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Banks have been a reliable source of campaign cash for Sen. Hagan
WASHINGTON U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has received $962,000 since 2008 from employees and political action committees of industries that are under the jurisdiction of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, where she has served for a large portion of her first term in Congress.
The industries are some of the biggest sources of money for both Democrats and Republicans. Historically they've been particularly generous to members of the committee and its House of Representatives counterpart, the Financial Services Committee.
An examination of the financial sector's campaign contributions in this year's highly competitive North Carolina Senate race, tallied and analyzed by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, shows that Hagan's Republican opponent, Thom Tillis, also has collected large sums from some of the same industries. The sector's political action committees, however, have given more to Hagan.
Sarah Bryner, the center's research director, said that PACs tend to support incumbents, especially those they think have a chance of winning.
"She's a known entity and they have relationships with her already," Bryner said.
The North Carolina Bankers Association PAC hasn't contributed to Hagan's re-election campaign, but it has given to the American Bankers Association PAC, which in turn has given $10,000 to Hagan, the maximum it can give in a six-year Senate election cycle.
"We haven't had any obstacles of any kind with Sen. Hagan," said Thad Woodard, president and chief executive officer of the North Carolina Bankers Association. "She has supported regulatory relief bills all along...She hasn't really championed anything for us, but she hasn't opposed anything either."
Hagan did push for the tobacco buyout plan, which helped both tobacco farmers and the agricultural banks they deal with, he said. A key issue now is too much costly regulation for smaller community banks, Woodard said. But partisan gridlock has stopped much of the action in Congress.
"As far as getting anything done, it's like pushing boulders," Woodard said. "She can't get it done and neither can anyone else until the situation changes."
Hagan is one of six senators, Republicans and Democrats, who have received the maximum amount from the American Bankers' Association, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the capital. None of the other senators is on the banking panel.
The association ranks 12th among PACs that have contributed the most money so far in the current midterm political cycle. Tillis, speaker of the North Carolina House, has not been among the recipients of its largesse, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Jeff Sigmund, vice president for public relations with the American Bankers Association, declined to discuss the PAC's preferences.
Asked about the financial support that Hagan has received from the financial industry, campaign spokeswoman Sadie Weiner said, "From working to end payday lending in North Carolina to supporting the largest reform of our financial system since the Great Depression, Kay has always been focused on making sure consumers have the information and resources they need to build sound financial futures."
PACs of commercial banks, a credit union, finance and credit companies, and securities and investment firms have given Hagan $363,000 since she came to Capitol Hill in 2009, according the Center for Responsive Politics.
Eighteen of those PACs have given her the maximum of $10,000. Among those are the PACs of some of the nation's largest financial institutions: JP Morgan Chase & Co., Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group.
Tillis has received $37,200 from the sector's PACs, all in 2014 since he became a candidate in the race. The only $10,000 maximum was from the American Financial Services Association.
Hagan has been a member of the committee since 2011. The post fits with her state's interests. Charlotte is a leading U.S. financial center, with Bank of America's headquarters and large Wells Fargo operations. But besides, banks, savings and loans and investment and securities, the Senate Banking Committee also has jurisdiction over the insurance, real estate and accounting industries, credit firms, and hospitals and nursing homes .
While individuals donate for many reasons, including ideology, Bryner said that PACs tend to contribute to maintain relationships with people in power.
Hagan was familiar with the financial industry before she ever set foot inside the Senate Banking Committee chamber. After graduating from the Wake Forest University School of Law, she worked for 10 years at North Carolina National Bank, a predecessor to Bank of America. She became a vice president in the estates and trust division.
Tillis, too, has a financial background. He became a partner in 1996 for what was at the time Price Waterhouse, one of the nation's biggest accounting and consulting companies, where he advised a bank and was for a time a member of the company's financial services practice, according to his official biography and resume.
The banking committee earlier this year passed legislation that would make changes in the housing finance system by replacing government-sponsored mortgage enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a privately capitalized system.
Supporters say the new system would better protect taxpayers from future economic downturns. Hagan voted in favor of the legislation in May when the committee sent it to the full Senate. It has not yet gotten a vote. The committee also recently has considered nominations, such as that of Janet Yellen, who was confirmed to lead the Federal Reserve System. Hagan supported her appointment.
With Congress in gridlock on so many issues, much of the committee's work has been oversight, particularly over the rules being written to implement the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The 2010 bill overhauled the financial industry and created the Consumer Financial Protection bureau, which Hagan supported and about which the financial services industries voiced some concerns.
Four years later, the rule-making for Dodd-Frank is not yet complete. Public Citizen, a nonprofit group that advocates for consumer interests on Capitol Hill, has argued that industry groups have delayed and tried to weaken the law.
"Unfortunately, it's not atypical to see a concentration of contributions to members of committees of jurisdiction over Wall Street and the banking industry," said Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen's Congress Watch division director. "We can't draw a direct correlation between those contributions and decisions made by members. But certainly the power to do things industry wants, including trying to get another bite of the Dodd-Frank apple, lies with these senators and (House) members, so it makes sense for them to invest more there when they play a part in politics."
Other senators _ Democrats Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Maria Cantwell of Washington, independent Angus King of Maine and Republican John McCain of Arizona _ wrote in an op-ed in July that Congress hadn't done enough to reduce the risk of another financial crisis.
Since the crash, "the big banks are more concentrated and more interconnected and their appetite for excessively risky behavior is unchanged," they wrote on CNN's website. The four support the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act, which would make banks smaller and less complex and less able to rely on federal depository insurance to protect them from high-risk activities.
Hagan doesn't believe that the legislation would prevent another financial crisis and doesn't support it, her office said.
Frank Keating, president and CEO of the American Bankers Association, said in 2012 that he opposed proposals such as Glass-Steagall that would reduce the size of the nation's largest banks, and argued that the law would not have prevented the financial crisis.
Anthony Plath, an associate professor of finance at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, said Hagan has been "trying to thread that needle between support for the Obama administration and not trying to offend the banking industry." Plath described himself as a Libertarian-leaning Republican.
The financial sector _ including insurance, real estate, securities and investment and commercial banks _ contributes to both Republicans and Democrats, but favors the former; in the current election cycle, Republicans have received $90 million to the Democrats' $59 million, according to contribution reports filed to the Federal Election Commission and tallied and analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics. It counted donations of $200 or more from individuals employed in certain sectors and contributions from PACs.
The sector's political spending in North Carolina in the past two years amounts to $628,200 for Hagan _ the 17th highest among the 100 senators _ and $600,479 for Tillis, the center found.
Industries within the sector show a different divide between the two candidates.
In 2013-14, Hagan received $111,600 from commercial banks, making her the sixth highest recipient among senators. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, ranked at the top, with $229,700. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky received $216,325. Tillis has received $13,450.
But in the same two-year period, Tillis received more from securities and investment companies, which include hedge funds and private investment firms. The Republican candidate has taken in $206,250, compared to $135,200 for Hagan. The figures, tallied by the center, based on federal records, count large donations from individuals employed in the sector and the industry's PACs.
Jennifer Dunn, a spokeswoman for Wells Fargo, said the company's PACs routinely give to candidates in communities where the bank does business. In addition to Hagan, the PACs have given donations to numerous Senate candidates, she said. Wells Fargo PACs, like others, are funded through voluntary contributions of employees.


