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Artist: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Album: Here
In the panorama of genres, "folk music" is one of the more interesting ones, namely because there is no clear definition for it. There are similarities of parts, but the true key to folk music's mysterious heart lies within the words that compose the term: folk music is the music of the people, the ever-elusive common man, arising wherever the people gather. Like fairytales, folk songs have a familiar sense of storytelling; once the words are spoken there's a sense of continuity, of familiarity with what has always been sung. Also like fairytales, folk songs are firmly entrenched within the concept of oral tradition. This is the music of firepits and families, and tells the story of the everyman trudging through this similar, yet often surprising world.
With this in mind, the concept of new folk music almost seems to be an anomaly. Yet Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros weave a new tapestry of folk songs with the ingenuous pluck of children on their album Here. In fact there is a sense of play and experimentation throughout, a lightheartedness that can be found in the range of instruments they use – from a didgeridoo in "Man on Fire" to the clanking shepherd's bells of "Mayla" – and how they play those instruments – for example stroking instead of plucking guitar strings in "Child." Two of the songs on the album even flirt with reggae and island influences; "One Love to Another" and "Mayla" both possess a meandering, relaxed mood contained by a characteristically regular rhythm and percussion.
Some of the most successful songs deal with religious themes. "I Don't Wanna Pray" is a kind of agnostic anthem, celebrating a spiritual connection via life itself. The song is rich with folk music cues, including snaps, claps, and a banjo that adds a tuneful riverboat vibrancy. The melody at times becomes much like a spiritual itself, further turning the theme of the song into a tangible characteristic. "Dear Believer" discusses the personal pursuit of enlightenment with a warm, full sound and vocals reminiscent of 60s folk. Yet despite the washboard and the rich choral swell, this is a song which comes across as surprisingly dark upon a closer listen. There is a sense of the desperado, the lone gunman seeking his quarry, as Sharpe sings "paradise has its hunter." This unusual juxtaposition enriches the song in just the right amount, making a mellow tune suddenly ominous, and worth repeated investigation.
The songs range in the types of folk sound they pursue, from the slow 70s folk of "Fiya Wata" where every phrase sung punctuates an emotional progression that the music echoes, to the 60s big band folk of "That's What's Up" which gives a sincere and inescapably optimistic sing-along rollicker, replete with tambourines, whistles and shouts. Not every story will instantly appeal to every listener, but the common man will find some common ground in at least some of the tales told Here.


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The 27-yr.-old Mexican manufacturing plant of Italian electrical-equipment manufacturer Bticino, in Queretaro, manufactures more than 100 different product families. With more than 600 employees, the plant is "constantly innovating and introducing new designs," says engineering manager Daniel Vega. To keep up with production demands and manufacture products with newly added functions, the company dedicates at least five percent of its budget to research and development.
"We are als upgrading our manufacturing processes to keep pace with the new-product designs," Vega says.
The latest such upgrade: a 600-kN Kyori ANEX 60II mechanical press outfitted with a Kyori GX gripper-feed unit—ideal for feeding parts such as narrow-pitch connectors—and two Bihler in-die welding units. Bticino employs the press line, installed in February 2013, to stamp complex connectors at 250 strokes/min. Key press specifications: 300-mm shut height and 80-mm shut-height adjustment; 1100- by 600-mm bolster area; 840- by 120-mm bed opening.
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Temple of Castor and Pollux
Temple vowed after the battle of Lake Regillus in 496 BCE
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The Temple of Castor and Pollux (Templum Castorum or Aedes Castoris) introduced the Greek cult of the dioscuri into Rome, in its very heart, the Forum Romanum, where it is located between Basilica Julia across the Vicus Tuscus, the Temple of Divus Julius, the Arch of Augustus and the Temple of Vesta.
The foundation of the temple is closely related to an ancient myth. The last, deposed king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, and his allies, the Latins, waged war on the infant Roman Republic. It came to a battle near the Lake Regillus in c. 496 BCE. The legend says that two able, but unknown horsemen helped the losing the Roman troops to victory, and immediately afterwards they were seen watering their horses at the Spring of Juturna in the Forum Romanum. They were identified as the Dioscuri, and the dictator, Aulus Postumius Albinus, vowed to build a temple in their honour. The temple was finished by his son in 484 BC.
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As many other buildings on the Forum Romanum, the temple has suffered destruction, looting and ruin since Antiquity. Today the podium survives without the facing, and of the temple proper remain only three columns and a piece of the architrave.
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In 2002-2003 the world produced about 44 gigatons of CO2e (Carbon Dioxide equivalent) gasses per year. Fast forward 10 years and the latest UNEP report shows that in 2012, we emitted about 50 GT, a whopping 13.6 percent increase, and this despite a major economic recession.
This is a big, big problem.
44 GT, as it turns out, is the magic number we need to achieve by 2020 to avoid catastrophic climate change, which is defined as a greater than 2 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures over pre-industrial levels. But looking at the current trajectory of growth of carbon emissions, if we were to do nothing and let business proceed as usual, we could hit 58 GT or more of CO2e emissions per year by 2020, leading to a 3-degree, 4-degree or even a 5-degree trajectory.
