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Commission wants better quality credit ratings
Credit rating agencies (CRAs) are major players in today's financial markets, with rating actions having a direct impact on the actions of investors, borrowers, issuers and governments. For example, a corporate downgrade can have consequences on the capital a bank must hold and a downgrade of sovereign debt makes a country's borrowing more expensive. Despite the adoption of European legislation on credit rating agencies in 2009 and 2010, recent developments in the context of the euro debt crisis have shown our existing regulatory framework is not good enough. So, today the Commission has put forward proposals to toughen that framework further and deal with outstanding weaknesses.
Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier said: "Ratings have a direct impact on the markets and the wider economy and thus on the prosperity of European citizens. They are not just simple opinions. And rating agencies have made serious mistakes in the past. I have also been surprised by the timings of some sovereign ratings – for example ratings announced in the middle of negotiations on an international aid programme for a country. We can't let ratings increase market volatility further. My first objective is to reduce the over-reliance on ratings, while at the same time improving the quality of the rating process. Credit rating agencies should follow stricter rules, be more transparent about their ratings and be held accountable for their mistakes. I also want to see increased competition in this sector."
Four main goals of the proposed draft Directive and draft Regulation
1. To ensure that financial institutions do not blindly rely only on credit ratings for their investments.
Ratings currently have a quasi-institutional role. We need to reduce our reliance on them. Our proposals in July 2011 on the Capital Requirements Directive IV reduce the number of references to external ratings and require financial institutions to do their own due diligence. Today, we are making similar changes with regard to rules relating to fund managers, in a complementary draft directive. And this will be completed by changes to rules on insurance next year. A general obligation for investors to do their own assessment is also included in today's proposal.
In addition, more and better information underlying the ratings would need to be disclosed by CRAs and by the rated entities themselves, so that professional investors will be better informed in order to make their own judgments. For example, CRAs would have to communicate their ratings to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), which would make sure that all available ratings on the market for a debt instrument are published under a European Rating Index (EURIX), freely available to investors.
At the same time, credit rating agencies will have to consult issuers and investors on any intended changes to their rating methodologies. Such changes would have to be communicated to ESMA which would check that applicable rules on form and due process have been respected.
2. More transparent and more frequent sovereign debt ratings.
Member States would be rated more frequently (every six months rather than 12 months) and investors and Member States would be informed of the underlying facts and assumptions on each rating. To avoid market disruption, sovereign ratings should only be published after the close of business and at least one hour before the opening of trading venues in the EU. The possible suspension of sovereign ratings is a complex issue which we believe merits further consideration.
3. More diversity and stricter independence of credit rating agencies to eliminate conflicts of interest.
Issuers would have to rotate every three years between the agencies that rate them. In addition, two ratings from two different rating agencies would be required for complex structured finance instruments and a big shareholder of a credit rating agency should not simultaneously be a big shareholder in another credit rating agency.
4. To make CRAs more accountable for the ratings they provide.
A CRA should be liable in case it infringes, intentionally or with gross negligence, the CRA Regulation, thereby causing damage to an investor having relied on the rating that followed such infringement. Such investors should bring their civil liability claims before national courts. The burden of proof would rest on the credit rating agency.
The EU Regulation on Credit Rating Agencies (CRA)1, (in force since December 2010), was part of Europe's response to the commitments made by the G20 at the November 2008 Washington summit. This Regulation was amended in May 2011, to adapt the Regulation to the creation of ESMA2.
The existing CRA Regulations focus on registration, conduct of business and supervision of CRAs:
(1) registration: in order to be registered, a CRA must fulfill a number of obligations on the conduct of its business (see (2)) intended to ensure the independence and integrity of the rating process and to enhance the quality of the ratings issued. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is entrusted since July 2011 with the responsibility for registering CRAs in the EU; 28 CRAs (of which some belong to the same group) are now registered with ESMA.
(2) conduct of business: the existing Regulation requires CRAs to avoid conflicts of interests (for example, a rating analyst employed by a CRA should not rate an entity in which he/she has an ownership interest), to ensure the quality of ratings (for example, requiring the ongoing monitoring of credit ratings) and rating methodologies (which must be, inter alia, rigorous and systematic) and a high level of transparency (for example, every year, CRAs should publish a Transparency Report).