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1. Home
2. Once Upon A Time
3. Victim's Statement
4. My Search for Justice
5. Descent into Hell
6. U.S. Laws Violated by Senator Uzamere
7. Nigerian Laws Violated by Senator Uzamere
8. Ignored by Federal Agencies
9. Ignored by Nigerian Authorities
10. Victims' Loss of Child Support
11. The Uzamere Family
12. Municipal Employees Who Helped Senator Uzamere
13. John Gray and Non-Profit Legal Community
14. Hall of Shame
15. 1st Judicial Blow By African-American Judge Thomas
16. Law Firm of Allen E. Kaye
17. Too Many Discrepancies...
18. Allen E. Kaye And His Diabolical Talmud-Following Minions
19. Will Sampson Staff Refuse To Help Identity Fraud Victims?
20. Law Office of Gladstein & Messinger
21. Patrick Synmoie's Attempts to Hide
22. Consulate General of Nigeria
23. Strange Chat with Senator Ekweremadu
24. Proof of Legal Marriage
25. Proof of Illegal Marriage/Identity Fraud
26. Senator Uzamere's Attempts to Hide Crimes Will Fail
27. The Proof...
28. Success -- The Proof Is Finally Here!
29. Will Senator Uzamere Evade Child Support Again?
30. Nigeria's New Commitment to Protect Child Abandoned by Sen. Uzamere
31. Judge Prus -- What Gives?
32. Back on Track!
33. Eugene Uzamere -- Third Attorney to Break the Law
34. Petitioner's Verified Petition
35. Supplemental Verified Petition
36. Judge Prus Recuses Himself
37. Eugene's Failed Attempt to Thwart Justice
38. Kate Ezomo -- Diabolical Liar
39. Letters of Complaint Against Kate Ezomo
40. My Factual Response to Imaginary Cousin Godwin
41. Federal Action Against Defendant Dismissed
42. Open Letters to the FBI
43. Open Letter to All U.S. Judges
44. Open Letter to Ehigie and Eugene
45. Tara's Affidavit
46. $100,000,000.00 Lawsuit Against Corrupt Fiduciaries
47. Will Fiduciaries Settle?
48. New York City Defrauds Disabled Schvartze
49. There Is No Cousin Godwin!
50. Warning Letter to Governor and Chief Justice of New York State
51. Deprived of Child Support by Allen Kaye
52. Can International Agency Help?
53. Chief Judge Wood's Court
54. Will NYS' Dept. Disc. Committee and Commission on Judicial Conduct Be Corrupted?
55. Subpoena Planned for Judge Garaufis
56. No Negotiations for Justice...Justice is Owed!
57. Will Attorneys Sign Affirmation?
58. Am I Finally Being Taken Seriously?
59. Evidentiary Hearing is Scheduled!
60. Amy Feinstein Refuses to Prosecute!
61. Robert Juceam's Useless Excuses
62. Appellate Brief pages 24 to end
63. No Justice -- No Peace!
64. Happy Birthday My Beautiful Angel
65. Are You A Victim of A Green Card Marriage Scam?
66. End Green Card Marriage Sponsorship
67. How to Report an Immigration Scammer and the Attorney
68. Is The End Finally in Sight?
69. Will Appellate Division Justices Decide Fairly?
70. What Will NYSCJC's Response Be?
71. How Will NYSDDC Respond?
72. Will Obama's Administration Coerce Helpless Schvartze's Silence
73. Will U.S. Department of State's Secretary Rise To The Challenge?
74. Eugene Uzamere Calls It Quits
75. Bigot Judge Sunshine Continues Courtroom Corruption
76. Schvartze's Complaints Still Ignored By Appellate Division's White Judiciary
77. More Talmudic Bias and Anti-Schvartze Racism At SDNY
78. Senator Uzamere...You Are The Husband!
79. Will U.S. Solicitor General Office Look On Idly?
80. What will SCOTUS Do?
81. Why did they disobey?
82. Cabranes' Fraud Upon The Court
83. Is Hinds-Radix Their 'Secret' Weapon?
84. New York State Lawsuit for Fraud
85. Judge Sunshine Is A Loser
86. Judge Sunshine Out of Options
87. Petitioner Prepares Request for Rehearing...
88. Petition for Rehearing
89. Loser Sunshine's Last Hurrah
90. Lawsuit Against Daily News and Scott Shifrel
91. Mort Zuckerman's Bigoted Tabloid
92. Corruption at Nassau County Supreme Court and Nassau County Clerk
93. Judge Scuccimarra Ruling
94. Defendants Have Defaulted
95. Will Judge Parga Accepts Anne Carroll's Drivel Because Defendants Are Rich Jews?
96. New York and Anne B. Carroll
97. Lawsuit Against President
98. Will Obama Listen?
99. Open Letter to Al Jazeera, President Obama and Judge Allegra
100. More Court Shenanigans?
101. Howard U. Schmokescreen
102. Into the fire...
103. What Will The New York State Division of Human Rights Do?
104. Housing Court Corruption
105. Mayor Bloomberg's Finest
106. FEGS in Criminal Conspiracy
107. FEGS Gave Victim No Choice
108. What Will The New York State Supreme Court Do?
109. What Will Court of Claims Do?
110. Abuse of Religion Not New
111. How Wicked Are They?
112. What Lies???
113. Federal Lawsuit
114. Disastrous Results to Appeal
115. Judge Garaufis' Discriminatory Decision
116. Garaufis' Talmudic Shenanigans
117. FOIA Hiding Evidence
118. Congressional Testimony
119. Unintelligible Complaint of Rachel G. Yohalem
120. Uzamere v. USA, et al
121. Judicial Whores Willy and Patty
122. Uzamere v. USA
123. Find an Unbiased Court
124. U.S. Government Blacklists Own Citizens
125. Appellate Brief First Circuit
126. U.S. Government Hides Prosecution
127. A Jewish RICO
128. Jews' Demonic Doctrine -- Law of the Moser
129. Mishkin Yanks His Own Nuts
130. Will African American Victim of Grand Laceny Receive Justice?
131. Judicial Ethics Hypocrite
132. Jew Shenanigans Involved in Random Selection of Morally Compromised Judge
133. Please save my family!
134. Psychopaths
135. Jewish Paradigm Put Jews on Top
136. Pretender Bharara
137. Int'l Complaint Against Israel, United States and Nigeria
138. Memorial of Impeachment
139. A Real Man
New York Mayor Announces Bid
for Third Term
Quick to Condemn Black Football Star for Violating the Law...
Remains Silent While He and His Administration Violates the Law
and Defrauds Disabled Schvartze
The powerful mayor
administration has violated
the law and defrauded helpless schvartze.
The disabled schvartze; all alone and with no
one to defend or help her.
Football star and private citizen who powerful mayor publicly condemns while privately aiding and abetting his administrations's crimes against helpless schvartze.
Eugene Uzamere -- former attorney of New York City Department of Homeless Services suborns perjury of New York City Clerk Joseph Visceglia to nepotistically hide the act of identity fraud by his uncle -- Senator Ehigie Edobor Uzamere.
The Lawsuit:
Cheryl D. Uzamere vs. Allen E. Kaye, P.C
(click on picture to see entire lawsuit)

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Our group lost a game a few years back due to the Naples 250NM bug (which has since been fixed).
On creating Poland we now have Warsaw at 125NM?
This appears excessive given London is only 150NM.
Indeed it means that for several countries taking Warsaw could possibly win them the game. Is this the game working as intended? An oversight? or a bug?