I should mention that the record-breaking year we just experienced here in the U.S. — a year of heat waves, drought, forest fires, flooding, and let's not forget Superstorm Sandy — came as a result of just 1-degree C temperature rise. A 2-degree world would not be just double the number of extreme weather events like Sandy, it would mean exponentially greater and more varied impacts. And as the Arctic permafrost melts, it would release vast stores of methane, a gas 25 times more powerful than CO2. This would lock in runaway climate change, transforming the very fabric of life on Earth.
Virtually all of the world's governments have agreed that we need to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees C compared to pre-industrial levels. So beginning in 2010, the United Nations has commissioned annual research to estimate the 2020 "emissions gap" — the gap between the emissions reductions needed to avoid irreversible impacts of climate change and the reductions pledged by world governments in the COP ("Conference of Parties") climate talks.
Next week, the 18th such conference begins, and with these latest findings, one can hope that governments including the U.S. (which has historically been a significant blocker in the climate talks) will see this looming eight-year horizon and get scared enough to increase their ambition for an effective climate treaty.
Currently, world governments participating in the U.N. COP, are pledging to reduce emissions in the ballpark of 3-4 GT by 2020. But based on the math, we need reductions on the order of 14 GT. In other words, we're not even close. By 2050, we need to be at 20 GT, and by 2100 down to 10 GT.
This is why a slew of reports have been issued, including this dire report by the World Bank, warning that we're on track for 4 degree C temperature rise by the end of the century if nothing is done. It's quite hard to imagine what that world would look like, but the World Bank, an organization not typically known for hyperbole, describes the consequences in near apocalyptic terms.
There is some good news. The UNEP report, led by 43 science teams in 22 countries, demonstrates that we can solve this problem using existing technologies and commonsense efficiency regulations. For example, short-term investments in the energy efficiency of buildings can return 2 GT in CO2 cuts by 2020, and 9 GT in cuts by 2050. Investing in public transportation, fuel efficiency measures, and land planning that encourages cycling and walking can return another 2 GT. Largely underutilized policies that protect forests — which act as carbon sinks — are low-cost ways to avoid 2 GT or more of further greenhouse gas emissions. Ramping up clean renewable sources of energy could contribute another 2-4 GT in savings.
So it's not a technological problem we face; it's a political problem. It's time we start demanding that our leaders step up to the challenge, put their partisan bickering aside, and get to work on the biggest challenge our civilization has ever faced.


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In Audi-speak Avant means Estate, which means Wagon, which means hauler. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Audi S4 will haul both your stuff and ass, but does its price make it worth hauling out your check book?
Yesterday's silly snack food themed 1994 Chevy Caprice may have left you hungering, seeing as it was infused with delicious Cheeto-y goodness. It may also have left you with pangs of a different sort, those that come with a car perhaps lacking in taste.
That sort of yen can only be satisfied by a correspondingly low price, which 86% of you felt yesterday's Chevy also lacked, meaning that it is unlikely anyone will be getting Frito-Lay'd in it any time soon.
From cheesy orange to Imola yellow, today's 2004 Audi S4 Avant stands in stark contrast to yesterday's Chevy. First off, it's relatively stock, and secondly it's a freaking V8-six speed AWD wagon. Secondarily, it also a pure expression of serious German engineering, and not a clown car.
The first S4 - the Ur-S4 to you and me - was a derivation of the mid-sized (then Audi's largest) C platform, and nominally replaced the outgoing 200 turbo model. Shuffle ahead a few years and the S4 honorific has moved down a notch, and up in performance potential.
Early A4 versions of the S4 model were powered by a rabid twin-turbo 2.7-litre V6, while the B6 - like today's car - shunned both the sextet and being blown by having a naturally aspirated 4.2-litre V8 hanging out over its front axle line. In this Imola yellow job that's backed up by a Getrag six-speed manual, and of course Audi's renowned all-wheel drive system.
Power from the modestly sized eight was a factory claimed 340-bhp, and it also packed a lag-free application of 302 lb-ft of twist. Reining in all that hairy chested power is s set of massive ventilated discs - 13.58-inch front/11.81-inch in back, and those are wrapped in Avus III six-spoke wheels.
Audi is not just known for their venerable Quattro drivetrains but also for having some of the nicest and best designed interiors on the planet. This 80K mile Avant is no exception, and it looks to have held up pretty damn well well.
The car has almost every convenience and luxury feature you could want short of a bidet, and the ad does not mention any faults in any of that fancy pants equipment. The exterior too seems flaw-free and looking just as mean-ass cool as it did the day it left Ingolstadt.
In fact the only real issue here - the fly in the ointment, the monkey in the wrench as it were - is the admission that the car has been dropped. The seller does note that the camber has been adjusted so that it doesn't look as balls-deep dumb as those stanced cars but still, it's been messed with.
Look, unless your name is something like Hans Arschgeige and you've got one of those Audi Factory Certified Suspension Technician tramp stamps above your ass crack, you shouldn't ever monkey with an S4's springy bits. I may be going out on a limb here, but I think the factory yabbos have a better sense of how to make these things work the best.
