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DEAR CAROLYN: Thank you for taking my question last week (about disagreements with my boyfriend.) I was surprised when you included the domestic violence link because he had never been violent.
He still hasn't been, but that weekend he yelled at me pretty bad, and systematically insulted my entire character. When we talked normally he said he was purposely trying to hurt my feelings.
He admitted he should have communicated better, but never apologized for yelling, though I apologized for "setting him off" multiple times. I broke up with him. — DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AGAIN
ANSWER: Every person who becomes violent was, preceding that point, not violent.
Plus, domestic violence education is applicable to situations of verbal/emotional abuse, because they're just different points on the same continuum. When someone thinks it's OK to cause you deliberate harm in one way, how much of a leap is it to another kind of deliberate harm?
As for why I made abuse connections when you hadn't even mentioned yelling, it was this: "He feels that if we go somewhere together we SHOULD spend every second together." That's classic control, which is a predictor of relationship violence. It's in the warning-signs section of the pamphlet.
Even though you broke up (phew), I think you still would benefit from reading more on the topic. "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin de Becker is eye-opening, and a quick and absorbing read. Take care.
DEAR CAROLYN: My husband and I are at an impasse in our relationship. We cannot see each other's points of view and are just existing in a miserable state. I've begged for marriage counseling for a year, which just yesterday he reluctantly agreed to.
However, he has basically stated that when marriage counseling fails (not if), "I give up." We have kids and we love each other, we just can't seem to live together right now. Am I wasting my time saving a relationship that he sees as doomed? — MARRIAGE ON THE CLIFF
ANSWER: He agreed to marriage counseling, so go. Even if it fails, counseling won't have been a waste because it's a basic step before giving up altogether. That may seem silly, but it can be important to be able to tell yourself you "tried everything."
And, if you choose well, your therapist can help you through whatever the next step happens to be.
One suggestion before you start: Go into counseling looking for new ways to understand what's happening, new ways to frame your marriage, new ways to speak to your husband, versus a new way to save the marriage or get your husband to see your side. Set only the goals that are within your control.
RE: MARRIAGES "FAILING": I hate that term. I read the other day about someone's marriage failing after 35 years and three kids. Um, no. It ended. Lots of good came out of it, and then things changed, and it ended.
"Failed" makes it sound as if the fact of being married is the accomplishment. It is also terribly judgmental.
OK, said my piece. — ANONYMOUS
ANSWER: Quite well, thanks. We were talking about the possibility that counseling would fail, but the argument still applies.
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We've launched probes all over the place. We've snapped and beamed back pictures of every spot in the solar system. Except Pluto. Call it a planet. Call it a dwarf planet. Either way, it's the last unknown. Not for long.
New Horizons' January 2006 launch beat Pluto's highly controversial downgrade later that year. But even if it hadn't, the mission, despite sounding like a dating service, is of great importance to our understanding of our little corner of the galaxy. After escaping Earth's atmosphere with a greater velocity than any other probe in history, New Horizons made its way straight for Pluto - and is halfway there now. Although the tiny frost ball is the name of the game, New Horizons has managed to snap some absolutely gorgeous planetary portraits along the way, picking up speed as it slingshots its way through their gravitational fields.
Even within its first year of hurtling away from the sun, New Horizons was able to spot Pluto from a distance of 2.6 billion miles away. Just a speck, really. A speck among a lot of other specks. But it proved the probe's ability to take (relatively) sharp pics, of things billions of miles away - instrumental for the mission's ultimate closeups of Pluto.
In the meantime, we wait. And enjoy the pretty pictures. But why go at all? Why spend $US700 million in tax dollars to fly by (not enough fuel to stop and orbit, mind you) an ice ball that's not even a planet anymore?
To learn about ourselves. You see, the frosty planets at the outer reaches of the Solar System - a zone known as the Kuiper Belt - can tell us a lot about our own orb. And Pluto is the only one that's still pretty mysterious to us. As NASA explains, "The ice dwarfs are ancient relics that formed over four billion years ago. Because they are literally the bodies out of which the larger planets accumulated, the ice dwarfs have a great deal to teach us about planetary formation. New Horizons seeks those answers." As well, "Pluto's atmosphere is escaping to space like a comet, but on a planetary scale. Nothing like this exists anywhere else in the solar system. It is thought that the Earth's original hydrogen/helium atmosphere was lost to space this way. By studying Pluto's atmospheric escape, we can learn a great deal about the evolution of Earth's atmosphere."
We'll also, perhaps more interestingly, learn a hell of a lot about Pluto - because right now we don't know much. By flying by and taking pictures, we'll be able to map Pluto's dark surface in unprecedented detail. Impressive stuff.
But it won't be until 2015 when New Horizons glides enough Pluto. And by close, I mean 10,000km away - but that sure beats 2.6 billion. And then, it'll just keep going. Another decade or so and it'll be out of the Solar System. Going, and going, and going. But that's a long way from now. Today, let's just celebrate the five-year mark, and wish the little guy a pleasant four more until it hits Pluto. We wish you luck on the other half of the trip, and a very cold happy birthday. [NASA New Horizons]


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It is with great pleasure that I share with you the first real preview of the new hairstyles for male characters in Wrath of the Lich King!
These images are collections of wowmodelviewer characters datamined by Andrige from the beta, as he describes in the comments below. Andrige submitted these here that they might be shared with others as a glimpse into some of the new hairstyles we have to look forward to.
You should expect that, as we are still very early into the beta process, there are many more still to come, but I think that it is cute to see some of what we have to look forward to.
Andrige is a well known and highly talented WoW cummunity artist, best known for his modified shapeshift skins and a host of other Druid-related art projects.
He sent the male images to me and the female images to Phaelia of Resto4Life.
You can check out the male images by following the links below, and you can check out the female images by going to Resto4Life's article here!
Take a good long look at the male night elf hairstyle on the left side… is that? I think it is!
Woot! Bonus style points!
Thanks, Andrige!!
*Disclaimer: Andrige wanted me to mention that, because he isn't familiar with all of the existing hairstyles, that it's possible some of these may already be in the game. Also, that the first batch he sent me was supposed to have the other hairstyles, but that he was having too much fun admiring the Night Elf Mohawk and forgot.*
*And to those wonderful people in the WoW Insider comments claiming that Andrige drew all this stuff, I refer you to his flat out statement in the comments of exactly where and how he obtained these images, and how you can too… so next time, please read before making an ass of yourself and accusing everyone of fraud.*
Links to each full sized image!
- Male Draenei Hairstyles
- Male Orc Hairstyles
- Male Human Hairstyle
- Male Night Elf Hairstyle
- Male Troll Hairstyle
- Male Blood Elf Hairstyle
- Male Gnome Hairstyle
- Male Tauren Hairstyles (or horns)
- Male Undead Hairstyles
- Male Dwarf Hairstyles
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As Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh prepared for his key note speech to nearly 200 world politicians and international dignitaries at the UN's Convention on Biodiversity, three Greenpeace activists accompanied by 'Tigers' from the Central Indian forests were stopped at the door of the conference hall where the PM was making his speech. They were there to present a petition to the PM on behalf of a quarter million people who want to save the forests from mass destruction.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Romney: More of the same...