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Limbaugh Slides Into Birtherism: "Obama's Social Security Number Is From CT, And He's Never Been There"
Rush Limbaugh today breathed new life into the inflammatory lie that President Obama's Social Security number is illegitimate. In response to a caller who cast doubt on Obama's birth certificate, Limbaugh asked, "What are your thoughts on the fact that Obama's Social Security number is from Connecticut, and he's never been there?" This is only the latest long-debunked smear conservative talk radio hosts are re-injecting into the mainstream in this election year.
The point that Limbaugh and other Social Security-obsessed birthers have seized on is that the first three digits of Obama's Social Security number would only be assigned to someone whose request was processed in Connecticut. But as the Social Security Administration explained:
Prior to 1972, cards were issued in local Social Security offices around the country and the Area Number [the first three digits of an SSN] represented the State in which the card was issued. This did not necessarily have to be the State where the applicant lived, since a person could apply for their card in any Social Security office. Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSNs and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number assigned has been based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. The applicant's mailing address does not have to be the same as their place of residence. Thus, the Area Number does not necessarily represent the State of residence of the applicant, either prior to 1972 or since.
As the urban legends website Snopes noted, the ZIP code for the Honolulu area, 96814, is very similar to the ZIP code of Danbury, Connecticut, 06814:
Why Barack Obama's Social Security card application might have included a Connecticut mailing address is something of a curiosity, as he had no known connection to that state at the time, but by itself that quirk is no indicator of fraud. The most likely explanation for the discrepancy is a simple clerical or typographical error: the ZIP code in the area of Honolulu where Barack Obama lived is 96814, while the ZIP code for Danbury, Connecticut, is 06814. Since '0' and '9' are similarly shaped numbers and are adjacent on typewriter keyboards, it's not uncommon for handwritten examples to be mistaken for each other, or for one to be mistyped as the other (thereby potentially resulting in a Hawaiian resident's application mistakenly being routed as if it had originated from Connecticut).
Limbaugh's nod to the fringe birther movement comes only two weeks after radio host and CNN contributor Dana Loesch revived the smear that Obama was educated in a "madrassa." CNN -- Loesch's own employer -- debunked the claim five years ago.
Loesch defined a "madrassa" as "kind of like the equivalent in Islam of a Catholic school in Catholicism." However, this is problematic since the American media have primarily applied the word to radical schools that sprang up following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, many of which engage in anti-Western "political indoctrination." The term madrassa in this context is often purposefully used to stoke fears about Muslims.
Limbaugh has repeatedly entertained and promoted the notion that Obama is not a U.S. citizen. At the same time, he has also warned his listeners to be wary of birther theories, cautioning them against going down that "dead end street" and claiming he's "not going to be distracted" by such claims.


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When I first started my job 7 years ago, I had a co-worker that was learning sign language. I'd always thought it would be neat to know sign language but never learned how. I then found out that she was learning in order to communicate with her 6 month old grandson. I found that very interesting and researched baby sign language. One day she brought her grandson to work with her and showed us how he would sign "milk" for a bottle, "dirty" if he had a dirty diaper, and even "more" if he wanted more. She told me that it was so easy to communicate with him and that he didn't cry much because he was able to tell his parents what he wanted. At that moment, I decided when I had children that I wanted to teach them sign language.
Fast forward 5 years to when I had my first child…I'd forgotten about the sign language until a friend of mine told me of a website called "BabySteals.com" (the same awesome site that introduced me to BabyLegs). One day I saw the "steal" was a DVD/CD set called Baby Signing Time and I immediately ordered it! My daughter was about 13 months old and she was just beginning to talk and I could NOT wait to get her started on signing. Once we received the set I put the DVD in and my daughter was captivated by the children on the screen signing. My husband and I sat and watched as well. The host, Rachel, shows the sign, explains how to properly do it, and then sings a song while various children repeat the sign. My husband and I made sure to use signs when talking to our daughter to teach her. After about a month of watching the DVDs every night, our daughter showed us her first sign. We were walking out of the grocery store one rainy day and our daughter signed "rain". We were so surprised and happy that we stopped right in the middle of the parking lot in the rain and praised her.
It has been about a year since we started using sign language and our daughter knows about 75 or more signs and her communication is extremely advanced for her age. Our pediatrician was impressed with the way my daughter could sign and thought it was great that we were teaching her at such a young age. We have seen a decrease in temper tantrums even though she is only 2 years old because she can communicate with us better. We started later with her but plan on starting with our son when he is about 3 months old.
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In today's online environments, computational agents engage with each other in commerce and other economically important activities. In such environments, agents must not reason only about their own actions, but also the actions of other agents. How can we design strategic agents that perform in dynamic and uncertain environments? Additionally markets are being designed to allocate goods such as CPU time or advertising slots. How can we design new markets with desirable properties such as allocating goods to agents that most desire them? Market design can be thought of as an optimization problem where the inputs need to be elicited.
There are deep applications to social networks which can be viewed as a distributed system where each node operates in a local, autonomous, and, possibly, self-interested way. How can we reason about processes over such networks and what goals can be accomplished by such a network?
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Underwater Dwellings: H2Ome and The Poseidon Resort
U.S. Submarine Structures LLC is the company that is responsible for the design and construction of both the Poseidon Undersea Resort and now, the world's first one-atmosphere sea-floor residence, the H2OME.
The Poseidon Resort:
The Poseidon Resort, which is nestled in a 500 acre Fijian lagoon, is the world's first one-atmosphere sea floor resort. It's cantilevered over the sea floor in 40 feet of water. The resort has twenty-four 550 square foot luxury suites. The Poseidon features a 100 seat bar and restaurant (350 m2) and another 350 m2 unit with an undersea library, a Presidential Suite, two spa treatment rooms and a wedding chapel/conference room combination.
The undersea restaurant seats 100 and has panoramic viewing of the sea floor:
Lounge and common areas:
Bedroom suites:
A central shaft provides elevator and staircase access to the surface:
How it was assembled (details are proprietary)
Poseidon Undersea Resorts has been featured in over 500 magazines world-wide to date and over 50,000 people (25,000 couples) have signed up to be informed when they start taking reservations. There are only 8,000 guest spots available in the first year. To learn much more about this underwater resort visit the site here.
Copyright 2008-2009, U.S. Submarine Structures LLC. All rights reserved. Subject to the conditions of Poseidon's secrecy agreement.
Now, the H2Ome.
The world's first undersea residence has 3600 square feet of uncompromising elegance situated in 40 feet of crystal clear water surrounded by a magnificent coral reef, where the ever changing view is fascinating and absolutely unique.
Your H2OME is in Belize, in a protected private lagoon connected to land by your private pier. Floating above and accessed by elevator is a cluster of floating buildings, including a warm water outdoor spa, the central entrance lounge, docking space for a yacht and an enclosed building for your Triton submarine as well as space for a wide array of water toys.
Access to the underwater home is simplest from a pier that connects the shore to the residence's access trunk by a ramp. The interior of the H2OME is then available by elevator, or by a circular stairway. Umbilicals for water, sewage, communications and electricity are connected to the pier and run to shore.
And, let's not forget the floating helicopter landing pad:
This 3600 square foot, two-story structure takes incredible luxury and fabulous viewing to the sea-floor. The top floor layout is comprised of two bedrooms with baths and open lounge areas. The main floor consists of a master bedroom with integrated seating and a master bath. Also included is a gourmet kitchen with adjacent wine cellar, a formal dining area, a library lounge, a bar, private office space, a living room with flat screen television, a half bathroom and several discrete seating areas where one can enjoy the different views of the undersea world. The layout can be structured to the client's requirements and the details here are only proposed for illustrative purposes.
Your H2OME even comes complete with push-button fish feeders so that you and your guests can feed the fish as well as underwater lights to light up the sea floor for a limited period of time each evening.
Dining room:
The layout:
The H2OME is installed cantilevered on piling just above the sea floor. The structure has two floors that are linked to each other and the surface by an elevator and a circular staircase.
aerial view of upper level:
detailed overhead of lower level:
Construction & Installation
Your H2OME is built by U.S. Submarine Structures in components at their yard. They also produce the acrylic panels to our specifications by post-processing thermoforming and annealing. They then transport all components to a floating drydock for assembly and testing. The interior is ordered from a supplier specializing in 5-star hotel interiors and superyacht interiors. This firm fits and assembles the interior components and then packs them in containers and ships the components to us where they do the installation.
The completed structure is floated off the drydock and is then picked up by a semi-submersible heavy lift ship which transports the H2OME to the site. Previously, piles have been driven into the sea floor and the H2OME is floated into place, keyed to the piles and then ballasted for a slow descent toward the sea floor where it is then bolted to the piling several inches above the sea bottom. The piling tops are cut off and the umbilical cables run to the access pier and connected. In this way, your undersea residence is available for your use only 48 hours after delivery.
Most of the engineering detail on the Poseidon Undersea Resort and the H2OME is proprietary to the company. The images used in this post are protected by copyright and cannot be used without written permission.
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•The Discus Underwater Hotel
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• the SilverFish Floating Home
16 comments:
We fancy some experiences, that the earth is no longer able to afford...
- Saturday, April 18, 2009
- geo said...
the stuff of wet dreams.
- Saturday, April 18, 2009
- Lizabeth said...
oh, wow!!!
- Saturday, April 18, 2009
Oh, wow. That would be beautiful, but quite lonely to live there permanently.
- Sunday, April 19, 2009
- itssogood said...
Did anyone watch Disney's Ocean Girl? This is totally it!
- Friday, April 24, 2009
And what about the impact to the environment?
- Friday, July 31, 2009
- Kemi Hyde said...
I would love to have one of these for a vacation home. Actually, I could live there forever because it is so beautiful.
- Sunday, February 21, 2010
- Rosie said...
This is so the future....!! So awesome!! Just to wake up and see those beautiful surroundings!! I can see my self there for a holiday definitely!! .... I just wouldn't like to live there forever because:
1. I like natural light
2. It may get a bit annoying having to walk up and down all those stairs!!!! But that's it!!!!:¬)And I don't even know if you can live there permanently........Anyways it's SO COOL!!
- Sunday, May 16, 2010
- best psychic said...
If this things pulls through, it would be a ground breaking event! Err, ocean floor breaking, perhaps.
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- Wednesday, August 03, 2011
- accurate psycic readings said...
I think this is way too futuristic, fictive and kind of ambitious. However, if this resort becomes a reality, there is no doubt that this will be wickedly popular.
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- Thursday, September 29, 2011
- Johnson said...
This is a brilliant concept. Everyone needs to start thinking this way especially with the onset of global warming and coastal flooding becoming a reality. Instead of building giant floodgates that will be rendered obsolete by rising sea levels these types of structures need to be the norm. It always seems as if we dream of these fantastical ideas, yet the general public is afraid to embrace the future.
- Wednesday, November 02, 2011
- leather ipad folio said...
Fantastic! I agree with Johnson. It was reported that sea level increase every year and building such structure is a good answer rather than building mega seize floodgates. We need to embrace nature not to fight with it. This natural phenomenon can't be prevented.
- Sunday, December 25, 2011
- red leather jacket said...
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- Sunday, June 03, 2012
Its built on top of a coral reef and all you people are just dandy with that... Humans moving into one more place where we are definitely not welcome. Any idea where the sewage is drained too ?
- Friday, July 19, 2013
Ambitious, but ultimately this might be one of the worst ideas i've ever seen. Practicality and common sense goes right out the window with this one... If anything were to ever crack in those things, the people staying in them wouldn't a chance! One incident and insurance would go through the roof and no one in their right mind would even think of staying in them again.
- Friday, January 31, 2014
- The Bull's Eye said...
This looks great on paper. But frankly -- and I'm not sure whether it's because the name has been used twice already -- this seems like a disaster movie waiting to happen.
- Tuesday, August 19, 2014