That of course may just be a drop in the bucket compared to this Avant's aksing price. The ebay ad has a Buy It Now set at $16,500, and now it's up to you to say whether or not seller should get that. What do you say, is this Imola Avant worth that kind of scratch? Or, is this highway hauler priced not to move?
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|Discharge Frame Width–Stationary, in. (cm) †
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|Truck Cab to Axle, in. (cm)
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|Capacity, Struct Level, cu. ft. (m3)
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|Mixing Capacity, cu. ft. (m3)
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|Mixing Capacity, bushels (liters)
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|Tub Bottom, in. (cm) *
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|Auger Bottom, in. (cm) *
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|Ends, in. (cm)
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|Upper Sides
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|Lower Auger Drive Shaft, in. (cm)
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|Rotor Drive Shaft, in. (cm)
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|Stationary—Electric (Hay Processor) Horsepower (kilowatts)
|50 (36.77)
|Stationary—Electric (Standard) Horsepower (kilowatts)
|40 (29.42)
|Recommended PTO Horsepower (kilowatts)
|100 (74.57)
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Not sure if that was a rental or if he owned it. Either way, it doesn't sound like he was doing all that bad financially.
So many Republican members of Congress are cutting funding for 9/11 first responders for no good reason. This same thing happened years ago, and it took some public shaming by Jon Stewart and the negative publicity that followed to reverse their decision.Now it's happened again, and Stewart personally goes to the capitol to confront them:He's convinced one person, let's hope the rest follow.
Michael G. Stone, a friend of Marquez [the man who bought the assault rifles for the San Bernardino shooters] ... remembered Marquez had said something at a party months ago that took on a new light after the attack last week."He said something along the lines of, 'There's a lot of Muslims in our own backyard, just ready to go haywire and attack,'"
Of course he wouldn't shoot a woman who was there for an abortion. That would terminate the pregnancy, which would be bad. By shooting up random other people in the clinic, he scares the pregnant women away from the baby-killers so that they end up carrying to term....I'm not sure if that was sarcasm, or an actual glimpse inside his head. >_>
Tries to figure out what it would mean to terminally punish a woman seeking abortion but spare her unborn child - the methods I can imagine belong in mythology, not morality.
I didn't see him volunteering to have the fetus sewn under the skin of his calf, if that's the one you're thinking of...
Link to the article about the situation with Russian MoFA comparing Poland to ISIS:http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/232553,Russia-compares-Polish-authorities-to-%E2%80%98terrorists%E2%80%99-in-monument-row-The article isn't entirely accurate, though. The monument dismantled wasn't, AFAIK, commemorating Red Army soldiers, but one particular Red Army general. One who, aside from fighting against Nazi forces, also took part in oppressing Poles...
Without particularly wanting to defend Russia's claim here, I do think there is perhaps something worth discussing within it.The Islamic State is rightfully criticised for their destruction of historic sites. Their justification for doing so is that such sites are generally considered blasphemous; in essence, they offend the members of the Islamic State deeply.Yet to give some examples from the US relatively recently there have been calls (sometimes successfully) to remove statues on the basis that some people consider the people they depict offensive.Now, there are differences of course; the Islamic State destroys historical sites while the statues in the US are generally only removed and, as is the case with the Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson statues, may well simply be re-sited (although that does rather leave the question as to what happens if someone finds them offensive at their new location open). Moreover while the Islamic State are destroying historical sites most of the calls for removal have been of relatively modern statues depicting historical figures which I think is quite clear and defined difference.But what if the two cross over? There are statues which are of historical relevance in their own right which depict historical figures who had beliefs and committed acts that some would find offensive today (and as each year passes there will be more). Even if they are not destroyed would it be right to remove them and hide them from public view?
In other news from Poland - tens of thousands protested today against our new government:http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/232640,Fifty-thousand-protest-in-Warsaw-against-ruling-partyhttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35083561?SThisFBPersonally, I applaud this. The situation *is* serious.
Can your elaborate a bit? I'm very interested in this news out of Poland, but I don't know a lot about the Polish government or its process. Some of the disquiet seems to be over the selection of judges, yes? How are they normally selected? (My apologies if the articles explained it pretty well--I skimmed through them and should read them more fully later tonight)
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On 21 January 2008, news broke of a major operation by Turkish police against an ultra-nationalist network known as Ergenekon. Commentators have since argued that a number of political assassinations – including the assassinations of a priest, Father Andrea Santoro in Trabzon (2006), Hrant Dink in Istanbul (2007) and a judge in Ankara in 2006 – originally assumed to be unconnected are in fact linked to leading Ergenekon members.
The name Ergenekon (which comes from an old Turkish legend about the origins of the Turkish people in Central Asia) was made public in 1997 in a book by journalists Can Dundar and Celal Kazadagli. In the book, entitled Ergenekon – The State inside the State, a former Turkish naval general (Erol Mutercimler) tells the authors that he had first learned in 1971 of the existence of "an organization above the Government, the General Staff and the bureaucracy. It was founded on the initiative of the CIA and the Pentagon after 27 May [1960, the first military coup]."