Attempt to appear as "man of the people" falls flat
Steve Watson
The corporate media's declared GOP front runner Mitt Romney has been attempting to win over voters recently by painting himself up as a "man of the people", arguing that Obama's Ivy League education and elitism serves as a distinct disconnect.
However, the suggestion that Romney somehow represents the antithesis of such elitism or any kind of shift away from the status quo in Washington, crumbles with a cursory peek into his own background.
In several recent campaign speeches, Romney has, rather hilariously, targeted Obama's foreign policy in such terms.
In a speech last month to Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention in San Antonio, Romney said of the idea that if the United States recedes, its enemies will reciprocate, "That may be what they think in that Harvard faculty lounge…but it's not what they know on the battlefield!"
Ignoring the ludicrous idea that Romney knows anything about being on a battlefield, his Harvard comments are meaningless given that he himself graduated from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School with, count them, two degrees. Romney received a JD and an MBA in 1975, graduating in the top 5% of his class.
In addition, one of Romney's chief foreign policy advisers is former Bush aide Meghan O'Sullivan, a Harvard international relations professor – who could be more familiar with the inside of the dreaded Harvard faculty lounge?
Romney's chief economic advisor, N. Gregory Mankiw, is a Harvard economics professor.
Three of Romney's sons all graduated from Harvard Business School.
Romney notoriously awarded $50,000 to Harvard Business School in 2003 and has to date received more than $56,000 in donations from Harvard professors and the spouses of Harvard professors.
Yes Obama is undoubtedly a hand picked elitist Harvard educated president, yet Romney was formed in the exact same mold.
One candidate who certainly is a man of the people is Congressman Ron Paul. His grassroots support has propelled him to top tier candidacy. After raising over $1 million two weekends ago, Paul is approaching another $1 million in donations as part of an end of quarter fundraising push.
Unlike Romney, Paul also knows a thing or two about the battlefield, having served as a physician in the Air Force. Indeed, as well-known West Coast military publication The Ranger highlights, Paul has raised more than any other current presidential candidate in donations from members of the military.
Paul has so far raised $34,480 from people in the military, compared with $19,849 for President Barack Obama and $13,848 for the other GOP presidential candidates combined.
"Our fighting men and women take an oath to protect America, defend our Constitution and defend our borders," said Jesse Benton, Paul's campaign manager. "They look at Ron Paul and see a leader who takes their oath seriously, and who will fight to ensure that we don't misrepresent that oath by sending them off to police the world, instead of defending our country."
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Taipei City looks to cement its position as the Mando-pop capital of the world with the Taipei Pop Festival (臺北流行音樂季), a series of outdoor music events and indoor concerts that will run until October at venues throughout the city.
"Taipei has been the creative cradle of Chinese pop music. Taiwan's musicians aim to use music to realize their dreams and change the world," Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Liu Wei-gong (劉維公) told reporters at an event to kick off the festival earlier this month.
Governmental measures to bolster the industry have included building a Pop Music Center (流行音樂中心) and synergizing music festivals.
The Haikuo Music Festival takes place today and tomorrow at the music room at the Hankyu Department Store (統一阪急百貨), where emerging bands will compete to win gold in one of four categories, including Band Young (高校聯賽), Band (無限制聯賽), Acoustic (木吉他) and Fender (電吉他).
The Star Music Summer Night Concert, which will take place at Taipei Expo Park on Aug. 31, will feature well-known pop acts such as singer/songwriter Lala Hsu (aka Hsu Chia-ying, 徐佳瑩), Golden Melody-winning crooner William Wei (韋禮安), indie chanteuse Waa Wei (魏如萱), Puyuma songstress Jia Jia (家家) and emerging act Jess Lee (李佳薇). Winners from the tie-in music competitions will appear on the stage too.
The I Want Music Festival (銀河音樂聚) will take place today and tomorrow at the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Xinyi Plaza (信義香堤大道廣場), where indie bands will take the stage (check schedule below).
The festival will also feature a concert series, Songwriters' Fulfillment Project (創作人圓夢計畫), that includes emerging musicians, and the Pop Music Sharing Session (流行音樂分享會), both at the newly opened Songshan Cultural and Creative Park (松山文創園區戶外場地).
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WHAT: Taipei Pop Music Festival (臺北流行音樂季)
WHEN: August to October, 2013
WHERE: Throughout Taipei
ADMISSION: Free
ON THE NET (Chinese): www.taipeimusic.com.tw
Haikuo Music Festival
WHEN: Today and tomorrow from 1pm to 9pm
WHERE: Hankyu Department Store (統一阪急百貨), 8, Zhongxiao E Rd Sec 5, Taipei City (台北市忠孝東路五段8號)
Today's lineup
P Ta-san (紋面樂團): 3:10pm-4pm
Hsiao Chao (小朝, aka, Hsiao Huei-ling, 蕭慧靈): 7pm to 7:30pm
Baobu Badulu (保卜): 7:30pm to 8pm
Tomorrow's lineup
Echo (回聲樂團): 3pm to 3:30pm
Coach (教練樂隊): 7pm to 7:30pm
Star Music Summer Night Concert (花博星聲音夏夜演唱會)
WHEN: Today at 6:30pm
WHERE: Taipei Expo Park (花博公園), at the intersection of Zhongshan North Road (中山北路) and Minzu East Road (民族東路), Taipei City
Lala Hsu (徐佳瑩), William Wei (韋禮安), Waa Wei (魏如萱), Jia Jia (家家) and Jess Lee (李佳薇)
I Want Music Festival (銀河音樂聚)
WHEN: Today and tomorrow from 4pm to 9:30pm
WHERE: Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Xinyi Plaza (信義香堤大道廣場), at the plaza between A8 and A11 buildings, Taipei City
Today's lineup
Four Pens (四枝筆): 4pm to 4:40pm
REID: 4:40pm to 5:20pm
Dream Toy (夢托翼): 5:20pm to 6pm
4X4 (4X4樂團): 6pm to 6:40pm
French Cheese (法式綺思): 6:40pm to 7:20pm
The Traveler (迷途者): 7:20pm to 8pm
Hsieh Yu-wei (謝宇威): 8pm to 9:00pm
Tomorrow's lineup
Ground Zero (放射空間): 4pm to 4:40pm
Double Cheese (大波起士): 4:40pm to 5:20pm
Jesus Fashion: 5:20pm to 6pm
The Fan (奮樂團): 6pm to 6:40pm
DFM Jazz Club: 6:40pm to 7:20pm
Singinglynn Lee (李昀陵): 7:20pm to 8pm
Ten Realms (十界集樂坊): 8pm to 8:40pm
Under The Moon: 8:40pm to 9:20pm
Songwriters' Fulfillment Project (創作人圓夢計畫)
WHEN: Aug. 31, Sept. 7 and Sept. 21, from 1pm to 4pm


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Tony Hawk: Ride was a mess. And that's putting it kindly. That hasn't stopped the skating legend from working with the game's developers again, however, announcing today the roots of their "next project".