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Morning Five: 07.26.10 EditionPosted by rtmsf on July 26th, 2010
- We're starting to become concerned about the fall that Bob Huggins endured on Friday that sent him to the hospital with four broken ribs. Initially it was believed that he would released on Saturday, but as of late Sunday night, Huggins was still being held in a Las Vegas hospital for observation purposes. Doctors were apparently concerned about bone fragments that could cause other problems, and anyone who has had such an injury says that there is a great deal of pain while breathing. Regardless, we hope that Huggins can get out of the hospital soon and resume his normal activities of recruiting, coaching and scowling at people.
- This article at Fanhouse argues that USC basketball got off fairly easy in light of the OJ Mayo scandal and the subsequent penalties (or lack thereof) handed down by the NCAA. Um, we guess? What seems to be missing in this analysis is that the athletic department unsuccessfully threw Trojan basketball to the wolves in an effort to save the football program from harsher sanctions. But at least they were proactive in getting in front of the problems and making the organization think that they were serious about self-policing in at least one sport. If USC had been as cooperative with punishing themselves over Reggie Bush's indiscretions as they were with OJ Mayo, the gridiron Trojans may not be facing a two-year ban from the postseason.
- The Pac-10 coaches are discussing how the league plans to handle dividing up the new twelve team conference and everyone seemingly agrees on one thing — they don't want to lose out on the fertile recruiting grounds of Southern California. And with good reason, as the ten teams last year had 33 players from SoCal on their rosters, nearly 25% of the entire league's cache.
- This article on Dan Beebe, the "Savior of the Big 12," paints a much different picture than the one that was being bandied about when it appeared the implosion of that league was imminent. A good lesson learned here.
- Former Oklahoma all-american and jazz musician Wayman Tisdale, who passed away from cancer in 2009, will be honored in perpetuity as the namesake for an award handed out by the USBWA to the top freshman player in America. Given that nowadays the top rookie is often the best collegiate player in America as well (John Wall, Kevin Durant), this is a great way to remember the gentle giant from Tulsa.


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Thus began an e-mail I wrote to my daughter at college last Friday following the deluge that left 26 inches of water in our basement.
Accidents, disasters, and near brushes tend to occur in threes, in my exerience - and the last one is usually the doozy. Recent events have been true to form: an earthquake, a hurricane, and a big honking rainstorm, with only the last one causing us any damage.
Really, we were lucky in all three cases. The only damage that caused me any grief was the soaking of my daughter's documents and coursework from the various Russian courses and programs she has participated in. Over seven years of hard work, fun, and memories, all crammed into a plastic box with a lid that unfortunately did not stay put after being dumped into the water.
I spent the next few days, with few breaks, freezing the Ukrainian book and a spiral notebook, drying out other bound items, and lightly drying and xeroxing all of the loose sheets of paper - notes, tests, articles, and so forth. More than a ream of paper went into the effort. I dutifully tromped back and forth between the copier and the laundry room, as we were also washing and drying out soaked clothes and stuffed dolls and animals.
The episode both interrupted and expedited our campaign to clean house and get rid of all the stuff we don't need.
I suppose my two-day drying and copying marathon was motivated by a good measure of sentiment - these materials represent a major investment of effort by my daughter as well as an important part of her life - but it was also based on more practical considerations, because many of the items are still useful for reference. Heck, I was even able to engage in a little bit of grammar and vocabulary review as I copied some of the more advanced materials.
But the rescue operation probably also washed away any excess sentimentality as far as the contents of our basement were concerned. Exhaustion will do that.
We also realized that the less stuff we keep in the basement, the more latitude we will have to arrange the remaining items to make them less vulnerable to natural disasters. The benchmark was set: life's work + memories = important; other bits = not.
So throwing stuff out or giving it away became a positive pleasure.
Expeditious and felicitous disposal of items felt like triumphs: lightly used arts and craft sets found a home with our church's Sunday school program; extra (now very clean) litterboxes will go to our petsitter, who actively supports stray rescue and pet adoption programs; and soaked potting soil now enriches an underperforming garden bed.
We are the rulers of recycling, the sovereigns of salvage, the masters of the makeover and make-do.
Meanwhile, after some conferring with both daughters, the truly beloved objects of their childhood stay: a kit of plastic medical instruments inside a Little Tykes pet carrier, two toy xylophones that still make music, and the awesomest collection of tiny little people and animals (Playmobil, Polly Pockets, and Pound Pets).
I did feel pangs when the girls' impressive collection of plastic food and the last child-sized chair went out the door. On the other hand, the sight of the luggage my husband and I bought for our honeymoon in Scotland that is now leaning against the trash can out front inspires memories but not regret.
This process is not free of uncertainty and trepidation. What if I wake up in the middle of the night and realize that it was a mistake to give away my younger daughter's go-go boots?
The circle of things that should come within sentiment's protective and possessive embrace should not be so small that scant evidence remains of the lives we live, nor should it be so large that the items have no meaning. Determining the proper balance is not easy, but having a flood wash away a lot of flotsam and jetsam helps.