Mutercimler also told Dundar that he himself started to investigate the group. "There were generals, security personnel, professors, journalists, businessmen, average people inside it," he discovered. "Small units that we nowadays call "gangs" are used as triggers by the larger organization called Ergenekon." Dundar notes that such entities were set up in other NATO countries as well during the Cold War, though Turkey's was never dismantled.
Operation Ergenekon
A serious investigation against Ergenekon only began in the summer of 2007 when munitions and weapons were found in a house in the Umraniye district of Istanbul. Because of a press embargo, little was known about the investigation – until 21 January 2008, when 37 people were arrested on suspicion of belonging to an ultra-nationalist network (Bianet).
In March 2008, journalist Samil Tayyar, Ankara correspondent of the Star daily newspaper, published Operation Ergenekon, an account of the deeds and ideology of this ultra-nationalist network. In an interview on 2 March, Tayyar explained his findings:
"Ergenekon is a structure targeting the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the EU process, using all kinds of illegal methods to reach their aims."
In his book, Tayyar also claims high-ranking generals attempted to organise coups in 2003 and 2004 against the AKP government.
"The normalization process which began when in 2004 the coup (planning) generals retired from the Turkish General Staff created a more secure environment for Turkish democracy. But when the opposition on the anti-AKP and anti-EU axis lost hope for a coup or a military warning to the government, they went underground from 2005 onwards."
Tayyar alleges that many of the political assassinations of recent years are linked to Ergenekon. The group's strategy, he claims, was not only to organize attacks against the government, liberal intellectuals and minority leaders, but also to attack Kemalist newspapers and intellectuals – and then blame Islamists.
Oktay Yildirim, a retired general whose fingerprints, according to Tayyar, were found on grenades discovered in the Umraniye raids, allegedly left detailed information about Ergenekon's structure on his computer. The data led to more raids (in Bursa and Eskisehir) and the collection of further information. To date, 50 persons have been arrested, including former military personnel, nationalist lawyers, politicians and journalists.
According to Tayyar, the investigation would not have been possible without collaboration between civil and military forces. In the interview with Sunday's Zaman on 2 March, he underlined that within the armed forces the unease about Ergenekon had become stronger:
"I think (Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar) Buyukanit, who will retire this August, indirectly contributed to the operation against Ergenekon… This is why there is a very serious reaction from the nationalists toward Buyukanit; they are not happy about his impartiality. Actually when you look at transcripts of the telephone conversations of the Ergenekon detainees, you can see the heavy cursing in them against Buyukanit."
On 21 March 2008, seven more persons were arrested, including Dogu Perincek, chairperson of the Workers' Party, Ilhan Selcuk, a columnist at the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and Kemal Alemdaroglu, a former rector of Istanbul University.
Who are the people charged with forming a terrorist organization with the aim of overthrowing the current government?
Veli Kucuk
One prominent suspect is Veli Kucuk. Kucuk is widely considered by the press to be a former leader of JITEM (Jandarma Istihbarat ve Terorle Mucadele), the Gendarmerie Intelligence and Anti-Terror unit, which played a role in the fight against the Kurdish PKK in South East Anatolia.
It has never been officially acknowledged that JITEM even exists. However, Kucuk himself was quoted in Today's Zaman on 30 January 2008 as acknowledging his own role as "founder of JITEM." Kucuk was active in South Eastern Turkey during the war against the PKK.
In an interview with Today's Zaman on 30 January 2008, informant Abdulkadir Aygan, who was allegedly involved in JITEM activities for many years, talked about Kucuk's role as JITEM commander in the years 1990-91:
"JITEM's headquarters was in a large building with two floors. All personnel in the building used to wear civilian clothes. The vehicles used in official service had civilian plates; however, these were the gendarmerie's registered vehicles. It is certain that he [Kucuk] was one of the founders of the organization. However, his assertion that he founded JITEM alone is not accurate. I think that he is trying to protect the masterminds and prove that he is loyal to them."
JITEM also features in at least two official reports. One, prepared in January 1997 by Kutlu Savas, special rapporteur of the Prime Minister's Office on the Susurluk scandal, exposed connections between the security forces, politicians and organized crime in operations against the PKK. The Savas report argued that JITEM existed:
"Even if the Gendarmerie's high command continues to deny it, the existence of JITEM is an unavoidable fact. It may be the case that JITEM no longer exists, that it was disbanded, that its personnel was transferred to other units, that the documents were archived. There are, however, a number of agents who served in JITEM, who are alive today. The existence of JITEM was, moreover, no mistake. JITEM was formed out of necessity."
(Bandenrepublik Türkei? Der Susurluk-Bericht des Ministerialinspektors Kutlu")
In 2002, Veli Kucuk wrote on the website www.ozturkler.com ("the true Turks"), that "the way of the great Turkish nation is through Ergenekon." The site was maintained by Sedat Peker who Turkish media claim had served with Kucuk in the gendarmerie in Kocaeli in the 1990s. In 2007, Peker was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for involvement in organised crime. He is currently in prison and was recently interrogated by the prosecutor in the Ergenekon investigation.
Many Turkish papers also reported that the investigations have revealed a plan to assassinate Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. According to daily Posta, Veli Kucuk had tried to arrange – through the contacts of a former army sergeant, Muhammed Yuce – for a hit man to target Pamuk.
Lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz is another key figure in the nationalist movement in Turkey, a revered figure among nationalists and founder of the Great Union of Lawyers (Buyuk Hukukcular Birligi), a right-wing NGO. In January 2008, he was arrested on charges of belonging to "a terrorist organization" with the aim of promoting instability.
According to Bianet, Kerincsiz
"[…] first came to public attention when he filed a complaint to stop a conference entitled 'The Ottoman Armenians in the Period of the Declining Empire' scheduled for May 2005. The conference finally took place on 23 September, but only because the organisers were able to circumvent the ban by hosting the conference at a venue not mentioned in the ban."
Kerincsiz used the sections of the Penal Code that curtail freedom of expression, such as Art. 301, to sue journalists, authors and academics. Ioannis Grigoriadis described this strategy in a paper in October 2006:
"Kerincsiz skilfully exploited the remaining illiberal traits of the Turkish criminal legislation, as well as the failure of judicial authorities to readjust the interpretation and implementation of existing legislation on liberal lines… Kerincsiz targeted an increasing number of Turkish intellectuals who personified the liberal democratic face of republican Turkey, as well as minorities"
Kerincsiz and the Great Union of Lawyers were responsible for most of the trials based on article 301. These included the trials of:
Kerincsiz also staged several demonstrations in front of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, demanding its expulsion from Turkey. The prosecution claims that many of these actions were closely coordinated with Ergenekon to prepare the right political climate for targeted assassinations.
Sevgi Erenerol and Kemal Kerincsiz
Sevgi Erenerol, also arrested in the Ergenekon case, is the spokesperson for the Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate, and sister of the current primate, Papa Eftim IV. The Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate is a strange organization: it was founded by ethnic Greeks who supported the Turkish side during the War of Turkish Independence in 1922 to oppose the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Istanbul (this, before most of the Greek population of Turkey was exchanged with the Turkish population of Greece under the Lausanne Treaty).
The church is something of a family enterprise: Sevgi's grandfather was the first patriarch. After the population exchange in 1924 – which forced all Anatolian Greeks to leave Turkey – and following the move of the Erenerol family to Istanbul, the church has no community of believers to speak of, aside from the family itself. This has not stopped the church from accumulating wealth (with support from the authorities), however.
On 30 January 2008, Hurriyet wrote about "a patriarchate without community, but real estate". The Church currently owns three churches and many buildings in the centre of Istanbul seized from the Greek Orthodox Patriarch. Mustafa Akyol wrote on 2 February 2008 that the "mini-size but super-rich Turkish Orthodox Church has become a devotee of the most radical version of its founding ideology."
According to daily Milliyet, the Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul served as the place for regular Ergenekon meetings. Erenerol has herself been linked to the extreme right for many years. She was once a candidate of the nationalist MHP for Parliament.
Dogu Perincek
In March 2008 police raided the offices of the small radical nationalist Worker's Party (IP). IP's leader, Dogu Perincek, was arrested on charges of "being a senior member of a terrorist organization and obtaining and possessing classified documents" (Today's Zaman).
According to Taraf daily, material was found at IP's headquarters which included detailed descriptions of the security protocol for Chief of General Staff Yasar Buyukanit's visits to two cities, as well as detailed drawings of court room buildings in Ankara. This is seen by some as evidence that Ergenekon was plotting further assassinations – to later be blamed on "Islamists". Perincek denies the allegations. He suggested that the Ergenekon investigation constituted an attempt to "exhaust the Turkish Army" (Today's Zaman) with unfounded allegations.
The number of individuals implicated in the Ergenekon investigation is growing by the day. The list of those arrested reads like a who's who of extreme right-wing nationalists, hard-line Kemalists, retired military, mobsters and nationalist intellectuals.
Ergun Poyraz: his bestselling book "Children of Moses: Tayyip and Emine" suggests that Prime Minister Erdogan's rose to power as part of a "Zionist conspiracy." He wrote a similar book about Abdullah Gul. As reported by Today's Zaman on 31 March 2008, a CD found at the nationalist Workers Party (IP) headquarters revealed that Poyraz received payments from JITEM.
Fikri Karadag: a retired military officer, today officially leader of the ultranationalist Association for the Union of Patriotic Forces
Muzaffer Tekin: arrested earlier in the context of an investigation into the assassination of State Council Judge Mustafa Yucel Ozbilgin in Ankara in May 2006 (four other judges were wounded in the attack). The assassination triggered anti-AKP demonstrations: Kemalist media had claimed that the murder was the result of "Islamic fundamentalism".
Sedat Peker, Sami Hostan (also called "Sami the Albanian"), Ali Yasak ("Drej Ali") and other alleged ultranationalist mafia figures.
According to numerous newspaper reports (such as Stargundem on 26 January 2008), the current investigation has already revealed links between the Ergenekon group and the 2006 State Council attack. The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has received a photo in which retired general Veli Kucuk is seen with Alparslan Arslan, the murder suspect currently on trial in the State Council case. Phone calls between the two, from before the attack, have also allegedly been recorded.