"Just met with @robomodo about our next project", Hawk wrote on his Twitter account, "and it's already much better than I expected". Let's hope it's much better than we (and by "we" I mean everyone who played Ride that isn't Tony Hawk) are expecting.
Considering the failure of Ride both critically and commercially, hopefully both Hawk and Robomodo go back to basics, take a page out of rival series Skate's books and just focus on the skating.
Without a plastic board peripheral, of course.
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A clutch of notable achievements come under the microscope in FIFA.com's first stats review of 2013, from Lionel Messi's Ballon d'Or through successes for Epinal, Lazio and Xabi Prieto to a milestone strike by Frank Lampard.
Chelsea goals was the landmark reached by Frank Lampard in Saturday's 5-1 FA Cup win at Southampton, taking him level with Kerry Dixon in second place in the club's list of all-time scorers. The veteran midfielder needs just ten more to surpass Bobby Tambling at the top of that list, although he may be running out of time to do that, with his contract seemingly unlikely to be renewed at the end of the season. Lampard reached Dixon's mark by continuing his fine record in the FA Cup, a competition in which he has scored 20 times in his last 30 appearances. His liking for the tournament is shared by the entire Chelsea team, in fact, who are now unbeaten in their last 24 FA Cup encounters.
points at the midway stage of the season is a haul that Lazio have accrued only twice before, and on each occasion they have gone on to win the title. The Rome club's current points tally matches that of Sven Goran Eriksson's 1999/2000 team and is just one short Tommaso Maestrelli's class of 1973/74, the only Scudetto-winning sides in the club's history. Vladimir Petkovic can also reflect with satisfaction on having made the best start by any coach in his debut Serie A season since Jose Mourinho racked up 41 points in his first year at Inter Milan. Lazio's goalkeeper, Federico Marchetti, meanwhile, was finally beaten after surviving 606 minutes of football in all competition without conceding, equalling Felice Pulici's mark from that 1974 campaign but falling short of Luca Marchegiani's club record of 744 minutes. Nonetheless, I Biancocelesti are now unbeaten in their last 12 matches, while Cagliari – despite finding a way past Marchetti – have now lost six on the bounce.
years had passed since the reigning Coupe de France champions exited the competition before the last 32. That at least was the picture until Sunday, when Lyon crashed out in the most sensational of circumstances to Epinal, a team lying second-from-bottom of the nation's third tier. The seven-time French champions lost on penalties after a 3-3 draw, and they weren't the only Ligue 1 side to find it tough against spirited lower-league opposition. Big-spending Paris Saint-Germain squeezed through by the odd goal in seven against fifth-tier Arras, the first time this season they have conceded three times and the only instance in their history that their net has bulged so often against such a lowly team. Yet despite those problems, the match ended in a sixth straight win for the capital club – their best run of results thus far under Carlo Ancelotti.
successive FIFA Ballon d'Ors is the sequence that has allowed Lionel Messi to set yet another record. In landing the game's most coveted individual prize once again, the Barcelona talisman eclipsed the mark he shared with Michel Platini, who won three Ballon d'Ors in consecutive years between 1983 and 1985. Messi was a resounding winner too, polling 41.60 per cent of the vote to Cristiano Ronaldo's 23.68 per cent and Andres Iniesta's 10.91 per cent. And few could argue with honouring the Argentinian for a year in which he served up an incredible 91 goals and 22 assists in just 69 appearances. The award also came just 24 hours after Messi had got off the mark for 2013, scoring in Barcelona's 4-0 win over to Espanyol to equal a personal record of having scored in eight successive La Liga matches.
goals against Real Madrid on Sunday, albeit in a 4-3 defeat, earned Xabi Prieto a couple of statistical crumbs of comfort. The Real Sociedad midfielder became the first opposing player to score a hat-trick at the Bernabeu since Walter Pandiani in 2007, and having already grabbed a brace there in 2004, is also the only player in the last 15 years to have scored at least twice on two separate visits. Real recovered from Prieto's goals and the dismissal of goalkeeper Antonio Adan to claim all three points, but any satisfaction was again tempered by events in Catalonia. There, Barcelona were setting a new La Liga record by scoring in their 36th successive top-flight match, and will set another fresh benchmark - for points at the halfway stage of the campaign – should they avoid defeat against Malaga on Sunday.


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Most software developers are now familiar with inheritance and virtual methods as common techniques for extensibility from the object oriented paradigm. When faced with functional programming for the first time, these developers often ask how to write extensible code in this alien paradigm.
The functional paradigm actually only provides a single form of extensibility: higher-order functions. These allow you to factor out "inner" functions. For example, code that often appears with the same first and last code blocks:
let f x =
first x
stuff1 x
last x
let g x =
first x
stuff2 x
last x
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let hof stuff x =
first x
stuff x
last x
let f = hof stuff1 x
let g = hof stuff2 x
Applying this aggressively leads to design patterns such as parser combinators and is a very powerful and lightweight technique for making code extensible. However, it does not make data types extensible.
Consequently, functional programming languages almost always include language features to help with extensibility:
- Common Lisp has the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) and a macro system.
- Standard ML has parametric polymorphism and a higher-order module system.
- OCaml added polymorphic variants, objects, optional arguments and the Camlp4 macro system.
- Haskell has parametric polymorphism and type classes, and Template Haskell adds macros.
- Scala has Java-style OOP with some added features.
Read Chris Okasaki's excellent monograph Purely functional data structures for some great examples using higher-order modules in Standard ML and type classes in Haskell. Read Code reuse through polymorphic variants by Jacques Garrigue for a description of how that language feature can be used to attack the expression problem. However, these solutions are quite rare in the wild and, in particular, you can get a long way without them (e.g. in F#).
Historically, this diversity appeared because most functional programming languages were research projects and, consequently, they existed to add novel features. Therefore, we now have a wide variety of disparate forms of extensibility in today's functional programming languages.
F# is a different beast compared to its predecessors like OCaml and Haskell because its design requirements were seamless interoperability with the rest of .NET (which imposes .NET-style OOP) and pragmatism. Consequently, F# keeps the ML core with parametric polymorphism and adds .NET's object system. So you can benefit from the easy extensibility offered by generic higher-order functions and conventional OOP but not from any of the more esoteric features like higher-order modules, type classes and macros.
The only form of extensibility F# has pioneered is active patterns. These allow you to separate code that destructures via pattern matching from the concrete data representation. This is an important way to decouple code from data and, therefore, make it more reusable.