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Google's [corporate website] new privacy policy [text], which took affect Thursday, is in violation of European law according to the EU's Justice Commissioner Vice-President Viviane Reding [official website]. The new policy allows data collection from one Google service to be shared among all services, including YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps and Blogger. The new privacy agreement is mandatory when using Google services, and an individual's search history will personalize the advertising encountered. Reading told BBC that EU transparency rules had not been applied [BBC report]. EU data authorities are concerned about the sharing and combination of personal data across services and its compliance with European data protection legislation [text]. EU regulators are expected to send questions to Google by the middle of March.
Google not only faced international criticism in regards to its new privacy policy, but national concerns as well. Last week, the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] dismissed a suit [JURIST report] from consumer privacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) [advocacy website] asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [official website] to block Google's then proposed changes. The group brought suit in February [JURIST report] and alleged the changes violated a consent order [JURIST report] between the FTC and Google. February also brought criticism from the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) [official website] who sent a letter [JURIST report] to Google, signed by 36 state attorneys general, expressing concerns about the company's new privacy policy. Three US representatives sent a letter [text, PDF] to the FTC asking it to look into [JURIST report] Google's new privacy policy. In January, Google issued a letter [JURIST report] in response to concerns raised by members of Congress regarding consumer privacy rights as impacted by the new policy. US Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) [official website] and seven other lawmakers sent a letter [text, PDF] to Google CEO Larry Page containing 11 questions regarding consumer privacy rights [JURIST report] as affected by Google's new privacy policies.


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Lone Star College - Tomball Community Library Library is located on the Lone Star College - Tomball campus on Tomball Parkway (Highway 249). From I-45 N take the FM 2920 (Spring-Cypress Road) exit. Turn left under the freeway and continue on FM 2920. Spring-Cypress Road and FM 2920 will split at the first light. Keep right and continue on FM 2920 through Tomball to Tomball Parkway (Highway 249). Turn right onto Tomball Parkway. Go approximately two miles and turn left into the Tomball College Campus. The library is the first building on the right. (Key Map #248W)
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After all of the excitement of having my portfolio featured on the CG society portfolio front page. I discovered that one of my works titled "Opalia" was chosen as pic of the week on Corel Painter magazines site front page. I just recently created a gallery there and only have one work uploaded so far and am already receiving good feedback.
This has really been a wonderful and lucky week for me. This is definitely great motivation to keep painting.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Corel Painter magazine site front page.Posted by Unknown
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
CGP front pagePosted by Unknown
Just when I thought it would never happen I recently discovered that my portfolio is going to be featured on the front page of CG Society's portfolio front page. I'm still pretty unknown in the digital art world so this was a nice surprise. This really made my day. I'll be happy about this for the rest of the week. :)
Here is a link to the site: http://portfolio.cgsociety.org/
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Corpse Bride Fan Art (Work-in-progress)Posted by Unknown
Recently I was watching one of my favorite movies from Tim Burton titled "Corpse Bride" and thought I would take some free time to paint this image. I was thinking to myself "I wonder what these characters would look like if they were real" so the goal for this painting was to make these characters look more realistic.
This image is still incomplete and they still don't really look that realistic yet. I couldn't work too much into this image because of other work but I may try and finish it when I can get some free time again.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
New Hair TutorialPosted by Unknown
Hey everyone,
I have had a few people ask me if I could create a hair tutorial so I finally found some time and created this basic step-by-step process for painting hair. There is also a download for the brushes that I used as well. You can view the tutorial on my site at the link below.
For some other good news. Another one of my works has been placed on the front page of the It's Art mag website. The painting is an older work titled "Opalia" that I just recently worked into again.
Here is a link to the site
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Mayors and their cell phone apps
When mayors of global big cities get together, why do they immediately whip out their cell phones? To compare apps, it seems.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was in Mexico City this week, and he dropped in on his counterpart, Miguel Mancera, at the capital's imposing colonial City Hall.
"It was very funny," Garcetti recalled. "I mean like the first two minutes, we started comparing apps with each other. Thats what mayors do now. Like he was, 'Heres my app. I can tell you in real time what the air quality is.'
"And then (I was saying), 'Here's an app to take pictures of the potholes.' He's like, 'Heres my app to tell where the protests are at any given time.' I gave him an app that has real-time parking on it," Garcetti told a small group of U.S. reporters.
Asked who won the app contest, Garcetti said, "I think it was a real draw. He can't tell you whether there are parking spaces in real time, and I can. But I can't do air quality."
Garcetti, who took office last July 1, chose to make his first foreign trip to Mexico, and now says he'll come back every year. Despite having a metropolitan population that is nearly half of Mexican origin, Garcetti said Los Angeles has not actively recruited Mexican companies and tourists enough.
"A lot of other cities have hustled quite a bit more in Mexico," he said.
As it is, 1.6 million Mexicans travel to the L.A. area each year, but 80 percent are on family visits, he said. "One of my goals is also to promote Mexicans who don't have family to come to visit. Instead of going to Orlando, they can come to L.A.," he said.
Within three or four years, Garcetti envisions Los Angeles and Mexico City arranging a variety of sports and museum exchanges (think Dodgers), greater university exchanges, more investment from L.A. companies in Mexico, and more flights, perhaps "half a dozen new flights coming back and forth between Los Angeles and Mexican cities."


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- Tomorrow .wordpress will be dropped from the domain of this site. Make this note so that next time you would like to access this site, you will not see a blank site. This site will be meloshipofthering.com.
- I will be doing post game duties on Tuesday (Toronto) and Sunday (Dallas) for the Knicks Wall. I will link back my post games to this site but check me out over there Tuesday and Sunday.
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Most cases of epilepsy can be traced to a family incidence of the disorder or to a head injury or brain injury. In some cases, the cause is unknown.
Is epilepsy serious?
Epilepsy is not only a danger to the individual with epilepsy, but can be a danger to others as well. During an epileptic seizure, the individual can fall and injure himself. When someone has a seizure while driving, he can accidently injure others. Kids with epilepsy are also at increased risk for drowning while bathing or swimming. Occasionally, sufferers die while having a seizure.
Can I prevent epilepsy?
Some cases of epilepsy are preventable when the causes are the result of injury or illness. However, epilepsy that seems to run in families is not preventable.
How do I know if my child has epilepsy?
The symptoms of epilepsy depend on the severity of the condition. Seizures can range from staring spells to convulsions. Kids with epilepsy may have any of the following symptoms:
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How do I treat epilepsy?
Epilepsy is not curable, but it can, in most cases, be managed. There are medications available that can help you control seizure activity in your child. In some cases, brain surgery may be the best option. At home care includes plenty of rest (fatigue can increase the chance of seizures) and a special diet.
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Seek immediate medical treatment at any time your child appears to be having a seizure. Your doctor or hospital emergency room physician can help you make important decisions regarding diagnosing, treating, and managing your child's epilepsy.
What you need to know about epilepsy
- Epilepsy is caused by electrical activity in the brain.
- Most cases of epilepsy are inherited or caused by a head injury or brain trauma.
- Epilepsy is serious and can be life-threatening.
- Ask your doctor for advice in diagnosing and treating your child's epilepsy.
Written by Rebecca Stigall for Kidspot, Australia's parenting resource for family health. Sources include Better Health Channel, NSW Health and Health Insite.


