or intern badge, plus $2 16-ounce PBR and Bud Light cans all night. There are beer bong and flip cup tables if you and your friends want to challenge other patrons to a friendly drinking game. The only caveat is that even with an ID, you have to be 21 to get into the two-story Adams Morgan bar.
There is no part of Tobacco's album "Maniac Meat" that sounds natural. Everything is distorted, warped, fuzzed out or compressed. Beck guests on two songs, and it's not hard to see what he finds appealing about the band, which offers a fresh update of his mid-90s underground, junk rock mish-mash. Appropriately enough, Junk Culture opens at DC9.
The main problem that Comet Ping Pong faces in trying to establish itself as a nightlife hot spot is that it's the only option in that area of the city. To head to Comet is to commit yourself to a single location the entire evening. Good thing the pair of shows the restaurant turned late-night rock venue is hosting this weekend are worth seeing in their entirety. On Friday, Baltimore's masters of minimalist punk rock Double Dagger share a bill with D.C.'s Hume, which will be celebrating the release of its debut album, "Penumbra," which manages to be sharp, precise and sprawling in equal measures. On Sunday, Washington state band Christmas does its home town's outsider-punk heritage proud by keeping things weird, discordant and catchy while Alabama's Thomas Function delivers old-fashioned, hook-filled garage rock.
Jump-start football viewing season with the Hip-Hop Bar Crawl. Start at Queen Makeda in the afternoon and hit six U Street watering holes, each with a DJ rocking different flavors of hip-hop tunes. By the time you wrap up your jaunt at Tabaq, you'll be ready to watch the Redskins take down the Cowboys on the big screen.
We seem to be in the midst of a golden era for R&B/indie collaborations. Brooklyn art rockers Dirty Projectors have joined forces with Solange Knowles on her "Stillness Is the Move." Chart-topping rapper B.o.B. recently covered Vampire Weekend's "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance." Intergalactic soul upstart Janelle Monae and spectacle kings Of Montreal teamed up for two songs on Of Montreal's new album, "False Priest," and have upped the ante by going on tour together. It's a very appropriate pairing as both acts seem to exist on an otherworldly plane, not encumbered by earthly concerns. Monelle's album "The ArchAndroid" is a deserving breakthrough, a mind-expanding funk bomb of epic proportions. Of Montreal has the over-the-top stage shows and absurdist-electro jams down to a science but still risks being upstaged by its opener at 9:30 Club on Monday and Tuesday.
The intimate shows that Ben's Next Door books with stars and up-and-comers alike can give the place a cozy coffee shop feel, albeit one where you can order a Dark & Story and gourmet mac & cheese. Catch dinner and a show at this spot this evening and you may just find a new favorite artist. Avery Sunshine's music is like her name, a radiant brand of soul delivered from the gut with a joyful smile. The comparisons to Jill Scott are inevitable if obvious, but you've got to have a shared reference point when you tell your friends about her album that's a bit of church with a smidge of doo-wop and quiet storm jazz.
--Fritz Hahn, Rhome Anderson and David Malitz
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| September 7, 2010; 6:52 PM ET
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George M. McCluskey is the founder of HPRC and the McCluskey Education & Research Foundation, Inc. He started his physical therapy practice in Columbus, Georgia, in 1955. Today, that privately owned company provides services in Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina. Mr. McCluskey founded his company with one idea in mind: to rebuild the body's functional capability – to improve life, one patient at a time. Under Mr. McCluskey's leadership the company was the recipient of the 1995 Practice Award from the Private Practice Section of the American Physical Therapy Association, and was named the Georgia Family Business of the Year in 1998. The National Small Business Council of America honored Mr. McCluskey in 1997 by naming him Small Business Person of the Year.
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Brian McCluskey, Ph.D. is chairman and chief executive officer of HPRC, having joined the company in 1989. He received his B.A. degree in physical education from Furman University in 1984 and his Ph.D. in exercise physiology from Auburn University in 1994. Dr. McCluskey also serves as Chairman of the McCluskey Education and Research Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization promoting the advancement of knowledge in the health sciences. He is a member of numerous civic and academic/educational organizations and boards. A native of Columbus, GA, he and his wife, Lynn, reside in Columbus with their three children. Outside of his work at HPRC, Dr. McCluskey is a high school community coach for the varsity football team at Brookstone School, and he is a founding partner in a software firm developing applications for coaches.
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Patrick Graham, PT, is a licensed physical therapist and is president and chief operating officer of HPRC. He has been employed with HPRC since 1990. He received his B.S. degree in physical therapy in 1989 from Medical College of Georgia, and earned his MBA degree from Kennesaw State University in 1996. His specialties and interests are in orthopedics, spine rehabilitation and industrial rehabilitation. He is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and serves as vice president, board of directors, APTA, and also belongs to the APTA health policy and administration section. He lives with his wife, Susan, and their family in Columbus, GA, and hobbies include hunting, football and photography.
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Tina Sellers is our controller and has been employed with HPRC since 1993. She received her B.B.A. degree in Accounting in 1989 from Columbus State University. She was the recipient of the HPRC Athlete of the Year Award in 1994 and the HPRC Viney C. McCluskey Award in 2004. Tina lives with her husband, Russell, and children in Lumpkin, GA. She enjoys family and outdoor activities.