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- Languages spoken : English
- Youtube Id : -youtube_id-
- Original title : The Outsiders
- Movie Genre : Crime, Drama,
- Status : Released
- Film Note : -movie_rating-
- Societies of production : American Zoetrope
- Vote Count : 31
- Tagline : They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
- Release Date of film : 1983-03-25
- Average rate : 6.4
- Duration of movie : 91
- Matt Dillon Character (Dallas 'Dally' Winston)
- Ralph Macchio Character (Johnny Cade)
- C. Thomas Howell Character (Ponyboy Curtis)
- Patrick Swayze Character (Darrel 'Darry' Curtis)
- Rob Lowe Character (Sodapop Curtis)
- Emilio Estevez Character (Keith 'Two-Bit' Mathews)
- Tom Cruise Character (Steve Randle)
- Glenn Withrow Character (Tim Shepard)
- Diane Lane Character (Sherri 'Cherry' Valance)
- Leif Garrett Character (Bob Sheldon)
- Darren Dalton Character (Randy Anderson)
- Michelle Meyrink Character (Marcia)
- Gailard Sartain Character (Jerry Wood)
- Tom Waits Character (Buck Merrill)
- Sofia Coppola Character (Little Girl (as Domino))
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In September 2012, a pair of developers from Bohemia Interactive—the team behind the ArmA series and the upcoming DayZ standalone game—were arrested on a Greek island and accused of espionage.
The island, Lemnos, was the same one being recreated for the studio's in-development military combat simulator ArmA 3. As a result of the case against the pair, then, BI have decided to change the name of the island to "Altis".
Saying "the team no longer feels passionate about using the previous name", the devs hope the new name "will help emphasize the fictional nature of the game". And, you know, maybe help the arrested pair—currently out on bail —escape further recriminations.
"As part of the creative process, our virtual environments are often rooted in real-life locations and, during development, they evolve and grow along with our design", says Joris-Jan van 't Land, project lead on Arma 3. "The resulting fictional environment is often close to its inspiration, but it's never exactly the same - nor would we want it to be. For us, 'Altis' echoes the Mediterranean heart of our island, but differentiates it from any undesired real-life connotations."
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It's the end of the year, which means it's time for our annual Charistmas celebrations. Whether you're on break from classes, kicking it after work, just playing games, or stopping by once in a while, you're welcome to join in. Participate in events, solve challenges and puzzles, and be a part of the community celebrations to earn Charisma. Spend this Charisma on gifts for your friends in this community.
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While the celebrations aren't a month long like previous years, there's more than enough activities to put you in the Charistmas spirit. We'll also be doing other, unscheduled events, such as the Overwatch holiday stuff so keep an eye out for things happening!
This year, the gifts will be kept hidden until Dec. 26. At that point, people can trade in their Charisma for gifting, but not any sooner. Don't worry about the end goal, just have fun!


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Ace and I will be appearing at the Aperture Cinema in Winston-Salem this week for a group discussion following the showing of the animated movie, "My Dog Tulip," based on J.R. Ackerley's memoir of his relationship with his dog.
I'll also be talking about, selling and signing my new book, "DOG, INC.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend."
If you're wondering what the human-dog bond, or a memoir about that, have in common with cloning, the answer is:
For, in addition to the profits foreseen by entrepreneurs, it was that bond — tighter-than-ever as the 21st Century arrived– that sparked the attempt to clone dogs, prompted customers to sign up for it and led to the emergence of a fledgling, and highly questionable, pet cloning industry.
And what, after all, is a dog clone but a living, breathing, laboratory re-creation of the past — a memoir you can pet?
The first dog whose cloning was attempted by U.S. scientists, in fact, was a border collie mix who belonged to — you guessed it — a memoir writer. Missy, as it turned out, wasn't the first dog cloned. South Korean scientists accomplished that first with an Afghan hound, whose clone would be named Snuppy. But Missy was eventually cloned — more than five times.
Cloning wasn't available in J.R. Ackerley's day (the British writer died in 1967), but given the love he expressed for his German shepherd, given his many unsuccesful attempts to breed her to another purebred "Alsatian," given the void she filled in his life and the one her passing left in it, he might have considered it, if it had been.
"Tulip," whose real name was Queenie — publishers opted to change it, fearing its gay connotations might be too titillating for stuffy old 1950's England — spent 14 years with Ackerley, and according to some accounts he never quite got over her death.
"She offered me what I had never found in my life with humans: constant, single-hearted, incorruptible, uncritical devotion, which it is in the nature of dogs to offer," he says in the book, written while she was still alive.
The movie — though, like the book, it doesn't shy away from dogs' bodily functions — is charming and charmingly animated, drawn and directed by Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, and narrated by Christopher Plummer, in the role of Ackerley. It also features the voices of Isabella Rossellini and Lynn Redgrave.
It tells the story of a man who, having all but given up on finding an "ideal friend" in the human world, finds one in a canine — the first dog he's had in his life.
I'll be leaving my ideal friend home tonight, but Ace, if he feels up to it, is scheduled to join me at the theater Wednesday night.
The movie starts at 8 p.m., both nights, with the discussion following. The Aperture Cinema is at 311 W. 4th St. in downtown Winston-Salem.


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Buying a Voice: Obama hits the airwaves
It will be the first of many, but the Obama campaign is on the air with their first campaign ad of 2012. If you haven't seen it yet, take a look:
In 30 seconds, the commercial attempts to dismantle the claims by "Americans for Prosperity" and then build the case that the president is actually having success in creating green energy jobs. The ad will be the first of many paid for by "Obama for America".
Obama for America or OFA, is the name of President Barack Obama's re-election organization. It is the most traditional form of political fund raising.
The average voter wishing to contribute the Obama campaign would donate to OFA. A quick check of the Federal Election Commission web site reveals literally thousands of donors to OFA with Virginia ties.
But while that donor list is very traditional and something the president is proud of, just this week he gave approval for his supporters to actively begin raising money through a practice he has criticized in the past.
Supporters of the president have launched "Priorities USA Action". Priorities is a Super-PAC, Meaning its donors can give without limit, but they must disclose those donations. It's not directly connected to Obama for America, although the president has given the group his approval.
Currently the PAC has spent most of its time hammering Mitt Romney.
It's raised more than $3 million. The two biggest donations, $2 million from Dreamworks CEO Jeffery Katzenburg and $500 thousand from NewsWeb Corporation honcho Fred Eychaner.
But keep in mind, this SuperPAC, has not bought any ads in Virginia quite yet.
The Obama campaign did not come to the decision to support their SuperPAC lightly. In a blog post informing their supporters of the move, Jim Messina the Obama campaign manager said the campaign will not "play by two sets of rules"
You can see the ad below:
Here is where we got our information:
*The Obama for America Federal Election Commission filing can be found here.
*The Priorities USA Action web site can be found here.
*Open Secrets details the funding streams for Priorties USA Action.
Written by Ryan Nobles
February 8, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Posted in 2012 Presidential Election, Buying A Voice, Decision Virginia 2012, Obama Administration
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Human memory is quirky, complicated and unreliable. Even when we think we're remembering everything accurately, chances are things have gotten twisted along the way. Let's take a look at why your memory sucks and how you can change that.
Science is still figuring out all kinds of new things about our brains and memory. What we do know is that a lot of people struggle with remembering things, and in many different ways. Perhaps you're always forgetting a few items at the supermarket, or you're forgetting to pick up the dry cleaning on your way home. Maybe you can't remember events from your childhood that well. Let's take a look at what's really going on in your brain, and then see if we can actually do anything to improve your memory.