(3) supervision: since July 2011, ESMA exercises exclusive supervisory powers over credit rating agencies registered in the EU and has comprehensive investigative powers including the possibility to demand any document or data, to summon and hear persons, to conduct on-site inspections and to impose administrative sanctions, fines and periodic penalty payments. This centralises and simplifies the supervision of CRAs at European level. Centralised supervision ensures a single point of contact for registered CRAs, significant efficiency gains due to a shorter and less complicated registration and supervisory process and a more consistent application of the rules for CRAs. CRAs are at present the only financial institutions which are directly supervised by a European supervisory authority.
EU rules would apply to ratings of public entities within the EU but also outside the EU provided that the sovereign ratings are issued by a CRA registered in the EU.
Today's proposals now pass to the European Parliament and the Council (Member States) for negotiation and adoption.
See also MEMO/11/788
More information:
Contacts :
Chantal Hughes (+32 2 296 44 50)
Carmel Dunne (+32 2 299 88 94)
Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on credit rating agencies , OJ L 302, 17.11.2009. Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 is often referred to as CRA I Regulation.
Regulation (EU) No 513/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2011 amending Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009. Regulation (EU) No 513/2011 is often referred to as CRA II Regulation:

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Local Republicans, Tea Party members want their voices heard
For those looking to speak out against Obamacare, the Lenoir County Republican Party will be hosting a forum for opinions today.
The Lenoir County Republican Party is sponsoring a �Defund Obamacare Town Hall� meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Lenoir County Courthouse. The Republican parties of Pitt, Greene and Duplin County will co-host the program, along with the Eastern N.C. Tea Party.
�We set up the event because we need our elected officials to understand that the majority of citizens in this county, state and country do not want Obamacare implemented,� Lenoir County Republican Party Chair Michele Nix said.
Nix invited U.S. Representatives G.K. Butterfield, Walter Jones and Mike McIntyre, along with U.S. Senators Richard Burr and Kay Hagan, but none of them will be in attendance. All but McIntyre have previous engagements, and McIntyre is staunchly for Obamacare.
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MALIBU, Calif., July 18 (UPI) -- Pamela Anderson was photographed kissing her soon-to-be ex-husband Rick Salomon in Malibu Thursday.
The 47-year-old actress and her ex were seen all cuddled up during their encounter at Surfrider Beach. The couple reportedly sat on a curb and talked for a while before driving off together in a Range Rover. They were both wearing their wedding bands for the rendezvous.
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Sometimes a toy is dangerous in a way that isn't obvious at first. For instance, a large flimsy plastic toy doesn't appear to be a choking hazard, but when it cracks and small fragments start chipping away it suddenly becomes one. On the other hand, there have been some missteps in toy manufacturing and design that strike one as pretty obvious oversights. Here's a rundown of five painfully obvious toy safety fails.
Austin Magic Pistol
Sold briefly in the late 1940s, the Austin Magic Pistol was a toy gun that fired a ping pong ball with the force of an explosive chemical reaction between calcium carbide and water. The reaction generated a fireball at the muzzle of the toy. By today's standards, this "toy" is classified as a firearm in many states. Somehow, it seems it should have been obvious even in 1940 that firearms aren't safe toys.
Sky Dancers
A more modern projectile, the Sky Dancers of the 1990s were dolls that, when launched out of their base with a pull-string, would fly into the air spinning their foam wings like a propeller. Once they launched, no one had any control over where these hard plastic things landed. Also, kids being kids launched these things at one another to disastrous results. Sky Dancers were recalled in 2000 after Galoob Toys Inc. received 150 reports of injuries including scratched corneas, broken teeth, temporary blindness, a mild concussion, a broken rib and facial lacerations that required stitches.
Lawn Darts
Lawn Darts or "Jarts" were giant plastic darts with weighted and sharpened metal tips that kids were supposed to throw into plastic hoops on the lawn – a sort of hybrid between darts and horseshoes. Sadly, the darts were found to be gravely injurious when they hit human targets and were actually responsible for the deaths of three children. They were banned in 1988 after a 7-year-old boy suffered brain injury when a lawn dart pierced his skull.