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Marion County Emergency Management Director Dan D'Albini resigned in a letter county commissioners read Monday. His resignation will be effective June 20.
Commission Chairman Randy Dallke said the resignation was because D'Albini was moving out of the county.
Dallke said he would speak with Sheriff Rob Craft about what to do with the position moving forward. Based on guidelines from the state, Marion County only needs a part-time emergency management director, he said.
Later in the meeting, commissioner Roger Fleming asked Health Department Administrator Diedre Serene if any counties have the same person as their health administrator and emergency management director. Serene said she didn't know of any, but that it was a possibility because there is some overlap.
As an example of overlap, when the county needs vaccines or medication from the strategic national stockpile, the health administrator must make a request to the emergency management director, who then makes the request to the state.
Dallke said that if no other plans are in place by June 20, he could serve as the emergency management director in an interim capacity.
Zoning regulation on building height amended
The commission approved a change in county zoning regulations regarding how the height of a building is calculated.
The change was recommended by the county planning commission after Gary and Janie Fritzler found that their plans for a house at 1 Lois Lane at the county lake were six inches too tall. With the change in how building height is calculated, the plans will be acceptable.
Spending approved
The commission approved a contract with Treanor Architects P.A. for specifications, oversight, and inspection of demolition of the old jail. Treanor was the firm that the county worked with on construction of the new jail. The contract is for $18,000.
Two outdoor water spigots for irrigation of the courthouse lawn will be added on the west side of the courthouse for $1,670. The alternative was drilling a well. Drilling would cost about $2,000, Dallke said, and that wouldn't include the cost of a pump or other equipment.
The Health Department will purchase a trailer from Trailers 'N' More for $3,000. The trailer will be used to keep emergency supplies ready at a moment's notice, Serene said. Other bids ranged from $3,170 to $5,957.
Road and Bridge Superintendent Randy Crawford received permission to look for a used tractor and boom mower to replace a unit that is breaking down. Crawford hopes to find something for less than $60,000, which he has budgeted.
The current mowing unit took five days to mow five miles of ditches recently, Crawford said.
"I'd be better off with five sheep tied to a vehicle," he said.
Landfill contract ends Jan. 1
Transfer Station Director Rollin Schmidt told commissioners that the county's five-year contract with Butler County to use their landfill is set to expire Jan. 1. If neither party opts out, the counties can continue under the same terms indefinitely. The contract requires 90 days notice.
Dallke said he had no intention to opt out of the contract or change it. He requested a meeting with Butler County Commission.
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EAST JACKSON closed its regular season Tuesday with losses to Morgan County (25-12, 25-16) and Hart County (25-22).
Madison Mealor led the Eagles with 11 kills. Jo Melendez picked up 11 digs. Rosie Melendez finished with eight assists and four aces.
East Jackson will most likely earn a no. 5 seed at the area tournament, meaning it will probably face North Oconee in the first round or possibly Morgan County. The area tournament is set for next Thursday and Saturday at North Oconee.
The East Jackson junior varsity lost to Morgan County and then beat Hart County convincingly to finish the year at 12-7.
Eagle coach Tim Thomas noted that this is the first time an East Jackson volleyball team has finished with a winning record.
"Coach Rainwater has done an amazing job with that group, and we're going to be pulling some of those girls up to play with our varsity over the last couple of weeks," Thomas said. "They have definitely earned the opportunity."
East Jackson turns in 'best performance of the season'
EAST JACKSON volleyball coach Tim Thomas said his team enjoyed its best performance of the season Thursday in a 25-17, 25-18 win over Winder-Barrow.
Senior Rosie Melendez led the team with 16 service points, seven assists and six aces.
"We tried a couple new things that we'd been pondering for a while, and they worked out pretty well," East Jackson coach Tim Thomas said.
Those moves included moving Melendez from outside hitter to setter, which she played earlier in her career.
"She responded very well to the move," Thomas said. "We also shuffled a couple other girls, and each of them also responded well to those changes. Our hitters made very few mistakes — in fact, the difference in the outcome was simply that we made fewer mistakes at every position than Winder. If our girls could maintain the level of precision they showed in that match, we could play with just about anyone we've seen this year."
East Jackson lost to East Hall the same night, 25-15, 25-14.
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Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Actress Maria Bello, whom you might recognize from Prisoners, Coyote Ugly and A History of Violence, opened up about her love life in a recent New York Times "Modern Love" column called "Coming Out as a Modern Family."
In the column, the 46-year-old described the moment she told Jack, her 12-year-old son with ex-husband Dan McDermott, that she was in a relationship with her best friend, a woman named Clare.
"How would it affect my son? He trusted Clare. He loved her. He had never met most of the men I had been in love with and had no idea I had been with a woman as well," Bello said she wondered. "Second, how would it affect my career? I have never defined myself by whom I slept with, but I know others have and would."
"He looked at me for what seemed like an eternity and then broke into a huge, warm smile. "Mom, love is love, whatever you are," he said with wisdom beyond his years," Bello said of her son.
She also recalled coming out to her "traditional" family in Philadelphia.
My father's response came between puffs of his cigar while we sat on the roof of a casino in Atlantic City. "She's a good girl, good for you," he said. My mother and family echoed his sentiments. Maybe they weren't so traditional after all.
Bello went on to describe her "modern family," one that involves her partner, her son and her ex-husband.
Jack's father, Dan, will always be my partner because we share Jack. Dan is the best father and the most wonderful man I've known. Just because our relationship is nonsexual doesn't make him any less of a partner. We share the same core values, including putting our son first. My more recent ex, Bryn, remains my partner because we share our activism. And Clare will always be my partner because she is also my best friend.
Bello currently stars in the FOX drama Touch.
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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
Prof. Dr. Martin Glinz
Universität Zürich, Institut für Informatiküber das Thema:
Quality Requirements - A New Look at an Old ProblemZeit: Wed 19.1.2011, 17:15, 60 Minuten
Ort: HS 8
ZusammenfassungQuality requirements, i.e. those requirements that pertain to a system's quality attributes such as safety, reliability, etc., are traditionally regarded to be useful only when they are either operationalized (i.e. expressed as functions) or represented quantitatively so that they can be measured. In this talk, I will present a value-oriented approach to specifying software quality requirements that deviates from the classic approach. The new approach uses a broad range of potential representations that are selected on the basis of risk assessment. Requirements engineers select a quality requirement representation such that they get an optimal balance between mitigating the risk of developing a system that doesn't satisfy the stakeholders' desires and needs on the one hand and the cost of specifying the requirement in the selected representation on the other hand. Furthermore, I will discuss the impact of this new way of specifying software quality requirements on software architecture and implementation.
VortragenderMartin Glinz is a full professor of Informatics at the University of Zurich. His interests include requirements and software engineering ? in particular modeling, validation, and quality - and software engineering education. He received his Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University. Before joining the University of Zurich, he worked in industry for ten years where he was active in software engineering research, development, training, and consulting. He is on editorial boards and program committees of major journals and conferences in software and requirements engineering. He is General Chair of ICSE 2012 and past chair of the steering committee of the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference.
Einladender: a. Univ-Prof. Dr. Paul Grünbacher, o. Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Gustav Pomberger
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — As Americans choose between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in Tuesday's presidential election, the conventional wisdom holds that Romney would be better for stocks.
But investors should take into account what a Romney presidency would mean for the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, which has provided crucial support for assets perceived as risky such as equities and commodities. Maybe a Romney presidency wouldn't be so good for stocks after all if he chooses a Fed chairman who will ease up on the gas pedal. Read: MarketWatch's live coverage of Election Day.
• Barack Obama wins another four years
• Obama victory sets up the next battle
• Five things the Republicans must do now
• Time for Obama to show leadership on taxes
• Three global tasks for the second term
• Democratic wins may thwart grand bargain
• Three post-election concerns for investors
• Obama: The best is yet to come for America
• Romney urges an end to political bickering
Another important element to Tuesday's election will be whether the Democrats maintain a majority in the Senate and Republicans keep the House of Representatives. That will be immediately important for whoever sits in the Oval Office and has to deal with the multitude of tax and spending measures expiring at year-end, which unless changed, is commonly referred to as going over the fiscal cliff.
"Equities may be a tug of war between the easier Fed view and the less-business-friendly/end-of-capital-gains-tax-reduction Obama view," said Steven Englander, a strategist at Citi.
If elected, however, Romney may back down from his rhetoric against Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
"Romney the president may tone down the Fed-bashing rhetoric of Romney the candidate to avoid roiling markets," said Peter Buchanan, a senior economist at CIBC World Markets.
Given all those caveats, there are still certain sectors that are seen as likely to benefit depending on who wins the White House.
Better under Obama
• Housing stocks and real estate: Obama would likely continue providing more mortgage-rate relief for homeowners still struggling from the housing collapse, according to Buchanan.
• Under Obama, there's also a greater chance of more easing from the Fed such as another round of mortgage-backed security purchases — a tactic specifically targeted at bringing down mortgage rates and making refinancing more affordable. Read: The right way to pick stocks before an election.
• Alternative energy: "Obama has clearly supported solar energy and varieties of wind energy and green energy in general," Buchanan said. "His administration would be more inclined to continue to support those options."
"They will lean to the environmental side, which could slow down production somewhat," said Bill O'Neill, a principal at Logic Advisors. "But everyone is pushing for natural gas and that's a national trend that will continue."
For the moment, however, that's weighing on natural-gas prices since supply is already high, he noted. Read: Oil, natural gas up.
• Health care: Certain sectors could see some relief if Obama is reelected, because Romney has promised to repeal Obama's health-care law, "which would have negative impacts in some areas," Buchanan said.
For example, hospitals would have to go back to providing more financially for uninsured patients.
"There's also the notion that Obamacare is likely to expand total demand for health services, so some segments benefit from that" such as pharmaceutical companies, he said. For insurers, it's more of a mixed bag.
Better under Romney
• Traditional energy resources: Romney is seen as more inclined to boost crude oil, natural gas and coal production.
"Conventional energy could certainly see additional activity allowed on federal lands and offshore," Buchanan said.
• Financial-service providers, including banks: companies may see less restrictive regulatory regimes under Romney, who has talked about overturning the Dodd-Frank bank-reform legislation, Buchanan said.
• Telecommunications: Fewer regulations in the sector could also provide a boost, while fewer restrictions on mergers and potentially fewer consumer-protection measures would help telecom companies.