Why Your Memory Is Terrible
Everyone's memory is different, and no one remembers everything perfectly. In fact, even if you think your memory is excellent, chances are it isn't. To understand how this works, we need to look at a few different things, starting with how we remember anything to begin with.
Why You Remember What You Remember
Human memory is complicated. As an example, consider how you remember visual images. It seems straightforward — you see something and you remember it. But as Scientific American points out, it's more complex than that:
Memories of visual images (e.g., dinner plates) are stored in what is called visual memory. Our minds use visual memory to perform even the simplest of computations; from remembering the face of someone we've just met, to remembering what time it was last we checked...
Memories like what you had for dinner are stored in visual short-term memory — particularly, in a kind of short-term memory often called "visual working memory." Visual working memory is where visual images are temporarily stored while your mind works away at other tasks — like a whiteboard on which things are briefly written and then wiped away.
So what causes those memories to stick around and not be wiped away from that whiteboard? According to one study from MIT, it might simply be how meaningful an image is and if we can connect it to other knowledge. If you can connect that image to something else, it increases the chances you'll remember it later. Like learning, memory is all about context. This is why, as The Atlantic points out, pattern recognition is key. Essentially, the more connections a new memory has to knowledge you have, the more likely it is you'll remember that information. The same basic process seems to happen with most memories.
Underneath the hood, all types of things are happening in your brain. How Stuff Works does a good job of breaking it down:
Experts believe that the hippocampus, along with another part of the brain called the frontal cortex, is responsible for analysing these various sensory inputs and deciding if they're worth remembering. If they are, they may become part of your long-term memory... these various bits of information are then stored in different parts of the brain. How these bits and pieces are later identified and retrieved to form a cohesive memory, however, is not yet known...
To properly encode a memory, you must first be paying attention. Since you cannot pay attention to everything all the time, most of what you encounter every day is simply filtered out, and only a few stimuli pass into your conscious awareness... What we do know is that how you pay attention to information may be the most important factor in how much of it you actually remember.
The fact of the matter is we're still learning a lot about human memory. Why we remember certain details over others is still a mystery.
Memories Are Fallible
It's probably no secret to you that you can't trust your memory. All of us have had moments where we've misremembered a detail, forgotten something, or even made details up completely. The reason is pretty simple: our memory isn't always reliable, because it's about perception.
Memories are changed by all kinds of things. Nostalgia plays a roll in how we remember. According to an article by the Scientific American it's surprisingly easy to instil false memories in people. But most shocking is how often we're just plain wrong about the details. For example, eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable, but as The Smithsonian Magazine points out, our memory of major events is consistantly inaccurate:
Most people have so-called flashbulb memories of where they were and what they were doing when something momentous happened: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, say, or the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. (Unfortunately, staggeringly terrible news seems to come out of the blue more often than staggeringly good news.) But as clear and detailed as these memories feel, psychologists find they are surprisingly inaccurate.
Nader, a neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, says his memory of the World Trade Center attack has played a few tricks on him. He recalled seeing television footage on September 11 of the first plane hitting the north tower of the World Trade Center. But he was surprised to learn that such footage aired for the first time the following day. Apparently, he wasn't alone: a 2003 study of 569 university students found that 73 per cent shared this misperception.
It's not just traumatic events that cause our memories to flake out. One study in The Journal of the Association for Psychological Science points out that simply recalling memories enhances and distorts them. This is to say when you remember something you're actively changing it. In part this has a lot to do with a wide variety of memory biases that colour the ways we remember. From the positivity effect where we tend to remember the positive over the negative to the egocentric bias where we remember ourselves as being better than we are, we're constantly changing memories in a way that benefits how we view ourselves. So trusting your own memory isn't always the best idea.
For example, one study published in The Journal of Experimental Psychology showed that we tend to think we'll remember something important more than we will. This is essentially when you don't write down a brilliant idea and then you immediately forget what it was. It's happened to the best of us, and it's because we're overly confident in our ability to remember.
Unfortunately, like most of our biases, the only way to really counteract them is to know they're there. Knowing that your memory isn't perfect means you'll pay more attention to those imperfections in the future.
What You Can Do to Improve Your Memory
Improving your memory is possible, but despite what the self-help section at your local bookstore might say, it's not just about a series of mental hoops you can jump through every day. In fact, while there certainly are some techniques proven to help you retain information, improving your memory is just as much about lifestyle as anything else.
Exercise Regularly
We know that physical activity effects the brain in a number of positive ways, and one of those is a boost to memory.
Physical activity's role in memory is incredibly complicated. Studies published in Behavioral Neuroscience, The Journal of American Geriatrics Society and The Journal of Aging Research suggest that exercise plays a signifigant role in memory. The New York Times breaks the current research like so:
What all of this new research suggests, says Teresa Liu-Ambrose, an associate professor in the Brain Research centre at the University of British Columbia who oversaw the experiments with older women, is that for the most robust brain health, it's probably advisable to incorporate both aerobic and resistance training. It seems that each type of exercise "selectively targets different aspects of cognition," she says, probably by sparking the release of different proteins in the body and brain...
[B]eyond merely stemming people's memory loss, she says, "we saw actual improvements", an outcome that, if you're waffling about exercising today, is worth remembering.
Essentially, exercise improves cognitive functions, and it enhances our memory storage and retrieval. Basically, the better shape your brain is in, the better the chances you'll remember something.
Get a Good Night's Sleep
In the end, your memory probably isn't as bad as you think. It just takes some regular maintenance and a little training to keep it in shape. You can't magically just improve your memory by studying. If you're the type who forgets your keys, you'll probably always do so. That said, you can employ certain techniques to help you with memory retention and your initial perception. We've talked about this a lot in the past, so here are a few places to get started:
- Train your brain like a Memory Champion: Our own Melanie Pinola went through the USA Memory Championship and shares her techniques, including several different memorisation systems.
- Improve your memory with the chunking technique: The chunking technique uses the pattern recognition we talked about in the first section to help you remember things. In the simplest terms, it's like remembering a phone number using the letters on a phone's dial pad instead of just the numbers.
- Combine information with bizarre images: If you need to remember a certain set of details, it's often easier for us to do so when we combine that information with something crazy. So, if you need to remember to get milk and bananas at the supermarket, remember a giant banana chasing after a cow that's ready to burst with a hatchet instead.
- Use a mnemonic peg system: This one's a bit complicated, but a peg system essentially lists items as a rhyme so it's easier to remember. Once an item is pegged to the list, you can usually recall that information later.
- Increase your powers of observation and perception: You're only going to remember what you notice, so if you want to improve your memory skills one thing you need to do is pay more attention to what's happening. Watch the world closely, form connections between what's happening and what you know. Remember, according to research in The Journal of Neuroscience, the more we value a memory, the more likely it is to stick around. The more you see, the more accurate your memory will be.
- Take a nap: We already mentioned that sleeping has a direct impact on your memory, but so does a quick nap. If you can sneak one in during the day, go for it. A solid nap is an effective tool for improving memory and learning ability. If a nap's not possible, meditation has been shown to work as well.