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Carpe Diem
18 comments:
- melissa said...
I loved learning the concept of chronos vs. kairos time. Very profound. Carpe kairos for all of us, right!
- January 26, 2012 at 1:35 AM
- Emily said...
I'm remembering something a wise woman once told you that you once told me: sometimes you just have to muddle through. Very true. Not everyday is a basket of dreams, but time has a great way of putting a charming patina on all of these crazy days. My dad was just telling me about his time as the family cow-milker. I'm sure it was no picnic, but he recalls is fondly now.
Great book! I'm hoping that's what my memories look like someday :)
- January 26, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Thanks for the post and link to the article with Glennon Melton! SO true- it was a nice reminder that we all are only human. And her comment on "adding" to the climb- that it's okay, others should not judge so harshly. I really think us mamas need to be more helpful with one another and not so judgemental.
- January 26, 2012 at 9:24 AM
I also forget to say that it's nice to see you ladies are not posting as often-yes, that sounds strange, but, it shows you are taking in more moments with your family :D And, it allows me to come back from time to time and catch up with what you are working on without investing too much computer time away from my family. Kairos.
- January 26, 2012 at 9:28 AM
- Jilly said...
Oh, I love that article!
One of my Oscar moments was when my son and our next door neighbour boy buried all the contents of my wallet in different parts of the sandbox - we're talking bank card, credit card, health insuance, birth certificate . . . the whole lot.
A close second was when he "borrowed" our keys off the key hook, including the ONLY key to our storage shed and lost them somewhere . . . we had to use bolt cutters to get into our own shed, and change the lock.
We are really praying this son will survive his teens . . .
- January 27, 2012 at 2:06 PM
- lynne said...
Jilly, that is hilarious!!! Time to get rid of the sandbox!
- January 28, 2012 at 8:27 AM
- alexandra said...
That was a really nice article. I totally agree with Emily's comment, and I think that wise woman was wise indeed. Having my oldest in full-day school now also has given me a better perspective on how quickly each stage goes by, and knowing that does help the bad moments take on their more proper proportion as mere moments in time.
- January 28, 2012 at 3:52 PM
- Lauren said...
Great article. I can't wait to read the book. I love hearing naughty children stories.
I wonder if I could have my kids write a book like that now. They remember everything:)
- January 30, 2012 at 4:41 PM
- The Hammonds said...
I read this article a week or so ago and have thought of it often since. But I also think that those moments that I want to pass really, really quickly--the ones when my kids are being really naughty, or really infuriating and I'm being really impatient or unreasonable are the ones I laugh the hardest about as I'm retelling them to Tyler in the evening. I guess I feel like the kairos moments are the ones you treasure in your heart, but the chronos (or more accurately worse-than-chronos) moments are the ones that become family legends.
- January 31, 2012 at 9:24 AM
- lynne said...
court - exactly.
(steve and i are still laughing about what sophie told you about your lady parts on the top half)
- January 31, 2012 at 12:51 PM
- Lisa Thompson said...
Lynne & Melissa - I absolutely love your blog. And although you probably have more than 200 followers I awarded you the Liebster Blog Award. Thanks for continuing to inspire me and at times, make me laugh (the home-made Christmas gift entry with photo is fantastic!). Today's entry on my blog announces your award.
Much love,L
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Welcome to BWW's ON THIS DAY Series celebrating theatrical birthdays, openings and special events that took place on this day in theatre history!
Today in 1940, Pal Joey opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Pal Joey is a musical with a book by John O'Hara (from his novel of the same title) and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart based on a character and situations O'Hara created in a series of short stories published in The New Yorker. It includes two songs that have become standards: "I Could Write a Book" and "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered". The original 1940 Broadway production was directed by George Abbott and starred Gene Kelly. There have been several revivals since, including a 2008-09 Broadway run, and a 1957 film adaptation starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak. The 2008 revival starred Stockard Channing as Vera, Martha Plimpton as Gladys, Matthew Risch as Joey, Jenny Fellner as Linda, and Robert Clohessy as Mike.