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Casey Chesser, PHR, SHRM-CP is the director of human resources for HPRC and has been employed with the company since February 2012. In 2007, she received her B.B.A. degree in management from Columbus State University. She is serves as President of the SHRM Columbus-Area Chapter and a member of National SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management). Casey lives with her husband, Wes, and children in Columbus, GA., and enjoys being a baseball mom, football mom, gymnastics mom and spending time with her family and friends.

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The prospects of Australia's cricketers going on strike in England have eased after negotiations between the players and Cricket Australia over their ongoing pay dispute seemed to be going in the right direction.
Australian Cricketers' Association boss Paul Marsh said, after a meeting with Cricket Australia officials, that both parties were closer to a resolution following the discussions. "We had a productive meeting, we made a lot of progress, but we're at a point now where our respective boards need to consider where we're at," Marsh was quoted as saying by 'Sydney Morning Herald'.
Asked about the threat by the players to go on strike if an agreement could not be reached before the June 30 deadline, Marsh said, "(I) don't want to go down that path. Our priority is to try and get a deal done before June 30."
The meeting came as captain Michael Clarke declared that the last thing any player wanted to do was strike. "Hopefully I don't have to worry about it, hopefully it'll get sorted before then," he said before boarding a flight to London for Australia's ODI tour of Britain.
CA is pushing for a change to the revenue pool from which the players currently receive 26 per cent and want a new performance-based pay deal in line with recommendations from last year's sweeping Argus review into the Australian game. A CA spokesman said that the current contracting model, where deals are awarded to whom the selectors deem are the 25 best players in the country, was based on "peer relativity". "The simple way of explaining that is the Argus committee believes the players should be well paid, but they should be paid more, for example, if they win a series 5-0 than if they lost a series 0-5," the spokesman said.
The British tour will be the last chance Australia have of playing in England at international level before next year's Ashes series. The Australians play their first international, against Ireland in Belfast, next Saturday. The five-game series against England starts on June 29 at Lord's.
Australian cricketers unlikely to go on strike
The prospects of Australia's cricketers going on strike in England have eased after negotiations between the players and Cricket Australia over their ongoing pay dispute seemed to be going in the right direction.


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September is National Infant Mortality Awareness Month and the County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) has significant news to report. For the first time in San Diego County history, the infant mortality rate for African Americans has decreased to a single digit, further narrowing health disparities among different population groups.
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According to a recent report on the key health indicators for San Diego County, the infant mortality rate among African American children dropped from 14 deaths per every 1,000 live births in 2002 to an all-time low of 8.7 deaths in 2006. The mortality rate for white infants was 4.6 in 2006, 4.9 for Hispanics, and 3.2 for Asians.
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African American women have always experienced the highest rate of infant mortality due to their increased risk of delivering low-birth weight babies. Contributing factors include genetics, environment, behavioral patterns, social circumstances, and access to health care.
Infant mortality prevention efforts from HHSA and its many partners have improved access to prenatal and overall care. Nearly 90% of pregnant women in San Diego County report receiving prenatal care during their first trimester. This has resulted in fewer low-weight births, especially among African American women.
The current overall infant mortality rate (4.6) for the region brings the County closer to the federal government goal of 4.5 deaths for every 1,000 live births.
"This is a milestone and a big achievement for the County of San Diego, especially the African American community," added Wooten.
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(TNS) — The owners of a large farm near where speculators are rumored to be scouting for a Tyson poultry plant site say they won't sell any of their land to big chicken.
The Jaax family owns a broad swath of land on the north side of 71st Street South between Hoover and Maize roads. Their holdings include a rental house at the corner of 71st and Tyler.
That corner has been rumored to be at or near where speculators have been buying land options with an eye toward assembling a parcel to try to sell to Tyson, which is considering Sedgwick County and two others as possible sites for a $300 million-plus chicken plant to process hundreds of millions of birds a year.
Karon Jaax said her family was approached by local real estate interests who wanted to negotiate an option on some of their land. But they said no, she said.
"We don't feel like the roads could take that much traffic down there and we farm down there," Jaax said. "I just think it would cause chaos to have that much traffic in that area."
She also said the family is concerned about water, whether there's enough available to serve a major chicken plant and the potential for contamination around the facility.
"And the smell, we're farmers and we know what a cow lot smells like. So to tell someone a chicken lot isn't going to smell — I don't know."
The area around the corner of 71st and Tyler is mostly open farmland between Haysville and Clearwater, dotted with pockets of housing to the south, west and southeast of the site, from about three-fourths of a mile to 2 miles away. Strong opposition has come from those areas.
The Girl Scouts' Starwoods Camp is about a mile southwest of the 71st and Tyler intersection and a large Occidental Chemical plant is about 1 1/2 miles northeast.
Railroad tracks cut through the area and it is close to I-35, the major trucking corridor running from Mexico to Minnesota.
Tyson Foods and the Greater Wichita Partnership, which is researching the proposed plant on behalf of Sedgwick County, have said no site has been chosen.
The GWP has identified southwest Sedgwick County as a location where there would be enough water to support a poultry plant.
Tyson has identified three Kansas counties — Sedgwick, Cloud and Montgomery — as finalists for a plant that would bring about 1,500 to 1,600 jobs.
But company spokesman Worth Sparkman said this week that the company is still in the preliminary research stage and hasn't looked at any specific sites.
Jaax said the family hasn't had any contact with Tyson itself, but with local real estate interests who she would not identify.
"Tyson's not down here causing a problem. It's our (local) real estate people," she said.
She said the inquiries started shortly after Leavenworth County backed out of a deal to bring Tyson to a site near Tonganoxie.