Memory is weird, and it works in strange ways. It's unreliable, but we still have to put our trust in it. Memory is hard to work with, but it's still malleable, and you can force memories into your brain. Science is still figuring out exactly what works best, but it seems like few things will ever trump a good night's rest and exercise.
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UPDATE: (01-13-2010) So Nacchio's attorneys are arguing that his combined forfeiture and fines should not exceed
$3.6 million $5.4 million ($3.6 million in fines plus $1.8 million in forfeitures) and that his sentence should be as short as six months. That's based on a sentencing statement filed late Tuesday.
In addition to receiving a six-year prison term, former Qwest chief Joe Nacchio was ordered to forfeit the $52 million in ill-gotten gains for his insider trading conviction.
As part of a resentencing ordered by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, prosecutors and Nacchio's attorneys now agree that the forfeiture amount should be cut to $44.6 million. The new figure takes into account stock-option fees and other costs. It doesn't factor in taxes paid.
Here is the agreement that was filed in court today, with a breakdown of the proceeds for each of the 19 counts on which he was convicted. U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger still has to approve the new forfeiture amount.
Nacchio was also ordered to pay $19 million fines – $1 million per count – a figure that is not under review.
By the way, Nacchio's last pending appeal of the conviction was rejected today.


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Ever since I went to the spa I have have been more interested in body care goodies, especially scrubby, oily, salty, creamy concoctions.
Now – I do like scrubs but I have been looking for the one. I find a lot of them quite harsh (especially when there's just chunks of sugar or salt in them. I've tried one that was just like rock salt. Ouch.)
I was sent this Wild Organics Marshmallow Sugar Scrub to try out and recently popped it open:
I love the name of it – Marshmallow Butter…makes me think of fluffy clouds. Yes…that's right, I thought that Mashmallows only existed in white, pink and blue form and were made for topping up my hot chocolates.
Why Marshmallow:
* Wild organic marshmallow is rich in minerals and vitamin B and is a renowned skin-soother.
* Marshmallow Butter Sugar Scrub is fragranced with a delicate, caring blend of organic essential oils.
Let's get some technical details out of the way first.
I didn't think I was anal about the ingredients in my beauty items but I am, I really am. Wild Organics is a good brand in that it is free from a lot of chemicals that make me itch to death.
The range is free of:
* parabens and harsh preservatives
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* mineral oils, petroleum, propylene glycol
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So it kind of looks soft like a marshmallow….This scrub is different from the plethora I have tried recently. The majority of those ones as I said earlier, are very scrubby and have a oil base. Its quite a nice effect but just a bit harsh for me.
This scrub is different. Its a soft scrub, not a really madly exfoliating one.
When you stick your finger it its almost like soft bread – get the product out and it starts to melt because you can really feel the butters that are present in the scrub.
Once the butters are melting on the skin it works as an excellent moisturiser (I didn't need cream after using this) and the sugar granules are quite fine.
See it melting on my skin:
I have lots and lots of scrubs, this is the first one in a long time that I have really liked because they haven't been afraid to products quite a soft, gentle scrub which moisturises well too.
If you want a mega scrubby scrub to get rid of lots of dead skin this won't be exfoliating enough for you. But if you want something for dry, delicate, sensitive skin or something you can use regularly without irritation this is it.
You can buy it here for £28.00.
Wild Organics also donates 10% of profits to The Freedom from Fistual Foundation charity for African Women. I've had a look at the stie and its very much a worthwhile cause if you are looking at any new charities to support:
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Women suffering from obstructed labour often struggle until the baby dies and during this agonising process, loss of circulation causes tissue to die, leaving large gaps between the birth canal and bladder or rectum, causing incontinence.
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By RICK FORTENBAUGH Staff Writer
So far so more than good for the Hunterdon Central and Voorhees high school wrestling teams. Now the two Hunterdon County powers will see if they can impress even more by making a big splash today at the NJSIAA Groups at the Pine Belt Arena in Toms River.
Coming off its thrilling 30-29 victory over Phillipsburg for the No. Jersey Section 2 Group IV sectional title, Hunterdon Central will take on Southern in the semifinals at 12:30. The winner of that match will face the winner of the Brick Memorial-Hackensack match.
Voorhees, which set a school record with its 23rd win in a romp over Parsispanny Hills in the North 2 Group II final, will open today against Long Branch this morning at 10 o'clock. Should they advance, the Vikings will take on the winner of the High Point-Delsea semifinal.
Although neither Central or Voorhees are favored to win a group state championship today, both have a very good shot of at least making the finals.
Hunterdon Central (19-1) vs. Southern (12-5) - The Manahawkin school was projected to have a big season by many and although it did win the South Jersey title with a 29-24 victory over Shawnee, it has not really been able to put it all together. Hunterdon Central, meanwhile, has kept coming up big in match after match despite the fact it often gives up 15 points or more in the first three weights. A big key has been Central's underrated upperweights, which don't get a lot of respect, but have had the uncanny ability to win at crucial moments. The middle of Centrals's lineup can roll with just about anybody in the state. Southern's heavyweight has a winning record, but he has been out for a long time. If the Rams forfeit that weight today, it would be a huge plus for Central. This could be tight, but you have to like Hunterdon Central's chances of reaching the final against Brick Memorial, which will surely crush Hackensack in the other final. Beating Memorial will be difficult because the Shore Conference team will probably pick up too much bonus and it will be hard for Central to win the resulting nearly mandatory eight weights.
Voorhees (23-4) vs. Long Branch (14-5) - Eric Hall's Vikings match up pretty well here because of their capable set of upperweights, staring with undefeated 170-pounder Jadaen Bernstein. Long Branch is coming off a a 27-23 win over Delaware Valley, which Voorees beat, 31-23. The Shore Conference team figures to score some big points in the middle. This means the match could very well be decided by toss-up bouts down below. Should it advanced, Voorhees will face a stiff challenge in the final against the winner of the Delsea-High Point semifinal. Those two teams are regarded as the best two Group IIs in the state and Voorhees does not match up well with either up top.


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TRADE AND COMPETITION POLICY IN THE WTO By Cecilia Oh
1. Background
In Cancun, one of the most important decisions for Ministers will be whether or not to launch negotiations on new WTO agreements on investment, competition, transparency in government procurement, trade facilitation. These four ânew issuesâ are being pushed primarily by the EU, aided by the other Quad countries (Japan, Canada and the US) in varying degrees of force depending on the specific issue of their preference. Although most developing country governments have stated their objections against the launch of negotiations on the new issues, there are fears these governments may be pressured into agreement at Cancun. Prior to, and during, the Doha Ministerial Conference, manipulative negotiating tactics, undemocratic and non-transparent decision-making processes were used to push and pressure developing countries into a grudging acceptance of an expanded WTO mandate on the new issues.
In the Doha Ministerial Declaration, Ministers recognized âthe case for a multilateral framework of competition policy to enhance the contribution of competition policy to international trade and developmentâ and agreed that ânegotiations will take place after the fifth Session of the Ministerial Conference on the basis of a decision to be taken, by explicit consensus, at that Session on modalities of negotiationsâ (Paragraph 23). The Doha Declaration also provides identical mandates for the other new issues.