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The U.S. premiere of a cantata commemorating the life of Anne Frank will fill the 800-seat auditorium of Berkley High School with Holocaust survivors and families of students performing the historic piece.
'My Name is Anne Frank' makes its American debut at 7 p.m. May 7. Some of the free tickets are still available.
Anne Frank, one of the most well-known Holocaust victims, kept a humble diary during a two-year period her family hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Her journal became a best-selling book and has inspired many stage, dance and musical works.
However, the cantata by composer Volker Blumenthaler and lyricist Alexander Gruber is particularly touching to Stephen Goldman, director of the Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills.
'I think it's significant that it was written by two Germans -- non-Jews -- in Germany,' he said. 'It is part of the process for the nation of Germany coming to grips with its history and telling its children they must understand their history.'
Officials at the Holocaust center asked BHS's award-winning singers and musicians to present the complete and original work with soloists Hazzan Daniel Gross and Cantor Penny Steyer. It was important that youths be involved, said Guy Stern, director of the center's International Institute of the Righteous.
'They did it that way at the world premiere in Nuremberg,' Stern, 91, of West Bloomfield said. 'I searched for a good, musically oriented high school and that is Berkley. They have a very strong program. The choir has performed at Carnegie Hall and the orchestra was selected to play at the inauguration so that was a logical place to get talent.'
Stern, a German scholar, and only survivor of a family that perished during the Holocaust, collaborated on translating the cantata lyrics for U.S. audiences.
'It had been translated to English but he helped make it American,' Goldman said. 'He changed some words to make sure it met the needs of the music and rhythm. It was a process and not a short one.'
Stern said the lyrics draw heavily from the journal given to Anne Frank for her 13th birthday in 1942. She started keeping it two days later, describing some of the segregation and restrictions placed on Jews. A few weeks later her sister received a notice to report to a work camp. The Franks and another family then moved into a sealed-off annex above the office of Otto Frank, Anne's father.
During their confinement, Anne wrote about family tensions, romance and news of their friends 'being taken away in droves' by cattle cars. She knew evil but she managed to hold onto her beliefs about the good of man.
In July 1944, Anne wrote, 'It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.'
A couple weeks later, someone tipped off the German security police to the location of the two families. They were arrested and shipped to concentration camps along with the person who brought them food and supplies.
Anne Frank died in March 1945 of typhus, not long before the end of the war in Europe. However, her diary entries are proof she won the spiritual war.
'For me, what is so moving about her life is that she maintained her optimism knowing full well what was going on,' Goldman said.
Stern can relate to Anne Frank's life on a very personal level. He was 15 when his parents sent him from Germany to the United States in 1937.
'I can identify with all the fears of a Jewish community in a mid-size town. That goes to my heart and my emotions,' he said.
Stern tried but was unable to secure passage for his family. In 1943, he was drafted by the U.S. Army. He landed in Normandy three days after the D-Day invasion as part of a special military unit known as Ritchie Boys. He was given a Bronze Star medal for his interrogation of German prisoners of war and defectors. A documentary was made about the unit in 2004.
Stern said the cantata is another important way to reach youth around the world and educate them about Anne Frank and the Holocaust. He is pleased with the collaborated translation.
'It's a memorial and there are passages that bring out both the emotional life of the young girl on one hand and the persecuted person on the other,' he said. 'The music while modern is not exaggeratedly so and it brings out she feels and what she fears.'
Stern learned about the cantata from a colleague. He contacted the composer and with Goldman started working on an American premiere. For him, the drum section toward the end of the piece retells with great emotion the threat the two families endured.
'They are incarcerated by their own choice and you can feel the approach of the SS (an elite Nazi guard) and it is very stirring,' Stern said. 'The bit of hope taken from the diary emerges at the end and finishes the cantata and the life of Anne as she is being deported with her family to a concentration camp.'
Although the cantata requires a highly skilled orchestra and choir, Goldman said he believes it will end up in general circulation with more concerts being held around the country and internationally.
'I think we will see a number of translations. It is a masterful composition,' he said, adding the cantata is appropriate for all ages.
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The composer and lyricist will visit from Germany to hear the cantata. They also have given permission for BHS to videotape the performance and sell DVDs to benefit the Berkley Education Foundation.