According to a Bianet report on 6 March 2008, the Ergenekon gang is suspected of involvement in bomb attacks on the Cumhuriyet newspaper in 2006, as well as the murder of historian Necip Hablemitoglu in December 2002. Durmus Anucin, one of those arrested, has apparently told the prosecution that he and Ibrahim Cifti were responsible for Hablemitoglu's murder. Cifti was subsequently murdered himself. The hand grenades used in Ciftci's killing are reportedly of the same series as those discovered in the arsenal in Umraniye in 2007.
On 1 April 2008, Lale Sariibrahimoglu commented in Today's Zaman:
"Today, those linked to the Ergenekon gang come from every walk of life and are ultranationalists, anti-European and believe that democratic reforms have been threatening the state's traditional sovereignty at the expense of enlarging citizen sovereignty."
According to numerous newspaper reports, the group was preparing a series of bomb attacks aimed at stirring up chaos ahead of a planned coup against the government in 2009. This would have brought Turkey's democratisation process and EU accession negotiations to a precipitous end.
What is the significance of this investigation? For the optimists among Turkey's commentators, it offers a vital opportunity to finally get to the bottom of a series of never investigated crimes and to strengthen the rule of law. Pessimists note that what is visible today is only the tip of the iceberg and doubt that a full-fledged crackdown will ever take place. As Radikal's Gokhan Ozgun notes, the Ergenekon gang is a large and dangerous formation, stretching beyond the limits of one's view of a "gang".
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LYBC, Inc. Reports Solid First Quarter Earnings
Posted on Monday, May 2, 2011 - 12:00pm
Lyons Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for The Lyons National Bank, reported operating results for the three month period ended March 31, 2011. Net income for the first quarter of 2011 was $1.008 million, representing diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.11, as compared to net income of $1.003 million and $1.17 diluted EPS for the first quarter of 2010. The 2011 per share amount includes the impact of $2.9 million of convertible preferred stock sold to accredited investors in the first quarter of 2010. Return on average shareholder equity, while remaining well above both the average for all New York banks and the national average, fell to 12.61% from 13.25% at March 31, 2010 and 13.16% at December 31, 2010. The diluted book value per share, after adjusting for the convertible preferred stock sold in the first quarter of 2010, fell to $35.08 from $35.66 at March 31, 2010.
Robert A. Schick, President and CEO stated. "We are pleased with our continued solid earnings trend. We are equally pleased with our continued growth in assets, capital adequacy, deposits and market share. Lagging is our growth in loans, which we attribute to an economy that is growing very slowly and a decline in agricultural loan demand, possibly due to this year's weather related issues."
Total assets at March 31, 2011 reached a record high of $527.7 million; a 12.0% increase year-over-year and a 2.8% increase from December 31, 2010. Total loans grew to $312.7 million at March 31, 2011, an 8.5% year-over-year increase. When compared to December 31, 2010, loan growth is flat. Deposit growth remains strong, with total deposits of $464.1 million at March 31, 2011; a year-over-year increase of 13.4% and 9.5% from December 31, 2010. The Bank's newest office in Seneca County is the primarily driver for this growth. At March 31, 2011, deposits at that branch office totaled $33.6 million.
The lack of meaningful loan growth negatively affected the Company's net interest margin, which fell to 3.55% (on a tax equivalent basis) at March 31, 2011 as compared to 4.06% at March 31, 2010 and 3.66% at December 31, 2010.
Net loan charge-offs to average loans fell to 0.03% at March 31, 2011, compared to 0.10% at March 31, 2010 and 0.14% at December 31, 2010. Non-performing loans increased in the first quarter to 1.93% of period-end loans as compared to 1.79% at December 31, 2010 and 0.68% at March 31, 2010. The Company's allowance for credit losses increased to $6.6 million or 2.10% of period-end loans at March 31, 2011 from $6.4 million and 2.06% at December 31, 2010 and $5.1 million and 1.78% at March 31, 2010.
Noninterest income totaled $1.3 million, an increase of $158,000 or 13.6% from the same period last year. The increase is primarily due to increases in service charges on deposit accounts, reflecting the strong growth in core deposits year over year. Noninterest expenses totaled $3.9 million, an increase of $383,000 or10.9% over the same period last year. This increase is primarily due to expenses relating to the opening of the new branch office in Seneca County, including salaries, benefits, occupancy expenses, and FDIC insurance.
At the April 19, 2011 board meeting, the Directors of Lyons Bancorp, Inc. declared a dividend of $0.35 per share, payable on July 15, 2011 to shareholders of record as of June 30, 2011. This is an increase of $0.02 per share or 6.1% over the prior quarter, and equates to an annual dividend of $1.40 per share, yielding 3.11% based on the stock price at the close of business on April 19, 2011.
Lyons Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for The Lyons National Bank. The Lyons National Bank is a community bank with offices in Lyons, Clyde, Macedon, Newark, Ontario, and Wolcott in Wayne County; Jordon in Onondaga County; Geneva in Ontario County; Penn Yan in Yates County; and Seneca Falls in Seneca County. Subsidiaries of The Lyons National Bank are Lyons Realty Associates Corp. and Lyons Life Agency, Inc.