2. The Doha mandate for trade and competition policy
The Doha Declaration implies that negotiations on competition policy would be launched after the Cancun Ministerial Conference, subject however, to an explicit consensus on the âmodalitiesâ of negotiations. This convoluted text was the result of manipulative manouevres by the developed countries to insert language to commit WTO Members to start negotiations on a multilateral competition framework (MCF), and the attempts by developing countries to block such language. In the final moments of the Doha Conference - on the insistence of a number of developing countries - the Chair of the Conference provided a clarification of this mandate. He said that the reference to explicit consensus on modalities meant that it was a pre-condition for the commencement of negotiations and that any Member could prevent the start of negotiations by withholding the consensus.
The Doha Declaration further instructed WTO Members to focus on the clarification of six elements; i.e., core principles of transparency, non discrimination and procedural fairness, provisions on hardcore cartels, modalities for voluntary cooperation and support for progressive reinforcement of competition institutions in developing countries through capacity building (Paragraph 25). This work would be undertaken in the Working Group on the Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy (established by the Singapore Ministerial Conference in 1996). Paragraph 25 also explicitly requires that âfull account shall be taken of the needs of developing and least-developed country participants and appropriate flexibility provided to address themâ. Developing countries have thus interpreted this to be the central focus of the clarification process, which requires consideration of the need for appropriate flexibility for developing countries to develop and implement trade and competition policies that meet their development needs and interests.
3. Appropriate forms of competition policy for developing countries
Competition law and policy, in appropriate forms, are undoubtedly beneficial including for developing countries. Whilst not denying the need for regulation to prevent abuse of monopoly power and other anti-competitive practices, the key question is what form of regulation is appropriate for developing country needs.
From a development perspective, there is a fundamental imperative to build, develop and re-inforce national capacity, especially through domestic enterprises developing the scales and co-ordination necessary to enable them to compete effectively in the face of large-scale intrusion in the domestic economy, as a result of increasing liberalisation. Development of domestic enterprise with sufficient economies of scale is crucial for diffusion of technology and adaptation of imported technologies to domestic circumstances; domestic economic integration with spill-over effects in different sectors of economic and employment creation. This requires protection from the âfreeâ and full force of the world market for the time it takes for the local capacity to build up. It also requires a vital role for the state, which has to play the role of nurturing and encouraging domestic firms. Therefore, competition policy should complement national objectives â and these objectives may range from a comprehensive national industrial policy, the promotion of certain vital sectors and the enhancement of capacity of domestic entrepreneurs and farmers.
There are different approaches to competition policy and law. The European and the US models of competition policy represent an approach (although with important differences) that puts competition policy at the forefront and seeks to control and regulate anti-competitive and monopolistic behaviour of large corporations. There are limitations of this approach, namely; the over-arching focus on competition per se in which other social and economic considerations are secondary and the failure to address areas in which competition can be subjected, and promoted by, co-ordinated support for domestic industries to counter-balance existing big companies.
The Japanese model of the 1950-1970s, which locates competition policy within an industrial policy and the overall national policy objectives, provides an interesting contrast. The Japanese model of that time represents a more flexible approach to competition policy, premised on the application of positive discrimination between the needs of domestic enterprise for the development of a domestic economy against the market access needs of foreign enterprises in the local economy. Whilst the Japanese approach, in terms of economic theory and development-friendly policy would appear to be one more suited to developing country needs, the pressure in the WTO to negotiate a MCF would force developing countries to adopt a diametrically opposite model of competition policy.
With respect to the international economy, it would also be important to curb the mega-mergers and acquisitions taking place, which threaten the competitive position of local firms in developing countries. World Bank analysis highlights the fact that the most important restraints on competition are policy barriers to trade. Subsidies and trade barriers in agriculture, and trade barriers in clothing and textiles, in the developed countries have adverse effects on developing countries. In addition, anti dumping actions have been a favoured vehicle of the developed countries to restrict competition from developing countriesâ products. Restrictive business practices of large firms also hinder competition. Yet, calls to address these issues also do not find favour with the promoters of a MCF in the WTO.
The main pre-occupation of the proponents of the MCF seems to be focused on the need for foreign firms to be accorded ânational treatmentâ. This implies that foreign firms and their products be given equal or even better treatment than that given to local firms. It would curb the right of developing country governments to provide advantages to local firms, and local firms themselves may be restricted from practices, which are to their advantage.
4. Clarification in the Working Group: Divergence, not consensus
The most insistent proponent of a multilateral competition framework is the EU, which had been pushing for inclusion of competition in the WTO since 1996. The EU has since âlowered its ambitionsâ in light of the resistance to their original proposals for a competition agreement in the WTO, which did little to disguise their market access objectives. Nevertheless, current EU proposals still create problems for the majority of developing countries. The proposals have the three main features;
Discussions in the Working Group reveal major differences between the proponents of a multilateral framework on competition policy, such as the EU and Japan, on one hand, and developing countries, including India and some African countries, on the other. There is also some divergence in the views of the EU as between and other developed countries, such as the US, Canada and Korea. The views and positions of WTO Members on the elements identified for clarification clearly indicate that the clarification process has not engendered a common understanding of the issues, much less any agreement, between them.
4.1 Core principles - non-discrimination, transparency and procedural fairness principles
The proposal is for the principles of non-discrimination, transparency and procedural fairness principles to be made binding on all Members, in that they should be applicable to the entirety of a competition law that is adopted in a country. Developing countries have argued that these principles not universally applicable to all issues, developed as they were in the context of the original purpose of the GATT as an agreement to facilitate reduction of barriers to international trade in goods. It is not self evident that it is either appropriate or desirable for these principles to be applied to competition policy.
Transparency The proposal is that this principle should cover all aspects of competition regime â from legislation, rules and institutional structures to decision-making processes, including decisions on sectoral exclusions and exemptions. This would represent an extension of the transparency requirement in the WTO (GATT, Article X) which is limited only to the publication of trade regulations and does not extend to decision-making. There may even be a case for narrowing this remit, as the requirement for publication of "judicial decisions and administrative rulings of general application", which would be unduly burdensome and potentially unworkable in the context of competition policy. There is also a questioning of the insistence of the proponents in excluding confidential information from transparency requirements, when such information will increase effectiveness in enforcement.
Non-discrimination The current EU proposal is for the non-discrimination principle to be applicable only to de jure discrimination; i.e., applicable only to discrimination contained in the legislation, not to how legislation is applied in individual cases. The extension of the national treatment principle to a possible MCF may mean that ânational treatmentâ has to be ensured for foreign firms (and their goods and services) vis-Ã -vis local firms in the domestic market. Such âequalityâ would only accentuate the inequality in market outcomes, since local firms are generally smaller than the large foreign firms and transnational corporations (TNCs).
Procedural fairness A key component of this principle is the guarantee of rights of access to the system of appeal, including right to reasoned final decision providing detailed grounds on which such decisions were based, and the right of parties to be heard. The concern is that developing countries with dissimilar legal systems to developed countries, or with insufficient resources will run the risk of not meeting the requisite standard of procedural fairness. Notions of fundamental fairness differ among legal systems and political and legal cultures, and there is as yet no broad consensus on the meaning of procedural fairness in the context of competition law enforcement.