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Yirga, ridden by Royston Ffrench for Champion Trainer Ali Rashid Al Raihe, won the featured 1800m Jebel Ali Stakes prep race on Friday afternoon.
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The jockey said: "We were very pleased with that comeback run and hoped that had put him spot on for today. We probably hit the front soon enough but he has run on gamely and won nicely.
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JED HOYER: "Hey Theo. Dude you were right - this place is fantastic! Look at me - I'm saying 'dude' now!"
THEO EPSTEIN: "That's great man! And the fish tacos - Rubio's right? Did I tell you?"
JH: "Theo. Those Rubio's tacos were a little heavy on the cabbage. I found this hole in the wall place out on Point Loma that I really like, though."
TE: "Whatever. Listen, you saw how I gave Bay the boot, right? And that Lackey signing? Pretty cool, eh? We're going back to the World Series!"
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TE: "The last piece is to solve my corner infield problem. I can't give away Lowell, but with his hip I can't play him at third anymore either. Remember how we kept dreaming about Adrian Gonzalez as a Red Sox?"
JH: "I remember you thought he'd be a nice fit-"
TE: "Well with Lackey and Cameron I've got some room to maneuver. I keep getting these 'Tweets' saying the you guys want a right-handed centerfielder, and everyone needs more pitching. So how's this: I'll pick up the tab on Cameron for the next two years, and send him with Buchholz to you for Gonzo. You can't pass that up!"
JH: "I'm not sure that's entirely ethical-"
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JH: "Gonzo is our best player. He's our biggest draw and considered a native son to baseball fans on both sides of the border. I can't-"
TE: "Confound it man, you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette! Getting Cameron allows you to move Gwynn to left and Blanks to first. A rotation of Young/Correia/Richard/Buchholz/Latos is pretty intimidating. I'm glad I'm here in the AL East! You know you'll never sign Gonzo to a long term deal so long as you're hamstrung with a $40 million dollar payroll. So whaddya say? I'll fax you the paperwork!"
JH: "Theo, I really appreciate the fact you gave me my start in the business side of baseball. I do. And I'll never forget what you taught me. But with a new ownership group in place, and a fan base already frustrated by the way Jake Peavy left town, I might as well walk to the top of the Coronado Bridge and jump if I trade Adrian Gonzalez away."
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JH: "Sure. Can you advance me $6.25? I haven't been paid yet."
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There is a chance to check SpaceDev's study and other studies when a few threads in the Financial Barriers section are progressed some steps further.
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We will need to get a copy of SpaceDev's actual study first. Using only press releases is worse than useless.
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Once the few threads are progressed further they enable to mark a lower boundary of the investments and costs - a minimum required the numbers published can be compared to by several ways.
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SawSS1Jun21 wrote:
It's also comparing apples to oranges, considering that Constellation is a project to develop and field a Manned Interplanetary Exploration Architecture, not simply "get to the moon on a vectored-thrust ultralight" and I expect that if the SpaceDev study had included the capacity to send humans to Mars, then the glib notion of "one tenth the cost!" would have been scaled back or absent.
In the end, this begins to read like "NASA-bashing for the purposes of increasing the circulation of our press release," a practice which I find unsavory within this industry and which I would like to see stop. It is something Musk has largely refrained from doing and I think that provides him with a great deal of clout and credibility, and places him on the inside track for actually landing one of Griffin's commercial contracts.
Anyway, I thought it was ironic that the boys from Poway would make this release right after publi said he liked them. Our buddy is gonna have a conniption. Rightly so, in my view.
You bet I am. Its Wan Hoo all over again. The mini-Buran I love as an alternative to the stick. Moon/Mars still needs HLLV. They really disappointed me with the NASA bashing. Let them fly first, and we will see.
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I updated this blurb a bit. Here is some history behind the AMROC vehicle that seems to be the hybrid design SpaceDev is looking at:
http://spacearium.aresinstitute.org/art ... 2171314797
publiusr wrote:
Speaking of which...