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Before the holiday rush wears you out, treat yourself to the new show, "Holiday Music Magic," at the Texas A&M International University Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium. The show, keyed to holiday music, opens Saturday, Dec. 6 in an evening full of fun that includes a visit from Santa Claus and a performance by the United South Middle School Choir.
" 'Holiday Music Magic' features a variety of festive classics from Mannheim Steamroller, Burl Ives and Brenda Lee. The soundtrack is visually enhanced with three 3-D artistic animation and all-dome scenery in the audiovisual setting of the Planetarium's dome theatre," said Gerardo A. Pérez, director, LBV Planetarium.
"This year we wanted to have a different kind of holiday show that would take audiences on a wonderful trip full of music and seasonal images. We are very excited about this new show. The music selections and 3-D effects are awesome and illustrate why this really is 'the most wonderful time of the year,' " added Pérez.
The United South Middle School Choir is scheduled to perform at 5:30 p.m. From 6 – 8 p.m., visitors will have the opportunity to take their picture with Saint Nick for $2.
Also showing at LBV Planetarium is "Season of Light."
" 'Season of Light' is a show that visitors can enjoy not just once, but every year. I've seen this show countless times, and I am still moved by its message," said Pérez.
The show explains the significance of "The 12 Days of Christmas," looks for the Star of Bethlehem and reflects on the significance and fascination of common holiday traditions such as decorating a fir tree, kissing under a mistletoe, giving gifts, lighting candles and more.
"This is a show that the whole family can enjoy," said Pérez.
General admission tickets are $5 and $4 for children and TAMIU students, faculty, staff and alumni. Season tickets are also available starting at $35.
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Architects Rudanko + Kankkunen Ltd's design was awarded for its inspiring architecture and child-friendly spaces in the design of a futuristic school in Finland. The Helsinki-based firm's entry is entitled Tivoli.
Covering an area of 9,000 sq m, the project won a purchase prize for its 'inspiring architecture and child-friendly spaces' with the jury commenting that the design had a 'magical atmosphere both in outdoor and indoor spaces'.
The scheme, which is situated in the Aurinkokivi area of Vantaa, is imaginative and in-keeping with the need to inspire creativity in children with the architects stating that 'art and self-motivated learning are present both in the school's curriculum and the architecture'. The traditional gabled building wings are joined together to create an interesting composition within the building.
These wings contain the classrooms and learning spaces for nursery and school-age children, with each class having its own separate entrance together with a group lobby and flexible classrooms and playrooms surrounding it. Away from the wings, the central areas are the location for group activities, sports, arts and spontaneous learning with vibrant colours and decorations in the communal spaces.
Rudanko + Kankkunen Ltd said of the design: "The building is mostly on one level and can be realised with repeating construction elements. It is designed to be inexpensive to build, yet highly inspiring. It is a very realisable solution, which we always aim at. Our goal is to provide inspiring spaces that are easy to build, easy to understand and fun to dwell in."
The Finnish practice had previously designed a vocational school and community centre in Sra Pou, Cambodia, and also submitted a design proposal for a new school complex in the Suurpelto district of Espoo, Finland in 2012.


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She was a tireless, funny, and inspiring orator, and a savvy and brilliant community organizer. She was fearless in the face of threats.
As the godmother of the anti-mountaintop removal movement, she gave
birth to a new generation of clean energy and human rights activists
across the nation. In a year of mining disasters and climate change set
backs, she challenged activists to redouble their efforts.
As one of the great visionaries to emerge out of the coalfields, Julia "Judy" Bonds
reminded the nation that her beloved Appalachians had been to the
mountaintop--and in her passing last night, thousands of
anti-mountaintop removal mining and New Power activists from around the
country are reminding the Obama administration and the country's
environmental justice movement of Bonds' powerful legacy and parting
words to "don't let up, fight harder and finish off" the outlaw ranks of
Big Coal and end the egregious crime of mountaintop removal.
In a special email message last night, Coal River Mountain Watch director Vernon Haltom announced the passing of Bonds, the Goldman Prize winner
and Executive Director of Coal River Mountain Watch. Bonds, 58, had
battled advanced stage cancer over the past several months. "One of
Judy's last acts was to go on a speaking trip, even though she was not
feeling well, shortly before her diagnosis," Haltom wrote. "I believe,
as others do, that Judy's years in Marfork holler, where she remained in
her ancestral home as long as she could, subjected her to Massey
Energy's airborne toxic dust and led to the cancer that wasted no time
in taking its toll. Judy will be missed by all in this movement, as an
icon, a leader, an inspiration, and a friend."
Here's a clip from a special tribute to Judy by On Coal River filmmakers Adams Wood and Francine Cavanaugh:
Judy Bonds from On Coal River on Vimeo.
A little more than a decade ago, sitting on the coal dust-swept front
porch with her grandson--the ninth generation of their family to reside
in Marfork Hollow in West Virginia--Bonds was outraged to hear her
7-year-old grandson describe an escape route should a nearby massive coal waste dam break and flood their valley. "I knew in my heart there was really no escape," Bonds told an interviewer
in 2003. "How do you tell a child that his life is a sacrifice for
corporate greed? You can't tell him that, you don't tell him that, but
of course he understands that now."
Forced by an encroaching strip mine to move from her family's
ancestral land, Bonds spent the next decade as a full-time crusader (and
coal miner's daughter) to bring her grandson's message of central
Appalachia's role as a national sacrifice zone from the devastating
impact of mountaintop removal strip mining to millions of Americans across the country.
For fellow activist Bo Webb,
who went to jail and organized side-by-side with Bonds for years in the
Coal River Valley, Judy was one of the better angels of our nature:
"Judy was one of God's most loyal and dedicated Angels in the battle of
good vs. evil. I will miss her, we will all miss her. After much
suffering, she now stands before God, without doubt holding a very
special place in His heart. May God bless and comfort those that love
and adore Judy. May God bless and comfort her wonderful family, and may
God give us the unity and conviction to fight on in her honor and His
"Judy Bonds was our Hillbilly Moses," added Bob Kincaid, president of the Coal River Mountain Watch board.
"She knew better than anyone that we WILL make it to the Promised
Land: out of the poisonous bondage of coal companies. She will not
cross over with us on that great day, but her spirit will join us, and
inform the freedom that sings from our hearts. Mother Jones, meet Judy.
Judy, Mother."
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In a special Living on Earth
radio interview with Jeff Young in 2003, Bonds recalled her grandson
holding a handul of dead fish contaminated by coal waste. "And I looked
around him and there were dead fish laying all over the stream. And that
was a slap in the face."
From the United Nation to the halls of Congress, and at universities
and conferences from Maine to California, Bonds testified to the ravages
of strip mining on her community's waterways, economy and culture. Her
riveting speeches galvanized activists from the hollers to the urban
neighborhoods, and among national environmental organizations.
"Judy was a strong, powerful voice that always sang wisdom,
inspiration, passion and determination to my soul," wrote Chris Hill,
the National Field Organizer for the Hip Hop Caucus in Washington, DC.
"She was a voice that will forever speak volumes to the reasons why I
fight for justice from the mountains to the inner cities."
"Judy often remarked how she proudly stood shoulder to shoulder with
outside groups like Rainforest Action Network," added Scott Parkin,
Senior Campaigner for RAN's Coal Campaign.
"During an E.P.A. action last March, I saw her beaming with a big
smile and much excitement as we worked together to make mountaintop
removal a national issue and take the fight to end it out of the hills
and hollers of Appalachia into offices of the power-holders in
Washington D.C."
"She inspired thousands in the movement to end mountaintop removal
and was a driving force in making it what it has become," Haltom wrote
in his email message to national activists. "I can't count the number of
times someone told me they got involved because they heard Judy speak,
either at their university, at a rally, or in a documentary. Judy
endured much personal suffering for her leadership. While people of
lesser courage would candy-coat their words or simply shut up and sit
down, Judy called it as she saw it. She endured physical assault,
verbal abuse, and death threats because she stood up for justice for her
"One of the happiest days of my life was when we announced the
funding for a new school to replace Marsh Fork Elementary," said
filmmaker and activist Jerry Cope, who worked with Coal River Valley
residents to move a school
imperiled by coal dust and a dangerous coal slurry impoundment.
"Without Judy's inspiration, I would have never become involved and she
will forever be a source of inspiration to me."
In a special tribute to Judy by filmmakers Jordan Freeman and Mari-Lynn Evans, Judy asked for the right to go home. "I miss my home," she pleaded. "I want to go home."
Like generations before her, Judy Bonds has finally gone home to her Marfolk Holler.
And thousands of coalfield residents, activists and leaders will continue the battle to ensure that Coal River Mountain--the last mountain--remains in her view, and mountaintop removal is abolished once and for all.