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By studying Lafayette Park: First Amendment Rights on the President's Doorstep, students will learn how one small group of determined women used Lafayette Park's proximity to the White House to fight for their rights as citizens under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Their dramatic protests helped bring about the adoption of the 19th Amendment, which gave women all over America the right to vote. They also provided a model for many other demonstrators, who used the stage of Lafayette Park to present their causes to the president. Those interested in learning more will find much useful information on the internet.
President's Park
President's Park/Citizens Soapbox
Heritage Education Services, National Park Service
National Archives and Records Administration/Charters of Freedom
National Archives and Records Administration, Teaching With Documents
National Constitution Center
Sewall-Belmont House
Library of Congress, American Memory/Women's History
For further reading
11Linda R. Monk, Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, 3rd ed. (Alexandria, VA: Close Up Publishing, 2000), front matter, n.p.


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Opinion Page Editor Eric Grunder's March 10 column, "Questioning the standardized testing creed," was interesting but not insightful.
Opinion Page Editor Eric Grunder's March 10 column, "Questioning the standardized testing creed," was interesting but not insightful.
Grunder made the classic mistake of extrapolating from a positive experience to a universal outcome.
In this case, he correctly concludes that rote memorization does not automatically lead to creative thinking ability.
He had a very positive experience in his classroom reading assignments, but consider: Does he really think that he was asked to read to "average" classrooms or "below average" classrooms?
Even if his classrooms are indicative of "average," how does he explain these facts: "Fewer than half of the New York state students who graduated from high school in 2009 were prepared for college or a career" (N.Y. Times, 2011).
The US News/World Report indicated in 2012 that more than 75 percent of high school graduates had remedial education issues. A simple Google search will yield numerous examples of these statistics - these are based on huge sample sizes and are the reason why standardized testing was begun a decade or so ago.
While you cannot learn critical thinking skills through rote memorization, you also cannot learn critical thinking skills if you have inadequate reading skills or knowledge of arithmetic.
I may not be smarter if I know that 12 times 12 is 144, but I am able to process information more quickly if I know that and other simple facts - e.g., who is Abraham Lincoln?
If anyone knows how we can evaluate factual knowledge across students without testing, please let me know.
Larry King
To the letter writer who claims "In Canada, no one dies due to the lack of health care," and "Americans die every day due to the lack of health care:"
I would suggest the writer pack his bags and move to Canada.
Robert Hill
As a diehard fan, late last week I made the decision to hop on Interstate 5 and drive south to the Big West Conference basketball tournament held in Anaheim.
For many years I had wanted to make this trip; this season seemed like the perfect time to do it.
University of the Pacific's Tigers will be moving to the West Coast Conference next year, thus making this my last chance to see the Tigers play in this event.
My trip was rewarded with priceless memories of the Tigers winning late Friday night in a nail-biter against Cal Poly.
Then on Saturday, as I stormed the court after UOP defeated UC Irvine, winning the 2013 Championship, the sight of pure joy on the faces of the players and coaches as they celebrated near mid-court left me speechless.
Thank you to all the players, Pep Band and Tigers Dancers for making my weekend one I'll never forget.
Finally, thanks to Bob Thomason for 25 years of top-notch, well-coached D1 basketball.
Good luck guys ... GO TIGERS!
Scott Maisch


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Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Royal Treatment Skull, 2016
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Shepard Fairey alias Obey was born in 1970 in Charleston, US.
He gets to know the universe of graphic design very early, at age 14, when he draws images to be printed on t-shirts and skateboards. He is influenced by the work of artists such as Andy Warhol or Russian artist Alexander Rodtchenko.
In the late 1980s, Obey and a group of friends from the Rhode Island School of Design create a series of stickers and posters with the figure of wrestler Andre the Giant and stick thousands of them on the walls of American cities. Andre the Giant Has a Posse is one of the first and most important "viral" Street Art campaigns, showing the ability and force of this new illegal means of expression.
His work became world famous during the U.S. presidential campaign in 2008, with the creation of the poster HOPE of Barack Obama that became an icon of the campaign. The Institute of contemporary art in Boston considered Obey as one of the best and most influential street artists of our time.


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Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique announced its 2012 women's Olympic squad Thursday following the conclusion of the selection trials in Quebec.
National champion Kristina Vaculik leads the squad along with Victoria Moors, Brittany Rogers, Dominique Pegg and Ellie Black. Jessica Savona and Madeline Gardiner are alternates.
Peng-Peng Lee, who suffered a torn ACL in May, will serve as team captain for Canada in London.
The Canadian women qualified a full team to the Olympic Games for the first time since 2004. National champion Nathan Gafuik earned the Canadian men's only berth.
External Link: Gymnastics Canada
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Hybrid Robotic-Welding Gun Adds to Automation Benefits
Custom contract manufacturers must be prepared for any job that comes through the door—no matter how comtplex or challenging. Don Kammerzell, owner of K-zell Metals, Inc., Phoenix, AZ, knows that firsthand.
One of the two robotic-welding cells operating at K-zell Metals—the company gained a full return on its automation investment within two years.