Dream Chaser--Orbital version...Part II:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums ... 5&start=11
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums ... sp?tid=855
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/05 ... haser.html
It started out like this:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationsp ... drcrd.html
The big booster is based on the old AMROC Aquila (not StarBoosters Aquila SDLV HLLV) that was to launch from a converted tanker.
More data:
http://www.newscientistspace.com/articl ... esign.html
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/05 ... chaser.htm
http://www.spacedev.com/newsite/templat ... hp?pid=542
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums ... 1&posts=33
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I think this craft might make good use of the www.shuttlelift.com type technology. Only LOX is needed, and it would be more easily handled by the military--and is possibly shorter than Musks larger rocket designs.
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A while back, Suesie asked a very good question… "What do we do to stay cool?"
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So how do we beat the heat? Well… one way is to get up early in the morning so we can get our daily chores and work done while it is still cool outside. Currently that means feeding and watering the poultry and watering the garden.
After the morning chores are done we usually cook up some breakfast. Breakfast varies from light to elaborate depending on what we've harvested from the garden. Lately we've really been getting into sautéed veggies — green beans, lemon squash, zucchini, onions, and tomatoes with a little bit of soy sauce. Yum! We have our outdoor kitchen set up now so it's a bit cooler than cooking indoors.
By then it is too darn hot to do anything but sit in the shade and drink lots of water. OK, OK…. sometimes we still find some tasks that we can do in the shade but a lot of times it's a just a good excuse to read a good book. Any suggestions?
And when we get REALLY hot we take a nice cold shower with the garden hose. Blaze gets a shower now and then also. She likes to act like she doesn't like it but it sure perks her up.
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What's Your Favorite Food Glossy?
Food Glossies Trumped by a "T"
I'm a compulsive reader of the food glossies: Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, and Saveur. Aren't you? Each has its virtues, though I can't say that any one of them really speaks to me. I like Gourmet's food politics stories and some of its writers (Jane and Michael Stern, John T. Edge, Calvin Trillin), but I don't share Ruth Reichl's enthusiasm for hiring as many novelists as she can to write stories for her. I used to look forward to reading Pete Wells' column in Food & Wine, but now that he's gone I'm sure I'm going to find Food & Wine's penchant for celebritizing everything (It's the In Style of food magazines) a little hard to take. I wish Bon Appetit had a funkier, more real voice and take on everything, but I don't want it to become Saveur, which takes realness to unnecessary, unusaable heights.
This obsession I have with the food glossies makes it all the more surprising that the Times magazine supplement, "T," this past Sunday put out an issue that was essentially another food glossy, albeit with a stylish and stylized bent, that was compulsively, pleasurably readable in a way that the food glossies rarely are.
The highlights of the issue: Sara Lyall's piece on London restaurant critics, Heidi Julavits' (yes I know she's an acclaimed young novelist)
funny and wise story on the groundbreaking year-round greenhouse growers in Maine, Toby Cecchini's piece of Schaller & Weber's double-amoked bacon (he thinks it's so good it should be declared a controlled substance), and a funny piece about breakfast in Los Angeles. Of course the LA breakfast piece would have been a lot better without the two Hollywood types telling us they eat at the Beverly Hills every morning. Now there's a breaking bit of news. In fact Los Angeles is a very good breakfast town, and would it have killed someone to call Irene (Sherry) Virbila of the LA Times to ask her for her five favorite breakfast spots in LA.
I haven't even mentioned the best part of yesterday's issue of "T."
There are contributions by two first rate food bloggers, Graham Holliday of Noodle Pie, and Clotide Dusoulier of chocolateandzucchini Of course the Times doesn't even print the urls of their blogs, but that's another story.
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Guy Fawkes masks, immortalized in the movie "V for Vendetta", have become a global symbol of protest and anonymity through the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring.
"The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny — and I'm happy with people using it, it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way," British graphic novel artist David Lloyd, the man who created the original image of the mask for a comic strip written by Alan Moore, told BBC.
At the top of Reddit today is somewhat ironic image of this icon of rebellion being mass-produced in a factory in Sao Goncalo near Rio de Janeiro.
Reuters notes that the masks are manufactured for sale to stores specializing in costumes.