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From Middle English smilen ("to smile"), from Old Norse smīla ("to smile") (compare Danish smile, Swedish smila ("to smile")), from Proto-Germanic *smīlijaną, *smirōną ("to smile"), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- ("to laugh, be glad, wonder"). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smielje ("to smile"), Low German smielen ("to smile"), Dutch smuilen ("to smile"), Middle High German smielen ("to smile"). Related also to Old High German smierōn ("to smile"), Old English smerian ("to laugh at"), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"; > English smirk), Latin miror ("to wonder at").
smile (plural smiles)
- A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety.
- She's got a perfect smile. He has a sinister smile. She had a smile on her face. He always puts a smile on my face.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
- Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. […] She looked around expectantly, and recognizing Mrs. Cooke's maid […] Miss Thorn greeted her with a smile which greatly prepossessed us in her favor.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0105:
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
- See also Thesaurus:smile
Derived termsEdit
smile (third-person singular simple present smiles, present participle smiling, simple past and past participle smiled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
- When you smile, the whole world smiles with you. I don't know what he's smiling about. She smiles a beautiful smile.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- "[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment." Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
- (transitive) To express by smiling.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
- I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
- to smile consent, or a welcome
- (intransitive) To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
- Byron
- When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled.
- Byron
- (intransitive) To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
- The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.
- Alexander Pope
- The desert smiled, / And paradise was opened in the wild.
- (intransitive) To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
- The gods smiled on his labours.
Derived termsEdit
From Old Norse to smile, from Proto-Germanic *smīlijaną, *smirōną ("to smile"), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- ("to laugh, be glad, wonder").
smile (imperative smil, infinitive at smile, present tense smiler, past tense smilede, perfect tense har smilet)
- to smile
Related termsEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
smile (imperative smil, present tense smiler, simple past smilte, past participle smilt, present participle smilende)
Related termsEdit
- smil (noun)
- "smile" in The Bokmål Dictionary.


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Chemical Safety: Chlorine Bombs and Algaecide Detonators
by Sean Griffin, April 30, 2009
Chlorine Catastrophes and Algaecide Fires
It's every pool owner's worst nightmare, turning your pool equipment into a ticking time bomb. Unfortunately the same chemicals used to sanitize your water can have an extremely adverse affect if applied improperly. Chlorine has been used in chemical warfare since World War1 and is still present today as terrorists abroad are using chlorine gas in conjunction with conventional vehicle-borne explosive devices to cause severe damage.
Chlorine fires burn extremely hot, and have melted warehouses in a few short hours. Our boss, Rob, has a story of a chlorine drum catching fire in the back of his service truck. "I was at a pool, in the back of my truck, needing a scoop for granular chlorine (shock). Finding none, I cut off the top of a Poly 60 algaecide bottle, and used it to scoop shock chlorine from the drum into a small bucket. Afterwards, I left the "scoop" in the drum of shock, with algaecide residue. 10 minutes later, from the corner of my eye, I had the hottest, meanest fire I could ever imagine. Water laughed at it! Dirt made it dance! I had to let it burn down - that truck was scarred for life!"
Pool equipment along with pool chemicals stored in your backyard have the same harmful potential. It is important to educate yourself on the proper application for your equipment and chemicals to avoid property damage and/or bodily injury. It is also wise to know what you should do if you have to deal with a chemical burn, chemical inhalation, or how to clean-up a chemical spill. keep your local poison control center and HAZMAT telephone numbers should be on hand in case of an emergency.
Reading labels on chemicals and equipment and following the manufacturers recommendations is a step no one can afford to skip. Follow all manufacturers label instructions. They are very clear and specific, by law.
Chlorinators along with brominators are at risk not only from water pressure but can combust if any added chemical does not have the proper time and space to expand due to off-gassing. A relatively common mistake made by pool owners and sometimes even pool companies, is adding fast dissolving chlorine, calcium hypochlorite (granular) to a chemical feeder that is not designed to deal with the pressure increase. The result, you just turned your pool chlorinator into a bomb waiting to explode potentially sending plastic shards across your backyard. Chlorine/bromine pucks (Trichloro-Isocyanuate) are designed to slowly dissolve and are compatible with most chemical feeders.
Chlorine by its self can be hazardous along with other maintenance chemicals and specialty chemicals. The real danger occurs when chemicals are mixed and this should never be done. Forms of chlorine mixed with acid can create mustard gas. Algaecide mixed with chlorine can become a home-made road flare. Even chlorine mixed with acidic soda products can result in an expanding reaction. Antifreeze mixed with Chlorine reacts very strongly. Different types of chlorine should never be mixed. Don't mix granular with tablets. Don't mix Dichlor granular with Cal Hypo granular. Never mix chemicals!
Always refer to Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for an in-depth look at the product you are using. For example…
EXTINGUISHING MEDIA: Carbon dioxide, water, water fog, dry chemical, chemical foam.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS: Use water to cool fire-exposed containers and to protect personnel.
EXPLOSION HAZARDS: Product contains a flammable solvent. Vapors may be released that travel long distances
Remember the key in preventing accidents is taking your time, reading all labels, and following them. Always store chemicals as recommended by manufacturer. Never mix chemicals and for your safety always have a plan in case a problem does occur.


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