Leavenworth County commissioners initially took action to facilitate tax breaks for the company, but reversed course in the face of concerted pushback from area residents concerned about potential pollution, odor and traffic.


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The Moerane Commission of Inquiry into political killings is underway in Kwazulu Natal.
The commission set up in 2014 has heard how the Glebelands hostel in Umlazi has become common place for assassinations.
At least 89 people have been murdered since March 2014 without a single arrest being made.
READ: "Not one single conviction for political violence over past few years"
The commission's probe also comes after the Public Protector's office found that the eThekwini Municipality and police failed in their constitutional mandate to protect the victims of political killings and illegal evictions.
Eyewitness News reporter Ziyanda Ngcobo says a submission by independent community activist Vanessa Burger has corroborated these findings.
She has set the scene of the conditions under which people at the Glebelands Hostel are living in, basically painting a very bleak picture and describing the hostel as a reservoir for assassinations and where most, if not all, the hit men used by politicians are coming from the hostel.— Ziyanda Ngcobo, EWN reporter
We have also heard that the recent assassination attempt on three ANC uMzimkhulu councillors were also hit men from the hostel, she believes these hit men are still in uMzimkhulu....— Ziyanda Ngcobo, EWN reporter
#MoeraneCommission Burger says she's been told Glebelands hitmen went to Umzimkhulu to murder among other former ANCYL SG Sindiso Magaqa.ZN— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) July 17, 2017
Burger claims these killings are supported by high profile politicians.
She has made claims that it goes all the way to a national level as high up as President Jacob Zuma where she says these assassinations are supported by high profile politicians as a proxy to national factions, and she has even said it is linked to the factions as far as the elective conference at the end of this year.— Ziyanda Ngcobo, EWN reporter
The commissioners are questioning where she is getting these claims from and her research methodology. But she strongly believes that the reason why Glebelands is a reservoir for assassinations is because there are politicians pulling the strings behind the scene.— Ziyanda Ngcobo, EWN reporter
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Enbridge plans to replace an old section of oil pipeline that runs through northern Minnesota. It held an informational meeting in Bemidji, Minnesota, on Tuesday. The meeting was disrupted by a Native American environmental activist named Winona LaDuke. You can see video of her being ejected from the meeting here. LaDuke is identified as the founder of an organization called Honor the Earth.
My colleague at Center of the American Experiment Tom Steward took an interest in the anti-pipeline protest and was curious about Honor the Earth. He comments here. Among other things, Tom looked at Honor the Earth's form 990, which you can read here.
This tax filing discloses that in 2015, Winona LaDuke was paid compensation of $127,000, while stating that she worked an average of 20 hours a week for the nonprofit organization. Nice work if you can get it! But that rather plush income apparently is not enough for Ms. LaDuke. The form also discloses that Honor the Earth has loaned her $4,325. The reason? "$ shortage." Honor the Earth does not seem to be well-managed financially. The form 990 further discloses as a "miscellaneous expense" item a "fraudulent money transfer reported to Board of Directors" of $25,500.
As a 501(c)(3) organization, Honor the Earth does not disclose its donors, so we don't know who, exactly, considers it a good investment to pay Ms. LaDuke $127,000 a year for part-time work. Be that as it may, the protest business is apparently more lucrative than most of us thought.


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|General information
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|Engine and transmission
|272.00 ccm (16.60 cubic inches)
|Engine type:
|Single cylinder, two-stroke
|Bore x stroke:
|76.0 x 60.0 mm (3.0 x 2.4 inches)
|Fuel system:
|Carburettor. Dell´Orto PHBL 26BL
|Fuel control:
|Single Overhead Cams (SOHC)
|Lubrication system:
|2% mixture
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final drive:
|Wet multidisk
|Chassis, suspension, brakes and wheels
|Frame type:
|Steel tube
|Front suspension:
|Marzocchi 40 mm hydraulic fork, adjustable compression and rebond damping
|Front wheel travel:
|177 mm (7.0 inches)
|Rear suspension:
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|Rear wheel travel:
|165 mm (6.5 inches)
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|Front brakes:
|Single disc. Floating Wave disk with AJP 4-piston calipers
|Front brakes diameter:
|182 mm (7.2 inches)
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|Rear brakes diameter:
|150 mm (5.9 inches)
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|73.0 kg (160.9 pounds)
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|699 mm (27.5 inches) If adjustable, lowest setting.
|Overall length:
|2,050 mm (80.7 inches)
|Ground clearance:
|295 mm (11.6 inches)
|1,345 mm (53.0 inches)
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I've been running my own business for a few years – as businesses go, that's a relatively short period. During that time, many people have given me advice on different aspects of starting and running a business; they still do. I've listened to some of the advice and ignored plenty too – and overall I'm up.
I don't say that lightly (my business is very important to me) and I have always appreciated the advice, it's just that I'm strong-willed, driven and like to do things my way; and I believe I've got the majority of the listen/don't listen decisions correct – but there's certainly a few when I wish I had listened!
That said, I'm lucky that my business is flexible enough to allow me to make the occasional mistake, learn from it and move on; and for me, that's part of running a business – the rich experience gained from seeing things work and also finding solutions during the tougher times.
Who advises me?
Family and friends are great as sounding boards, but their views aren't always as objective as I might need – often because they don't want to hurt my feelings, but most of the time it's because they've never been in my position of running a business. How many people in your immediate network are successful entrepreneurs? I do turn to them when I want general advice, or I look things up on the Internet (the latter taken with a large pinch of salt); but when it comes to specific business issues, I turn to my mentor.