There's no doubt that the masks, which transform identifiable citizens into anonymous dissidents, irk authorities. Canada recently passed a law that bans the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
Notably, the mask has become a symbol of the amorphous hacktivist group Anonymous.
And Lloyd approves of the online jesters using the mask.
"My feeling is the Anonymous group needed an all-purpose image to hide their identity and also symbolize that they stand for individualism — V for Vendetta is a story about one person against the system," Lloyd told BBC.
An interesting note is that Time Warner, one of the largest media companies in the world and parent of Warner Brothers, owns the rights to the image and is paid a licensing fee with the sale of each mask.
In 2011 purported members of Anonymous told CNN that activists were ordering masks mass-produced and shipped in from Asia so that Time Warner didn't receive the loyalties.
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Prot Paladining in Mists of Pandaria
I apparently have had my blog closed in my tabs list for a while…completely unplanned! There's been a lot going on IRL and in WoW, so I'm finally having some down time to actually do some writing! So let's talk prot as it currently stands in Mists of Pandaria!
I've been 90 for a while now, and have wrapped up my 3rd week of raiding Mogu'shan Vaults on Tuesday. My raid team is currently 3/6, while I have gone 4/6 in pugs and have devoted lots of time to Elegon. Prot paladins are at a weird point in WoW, which can make an introduction to the class a touch challenging for new players.
In Cataclysm, paladins were very easily able to to CTC cap. CTC stands for Combat Table Coverage. In short terms, it was your ability to push hits off the table. The magic number was 102.4% and was a combination of the 5% chance to miss, your block, and your avoidance stats. Prot paladins were able to cap easily due to how Mastery worked with our spec. Blizzard decided that they didn't like how easily paladins reached the 102.4% sweet spot, so they shared that they would modify the ability for any class to CTC cap, making it impossible to occur in Mists.
CTC capping was why you started seeing end-game raiding paladins gemming pure Stamina instead of hybrid gems. We had gotten to the point that we were shedding mitigation stats for avoidance and stamina. Much fun was had in LFR being called a "stamina stacking idiot" by armchair tanks who had no clue how to play the class.
Now, Mists has thrown a wrench into the entire gearing scheme. In the past, Mastery was king for us. We cared little for hit or expertise. Dodge and Parry weren't bad, but we really REALLY wanted that Mastery. So now what do we look for?
Well, it depends on your gearing scheme. Theck, over at Sacred Duty, has done a ton of Matlab simulations to determine what is going to benefit paladins the most.
We already know that expertise and hit matter. Blizzard told us that with the change to active mitigation (AM), we will value these stats. Simply put, if our attacks don't land, then we can't mitigate hits from bosses.
My stat priority is as follows:
Expertise hard cap (5100) > Hit hard cap (2550) > Haste > Mastery > Dodge/Parry
Yes, haste is my next focus after I expertise and hit cap. Why am I stacking haste as a tank? Haste means more hits during a fight, meaning more DPS thanks to Vengeance. Expertise means more hits actually landing, which means we are generating holy power at a regular rate, which we are spending on Shield of the Righteous.
You can choose to swap Haste and Mastery in the priority list, depending on how you are choosing to gear. The lowest priority for you is your avoidance stats. They just aren't worth it. As Theck states at the end of his post:
Shifting that dodge and parry into hit, expertise, and mastery or haste can reduce the likelihood of 80% spikes by a factor of 3 and that 90% spike by a factor of 100. While we can't say that this makes you 3x of 100x more survivable, it's pretty clear that abandoning avoidance is a large survivability increase. You're choosing to preferentially eliminate the most dangerous events at the cost of a little more throughput damage, and I think any healer will tell you that's a good trade.
If your mind can take tables and a lot of math, Theck's post, Damage Smoothing: Expertise, Mastery, and Haste is a must read. Also take a moment to check out the first post on the topic, Avoidance, Mitigation, and Damage Smoothing.
Since our gearing priorities have changed, it means that our gear options are completely crazy too. I assembled a BiS list for Dragon Soul and shared it in this blog. I took the time to assemble a "possible tank gear list" after our first week of raiding, and it's linked from the Excel graphic on the right. As my guild and raid team have discovered, spreadsheets are my answer to everything! Gear is sortable by slot (at some point I'll make it sortable by raid boss). Bolded gear is what I am targeting for my BiS list. Items that have been lined out are pure avoidance pieces and should be avoided at all costs. None of the gear on this spreadsheet has crit. I dismissed every piece of gear with crit on it as DPS loot (because it is).