"We do the jobs that nobody else wants to do…or can't," Kammerzell says. "Everyone in the area knows that they can rely on us to work with almost any material and on almost any design." Among the firm's unique projects: fabricating horse-race starting gates, constructing limited-edition silicon-bronze playground sculptures and supplying components for military vehicles.
Robotic Welding a Competitive Advantage
In addition to custom-forming, laser-cutting and CNC press-brake equipment, K-zell Metals also operates a pair of robotic arc-welding cells that allow the company to create precise assemblies and maintain a competitive edge, compared to the days when it relied solely on semiautomatic arc welding.
According to Kammerzell, the robotic-welding cells have allowed the company to significantly increase throughput. It can produce as many as 5000 parts in a single run, while maintaining the same overhead.
K-zell outfitted each robotic-welding system with a hybrid air- and water-cooled robotic gas-metal-arc-welding (GMAW) gun, the Tregaskiss Tough Gun I.C.E (Integrated Cooling Enhancer). The hybrid design allows water circulation to the nozzle, keeping the front-end consumables running cooler and lasting longer. The design, says Kammerzell, allows K-zell Metals to easily switch from welding thick and thin parts without the hassle or downtime of changing out the entire gun.
Choosing the Right GMAW Gun
When welding thicker parts (1⁄4 in. or so), Benjamin explains, the weld-cell operator connects the I.C.E. gooseneck to an external water cooler within the cell. The addition of the water cooling allows the company to weld at the higher amperages required when welding thicker parts, or when welding for prolonged periods of time. When welding thinner parts (16 to 10 gauge typically), the operator changes over to an air-cooled gooseneck.
"I like the interchangeability of the air- and water-cooled necks," says Benjamin. "It allows us to run a wide variety of applications on the same robot, with the same power source and in the same cell. Plus, the gun features a quick-change neck, so we can swap them out with minimal downtime."
Benjamin also appreciates the safety and durability of the gun. "In the event of a crash," he explains, "the gun's safety features prevent it from becoming damaged."
To both Benjamin and Kammerzell, having equipment that can keep up with the unique demands of their customer base is non-negotiable. "Being a job shop, we never know if we are going to have 10 parts, one part or several hundred," Benjamin says. "Having a gun we can so easily swap out and maintain is a huge benefit."
Investing in Automation
When Kammerzell and his team decided to invest in robotic welding, the goal was to gain a 15- to 20-percent increase in productivity and reduce costs—for its customers and for themselves. It's exceeded those goals, while also focusing on delivering precise, repeatable parts to the welding cells.
"Having the robotic-welding cells has forced our laser and press-brake operations to be absolutely perfect, and they're automatically checked every day," Kammerzell explains. "Every part must be in spec in order to fit in the welding fixture—a built-in quality-control mechanism."The time, effort and labor needed to refine the company's robotic-weld operations, and the fabricating processes that feed parts to the cells, have paid off handsomely. Kammerzell notes that the firm received a full return on its automation investment within two years. MF
See also: Miller Electric Mfg. Co., Tregaskiss
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We already know that the FR-S is a fine sports car and baby hauler, but how well does it work as a pen? Fairly well, actually, as one owner found out.
The FR-S owner explains why turned tires into cursive with his pride and joy.
As part of a corporate team building exercise, I decided to produce an image of my company's logo (a cursive "T") - to demonstrate my "passion for driving results" (a corporate values statement) using only burnt rubber.
And this was his first try. Not bad for an "underpowered" little coupe.


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Obama senior strategist David Axelrod called into the 1:00 pm MSNBC hour to respond to McCain's latest TV ad. Having watched McCain campaign policy adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer defend it, Axelrod called in and said the latest ad is both "sophomoric" and "negative."
When asked about the ad's attempt to link Obama with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, Axelrod replied, "I think the most important reference in the ad was Britney Spears, because as it said in the statement, she has that song in a paraphrase 'Oops, he did it again!' Sen. McCain has been criticized in papers all over the country -- Factcheck.org -- for the tactics he has taken in the last several weeks, and the ads that he has run including one that blames Barack Obama for the energy crisis and so on."
He continued, "And in the words of USA Today yesterday, it's baloney! And the thing that is sad about it is that Sen. McCain entered this campaign as someone who was going to elevate the debate and talk about the future, and that is the reputation he had. And instead, we get some very familiar tactics. And it makes you wonder who is running the campaign, who is making the decisions, who is behind all of this. This isn't the John McCain we expect."
When told the McCain campaign's charge that it was the Obama camp who ran the first negative ad of the general election -- which was a response to an RNC TV ad hitting Obama -- Axelrod added: "The real point is we have got serious, serious challenges facing this country, including a genuine energy crisis. And we ought to have a real discussion about it. Instead, we get sophomoric, negative ads that are completely false. There are things in that ad that are fundamentally wrong in terms of what Sen. Obama's position is."
*** UPDATE *** Obama just responded outside of Bell's Restaurant in Lebanon, MO: "You know, I don't pay attention to John McCain's ads, although I do notice he doesn't seem to have anything to say very positive about himself. He seems to only be talking about me... You need to ask John McCain what he's for and not just what he's against."
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