A couple of years ago, I was awarded an UnLtd (www.unltd.org.uk) grant that allowed me to develop my product and so helped to increase sales. Through an UnLtd networking meeting where I was looking for someone to help me with a specific aspect of my business, I was put in touch with a local mentor. Why did I decide I needed a mentor? I needed to turn to someone who had much more entrepreneurial business experience than me – and successful experience to boot.
We exchanged the usual emails and pleasantries before meeting in person, and it was during these initial exchanges that we set out the limits of the relationship – what my mentor would provide (and what he does provide is free) and how often I could call on him. I'm fortunate in that my mentor has a natural interest in my product, but he mentors me because he's now retired and wants to put something back into his community.
It's crucial to me that he's local – I place great emphasis on meeting people face-to-face. Our relationship is professional; when we meet there's a bit of general talk, but the time I get with my mentor is precious and we don't waste it discussing the weather. He listens objectively and doesn't make any decisions for me – he simply advises and offers suggestions. Making the decisions comes down to me, and me only. He's got plenty of contacts who could help me really drive my business forward, but because we're still exploring specific parts of my business we're not going to open those doors until both myself and my business are ready.
My mentor has a lifetime of experience, and importantly for me, it's in the area of my business I need assistance with most. I never wanted or needed a generalist, although I know he could help if I asked him to. He's been there and got the t-shirt, and I'm learning from his experiences – I was barely out of nappies when he was starting to manage businesses.
To use a Star Wars analogy, he's Yoda and I'm very much a young Skywalker. It was through our initial meetings that I learned more about him – those meetings were pretty much me interviewing him to see if he was the right person for me and my business. I know people who meet a number of different mentors before they find the right one for them.
Would I recommend a mentor for your business? That's not really for me to say. I'm still being mentored and I have found it an invaluable experience – my mentor has made me think about my business differently, and he's also made me ask quite searching questions about what I want from my business. Along with looking at the specific areas of my business I need most assistance with, we're currently exploring what the end-point of my business will be.
That's been a strange one for me as my business is still in its infancy, but because he's so removed from my business he's helping me look at things from a new perspective. And actually, it's an important point, because the help he will provide me with depends directly on where I want my business to end up. I've had no downsides to having a mentor and only benefits. Regardless of what stage your business is at, there's a mentor out there for you.


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At 4:40 a.m. this morning the House of Representatives voted 235-189 to pass H.R. 1, the continuing resolution to appropriate funds for the remaining of Fiscal Year 2011.
Included among the many amendments were several the National Association of Manufacturers had taken positions on. One was considered Friday, and we're pleased to report that the outcome reflected the NAM's position identified in a "Key Vote" letter sent to the House on Thursday.
By a vote of 239-183, the House approved an amendment sponsored by Rep. David McKinley (D-WV) to block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from moving forward its plans to classify coal combustion residuals or coal ash as a hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. As Rep. McKinley explained in a news release when introducing the amendment:
Among other effects this proposed designation would create a legal and marketing stigma for products made with recycled CCBs – including wall board, concrete, and fertilizer – harming thousands of small businesses across the country in addition to the coal operators and power generators that recycle these by-products for business-to-business sale.
"Electricity costs will sharply rise and West Virginians will lose their jobs if the EPA is allowed to regulate fly ash as a 'hazardous' material," McKinley said.
The House also voted 234-187 to approve Amendent 545 sponsored by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) to block funding for implementation of the Consumer Product Safety Commission's new product safety complaint database. The NAM e-mailed a letter to the House urging support for the amendment as needed to delay and ultimately improve the complaint database, which as currently planned would provide too many opportunities for false or inaccurate reports. The result could unjustly tarnish a product or company and through the bad information actually undermine consumer product safety. (See earlier post, "CPSIA Update: How to Fix the CPSC Erratabase.")


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Sometimes I feel like I'm just picking on Gameloft, but at this point the developer has gained a reputation for shamelessly borrowing from other games in its mobile and handheld releases. The latest? A mobile game adaptation of the upcoming film Fast Five that looks very comparable to last year's Disney-published racing game, Split/Second.
You can see the similarities for yourself in the trailer below. One could argue that ripping off Split/Second is a greater crime than the normal Gameloft homage job. Most of the titles Gameloft borrows from -- God of War, Starcraft, World of Warcraft, Halo, etc. -- are at least console releases that don't really exist in mobile form, but Split/Second actually had an iPhone/iPad release as well. Then again, apparently that version of Split/Second wasn't great.
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These 8-year-olds, be it known, don't have lisping voices and Lord Fauntleroy curls: they have five-o'clock shadow, a strong sense of their due entitlements according to the current trick/treat exchange rate and a lovingly accumulated arsenal of eggs, fireworks and plastic bags full of dog doo with which to play jocular tricks on spoilsport adults who won't join in with the spirit of Halloween.
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He also now wore a different pair of jeans and smelled as if he had on cologne—and had what look like barber-trimmed five-o'clock shadow.
Even grungy with a dark blond five-o'clock shadow, the man was fine . . . hell, all of them were, honestly.
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Illinois Makes Final Cut for 'Race to the Top' Funding
Illinois, along with 18 other states, is still in the running for a competitive federal grant program that promises more than three billion dollars for educational improvements.
The Illinois State Board of Education said the funds will help raise student success and train qualified teachers. The state failed to win enough support from school districts to compete for the first round of "Race to the Top" funding earlier this year - instead, that money went to schools in Tennessee and Maryland. Beth Sheppard is an assistant superintendent in Champaign Unit 4, which is backing Illinois' bid for the money.