4.2 Hard core cartels
The EU has insisted on the regulation of hard core cartels in the proposed multilateral competition framework, and an obligation at national level for the enforcement of this prohibition. A fundamental problem with this proposal is that there is as yet no generally accepted definition of hard core cartels. Moreover, the assumption that all hard core cartels have adverse impacts for all countries in all markets at all stages of their development is questioned. The experience of some Asian countries in which cartelization was, for a time, an element of their industrial policies, challenges this assumption. In addition, nearly all developed countries have had exemptions (and continue to maintain some of them) on the basis of overriding economic or public interest grounds, or allow co-operation by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to countervail the market power of a dominant firm on the other side. Although the proponents envisage the possibility of allowing existing (and future) exemptions or exclusions, there has not been sufficient clarity on the scope of such exemptions/exclusions. Developing countries may not be able to define ex ante in their laws, which cartels would be exempted or excluded, and these exemptions and exclusions may change according to economic and socio-political exigencies. A multilateral obligation on hard core cartel prohibition will restrict the policy flexibility of developing countries.
4.3 Modalities for voluntary cooperation
In contrast to the other proposals for binding obligations, the proposals for modalities on co-operation (i.e. among countries) are non-binding in nature. Developing countries have questioned the rationale of developed countries in proposing merely voluntary modalities for cooperation, whilst insisting on binding obligations for other aspects. Binding obligations in the WTO assumed in respect of domestic competition policy will clearly weigh more heavily on the developing countries. In contrast, best endeavour clauses on co-operation serve little purpose for developing countries, which would require much assistance in their enforcement efforts.
4.4 The special needs of developing countries
Developing countries have raised the importance of their need to take certain policy measures affecting trade and competition, in line with their national developmental needs and objectives. These include measures such as those taken:
Other issues include
5. Options at Cancun
In the preparations for the Cancun Ministerial Conference, three options for a decision on competition policy were put forward by the Chair of the Working Group. The first option is to start negotiations on a binding multilateral agreement on competition. The second is to have a decision on modalities for a framework for cooperation in the WTO, without any binding rules (termed the âsoft agreementâ approach). The third is for the continuation of the clarification process in the Working Group. The first option is, of course, that preferred by the proponents of the multilateral competition framework. The third option has been put forward by a number of developing countries, which have serious concerns regarding the implications of the MCF in the WTO.
Whilst the second option of a âsoft agreementâ appears to be a formulation designed to strike a compromise between the first and the third options, it raises serious concerns that this may be a means by which the first option is re-introduced through the back door. The history of GATT and WTO negotiations demonstrate that a fairly innocuous proposal is often put forward as a means of gaining agreement, in order to push through the real objective of the proponents. The mandate for negotiating the TRIPS Agreement, which developed countries contrived to infer from the Punta del Este Ministerial Declaration of 1986, is a good illustration. Furthermore, if the real intention is to develop non-binding rules or guidelines, it would be far more constructive to consider how the UN Set of Principles and Rules could be implemented in the context of UNCTAD, rather than duplicating the effort in the WTO.
6. Conclusion
There is not a convincing case for a multilateral set of binding rules to govern the competition policies and laws of countries. There are justified grounds for serious concern if such an agreement were to be located within the WTO, as it is likely to be skewed in a manner inappropriate for the developing country interests.
The EU's objectives for a MCF to provide âeffective opportunity for competitionâ in the local market for foreign firms, by applying "WTO core principles" would affect the needed flexibility for developing countries to define their appropriate model of competition policy and law. As stated in a communication by the EU, a WTO Agreement would help "lock Members into these principles", thus "limiting the possibility of formal discriminatory treatment at a later point in time". For countries without a competition framework, acceptance of the national treatment principle would thus deny them of the possibility of such measures in the future.
There is also the requirement for "explicit consensus" on the modalities of negotiations. As previously mentioned, there is little common understanding on the elements clarified by the Working Group, much less an explicit consensus on the modalities of negotiations.
Developing countries have explicitly voiced their objections to the start of negotiations on a MCF. At several recent regional meetings (the AU Conference of African Ministers of Trade in Mauritius, the Dhaka Declaration Conference of Least Developed Countries and the Meeting of ACP Ministers in Brussels), Trade Ministers of developing countries have clearly stated their unwillingness to start negotiations on agreements on competition and other new issues in the WTO.
More recently, in a communication to the Ministerial Conference, the group of Least-developed countries (LDCs) together with 15 other countries (Botswana, China, Cuba, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, Uganda, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe) have made clear that they are in favour of a decision that would continue the clarification process in the Working Group, as opposed to the start of negotiations, on the new issues. The communication from these 40 developing countries also puts forward proposed text, which sets forth these Membersâ views on the elements that require further clarification with regard to the new issues. The communication is a criticism of the process and content of the draft text of the Cancun Ministerial Declaration. The developing countries state that the parts of the draft Ministerial Declaration dealing with the new issues, whilst indicating 2 options for the decision on the new issues, still provides a âdistorted viewâ in that the Annexes to the draft Ministerial Declaration reflect only the views of the proponents of the new issues. Thus, the communication seeks to provide a proper reflection of the views of those Members which favour the continuation of the clarificatory process, by putting forward a listing of issues that require further clarification in the respective Working Groups.
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Blizzard Bike Club - Fort St. John, BC
Courtesy Pat Ferris
August 23, 2007
Colter Young was the Baldonnel time trial winner, Thursday night, with a time of 25:22 minutes. Roger St. Jean was second at 27:00 and Richard Wood third at 28:27. Jolea Bilodeau was 4th at 29:24. Barb Polehoykie and Terry Stone tied for 5th at 29:29.
Bob Andrews was 6th at 29:36, Kendra Young 29:46 (Personal Best) , Ken Nix 29:49, Sandra MacDonald 30:12, Adam Bilodeau 30:37, Simon Andrews 31:05, Floyd Polehoykie 31:37, Owen Giebelhaus 31:58 and Marie Young 32:20.
There is a busy weekend coming up for the Blizzards. Locally there is a Sunday Montney road race at 10:00 am with the start at the Montney Store.
There will be a squad of Blizzards going to the Provincial Road Championships in Lacombe, Alberta, Sunday. Stephen Ferris, Jolea Bilodeau and Colter Young will try to add more medals to the Blizzard's total of 39.
Five Blizzards will be doing the tough Penticton Ironman, Sunday. Irvin Tang, Kathryn Fairweather, Darren Guliov and Ann and Brian Hurst will be doing the 2.5 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run under the Okanagan heat. Dawson Creekers' Jane and Dan Dagasso and Trevor Kolkea will also be competing with 2200 competitors from 28 countries. You can follow them at www.ironman.ca as they compete.
Wim Kok should be finishing the 1200 km Paris ˆBrest-Paris in France, today. Follow him at website: www.paris-brest-paris.org/EN/index.php
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