If you have any questions about the spreadsheet, feel free to hit me up in the comments or on Twitter!
This is a bit up in the air right now. My recommendation is to hybrid gem, working to assist in your hard capping of expertise and hit. I'm currently using Guardian's Imperial Amethysts in my red and blue sockets, and Forceful Wild Jades in my yellows. My gemming will adjust as I reach my caps.
Here's the list of enchants:
|Greater Ox Horn Inscription
|+300 Stamina and +100 Dodge
|Enchant Cloak – Greater Protection
|+200 Stamina
|Enchant Chest – Superior Stamina
|+300 Stamina
|Enchant Bracer – Dodge
|+170 Dodge
|Enchant Gloves – Superior Mastery
|+170 Mastery
|Ironscale Leg Armor
|+430 Stamina and +165 Dodge
|Enchant Boots – Pandaren's Step
|+140 Mastery and increased run speed
|Enchant Shield – Greater Parry
|+170 Parry
Enchanters should be making sure they are enchanting their rings with [Enchant Ring – Greater Stamina], which adds +240 stamina to each ring. Jewelcrafters will want to be making use of their JC only gems.
Spell Priority
Call me lazy, or let me tell you that I have a lot going on during raids that pulls my attention elsewhere, but I use WeakAuras to keep my attacks front and center on my screen so I can be aware of my cooldowns. Theck has been kind enough to keep sharing his WeakAuras strings on his blog. Scroll down to the bottom of his Tankadin WeakAuras Strings: 5.0.5 post for the strings to copy into the addon.
This makes my life infinity easier because I have it right in the center of my screen, so it's a quick glance to see when I need to refresh Sacred Shield or if wings are coming off CD.


text: « Return to Search Mass. Eye and Ear Announces Curing Kids Fund Grant Recipients June 14, 2011 Boston (June 14, 2011) — Mass. Eye and Ear and the Curing Kids Fund are proud to announce the awarding of four research grants to Mass. Eye and Ear investigators. Last October Mass. Eye and Ear held the inaugural Sense-ation! Gala, which netted well over $800,000 for the new Mass. Eye and Ear Curing Kids Fund. This fund was created to help us bring life-changing treatments to children and to accelerate cures and innovations through research. The grants awarded this week are each for two years and for just over $50,000. The four projects, selected from an impressive pool of 15, each focus on helping children who are affected by vision and hearing loss. The projects and lead investigators are: • Gene Therapy Approach to Correct Genetic Deafness – PI: Zheng-Yi Chen, D. Phil. • Ex-vivo Expansion of Corneal and Oral Stem Cells for Autologous Cornea Transplantion: from Bench to Bedside. – PI: Ula Jurkunas, M.D., • New Approaches to Auditory Rehabilitation in Children with Hearing Impairments. – P.I: Daniel Polley, Ph.D., and • "Development of an Advanced 'Smart Glasses' Prototype to Provide Navigation Assistance for Blind Children." – PI: Joseph Rizzo, M.D. "On behalf of the internal review committee, I would like to extend our appreciation to all who submitted proposals. All were impressed by the thought and care our scientists put into developing research projects to help children," said Mass. Eye and Ear President and CEO John Fernandez. The four grants awarded are just one aspect of the Curing Kids Fund. Monies from the fund will also provide services for needy children such as eyeglasses and hearing aids, support core research, and to seed a Curing Kids endowment for research to help children. Mass. Eye and Ear hopes to add significantly to the Curing Kids Fund in the years to come. The next Sense-ation! Gala will take place on Oct. 18 at the Renaissance Waterfront Hotel in Boston. Founded in 1824, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is an independent specialty hospital providing patient care for disorders of the eye, ear, nose, throat, head and neck. Mass. Eye and Ear is an international leader in Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology research and a teaching partner of Harvard Medical School. For more information, call 617-523-7900 or visit http://www.masseyeandear.org/.