"We felt that there was no good reason not to seek the additional funding in these economic times," said Sheppard. "If the focus is on closing the achievement gap, that is a high priority in this school district."
Teachers' unions have also lined up behind the application. State schools Superintendent Christopher Koch said the state has worked harder to get cooperation from local school districts and teachers' unions during this phase of the competition. Koch said Illinois will emphasize its plans to better prepare school leaders for reform when officials visit Washington in August to make their pitch for a grant.


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Religious leaders ban 30 women from running for Iran's presidency
Some 30 women are among the nearly 700 Iranians who registered to run in the election to succeed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the Islamic republic's ruling clerics wiped out their candidacies with one broad stroke.
Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a member of the regime's Guardian Council told the semiofficial Mehr news agency the participation of women in an election would go against the country's constitution. He went on to say that not only does the law bar a female from the presidency, it prohibits a woman from appearing on the ballot.
The 30 women who registered for the June 14 election are among some 686 individuals who signed up to run. Word that none are eligible angered citizens who were already mistrustful of the nation's electoral process following the hotly disputed 2009 vote in which Ahmadinejad's re-election was protested in every major city in the country.
"This regime has made the role and only function of women as objects that serve for the enjoyment of men," said Sara, a medical doctor from Tehran, who asked not to be identified by her full name. "Not only will they not allow women to participate as candidates, but our votes and voices are not counted either. They never were."
The regime is expected to announce the final short list of eligible candidates Tuesday.
Currently, potential candidates include former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Saeed Jalili, the top nuclear negotiator; Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and Ali Akbar Velayati, a former foreign minister.
Ahmadinejad, who is completing his second and final term, has thrown his support behind his close aide Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei. But tension between Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei may doom Mashaei's chances at making the final list.
Iran's Guardian Council, a body of six clerics selected by the Supreme Leader and six lawyers referred by the head of Ir an's judiciary and elected by the Parliament, is entrusted with the vetting process.
The Guardian Council is obligated to literally "guard" the values of the Islamic Republic. Consequently, they must choose candidates who will do the same.
"In the end, the closer the president is to the Supreme Leader in meeting the qualifications of these groups and their religious standards, women in Iran will get closer to slave status," Camelia, an Iranian law student, said to Fox News.
According to the Iranian constitution, presidential candidates must possess a "convinced belief" in the founding principles of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Within these guidelines the Guardian Council vetoes candidates who are deemed unacceptable — in other words, those who possess views that stray from the regime's agenda.
In the 2009 election, 476 candidates had applied, and four made the cut. None were women. Election results led to days of protests in the streets by Iranians accusing Ahmadinejad and the regime of election fraud.


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Tomorrow will mark the 20th anniversary of the day that this boy named Jon asked me to be his girlfriend. We were in a park in Abbotsford, not far from the Jr. High where we were both grade 9 students. We were 14 years old – so, so young. Unbelievably young, really.
Jon kissed me in that park that day – my first real kiss from a boy. And, to this day, he's the only boy I've ever really kissed. (Although Jon, ever so much more worldly, apparently kissed his grade 7 girlfriend. I'm still vaguely jealous.) And now, through some fluke of time, we find ourselves 20 years later, we're still together. We've never been apart. Well, I mean, physically we've been apart. Sometimes Jon goes to work and stuff, and back in 1991 we lived in different houses with our own parents. Because, you know, we were 14. But we've never broken up, and never dated anyone else in all that time.
How does 20 years go by so fast? How did I end up here, today, married to that boy? I remember every step along the way, but it sure doesn't feel like it was 20 years. 10, maybe. But surely not 20. And yet it was – I have the photographs to prove it.
Back in 1991 with our friend Jim
Year-end dance in 1992
All dressed up for our high school prom in 1994
A summer day in 1996
On a weekend get-away in 1999*
*Tip: When your girlfriend's expecting you to propose anytime, and you're all dressed up and seated in a fancy restaurant, instead of saying, "I forgot something in the car and I need to go get it," say, "I forgot the camera in the car, I'll be right back." Unless, of course, you particularly enjoy the hairy eyeball when she decides this is it, and it turns out not to be it at all.
At our engagement party in 2000
Amber's university graduation in 2000
Our wedding in 2001
Visiting Peggy's Cove in 2004
Welcoming baby Hannah in 2005
Jon's brother's wedding in 2008
Welcoming baby Jacob in 2008
Our family in 2010
It turns out that 20 years is not so long at all. And it also turns out that sticking it out through thick and thin, when you've found the right person, is totally worth it. I can think of no one more right for me than my husband Jon. He is truly the very best person I know, and I'm so glad that I found him so early in life.
20 years ago I never could have imagined that day in the park marked the beginning of a journey that would bring me here. That we would weather so many changes together – learning how to drive, graduating from high school, starting first jobs, going away to university, marriage and cars and a mortgage and babies. 20 years has certainly brought us a lot of changes, and I can't wait to see what happens in the next 20 years. To us!


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BRONXVILLE, N.Y. -- A Bronxville burglary suspect was nabbed by police after he stole a vehicle and a checkbook from New York Presbyterian/Lawrence Hospital, according to Bronxville Chief of Police Christopher Satriale.
Michael Perrier, 24, of Yonkers was charged with grand larceny and burglary following an investigation into a report filed by hospital security that an unknown man had entered an office at the hospital on Oct. 19 and stole a checkbook from a desk drawer and keys to a 2008 Ford Escape owned by the hospital, police said.
The man used the vehicle to escape from the hospital grounds and later tried to cash a check from the stolen checkbook at a Chase Bank in Patchogue, police added.
The bank became suspicious and contacted the hospital employee. Using video from both the hospital and the bank, Bronxville police were able to identify Perrier and began to search for him in Yonkers and in Suffolk County, police said.
After surveillance at both locations, Lt. Richard Bunyan and Det. Sgt. Richard Anderson located Perrier behind the wheel of the stolen Ford Escape in a residential neighborhood in Suffolk County, police said.
He is currently being held at the Westchester Department of Corrections. He is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 26.
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Hope everyone is enjoying their days off from work this long weekend! Who wouldn't be? What I enjoy most about long weekends is that everyone else is out of town. That means no lineups at your favourite breakfast digs and less people at your favourite hangouts as well. While everyone else gets a break, tonight is my Monday, back to the grind! However I can't complain. Work has been generous with hours over the last couple of months, and that means a lot more moola for investing!
On The Buy List
Speaking of which after selling my index equity funds last month, I've been sitting on some cash waiting for my next purchase. It was nice to see markets take a breather last week, especially when I have cash to buy. Bank of Montreal (BMO) and Canadian National Railway (CNR) are at the top of my buy list – and I've already placed an order for shares of BMO at $58. Back in the day when I held mutual funds, and index funds for that matter, watching markets decline was depressing. It essentially meant I was losing my overall portfolio value. Now that I invest primarily in dividend stocks, watching markets decline this last week made hardly a dent in my overall plans. The reason being of course is dividend income. Regardless of share price I still receive the same monthly income from my holdings. When you combine that with the income from bond fund and bond ETF distributions, it's a solid plan IMO. 😉
What the ETF?
So after selling my modest amount of index funds last month to invest in dividend stocks, and bantering with Teacher Man™ on ETFs versus Dividend Stocks last week, why would I want to discuss ETFs? Well that is exactly what I have planned, and I've invited Vicky at Vix Money who really digs ETFs to author this section. She will be writing her first post on iShares XIC scheduled for Monday morning. This is a great back to basics post for Canadian investors who want to add solid ETFs to their portfolio. 😉
Not the Index Debate Again!
The bottom line is whether you want to invest in dividend stocks or ETFs, or even a combination of both, I feel learning as much as you can about both strategies is the key. And my friend Dimitri over at Sigma Swan, also holds index ETFs, and he will be presenting a post on that next week.
Posts Around the Web
Here are some great posts from around the web, this weekend everyone gets a double mention!
Speaking about ETFs, The Canadian Couch Potato interviewed Mary Anne Wiley, the new head of iShares Canada, on their recent acquisition of Claymore Investments. As you may have noticed in your portfolio, any Claymore ETFs you were holding have now been exchanged for an iShares branded ETF. These are a couple of interesting interviews you should check out in What's Next for iShares, Part-1 and Part-2.
The Dividend Monk writes stellar dividend stock analyses, and his posts are top quality. Check out his two most recent posts on 5 Dividend Payers with Very Strong Balance Sheets, and why he thinks Enbridge Stock Looks Expensive (I agree with you DM!).
There is certainly lots of stock-picking fever in the air this Easter long weekend. With both the Dividend Growth Index and 2012 Stock Picking Contest quarterly results, the dividend bloggers are all abuzz with their picks and performance:
My Own Advisor (not really my advisor) gave us his 2012 Q1 Dividend Growth Index update, and shared his 2012 Personal Finance and Investing Goals.
The Passive Income Earner reviewed the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, as well as his 2012 Q1 Stock Picking Contest results.
One of my favourite bloggers, Dividend Mantra, gave his updates for both the Q1 results of the Divided Growth Index and his results in the 2012 Stock Picking Contest.
Have a great long weekend everyone! 🙂


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A: Refunds are available only for medical circumstances. Refund requests must be accompanied by a physician's note in order to be processed and will not be accepted after the applicable clinic date.
Led by our Hockey Development Staff, the Toronto Maple Leafs Clinics are unique training sessions that offer an exciting opportunity for youth to participate in half-day clinics at Air Canada Centre. These sessions incorporate on-ice fundamental skill development, off-ice training and combine testing activities.
All sessions are located at Air Canada Centre, our world-class sporting arena in the heart of downtown Toronto that the Leafs have called home since 1999, and have an associated cost of $99 plus applicable taxes per session per player.
Registration check-in for each clinic will take place at 7:30am inside Gate 1 of Air Canada Centre with sessions running from 8am-12pm*. Parent viewing is located in Section 118 in the designated seating area. Viewing privileges are limited to on-ice sessions only due to venue constraints.
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The staff at The Mac Observer has been busy all over the Interwebs, including video podcasts and radio interviews you can stream.
Bryan Chaffin was recently interviewed by Gene Steinberg on his Tech Night Owl radio show (podcast version). They talked about Microsoft cutting price on Windows 8 and Windows phone, TV cord cutting, and some Apple doings. Also in this episode are interviews with Dann Berg and Lloyd Klarke.
Jeff Gamet was interviewed by the inestimable Chuck Joiner as part of the Road to Macworld series. Jeff explains what he'll be talking about in two Macworld/iWorld sessions, one on wearable tech and another on fitness tech.
John Martellaro also spent some time with Gene Steinberg on the Tech Night Owl, where they delved into Mac users that still use Snow Leopard, Barnes & Noble's Nook ereader, and how to use your Mac in your daily life.
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It's hard not to cheer the end of Pastor Terry Jones's fifteen minutes of fame, though I regret that whenever the lens is turned on Southerners, it's always the dumb ones we see. Born in the South myself, I have encountered plenty of shortsightedness there, to be sure. But I have seen other things too: young women who risk physical assault to accompany other women into abortion clinics; a teenager with searing green eyes who endured months of parent-appointed Christian counseling to become, in the end, happy and still gay; and then there's my own pasty white grandmother, who made sure I saw the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, before my tenth birthday. Such people exist below the Mason Dixon line—and arguably outnumber the likes of Pastor Jones and his fifty-member congregation. You just wouldn't know it from watching your television.
In a strange twist of historical karma, this "fringe-figure" fiasco has coincided with the anniversary of the birth and tragic death of a real Southern pioneer, Ella May Wiggins, who was born poor in Sevierville, Tennessee, on September 17, 1900. Not many details about her life are known, though numbers seem important somehow: by the time she was 19, both her parents had died. By the time she was about 20, she was married with a child. She gave birth to nine children altogether, though only five survived past early childhood. Abandoned by her husband in 1926, she made her living as a spinner at American Mill No. 2 in Gaston County, North Carolina, where she worked, according to the North Carolina Museum of History, "twelve-hour days, six days a week, earning about nine dollars a week."
As the economy tightened in the late 1920s, so did mill owners. The Loray Mill in Gastonia was owned by a textile company in Rhode Island and, like many mills in the South, had begun demanding more from their workers for the same amount of pay. The practice was about increasing efficiency, about adopting a new "scientific" management style, but the workers just called it what it was: the "stretch-out."
The conditions at the Loray Mill were so bad that labor activists Ellen Dawson and Fred Beal thought they might actually be ripe for a union. Unions had never thrived in the South—where anxieties over races mixing often trumped personal interest—but this time more than a few workers bit. Five were fired for it.
In response, the union voted to strike. Nearly 1,800 workers at the Loray and nearby mills walked off the job—many of them only to walk back on a month later, discouraged and broke. A good number remained, however, in a tent city erected near the mills. Ella May Wiggins was among them. Against all odds, she had become a union balladeer and bookkeeper, argued vehemently against segregation in the union, and even went to Washington, DC, to testify about the poor labor conditions in the South.
"I'm the mother of nine," she told lawmakers there. "Four died with the whooping cough, all at once. I was working nights, I asked the super to put me on days, so's I could tend 'em when they had their bad spells. But he wouldn't. I don't know why.… So I had to quit, and then there wasn't no money for medicine, and they just died."
On June 7, 1929, a fight broke out between strikers and local men who had crossed a picket line composed primarily of women and children. Such violence was not uncommon, although this time shots were fired and the Gastonia police chief Orville F. Aderholt was killed. Sixteen union members, including three women, were charged with murder. In its closing statements, the prosecution had turned to the all male jury and asked questions like, "Do you believe in North Carolina?"


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Smells like trouble
The blue top recycling bins are now supposed to be collected weekly along with green top bins which will have kitchen and garden waste, with all that is left going in black bin bags and collected once every two weeks. Here's the list of things that the Council things will be going into the black bags to be collected once a fortnight;
- polystyrene
- disposable nappies
- clothing and shoes
- waxed food and beverage cartons
- batteries and electrical waste
- pet waste (except waste from small pets on a vegetarian diet)
- cat litter
- vacuum cleaner waste
- sanitary towels and incontinence pads
- coal and wood embers
- cotton wool pads/buds and make-up wipes
- cigarette ends and ashtray contents
- coat hangers
- broken crockery
Would you want to hold onto used Cat Litter, or waxed food cartons for two weeks? Does the list look optimistically short?
Over the years many councils moved towards wheelie bins from black bin bags, one of the reasons was, urban foxes, who like nothing better than to tear these open and see what's inside, so it is likely that once a fortnight your street is going to be littered with the items on the list above and given the road sweeping ability it might hang around for a while.
Green top and Red top bins will be collected once a week and should only have compostable material in them, the idea then is to industrially compost this and use it to power the council's truck fleet using a new processing plant. Now where's this plant going to go, well where does the council normally dump stuff, yep, Thamesmead.
If this is the first that you've heard of all of this remember that according to a Council meeting questions answered last year by Cllr Rajwant Sidhu the Council has so far spent over £123,000 on telling the public. But don't tell them that as it would only give them an excuse to increase their communications budget again.
This is unlikely to be the end of this story...
We've been informed that right now the Greenwich Council Customer Service is "...at present we are facing unprecedented demand."
Could this be because the bins haven't been emptied?
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Registration includes a team jersey, trophy and an end of season party. The fees charged help to cover the costs of referees and necessary equipment. Late registration adds $10 to the pricing shown above and begins on August 4th.
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GTA Online Ill-Gotten Gains Weekend Event Starts Tomorrow, Earn More Cash and More RP
To celebrate the release of Grand Theft Auto V's Ill-Gotten Gains DLC, Rockstar Games is putting on a special event this weekend.
From June 12th to the 14th, GTA Online players can earn double the cash by playing the Adversary Modes, and double the RP by participating in races. Not only that, but expensive properties will be discounted by 25 percent, and the frequency of crate drops, which will contain in-game money and exclusive t-shirts, will be increased.
Two events, including a "Snapmatic Contest," which players can participate in by taking pictures with their character's iFruit camera and tagging them with #illgottengains1 on Social Club, and a Social Club Event Sweepstakes contest will also be live. For more details on the Ill-Gotten Gains event weekend, check out the image above or head to Rockstar's official website.
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As a Company we are not only producing our Bresciani brand, but we have production's partnership with a lot of the best brands and stylists.
This allow us to have an overview on "what's going on" and on how the market is moving.
You maybe already know that big Companies have several key positions : the stylist, the product manager, the marketing director, the sales director..
You may be curious to know who is really taking the last decision about "what will be in the next collection". Actually there is not a standard, but our impression is that things are changing.
Everything is starting from the idea of the head of style, but not all the ideas complete their path and see the light.
The first step is to test if the items are technically achievable. Believe me, this is an extremely difficult and important point. Usually this work it's up to the Companies producing.
Then the final prototype is going trough the test of the product manager who decide if the item is technically perfect and it is possible to put it on sale.
But the marketing director has then to decide if the item is in line with the image of the Company, how much will cost to put it in the collection and forecasting the sales' result.
The ball is then in the field of the sales' people.
But who is really deciding at the end ?
My personal opinion it is that, due to the world financial and economic crisis, the key point driving these decisions is the cost/benefit calculation.
More and more an item is going in sale not because is beautiful and technically perfect, but because has more opportunities to be sold.
Developing new styles is extremely expensive, consequently, to reduce the costs, the collections are smaller and only few pieces are made "only for the show". Mostly of the items have to repay the cost the brand had to develop them.
Only few brands in the world don't have this problems, because their strong financial situation allows to invest a lot of money in research and development.
All the others have to move very very carefully today.
So, at the end, the key decision is more and more in the hands of the marketing manager, who has to forecast the cost/benefit result before all the process start...
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Everybody who follows world affairs knows what a treaty is. In Washington it has a special meaning. It is a document which has been negotiated, signed by the president, and ratified by a vote of two-thirds of the Senate.
A commitment so voted and so ratified is binding not only on the administration in office at the time, but on succeeding administrations.
An ''executive agreement'' is something less than a treaty because it has not been sanctified by that two-thirds of the Senate. But most executive agreements used in Washington have been authorized by a majority vote in the Congress first and then executed and signed by the president. Trade and tariff agreements are usually of this kind. They tend to be binding on present and future.
But what is a ''memorandum of understanding'' between one cabinet officer and his opposite number from some other government? It has not been ratified by two-thirds of the Senate or sanctioned by a majority vote of Congress. It is not signed by the president. In the immediate case of the ''memorandum of understanding'' signed last week by United States Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Israeli Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon the document was not authorized by any vote in the Congress, or signed at the White House, or even signed by the secretary of state. It was only what it says it is on the surface, a memo on an understanding reached by two defense ministers after talks between the two.
Therefore its validity, its effectiveness, and its value are like a big question mark. What does it really mean? How binding is it? Does it bind President Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig, or only the Defense Department and then only so long as Caspar Weinberger is running things at the Penta-gon?
There is no clear answer to any of these questions. A document of this kind is open to a wide range of interpretation. And that is precisely why it has pleased neither the Arabs nor the Israelis. Each assumes the worst, from opposite points of view.
To the Arabs, it represented an American sellout to Israel. When Philip Habib , Washington's special ambassador in the Middle East, called on Syria's foreign minister Abdel Halim Khaddam he was told that ''the United States no longer has the right to play any mediation or arbitration role in the Arab-Israeli conflict because you have become a direct party in this conflict.''
But in the Knesset the same day opposition speakers pounced on the signing of the agreement as either being useless, or as committing Israel ''to operate against a world power, the Soviet Union, while there are questions about American promises.''
There were indeed questions about the promises under the ''memorandum.'' They are wide open. They promise consultations between the two defense departments, which go on all the time, anyway. They talk about possible advance ''prepositioning'' in Israel of American equipment presumably for future use of the US Rapid Deployment Force. But the type of such equipment is left unspecified and wide open. The only specific military commitment by the US is to hold ''joint US-Israeli exercises in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.''
The memo does say that the purpose of these vague proposals is ''to deter all threats from the Soviet Union to the region.''
So in the agreement Israel took up an anti-Soviet posture while obtaining no promise of a single extra American tank or gun or bullet in Israel.
But it had the effect on the Arabs of pushing them farther away from the US. Thus it makes more difficult and uncertain the possibility of engaging even the most moderate of Arab states in the ''strategic consensus'' which remains President Reagan's theoretical method of protecting the Middle East from possible Soviet intrusion.
The effect in Washington is new uncertainty about the attitude of the Reagan administration toward the vital central issue in the Middle East, which is the future of the Arabs who inhabit the ''occupied territories.''
Does it favor that true ''autonomy'' for the Arabs of West Bank and Gaza which the Camp David accord requires by the time Israel is supposed to withdraw from the final segment of the Sinai peninsula?
The deadline is only five months away.
President Reagan can have Arab friendship and cooperation if he will require real autonomy for the Arabs. But Prime Minister Begin is holding out for a settlement under which Israel will claim sovereignty over the occupied territories and retain military and police control and also control over land and water distribution.
The ''memorandum of understanding'' is typical of a government which cannot decide whether to allow Israel to annex all of Palestine, or require it to set free the Arabs of the occupied territories. No one can be sure which way it will resolve this central and difficult issue. The memo proves that uncertainty.